Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353337926Author Uma BalasubramaniamFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. In Proclus' Commentary, the Parmenides...

The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959401548Author Frederick Thomas HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Reprint PublishingPublisher Reprint PublishingWeight(grams)...

The author of the classic Oral Tradition as History bases his account on hundreds of grass-roots narratives. It shows the historical roots of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 through an investigation of Rwanda's Nyiginya Dynasty of the 18th and 19th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633101Author John ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 884Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Graham Hettlinger's brilliant translations of Bunin's stories in Sunstroke (2002) were widely acclaimed. In The Elagin Affair, Mr. Hettlinger continues to acquaint English-language readers with a Bunin they may not have appreciated. Bunin's sensual,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156901772Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994726216Author Brian HassettFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Gets Things Done PublishingPublisher Gets Things Done PublishingWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316270182Author David SedarisFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476795058Author Andrew SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)...

A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437453Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

First paperback edition with a new and updated author's introduction, and a Foreword by Douglas H. Johnson.. The conflict in Darfur had a precursor in Sudan's famines of the 1980s and 1990s. David Keen's The Benefits of Famine presented a new and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498047722Author J W MollettFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648870654Author Nikki TeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint The Kind PressPublisher The Kind PressWeight(grams) 140g

Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Geneva School of criticism. His classic work, "Montaigne in Motion", is a subtly conceived and elegantly written study of the "Essais of Montaigne", whose...

A charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known "City" section of the New York Times "There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City...

A sequel to The Invention of Africa (joint winner of the 1989 Herskovits prize) As its author Professor Mudimbe says: '...this book presents journeys into the multifaceted "idea" of Africa. As approached and circumscribed here, this idea is a product...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878972149Author Raymond RousselFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Exact Change,U.S.Publisher Exact Change,U.S.Weight(grams) 416g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437262Author James SalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186477Author Patricia MerivaleFormat HardbackPage Count 295Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 626g

This selection of Boris Pasternak's correspondence with his parents and sisters from 1921 to 1960-including more than illustrations and photos-is an authoritative, indispensable introduction and guide to the great writer's life and work. His letters are...

The first full length study of the development of the colonial state in Africa. Professor Berman argues that the colonial state was shaped by the contradictions between maintaining effective political control with limited coercive force and ensuring...

John Collins, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral in London, was the Englishman white South Africans most loved to hate. The organisations founded by Canon Collins, the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) and Christian Action, depended on the work of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420948387Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345377968Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427511Author Peter NadasFormat PaperbackPage Count 391Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA

In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and personal. The pandemic, droughts, floods, fire, political violence: the world has been grimly reminded of the proximity and inevitability of death. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor-acclaimed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156290555Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Rage and obstinacy are close relatives--and fundamental categories in the work of both Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge. In World-Changing Rage, these two accomplished German creators explore links and fractures between two cultures through two media:...

This is the first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham. Unknown before the discovery of the unique manuscript in 2005, Bokenham's work comprises a complete translation of Legenda Aurea, a collection of saints' lives...

From The Brothers Karamazov to Star Trek to Twin Peaks, this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary.Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, each essay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497874381Author REV George OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

For the Love of a Life is a gentle but intricate international tale of love, set in modern-day China. Growing up in the aftermath of Mao's China as it breaks out of its past, Berenice, a beautiful young Chinese girl living in Beijing, finds herself...

The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934832417Author Stephanie DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint New Michigan PressPublisher New Michigan PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm)...

A compelling set of short stories from the author of World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the...

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been...