Literary Collections

In England and America Dylan Thomas made his art and personality widely known through public readings, radio broadcasts and recordings. Many of the 25 short stories, autobiographical sketches and essays in Quite Early One Morning, a volume planned by...

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 *...

Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and Europe from Iceland to Byzantiu. The extracts are arranged thematically, dealing with the central...

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkFeaturing 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork quilt of visually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582433202Author Penelope FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993572067Author Middle East Book Review MeborFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Middle East Book ReviewPublisher Middle East Book ReviewWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532628Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995456419Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackImprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library

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 *...

The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. Had he not sadly died so young,A" remarked Salman...

The first English translation of the earliest Latin poems about miracles performed by the Virgin Mary, composed in twelfth-century Canterbury by a Benedictine monk who inspired Chaucer.Nigel (ca. 1135-1198), a Benedictine monk at Christ Church in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570627163Author Matsuo BashoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400041879Author Lord Alfred TennysonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst demographic...

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

Official records from the sands of Egypt.This volume presents papyri relating to public business of various kinds in Egypt from the middle of the 3rd century BC to AD 710, thus including affairs in that country first when it was ruled by the Greek...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393986603Author Neeraj KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut PublicationDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm *...

Originally published in 1987, this is a thorough and lucid introduction and commentary to the whole of Goethe's Faust. It gives the student of German and European literature valuable insights into the most important work of Germany's foremost poet...

Lu Xun (1881-1936) is widely considered the greatest writer of twentieth-century China. Although primarily known for his two slim volumes of short fiction, he was a prolific and inventive essayist. Jottings under Lamplight showcases Lu Xun's versatility...

Pindar-the 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525510567Author Jia TolentinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Wolfgang Capito (1478-1541) was one of the most important figures of the Reformation, a leading churchman who turned from Catholic to Protestant. A professor of theology and advisor to the Archbishop of Mainz, he moved to Strasbourg and worked for two...

Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using facts and anecdotes, Hibbert delivers intimate glimpses into Johnson's time as a schoolboy, his...

Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche's mature ideas, including his attack on Plato's Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche's...

This title presents the full story in quick modern English for a fast-paced read! Emily Bronte's only novel is famous the world over - not least because of Kate Bush's 1978 'tribute song' - but don't let that trivialise this masterpiece of classical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494054953Author A J AppasamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their musicality, earned him the admiration of Aleksandr Pushkin and generations of Russian poets to come. In...

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...

This book takes an idea first explored by medieval logicians 800 years ago and revisits it armed with the tools of contemporary linguistics, logic, and computer science. The idea - the Holy Grail of the medieval logicians - was the thought that all of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943564Author Sy SafranskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

With The Voices of Babyn Yar-a collection of stirring poems by Marianna Kiyanovska-the award-winning Ukrainian poet honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and survival by projecting their own imagined voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119163Author Dave EggersFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881796Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 356gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956103833Author Marcus ReichertFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Ziggurat Books InternationalPublisher Ziggurat Books InternationalDimensions(mm)...

Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discussions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068705Author Nathaniel SteevensFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 445g

Famous literary friendships such as those between H.L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore are examined in this magnificent collection of stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and...

Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of...