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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722762Author James JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760990329Author Jock SerongFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 298gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 153mm *...

For long hours Shebani sat up there with open eyes listening to the weeping. It was more whimpering, really, someone weeping from fear of too much silence. During those hours there, paralysed, not moving in his blanket, Shebani grew old. Ever after, we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959487Author John FanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 445g

This innovative book comprises nine essays from leading scholars which investigate the relationship between fiction, censorship and the legal construction of obscenity in Britain between 1850 and the present day. Each of the chapters focuses on a...

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin,...

The history of humankind has always been marked by natural catastrophes, migrations, discoveries, revolutions, and wars. But there have also been speeches that marked an era; instilling hope in crucial moments, reawakening the collective conscience of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756498Author Lillian RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156920254Author E M ForsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398433182Author Edel PierceFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861714544Author TsongkhapaFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596500310Author James G CowanFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint New Cultures PressPublisher New Cultures PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806771Author Maira EdgeworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Horse's MouthPublisher Horse's MouthWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In this issue of Granta Magazine, the theme is the sea and our relationship with it. It includes pieces by: James Hamilton-Paterson, on a lonely death in the Pacific; Julia Blackburn, on the lure of the mermaid; Neal Ascherson, on the death of the Black...

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...

Marcel Benabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page taunts and a full one accuses. Benabou knows the heroic joy of depriving...

William Makepeace Thackeray has always been an author for those with discriminating literary palettes. `I do not hesitate to name Thackeray first' said his most devoted disciple, Anthony Trollope. Few would deny that he is the finest literary stylist of...

Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981572Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A unique and stylish contribution to the social history of African cities and Zimbabwean cultural life. NEW LOW PRICE This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel Butterfly Burning, which is set in the Bulawayo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527228Author Anne FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 159g

A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work Provides a historicising collection of essays, by a major critic, exemplifying and opening up feminist cultural politics to new readers Offers a way into a...

This edition presents in English, for the first time, Jeanne d'Albret's Letters to the king, his mother, his brother, her own brother-in-law, and the queen of England, together with her Ample Declaration (1568) defending her decampment to the Protestant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374539061Author Joseph BrodskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Covers the major forces at work in African society at the beginning of the 19th century until the onset of the European scramble for colonial territory in the 1880s. This study also looks at Africa's changing role in the world economy, and the effects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509844Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

"Philip was a visionary like Blake, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand." -Lawrence Ferlinghetti"An inspired consciousness set at full tilt in raging protest, kisses, prayers, blessings, and outraged demands. All from the deepest silence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131038Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm *...

The backdam people of Lusignan Estate have left the sugar company's cramped barrack housing and moved to their own individual houses in Annandale Village. They enjoy better conditions, freedom from interference by the estate authorities and more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387883178Author Duane VorheesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Hawakal PublishersPublisher Hawakal PublishersWeight(grams) 97gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first factory city. Where are they now? The anser, mainly, is China. An issue devoted to how and where we made and make things, from strawberries in the fields of Herefordshire to the car plants...

Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307472335Author Mary GaitskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This edition of The Tempest is the first dedicated to its stage history. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, it examines four centuries of mainstream, regional, and fringe productions in Britain (including Dryden and Davenant's Restoration adaptation),...

How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city? Through a series of sociological and photographic essays, Terence Heng maps the various rituals, collectives, individuals and events that characterise Chinese...

The Book of Changes [I Ching or Chou I] was the first of the Five Confucian Classics and served as the wellspring of both Confucian and Taoist thought. Following in the tradition of his father, Richard Wilhelm, who made the best known and most respected...

A scholarly edition of a work by Cicero. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198769125Author Marcus Tullius CiceroFormat HardbackPage Count...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The complete text of Leviathan, one of the most important works of political philosophy ever written, carefully-and faithfully-edited for 21st-century readers. Spelling and punctuation have been thoughtfully...

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's...

Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin (1955-66) and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St...