Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525659297Author Toni MorrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJoseph Epstein is a long time resident of Chicago. Joseph Epstein has taught English and writing at Northwestern for many years. He is the author of 22 books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494102852Author Jacob EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Conversations with Robertson Davies is a long overdue anthology of interviews with Canada's most respected literary figure. Journalist, essayist, reviewer, playwright, and novelist, Robertson Davies has not only been a leading figure in Canadian...

Incisive, compassionate, and revelatory reporting from America's death row, named a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic...

An account of a journey across an inhospitable region with former Tubu rebels at a time of Tuareg insurgency, when explosions from landmines rocked towns, mountains were overrun with militia and journalists were being thrown into desert prisons for...

A Greek declamation was an 'imaginary speech': a fictitious speech composed for a rhetorical scenario set in Classical Greece. Although such speeches began as rhetorical exercises, under the high Roman empire they developed into a full-blown prestigious...

'There is a Turkish saying that one's home is not where one is born, but where one grows full - dogdugun yer degil, doydugun yer.'Mixing the personal and political, Eda Gunaydin's bold and innovative writing explores race, class, gender and violence, and...

Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple...

1942 would prove crucial for the United States in the Pacific following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of setbacks in the Southwest Pacific late in 1941 into 1942. As the first ship commissioned following America's entry into World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635610970Author Dalton TrumboFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Bama is one of the most readily recognizable names in the pantheon of Tamil Dalit writers. She rose to fame with her autobiographical novel Karukku (1992), which chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit Christian women in Tamil Nadu. Her...

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From the acclaimed creator of Subway Book Review, Between the Lines gloriously takes to the underground and showcases in over 170 interviews what moves us forward-a thrilling ride as unexpected as New York City itself. "Subway Book Review has changed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258977023Author Alexander RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 41g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935548461Author Ogai MoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint One Peace Books, IncorporatedPublisher Social Club Books

This collection of articles by Joseph Leech, first published in the Bristol Times in the mid-19 century, took a swipe at contemporary society, particularly the Church and fellow churchgoers. Leech on occasion attacks his contemporaries and invited libel...

Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486499130Author Strowbridge StrowbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both...

The focus of this book is on the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) from its formation in the early 1970s to its victory in 1991, and its transformation from liberation front to ruling party and government of independent Eritrea. North America:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526832Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398433182Author Edel PierceFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The essays in this volume have been selected and arranged to provide students with an introduction to the historiographial study of the Roman historian Livy. All classics in their own right, the eighteen articles included here work together to present a...

Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times)...

The essays in this volume represent the major currents in critical thinking about Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison's widely acclaimed examination of the individual quest for self-knowledge in the context of the African-American experience. This collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631243Author Sylvia BrownriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph EditionsDimensions(mm) 241mm * 146mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254844Author Chris ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

This volume offers a fresh translation of a generous selection of Lorca's suites, a body of work that Federico Garcia Lorca left largely unpublished upon his death in 1936. Composed between 1920 to 1923, these poems are closest in spirit and technique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354893742Author Amitava KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 160mm * 20mm

The Plumed Serpent is set in Mexico in the 1920s, an era of political turmoil, and centres on a revolutionary movement to revive the religion of the ancient Aztecs. The brilliant vision of place, the violent action and the rituals and myth for the new...

Inductive zoology.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838464158Author Thea GomelauriFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library

Margins of Desire' turns the critical spotlight on the London suburbs by showing how the expanding city created new literary locations, genres and themes between 1880 and 1925. Drawing on a wide range of writings, the book considers not only the fiction...

Willa Cather was twenty-eight years old in the summer of 1902 when she saw England and France for the first time. Behind her stretched the Nebraska fields of her childhood and still ahead of her the world as it belongs only to great writers. The 1902...

Granta goes to the movies. Featuring John Fowles on the making of 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and DM Thomas on the not-making of 'The White Hotel', Nik Cohn on his early involvement with the porn industry, Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's list,...

Marta Jimenez presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of the role of shame in moral development. Despite shame's bad reputation as a potential obstacle to the development of moral autonomy, Jimenez argues that shame is for Aristotle the...

In 1566, Croatian Count Miklos Zrinyi defended the Fortress of Szigetvar against an overwhelming Ottoman siege for 33 days. In the end, with troops and supplies exhausted, he led the remainder of his men in a last charge into the enemy lines, killing...

"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...