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Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Weir of Hermiston . The editor has collected in convenient form Stevenson's...

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts'...

The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to "the center of the world" and navigates a "thicket" that is at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980599Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackImprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 626g

Herb Gardner Comedy Characters: 4 male, 1 female, 12 year-old boy 2 Interior scenes This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: unconventional Murray, uncle to precocious nephew, Nick. Tired of writing cheap...

A mighty warrior interrupts King Arthur's banquet to challenge the astonished revellers to a binding act of combat. Out of sheer bravado Gawain leaps to the fray and his actions lead to a series of strange and incredible adventures. The perfect companion...

It's no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliche that "the book was better than the movie" holds true for more reasons than the average reader will ever know. When asked about selling their book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476716411Author Ernest HemingwayFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234797Author Leonard CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 157mm * 28mm

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434191Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765327116Author John ScalziFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 28mm

One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the time of his early death in 1980, he had accumulated a body of work that astonishes with its abundance and...

Refined midnight oil.Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123-170) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, "Attic Nights," so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492027115Author Karl KrausFormat PaperbackImprint November EditionsPublisher November EditionsWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm

From the beginning, readers have come to O for help in figuring out who they were meant to be. O's Little Guide to Finding Your True Purpose is a blend of practical advice and real-life stories of trial, error and triumph. Each entry in this engaging and...

A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982180Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse translation, innovative verse paragraphing for reader-friendliness, and a facing-page Italian text. It also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582431680Author Hermann BrochFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 567g

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The Pukhtun (Pathan) of the North West Frontier are regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inter-war years there arose a Muslim movement, the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God), which adopted military forms of organizations and dress, but which also...

A beguiling tale of mistaken transformation.In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic.The hero, Lucius,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590801Author Colum McCannFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 191mm...

This is the Place is a collection of essays exploring home, from a diverse collection of writers. Home is a loaded word, and a complex idea for most of us: it's a place that can be safe, sentimental, difficult, nourishing, war-torn, or long-lost. It's a...

That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based upon a literature, albeit oral, that has existed for thousands of years. They are the reflections of people who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980612Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke . . . let the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892554324Author Alan ZieglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916375819Author Stephen DornanFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Ulster-Scots Academy PressPublisher Ulster-Scots Academy PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970849380Author Dana StabenowFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Presents a range of views on the lives of young people around Africa. This book contributes to a theoretical, ethnographic and historical understanding of issues concerning children, youth, agency, locality, globalization and identity from the past to...

The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. For nearly 200 years, from the rise of the Macedonians as a military power in the mid-fourth century BC, to their defeat at the hands of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486819266Author Theodore WeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to 'directions and dead ends' in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926455440Author Lee MaracleFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 412g

Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? Bien sur. For a real taste of saucy early European humor, one must cross the Channel to France. There, in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the sophisticated met...

This is a reprint of the collection of Eisler's writings in English, first published in 1978. For Eisler the written word was very important and people paid tribute to his mind, quickness of thought, wit and breadth of cultural knowledge.About the...

The tyrannical monster Zahhak upon whose shoulder grew serpents that feasted daily on the brains of Iran's youth; the giant hero Rostam who vanquished entire armies with his immense strength and military prowess; the inept Shah Kay Kavus whose greed and...

One of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century American literature, Robert Frost was a public figure much celebrated in his day. Although his poetry reached a wide audience, the private Frost-pensive, mercurial, and often very funny-remains less...