Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257807Author Susanne Paola AntonettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948648752Author Loraine BoettnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Glh PublishingPublisher Glh PublishingWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860213Author Christina MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 342g

Even by Victoria Cross standards, the exploits of Thomas 'Todger' Jones V.C., D.C.M., of the 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, are truly extraordinary. It was a miracle that he survived the act for which he was awarded his V.C., but remarkably, after...

A charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known "City" section of the New York Times "There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532314Author Professor Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082419Author Ezra PoundFormat HardbackPage Count 1363Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 865gDimensions(mm)...

"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century-the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented-is the period when American short stories were invented, and when they were the...

Known above all for his translations of Proust, Charles Scott Moncrieff also had his own poetry, short stories and war serials regularly published in literary periodicals. Here for the first time is a collection of these, put together with an...

At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing everything all over again. The reputation he had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White shows how...

Nanda has it all: youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524732790Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 122mm *...

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces in one volume the canon of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737277583Author Michael SilverblattFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Song CavePublisher Song CaveWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life, a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Lowell's controversial sonnet sequence, The...

This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient...

Selected writings from a leading critic of modern art, "the best art writer of his generation" (Art Newspaper) Michael Peppiatt, guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts' 2021 exhibition 'Francis Bacon: Man and Beast', has for more than 50 years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735558523Author Ann de ForestFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint New Door BooksPublisher New Door BooksWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683963820Author Gary GrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the...

Although Neil M. Gunn is well-known as one of Scotland's foremost writers of the 20th century, he is less well-known as a perceptive and meditative essayist who wrote on a variety of subjects - from landscape, nature and the sea to literature, politics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250033291Author Jonathan FranzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 205mm...

One of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century American literature, Robert Frost was a public figure much celebrated in his day. Although his poetry reached a wide audience, the private Frost-pensive, mercurial, and often very funny-remains less...

Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258886530Author Thomas LiptonFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476753614Author KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816549962Author Alan Pelaez LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371566Author Patrick Leigh FermorFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010020Author Erica van HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint UniformbooksPublisher UniformbooksWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 142mm *...

YouTube experts s.media are shining a light on the changes to advertising and marketing, unveiling the truth behind outdated agency practices and revealing the top tricks to succeeding when it comes to advertising on today's advanced platform. This book...

The third book in Charles Bowden's "accidental trilogy" that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: "How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889033Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612618364Author Jon M. SweeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781454948193Author Mo WillemsFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Union Square & Co.Publisher Union Square & Co.Weight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 155mm *...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator-often as a daring smuggler of ideas from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789980945525Author Michael ChallingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint University of Papua New Guinea PressPublisher University of Papua New Guinea...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998020105Author Beth Kallman WernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Author ConnectionsPublisher Author ConnectionsWeight(grams) 159g

The Drunkard is one of the first full?length stream?of?consciousness novels written in Chinese. It has beencalled the Hong Kong novel, and was first published in 1962 as a serial in a Hong Kong evening paper. As the unnamed Narrator, a writer at odds...

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage, was a canoness of the Saxon imperial abbey of Gandersheim, living and working there during its time of greatest material prosperity and cultural and intellectual...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an unforgettable story of courage and finding forgiveness in an unforgiving wilderness. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe...