Literary Collections

The foreigner whose style shaped Athens' greatest orator.Though he occupies a firm place in the canon of the ten Attic orators, Isaeus seems not to have been an Athenian, but a metic, being a native of Chalcis in Euboea. From passages in his work he is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482191Author A S ByattFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm * 11mm

Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophy of Late Antiquity, inspired not only the intellectual traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam but also their arts. Neoplatonic notions of the ascent of the soul, the nature of love and beauty, divine immanence...

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 9780156607520Author Professor of Semiotics Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156528658Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amistad PressPublisher Amistad PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 135mm *...

These creative nonfiction essays consider girlhood, motherhood, violence at home and abroad, violence against women, the consolation in writing, trauma, and redemption. The essays celebrate and interrogate popular and literary culture: for example the...

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

Physical graffiti.This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616403928Author Frederick Winslow TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 86Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781632868800Author Briallen HopperFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353335304Author Ed ViswanathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Citizens of Tokyo is the first collection in English of plays by one of Japan's most important contemporary playwrights, Oriza Hirata, whose works have been performed all over the world. The first part of Citizens of Tokyo, "At Home and...

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...

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...

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

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 9780062661074Author Leila GuerrieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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...

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...

Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk's Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent summers for decades. The poems--which can be read...

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

An asset to any study of gender in medieval England, this volume contains three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. The Floure and the Leafe explores the courtly imagery of the flower and leaf, wherein the...

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 9781770833173Author Matteo Maria BoiardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Theophania PublishingPublisher Theophania PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881000Author William BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 146mm...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988482746Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint 1849 EditionsPublisher 1849 EditionsWeight(grams) 494g

On a hot July afternoon in 1953, George F. Kennan descended the steps of the State Department building as a newly retired man. His career had been tumultuous: early postings in eastern Europe followed by Berlin in 1940-41 and Moscow in the last year of...

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...

Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, wielding an authority second only to the Qur'an. The words of Muhammad (d. 11/632), God's messenger and prophet of Islam, have a special place in the hearts of his followers. Wielding an authority second only to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645158175Author Julieann WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Lilly Pilly PublishingPublisher Lilly Pilly PublishingWeight(grams) 590g

In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely...

Plutarch's essay 'How to Study Poetry' offers a set of reading practices intended to remove the potential damage that poetry can do to the moral health of young readers. It opens a window on to a world of ancient education and scholarship which can seem...

This Norton Critical Edition seeks to give readers a full understanding of Thomas Jefferson's importance to the intellectual development of the United States, particularly in political theory and scientific learning; of Jefferson's role in the expansion...