Literary Collections

What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992858155Author Leone RossFormat PaperbackImprint Fincham Press RoehamptonPublisher Fincham Press Roehampton

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Award 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780767916035Author David RakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Tolkien and Shakespeare: one a prolific popular dramatist and poet of the Elizabethan era, the other a twentieth-century scholar of Old English and author of a considerably smaller body of work. Though unquestionably very different writers, the two have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061374593Author E B WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 713Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 885g

"Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, [Simic] retains an outsider's perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary-all excellent qualities for an essayist. There's ample warmth and charm here." -New York Times Book...

'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and...

The Architrenius is a vivacious and influential Latin satirical poem in nine books dating from 1184. It describes the journey of a young man (the 'Arch-Weeper') on the threshold of maturity, confronting the ills of the church, the court, and the schools...

The landscape, buildings and people of Kent have provided inspiration for writers for centuries. Whether the writers were natives of the county itself or came as visitors, its coastline, orchards, towns and villages have helped shape the imaginations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486284842Author Confucius ConfuciusFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850362374Author Georg LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd

A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind `see' Why has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind `see'? Is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374175337Author Brian PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 127mm *...

From the beginning, readers have come to O for help in figuring out who they were meant to be. O's Little Guide to Finding Your True Purpose is a blend of practical advice and real-life stories of trial, error and triumph. Each entry in this engaging and...

Presents a range of views on the lives of young people around Africa. This book contributes to a theoretical, ethnographic and historical understanding of issues concerning children, youth, agency, locality, globalization and identity from the past to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909326385Author Marricke Kofi GaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Marrickegane PublishingPublisher Marrickegane PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612192949Author Marek HlaskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 151g

Examines the slave trade in three areas of Africa: the old Congo kingdoms, the city states of the East Coast, and parts of the Guinea coast. Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a...

Following the acclaimed first volume, Among the Mandarins , this is the second and concluding volume of the authorized biography of William Empson, one of the foremost poets and literary critics of the twentieth century. Against the Christians begins...

When Paul Dombey asks `what's money?' in Charles Dickens's novel, his father is hard put to find an answer. The Oxford Book of Money sets out to explore the question with the help of writers, poets, artists, philosophers, economists, financiers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954536503Author P J CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Old Forge BooksPublisher Old Forge Books

In North America, the Indigenous literature we know today reaches back thousands of years to when the continent's original inhabitants first circled fires and shared tales of emergence and creation, journey and quest, heroism and trickery. Sean Teuton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447677Author Emmy BeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606725Author Quillette MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Quillettte BooksPublisher Black Spring Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328465818Author Sheila HetiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

In this collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision. A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound and colour in its central vision: to prise apart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774645123Author Harpo MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498175432Author John DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

This volume brings together three series of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald - the Basil Duke Lee stories of 1928-29, the Josephine Perry stories of 1930-31, and the Gwen Bowers stories of 1936. The texts published here are based on surviving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119569Author Claire BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004937Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393324075Author Miguel Leon-PortillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915544247Author Hubert Van ZellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The Cenacle Press at Silverstream PrioryPublisher The Cenacle Press at...

The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. For nearly 200 years, from the rise of the Macedonians as a military power in the mid-fourth century BC, to their defeat at the hands of...

Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory is a biennial forum for some of the best new work in private law theory by scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over issues in general private law theory as well as specific fields, including the...

Recent conservation policies in Africa have followed three main principles: 1) that conservation should be community-based; 2) that things conserved should be managed to achieve both development and conservation goals; 3) that markets should play a role...

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...

In 1895, Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling were two of the best-known socialists in Britain, mixing with the most influential figures of their time, from Keir Hardie to William Morris. The couple were committed to building a socialist political force based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739660901Author Umulkhayr MohamedFormat PaperbackImprint Lucent DreamingPublisher Lucent DreamingWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353862442Author Salvatore FucitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 140g