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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679749073Author Philip RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627876988Author Kenneth RingFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895554444Author Professor Richard SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Tan BooksPublisher Tan BooksWeight(grams) 1057gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674497917Author Charlotte DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 869g

Aimed at students of African politics and political sociologists interested in rural revolution and revolt. Although Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, the struggle for land rights was only contained in Kenya's post-independence era...

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'), the poet Hmedan al-Shwe'ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the...

Virgil's Schoolboys adds a new layer of complexity to Virgil's already complex pedagogical afterlife. Reading the ancient Roman poet as an adventurous theorist of instruction, Andrew Wallace examines the relationship between his serial meditations on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668016978Author Ray BradburyFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 155mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602068940Author Elias AshmoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1148gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Neil M. Gunn is celebrated as one of Scotland's foremost novelists of the 20th century. Less well known is that he was also a perceptive and meditative essayist and accomplished writer of short stories. Most of his short stories were written in the 1920s...

Originally compiled and published in 1988, this volume contains the text and translation of 'The Pilgrimmage of Charlemagne' and 'Aucassin and Nicolette,' alongisde textual notes and a bibliography for both.About the AuthorGlyn S. Burgess, Anne Elizabeth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490366Author Bruce JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486819266Author Theodore WeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

"...the proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet." -Lawrence Durrell Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence...

This third volume of a projected six reinforces Huxley's stature as one of the most acute and informed observers of the social and ideological trends of the years between the world wars. It contains the important collection of essays "Music at Night" as...

It is hard to imagine a more male-dominated field in the nineteenth century than sea navigation. This was the high-point of the British Empire and sea navigation drove it. Yet in the midst of this domain Janet Taylor emerged as a young woman able to...

This edition of Daphnis and Chloe , the best known of the Greek romances, provides the first modern commentary in English on this intriguing work. This is the story of two young people growing up as goatherd and shepherdess, and their discovery of ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640092686Author Beth PiatoteFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635187Author Iain McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529444Author Danilo KisFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who outsmarts stronger animals, is a symbol of triumph by the weak over the powerful. The fables of the foolish Juan Bobo, who tries to bring milk home in a burlap...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discussions...

These surprisingly un-academic essays are all truely distinctive and full of entertainment. From the living Monopoly game (in an essay by John McPhee) to a set of unattended ghostly footnotes, from the Joan Didion elegy to the Anne Carson fantasia, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525556534Author John GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm * 28mm

As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578360133Author John Clellon HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Limberlost PressPublisher Limberlost PressWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258125Author Hasanthika SirisenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age...

"Bhishma," the sixth book of the eighteen-book epic The Maha*bharata, narrates the first ten days of the great war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. This first volume covers four days from the beginning of the great battle and includes the famous...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618340736Author MR Joseph EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Man Booker International Prize 2007 and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9781400076581Author Chinua AchebeFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486419114Author Kahlil GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing...

These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will be revelatory for many. While the two are widely known as a dynamic, collaborative duo, the story of how and when they came together has never been fully told. In the 39 letters of this...

H.D. called By Avon River "the first book that really made me happy." In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.'s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998994680Author Zoie Zane McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Sanctuary PublishersPublisher Sanctuary PublishersWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara...

Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism,...