Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761617Author Julian BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the Scottish Highlands' folktales date back centuries and preserve the history and beliefs of a people deeply...

This compendium of Edgar Mittelholzer's uncollected by Juanita Cox, brings together his early collection of sketches of Georgetown life, Creole Chips, his speculative novella, The Adding Machine, twenty-four short stories, two short plays, his published...

The ten plays in this collection offer unprecedented grassroots perspectives on the jubilation, terror, hope, and heartbreak of mass uprising as seen during and in the wake of the Tahrir Square demonstrations. Collectively tracing events as they unfolded...

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Published in 1984: These texts which have been little studied for their literary qualities represent a vital link between the didactic tradition of the Middle Ages and the fictional short stories of the Renaissance, such as the thirteenth-century...

Thomas Mitchell's essays on how to live well were completed in 1913, and reflect a clear mind and a good education, but also confidence about the world and society that were about to be shattered. No doubt some thoughts he expressed would have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063341463Author Roxane GayFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden's Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198427Author V.S. PritchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

This is an enchanting selection from one of Europe's richest traditions of folk literature. The vitality of Popa's chosen material is wonderfully conveyed in this adaptation by Andrew Harvey and Anne Pennington.About the AuthorVasko Popa (1922-91),...

Andrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of language, narrative, and consciousness. In the early twentieth century, Bely embarked on his life as an...

Exodus is an exceptional Old English poem, written at a time when in the age of Bede Northern England held the intellectual leadership of Europe. It offers a vernacular gateway to the study of early medieval christian poetry. Focussing in dramatic...

Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent upheaval and transformation ever since, the current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612191942Author Mary MacLaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

The aristocrat who wrote this vigorous political play eschewed sentimentality in favor of realistic characterization and forceful action. It is 316 BCE, one year after Chandra*gupta Maurya, aided by his subtle minister Chanakya, has seized the kingdom of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250767257Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 10mm

Originally published in 1996, this book is a study of two of the central themes of medieval German mythology, the Dietrich and Nibelung legends. It traces its two legendary topics form their historical roots during the last centuries of the Roman Empire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992858100Author Leone RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Fincham Press RoehamptonPublisher Fincham Press Roehampton

`Roger Simpson['s] finds are crisp, detailed, and convincing.' MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW The revival of interest in Arthurian literature in the early part of the 19th century has been largely unremarked until now. Roger Simpson's wide-ranging study of this...

In Queers Dig Time Lords, editors Sigrid Ellis (Chicks Dig Comics) and Michael Damian Thomas (Apex Magazine) bring together essays by award-winning writers to celebrate the phenomenon that is Doctor Who, in the tradition of the Hugo Award-winning Chicks...

The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992741709Author Lyn MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Spinning WheelPublisher Spinning Wheel

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683965701Author Bobbi Jg WeissFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Fantagraphics BooksPublisher Fantagraphics BooksWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 262mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683961970Author Romano ScarpaFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Fantagraphics BooksPublisher Fantagraphics BooksWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 264mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911576822Author Tim CauserFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 430g

With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, and how he interpreted his youth for...

This study argues that ignorance is a part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. It sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605201399Author Frances RollestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that...

Created for adventure addicts *A carefully curated collection of adventure classics *A Lyons American classic *Fresh, new series design There has never been a more exciting collection of stories that celebrate the indomitable spirit of the...

This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual forms of ownership. What does it mean to believe that a...

Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999750193Author Nathan LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Sonder PressPublisher Sonder PressWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061543678Author Neil StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperEntertainmentPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to support greater gender...

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The first study to examine the origins, development, political exploitation and decline of the legend of St Helena, tracing its momentum and adaptive power from Anglo-Saxon England onwards. St Helena, mother of Constantine the Great and legendary...

The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde's aesthetic theory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765327116Author John ScalziFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 28mm