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These United States is a landmark original anthology that includes essays by Sherman Alexie on Washington, Annie Proulx on Wyoming, James Lee Burke on Louisiana, Tony Hillerman on New Mexico, Molly Ivins on Texas, Diane McWhorter on Alabama, Frank Conroy...

The earliest comic drama to survive, Acharnians is a highly committed play, its message being that Athens war with the Peloponnesians can and should be ended, and that peace will mean the restoration of normal life after six years' separation of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739620837Author Florance PhilipFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Triniti PublicationsPublisher Triniti PublicationsWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646791453Author Nicholas CulpeperFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Those who study the nature of beauty are at once plagued by a singular issue: what does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983354Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 152g

For Adam Zagajewski-one of Poland's great poets-the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as his "restless and quizzical quest for self-knowledge." Slight Exaggeration is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437453Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

This is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to support greater gender...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971890831Author Wendy DrolmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Recital PublishingPublisher Recital PublishingWeight(grams) 113g

Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader is a landmark collection representing the visionary life's work of beloved Bay Area luminary Steve Abbott. It brings together a broad cross-section of literary and artistic work spanning three decades of poetry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Open Book) 2013. Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781555976071Author Kevin YoungFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575061Author Flannery O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 646g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617206979Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This collection, spanning nearly a decade of artistic activity, features selections of writings that trace the intellectual influences and track the development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952386701Author Merrill Joan GerberFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593439340Author Richard D. HeffnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

'After years of sham heroics and superhuman balderdash, Caste delighted everyone by its freshness, its nature, its humanity.' Thus, after watching a revival in 1897, did Shaw generously recognize the impact made thirty years earlier by Tom Robertson's...

Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh's reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh's complete surviving correspondence...

Knights was the first play to be produced by Aristophanes on his own behalf. In it, he launched a violent attack on Cleon, the leading politician of the day, on the whole style of leadership that he represented and on a system which seemed to guarantee...

An intimate account of everyday life and art in 1970s New York from a pioneering feminist artist Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) produced a vast body of work that includes sculptures, outdoor installations, drawings, illustrations, artist's books, lyrical...

In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674497917Author Charlotte DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 869g

Thomas Mitchell's essays on how to live well were completed in 1913, and reflect a clear mind and a good education, but also confidence about the world and society that were about to be shattered. No doubt some thoughts he expressed would have been...

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287748Author Robert DixonFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

John Collins, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral in London, was the Englishman white South Africans most loved to hate. The organisations founded by Canon Collins, the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) and Christian Action, depended on the work of...

Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay-" jeux d'esprits," as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth's literary influences while retaining his trademark...

An account of a journey across an inhospitable region with former Tubu rebels at a time of Tuareg insurgency, when explosions from landmines rocked towns, mountains were overrun with militia and journalists were being thrown into desert prisons for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186477Author Patricia MerivaleFormat HardbackPage Count 295Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679734253Author Cynthia OzickFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

An authoritative selection of letters by one of the great English letter-writers, first published in 1997, is also available in paperback.Book InformationISBN 9780521777995Author D. H. LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Cambridge University...

This edition of King Lear is based on the first (1608) quarto and represents a significantly different version from that published in the Folio of 1623, which forms the basis of the standard New Cambridge Shakespeare edition. Most scholars now believe...

The focus of this book is on the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) from its formation in the early 1970s to its victory in 1991, and its transformation from liberation front to ruling party and government of independent Eritrea. North America:...

As You Like It has sometimes seemed a subversive play that exposes the instability of gender roles and traditional values. In other eras it has been prized - or derided - as a reliable celebration of conventional social mores. The play's ability to...

This collection of articles by Joseph Leech, first published in the Bristol Times in the mid-19 century, took a swipe at contemporary society, particularly the Church and fellow churchgoers. Leech on occasion attacks his contemporaries and invited libel...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316156110Author David Foster WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 572g

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Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism, critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological works. In his philosophical writings, Coleridge developed his...