Literary Collections

Originally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, ""chick lit"" mutated from a movement in American women's avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307387387Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in "becoming" a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as...

Wonder Woman, Amazon Princess; Asterix, indefatigable Gaul; Ozymandias, like Alexander looking for new worlds to conquer. Comics use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527280410Author Sophia HembeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Muse Letter PublishingPublisher Muse Letter Publishing

A goldsmith's daughter who eludes the Prince of Darkness, three wandering brothers born from a walnut tree, the Princess of Fantasistan, the case of the Shah's lost ruby ring, the leopard and the Sultan's emissary, the Cook and the Unforgettable Sneeze.....

Perhaps in defiance of expectations, Roman peace (pax) was a difficult concept that resisted any straightforward definition: not merely denoting the absence or aftermath of war, it consisted of many layers and associations and formed part of a much...

The Estrangement Principle argues for a wider range of possible associations with art made by queer people by unraveling the difficulties of the "queer art" label. Goldberg invokes the lives and works of artists Renee Gladman, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Jack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611533019Author Wally R TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Light MessagesPublisher Light MessagesWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999323144Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint The BelieverPublisher The BelieverWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 216mm * 6mm

Even among the richly talented generation who wrote for the stage during the Restoration, Etherege was, from the start, considered to be a very special kind of innovator. His first play, The Comical Revenge (1664), with its partisan portrait of the...

"At the Edge of Night", a selection from four recent collections by Anise Koltz, brings the work of Luxembourg's best-known poet to the attention of the English-speaking literary world for the first time. Written in Koltz's prolific seventh decade, these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987463708Author Yuri KazakovFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Vladislav ZhukovPublisher Vladislav ZhukovWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946448132Author Rachel Z ArndtFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sarabande Books, IncorporatedPublisher Sarabande Books, Incorporated

Essays on Ricardian Literature develops issues and themes first broached in John Burrow's ground-breaking book Ricardian Poetry and incorporates a bibliography of his published writings, which have revolutionized critical appreciation of medieval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494064358Author Vivian E RobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982470Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his...

Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full text of James Marston's The Wonder of Women, alongside critical and textual notes. Previously to this volume, Sophonisba had appeared in print five times, once independently and four times in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399168888Author Julia ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 426g

With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fiction literature and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, critics, and scholars from around the world...

A harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream. Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955296338Author Jonathan HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586177102Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 227g

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...

Hartmann von Aue (c. 1170-1215) is universally recognized as the first medieval German poet to create world-class literature. He crafted German into a language of refined literary expression that paved the way for writers such as Gottfried von...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723470Author Nicholas MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 254g

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Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams. This book, more than any...

The literary legacy of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) consists of numerous works in which the traditional restraints of language are abandoned for spontaneous and surprising expression. Her writings challenge the reader, yet also offer an inviting...

The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique...

Thoreau said that the honourable institution of friendship is `older than Hindostan and the Chinese Empire'. Much older in fact, for it originated with Adam, who soon desired the `rational delight' of fellowship, whereupon God agreed that it was not good...

In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and...

The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Emile Zola. Written at the height of his career as a leading proponent of Naturalism, The Experimental Novel serves to illuminate the author's approach to the practice and purpose of writing...

Rama goes to the monkey capital of Kishkindha to seek help in finding Sita, and meets Hanuman, the greatest of the monkey heroes. There are two claimants for the monkey throne, Valin and Sugriva; Rama helps Sugriva win the throne, and in return Sugriva...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788797426227Author Marion WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint Nybrogade PressPublisher Nybrogade Press

Readers at all levels will find even-handed coverage of politics in sub-Saharan Africa's more than thirty states from the early years of independence to today. Readings in African Politics provides an overview of key topics and themes that...

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...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to...