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This is the fourth and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. It contains four plays Webster wrote in collaboration, one - Sir Thomas Wyatt, a historical tragedy based around Lady Jane Grey - as part of a team of five led by...

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...

Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays, such as 'Freedom of Expression', written for the campaign to try to save Ken Saro-Wiwa...

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 9788492663613Author Manuel Chaves NogalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Publisher Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Weight(grams)...

Epitomises what is best in Arthurian scholarship today.ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE Arthurian Literatureis now established as a leading publication for research articles of monograph length on subjects of perennial interest to Arthurians. The...

Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening is a collection of hybrid feminist narratives that perfectly captures the many paradoxes of the COVID-19 pandemic, contrasting the seemingly never-ended public catastrophes we experienced as a...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117742Author John KeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 121gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *...

Here are Sappho's songs and poems as English poems, all her famous pieces, all the fragments that can make connected sense, and all the discoveries of 2004 and 2014. These translations set out to be good English poetry first and foremost, and succeed...

Sleep, Death's Brother is an instruction manual on dreaming for children or incarcerated persons, teaching such individuals to lucid dream and thus use their dreams to somewhat escape their situations. While it is often the case that dream life is...

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

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

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.Book InformationISBN 9781617206979Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Heroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius. However the crucial role female characters play in the constitution and negotiation of the heroism on display...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486813516Author Aristotle AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Contributors include Lee K. Abbott, Charles Baxter, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Shelby Foote, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, and Flannery O'Connor, among others.About the AuthorFrederick Busch (1941-2006) was the recipient...

"Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity." -- Wendell...

Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as the master of the ingenious epigram, the provocative paradox, the witty aside or the extravagant conceit. In...

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

'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...

P.G. Wodehouse saw his first article published when still at school, and went on to become the leading humour writer of the twentieth century. He created characters famous across the English-speaking world, such as Rupert Psmith, Stanley Ukridge, Uncle...

Herostories reveals tales untold by most history books: the harrowing journeys and vital triumphs of nineteenth - and twentieth century midwifery in the vast landscape of Iceland. Composed from the memoirs and biographies of 100 Icelandic midwives,...

A rollicking comic treasury, starring the world's most famous cartoon horse. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and a surging presence on Instagram. Each day, he and his diverse group of friends share their mishaps, their successes,...

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 9781871871449Author Sandor FerencziFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Open Gate PressPublisher Open Gate Press

The edition of this poem from the Exeter Book includes a contextual introduction, notes and glossary.ReviewsA stimulating and attractively presented study. * Review of English Studies *Book InformationISBN 9780859890663Author Kemp MaloneFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527952Author Czeslawmilos MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981756Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Edition, with contextual introduction, notes, glossary and bibliography, of the poem from the Exeter Book.Book InformationISBN 9780859895071Author Ida GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint University of Exeter PressPublisher Liverpool 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593133019Author Kurt VonnegutFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838754313Author Joseph O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 263Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513620787Author Branislav Brana CrncevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Movement PublishingPublisher Movement PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

For over sixty years Brendan Gill has been a contented inmate of the singular institution known as the New Yorker. This affectionate account of the magazine, long known as a home for congenital unemployables, is a celebration of its wards and...

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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...