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Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is best known for his great achievments in poetry, but the fixtion he wrote in the last decade of his life was to have a tremendous impact on the subsequent development of Russian prose, influencing such later writers as...

The name Cliff Slade will be instantly recognised as a frequent and indefatigable correspondent to the Letters to the Editor columns. This book is written in the first person, as being most appropriate for someone who is speaking directly to his...

A synthesis of the literature on pastoralist societies, this book presents a discussion of their importance for African societies. This is an important and informative work by one of the acknowledged leaders in the field. Its synthesis of the...

Schwarzenbach's clear, psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative narrative, with many intriguing parallels to her own life. Annemarie Schwarzenbach-journalist, novelist, antifascist, archaeologist, and traveler-has become a European...

One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of non-violence, and effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair...

This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling's connection with India, its people, culture, languages, and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling's works attracted interest among a large section of the British public, stimulating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912484157Author Angelis PublicationsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Angelis PublicationsPublisher Angelis PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724798Author Peter JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393602852Author Martin PuchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630514105Author Stephen WilkersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)...

This volume, containing orations 41-61, is the last of four volumes intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text of Demosthenes, begun in 1901, in the light of more recent scholarship. It is based on a thorough study not only of the medieval...

Cronica del alba is a novel by Sender with a Civil War background, like the popular Requiem por un campesino espanol, also in this series. The author evokes his childhood in rural Aragon at the beginning of the twentieth century in a book which has a...

During the twenty-two years of their married life, W. B. and George Yeats corresponded regularly and fully whenever they were apart. They discussed his writing and other projects, their family and friends, and the social, artistic, and political scene in...

A bold new collection of the writings of Miroslav Krleza, in English for the first time Miroslav Krleza was a giant of Yugoslav literature, yet remarkably little of his writing has appeared in English. In a body of work that spans more than five dozen...

Daniela Hodrova shares her unique perception of Prague, through playful poetic prose, and by imaginatively blending historical and cultural motifs with autobiographical moments. A Kingdom of Souls is the first volume of this author's literary journey -...

Detailed study of Kenya's 1992 election. The two authors of this work analyse the case of post-colonial Kenya under Kenyatta and Moi and show how, in spite of a multi-party system, the ruling elite has kept power and wealth to itself. North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648204718Author Jose Ramos-HortaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Longueville MediaPublisher Longueville Media

"A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America's native peoples."-Vancouver SunRarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning, as broad, as deep, and as innately...

Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the "foremost interpreters of ...our recent contemporary moment." Adopting Sontag's favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle...

'Growing up in Queens, I didn't know being named Shenequa was considered "ghetto" or uncouth. It was only later in life that I realized I was being judged by a decision I had no control over... I will examine the double-standard Black girls with big...

In The Letters of Mary Penry, Scott Paul Gordon provides unprecedented access to the intimate world of a Moravian single sister. This vast collection of letters-compiled, transcribed, and annotated by Gordon-introduces readers to an unmarried woman who...

Presents the first extended collection of new William Morris essays in several decade The first collection of new Morris essays in several decades, gathered from manuscripts, newspapers and long out-of-print contemporary sources Follows Morris's...

This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805076271Author Bill McKibbenFormat PaperbackPage Count 453Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 378g

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...

Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be "the One," the lover who would satisfy her insatiable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523756Author Marguerite YourcenarFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590517512Author Kamel DaoudFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359260328Author Tope OmoniyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion Publishing

The love affair between two of the Victorian era's most famous poets is one of passion, tragedy, illness, and ultimately, endurance. Collected here are their love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming love, and their forbidden marriage...

Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process, traditional narrative theory does not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526696Author Edmund WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

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,...

'Early modern women's manuscript poetry' is an anthology of texts by fourteen women poets writing between 1589 and 1706. It is the only currently available anthology of early modern women's writing which focuses exclusively on manuscript material...

A comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in Sierra Leone. The United Nations' presence in Sierra Leone has made that country a subject of international attention to an unprecedented degree. Once identified as a source of 'the New...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fiction literature and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, critics, and scholars from around the world...

Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353336233Author Abhirup BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987463784Author Gabriele D'AnnunzioFormat PaperbackImprint Vladislav ZhukovPublisher Vladislav ZhukovWeight(grams) 152g

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...