Literary Collections

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959052887Author Anne KoenigFormat HardbackPage Count 1000Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531317Author Anne FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787804531Author Maurice BaringFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Word to the WisePublisher Word to the WiseWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to reflect on his own experience of loss of vision. 'John...

Tayeb Salih is internationally known for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. With humour, wit and erudite poetic insights, Salih shows another side in this affectionate memoir of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi Yousif...

Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis , these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, forties, and fifties. With titles like The Big Sleep, Kiss...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476772073Author Christopher HitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501159015Author Lacy M JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Comprising twenty-five pieces of original fiction, the Young Writers' Anthology showcases new voices in British fiction. Spanning genres from science-fiction and fantasy to stark realism, the overtly literary to action-packed thrillers, this is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062508454Author Carol StaudacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788190739146Author Anne FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Maple Press Pvt LtdPublisher Maple Press Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 180mm * 120mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254530Author Kenneth F Kitchell JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 2112Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50 years. Beginning with his debut play, The Zoo Story (1958), and on to his barrier breaking works of the...

In the autumn of 1933 the 27-year-old Bonhoeffer accepted a two-year appointment as a pastor of two German-speaking Protestant churches in London. It was during this time that he began his friendship with Ernst Cromwell, one of his confirmands - a...

First Published in 2002. This is a collection of essays and commentary on the later Shakespearian tragedies of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Richard II.Book InformationISBN 9780415606615Author G. Wilson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992422028Author Winifred HoltbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm...

Classical Mythology in English Literature brings together a range of English versions of three classical myths. It allows students to explore the ways in which they have been reinterpreted and reinvented by writers throughout history. Beginning with a...

Praise for Michael McClure: "Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence."--Robert Creeley "McClure's poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy."--Allen Ginsberg "Without...

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 9780374527662Author Hubert ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956509284Author Ivan VladislavicFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279744Author Charles L. CrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646221318Author Nicole ChungFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

An entertaining collection of over 400 folk tales of legends, stories, and magic. Translated from the original Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish, this highly acclaimed work is perfect for bedside or fireside reading. About the Author Reimund Kvideland is...

"On a bend, I will see it, a piece of ground off to the side. I will know the feel of this place: the leaves stir slowly on the trees, dry air smells like dust, birds dart and the trails are made by beasts living free."When award-winning author Charles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119548Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 561gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156026109Author E. M. ForsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

Donald Hall's celebrated book of poems Without was written for his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995.Hall returns to this powerful territory in The Best Day the Worst Day, a work of prose that is equally "a work of art, love, and generous genius" (Liz...