Literary Collections

Challenges the commonly held myths about Zimbabwe's land reform. Ten years after the land invasions of 2000, this book provides the first full account of the consequences of these dramatic events. This land reform overturned a century-old pattern of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981565Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138982581Author Robert P. MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 581g

When Guillaume Apollinaire was sent to the trenches during World War I, he had already published his groundbreaking book of poems, Alcools, inspiring artists of the budding Surrealist movement and making a foundational mark on twentieth-century...

Edited and co-ordinated by Sarah Lowndes, Like The Sea I Think is an enthralling collection of new marine writing from East Anglia gathered from library workshops and open submissions held across the region. It is wonderfully designed, as always, by...

The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of...

The Symposium that Xenophon wrote has lived in the shadow of the more famous one by Plato, so much so that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a hundred years. Yet it is a work as useful for its Greek as it is precious for its...

Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692907467Author Christopher ZeischeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Ephemerol Night TerrorsPublisher Ephemerol Night TerrorsWeight(grams) 200g

JOIN AWARD-WINNING PODCASTER ZIBBY OWENS OF MOMS DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ BOOKS ON A JOURNEY FILLED WITH FOOD, EXERCISE, SEX, BOOKS, AND MORE. It's impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over...

The nuclear-powered USS Skate was the first submarine to break the surface of the North Pole. Author James Calvert captained the Skate and his book details a series of exploratory underwater voyages north before he and his crew finally found a way to the...

A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwrightJay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century. But in recent years, he has also written a series of...

In No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us, John J. Stuhr utilizes the thought of American philosopher and psychologist William James to develop an original world view that addresses both enduring philosophical problems and contemporary cultural issues. ...

Responding to George Lakoff's and Mark Johnson's analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets' use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their audiences' understanding of abstract concepts. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373911Author Edwin FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

In this book a pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which...

"Heartbreakingly beautiful writing; sometimes funny, sometimes shattering--always revolutionary. Truly amazing collection!"--Margaret Cho "Sister Spit is like the underground railroad for burgeoning queer writers. Not only in the van, but in the...

'Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic poems to typhoid, odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no - with a few exceptions - literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982999Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

When Flesh Becomes Word collects nine different examples of British libertine literature that appeared before 1750. Three of these-The School of Venus (1680), Venus in the Cloister (1725), and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740)-are...

Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work-both in the Scottish context and more broadly-on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the...

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, one of the leading figures of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was...

A fresh look at early dramatic activity in Scandinavia, using archaeological, historical and literary evidence. This book takes a new approach to the question of whether some form of drama existed in early Scandinavia. Dr Gunnell examines the dialogic...

The color green is at the center of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of haunting, irreconcilable, opposites: life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experience. In these essays,...

Emergence brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. Now in its third year, the anthology features stories by thirty emerging writers, each speaking to the theme of...

Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701) was the most popular novelist in her time, read in French in volume installments all over Europe and translated into English, German, Italian, and even Arabic. But she was also a charismatic figure in French salon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434858Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 235g

The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722014Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140277715Author Richard ErdoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528782Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Until now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing. Although the field has grown rapidly, early works-especially poetry-remain mostly unknown and inaccessible. Changing Is Not Vanishing simultaneously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596057074Author Manly P HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers. “A writer,” Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, “is a reader who is moved to emulation.” New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist...

Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively...

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N...

In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor, Virgil, how thoroughly he interprets the complexities of Virgilian poetry, and how he often, by placing a Virgilian reference in a...

A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity Al-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available for the first time in English his major work...

The first book-length study of Hoelderlin's postwar reception and a case study of Germanistik. Toward the end of the Second World War, the works of the great German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin were heavily exploited by Nazi propaganda as a source of...

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic...