Literary Collections

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935700043Author Hugh AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Periscope Film LLCPublisher Periscope Film LLCWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt...

With What 'Isa ibn Hisham Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, this exceptional title was first introduced...

When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation--his journals--remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 and continued without significant lapse...

The Things That Can't Be Said: Three Plays About Iraq is a trilogy of plays by renowned Iraqi American playwright/performer Heather Raffo including 9 Parts of Desire, Fallujah: The First Opera about the Iraq War, and Noura. In these three works Raffo...

A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material culture This generously illustrated volume offers a fresh perspective on classical Japanese poetry (waka), including many poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571313652Author Aimee NezhukumatathilFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278632Author VariousFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

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Three Minus One: Parents' Stories of Love and Loss is a collection of intimate, soul-baring stories and artwork by parents who have lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death, inspired by the film Return to Zero. ;The loss of a child is...

This concise Broadview anthology of primary source materials is unique in its focus on Romantic literature and the ways in which the period itself was characterized by wide-ranging, self-conscious debates about the meaning of literature. It includes...

Euripides’ Hippolytus is a fascinating play about passion, innocence, rejection, betrayal, and the tragic breakdown of a family. This commentary, designed for intermediate and advanced students of ancient Greek, helps readers understand and fully...

Before his death from leukemia at the age of 36, Allon White had become known as one of the most important literary and cultural critics of his generation. Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing represents a summation of the work which, as Stuart Hall explains...

These bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before...

_______________ 'An absorbing volume' - The Spectator _______________ First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship is a collection of letters following Dirk Bogarde's first four memoirs. 'London guests staying hate it. Keeps them awake all...

The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet examines this...

A fascinating history of Irishmen, woven through the clothes they wear. Taking the clothes they wore as a starting point, Paul Galvin skilfully weaves together a collection of stories of Irish men who defined the culture and mood of their time. In...

An Englishwoman living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. The diary, which survived the war and whose author remained anonymous, ended up in a Belgian archive. This book brings to light both the diary and the story of the...

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 *...

Budha*svamin tells the epic tale of the youthful exploits of prince Naravahanadatta. The reader is taken from royal palaces to flying sorcerers' mountain fastnesses via courtesans' bedrooms and merchant ships. A fast and witty narrative which provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990581321Author Andrew Jackson DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Square Circles PublishingPublisher Square Circles PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062334732Author Gregg HecimovichFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353336257Author Abhirup BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

53 SHORT ESSAYS FOR BUSY PEOPLE . . . BY 49 AMAZING AUTHORS. Too tired to think? No time to read books? Zibby Owens gets it. Award-winning podcaster ofMoms Don't Have Time to Read Booksand mother of four (ages six to fourteen) compiled fifty-three essays...

"A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."-New York Times Book Review Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring...

This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts reproduced are significant yet often neglected, and have stood the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400040216Author Michel de MontaigneFormat HardbackPage Count 1392Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1162gDimensions(mm)...

Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman's...

"These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself."-Olivia Laing "The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor, and a formidable musical and literary erudition."-The New York Times Joseph Keckler's signatures are...

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 9780374526832Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the 19th century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. John Henry Newman (1801-1891) was a dominant figure in both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic churches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901557992Author Neil PaynterFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Wild Goose PublicationsPublisher Wild Goose PublicationsWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648485650Author James KeeganFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Sleuth Hound BooksPublisher Sleuth Hound BooksWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540990Author Esther G. BelinFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

The extraordinary truth about an extremely ancient era revealed in documentation that has only recently come to light after being secretly guarded for over 1500 years by 67 generations of priests from the Koso Kotai Jingu Shrine in JapanBook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679640219Author Paris ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 496gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on...