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This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The edition presents De Quincey's work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough...

An anthology of Chinese writings drawn from the late-1980s Maoist revival in mainland China. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, these selections are introduced and annnotated to provide an appreciation of their historical significance and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944328023Author Lynda Cheldelin FellFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Alyblue MediaPublisher Alyblue MediaWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been surpassed. Even today, this reimagining of fourteen timeless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949641349Author Jazmina BarreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Two Lines PressPublisher Two Lines PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

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 9780486275635Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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...

Drawn from Aelfric's Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As well as the Old English original texts, it provides the...

Paek Nam-nyong's Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into...

In Leaves from the Garden of Eden, Howard Schwartz, a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from Jewish folk tradition. Just as Schwartz's award-winning book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021143Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Symbols and tropes of liquidity have long been connected to notions of the feminine and, therefore, with orthodox constructions of femininity and womanhood. Underpinning these ideas is the vital importance of water as life force, which has given it a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437460Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Manchester Fourteen Miles was the inscription on the signpost outside 'Moss Ferry', the village where 'Hilda Winstanley' grew up before the First World War. The seemingly short distance from the capital of England's cotton industry was nonetheless the...

Colonel Thurman Shuller's war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. The group surgeon character in the motion picture Twelve O'clock High was based on Shuller during his...

"Margaret Cavendish's philosophical work is at last taking its rightful place in the history of seventeenth-century thought, but her writings are so voluminous and wide-ranging that introducing her work to students has been difficult-at least until this...

James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067159Author Geoffrey SparrowFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598530308Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809519071Author Brian StablefordFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 410g

Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tended to see Romanticism as predominantly British, the term itself actually originated in Germany, where it became the banner of a Europe-wide movement...

Greek literature is divided, like many literatures, into poetry and prose, but in Greek the difference between them is not that all prose is devoid of firm rhythmic patterning. In the earlier Roman Empire, from 31 BC to about AD 300, much Greek (and...

'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertesz, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as one's subject to detect the broken voice that has dominated...

Presents cutting-edge criticism on the theme of Katherine Mansfield and childrenWhat Virginia Woolf called 'Childlikeness' is a facet of Mansfield's personality which permeates every aspect of her personal and creative life. It is present in her mature...

When Celeste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more forgiving times, this extraordinary document offers not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374260873Author Jules RenardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501350184Author John GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761040405Author Sophie CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House AustraliaPublisher Random House Australia

The Cushion in the Road is a collection of wide-ranging meditations on the human race's intertwined personal, spiritual and political destinies. It revisits the many themes that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and activist has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250785909Author Jordan KisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm

Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impersonality in the works of major American writers and figures of international modernism-writers for whom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792765Author PEN Hong KongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 498g

Spanish contemporary poetry: An anthology presents a selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period, followed by guided and close...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830454Author Dubravka UgresicFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open LetterWeight(grams) 139g

Essays on Politics and Society brings together the most significant writings on the topic by the acclaimed Victorian historian, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. This volume includes some of his most well-known and influential pieces, such as...

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Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire-a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of...

Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions This second volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886 contains 156 letters, of which 111 are published for the first time,...