Literary Collections

Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka's personal engagement with the medium - as a keen viewer and collector of photographs...

This volume presents a selection from Pope's celebrated translation of Homer's Iliad, edited and arranged so as to concentrate on the central core of the story and thus to be readable as a continuous narrative. Also included is a section of the best of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430638Author Carole MasoFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 567g

A fascinating history of Irishmen, woven through the clothes they wear. Taking the clothes they wore as a starting point, Paul Galvin skilfully weaves together a collection of stories of Irish men who defined the culture and mood of their time. In...

"Trees work in the woods like words do in the poetical text. Exploring a book like this goes beyond the pure reader's control and turns into a practice whose results are unpredictable." - Tim Wallington. The original of this book belongs to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263242Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm)...

Born son of a Governor-General of South Africa, Patrick Duncan rejected the attitudes of his privileged background to follow the Gandhian way of passive reistance, even to jail. This biography traces the life and times of Duncan and the changes and...

What is 'Englishness'? Who defines it? What impact have changes to England and the English, as well as England's relationship with the outside world, had on 'Englishness'? Has 'Englishness' become an anachronism at the turn of a new century?These...

The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life, a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Lowell's controversial sonnet sequence, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156290555Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

A collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Mu'tazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion-it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or tardiyyat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067661Author Cyrus Townsend BradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 304g

This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the screenplay of My Beautiful Laundrette. It allowed Kureishi to expand upon the issues raised by the film: race, class, sexuality - issues that...

Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia's first post-Soviet literary generation. An award-winning poet and prose writer, she has also founded a major platform for independent journalism. Her verse blends formal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Small Press) 1990.Book InformationISBN 9781879960107Author Gloria AnzalduaFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Aunt Lute...

A rollicking comic treasury, starring the world's most famous cartoon horse. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and a surging presence on Instagram. Each day, he and his diverse group of friends share their mishaps, their successes,...

Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801064019Author AtebolFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atebol CyfyngedigPublisher Atebol CyfyngedigDimensions(mm) 215mm * 148mm * 17mm

For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders' Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her...

Edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Joe Bucciero. Contributors and featured artists include Masayuki Takayanagi, Louise Landes Levi, Joseph Jarman, Catherine Christer Hennix, Charles Stein, Henry Orlov, Maryanne Amacher, Alan Cummings, Bill Dietz, Peter...

Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less interested in defining the being of Bear than in trying...

California is still the world's biggest hideout. The only thing more western is the Pacific Ocean, where, if the Big One happens, California might find a home at the bottom. One of those hiding out is Peter Bowman, a former army brat, and lecturer at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374175337Author Brian PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062661074Author Leila GuerrieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of...

With a glossary by: Davis, Norman;Book InformationISBN 9780198711018Author J. A. W. BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 682Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 186mm * 123mm * 38mm

Born just as the British Empire was taking its last breaths, Martin Adeney was part of the 'twilight generation' caught between the imperial and postimperial ages, forced to navigate the insecurities - political, economic and cultural - faced by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278632Author VariousFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977801Author Paul KingsnorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm...

Animal fables are said to have originated with Aesop, a semilegendary Samian slave, but the earliest surviving record of the fables comes from the Latin poet Phaedrus, who introduced the new genre to Latin literature. This verse translation of The Fables...

Authored by two eminent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn scholars, ""The Soul and Barbed Wire"" is the first and only book to offer both a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of the Nobel prize-winning author who became one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010020Author Erica van HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint UniformbooksPublisher UniformbooksWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 142mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770833173Author Matteo Maria BoiardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Theophania PublishingPublisher Theophania PublishingWeight(grams)...

YouTube experts s.media are shining a light on the changes to advertising and marketing, unveiling the truth behind outdated agency practices and revealing the top tricks to succeeding when it comes to advertising on today's advanced platform. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010105Author Angus CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486843339Author Buckminster FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

St Mawr and Other Stories consists of the long novella St Mawr, two short stories 'The Overtone' and 'The Princess', and two unfinished stories 'The Wilful Woman' and 'The Flying Fish', all written during D. H. Lawrence's stay on the American continent...

Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife-the Victorian novel and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492663613Author Manuel Chaves NogalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Publisher Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618340736Author MR Joseph EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 336g