Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060932237Author E. B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Herman Bang (1857-1912) was a sharp-witted observer of the society and manners of his age; with an eye for telling details, he could at one moment mercilessly puncture hypocrisy and arrogance, at the next invoke indignant sympathy for the outcasts and...

This book is designed to appeal both to those interested in Roman poetry and to specialists in ancient philosophy. In it David Sedley explores Lucretius' complex relationship with Greek culture, in particular with Empedocles, whose poetry was the model...

The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought,...

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the classical world has been seen as foundational and exemplary to Western civilization. However, the Greeks never invaded and colonised western and northern Europe the way the Romans did, and, conversely,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505116427Author John Henry NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore: A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas is an autobiography of Maurice Baker's life in Malaya and Singapore from the 1920s to the 1940s. His memoir extends from the earliest of childhood memories with his family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062434876Author Sarah GerardFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368313806Author Herbert WardFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780375727160Author Martin AmisFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random...

The bold and surprising imagination of Joe Wenderoth is everywhere present in these essays moving fluidly between aesthetics, obscenity, America, censorship, and the craft of poetry. Fans of his previous work know he is one of those rare figures who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882190249Author Yohaku YorozuyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Polar Bear & CompanyPublisher Polar Bear & CompanyWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Granta magazine publishes the best of fiction, memoir, reportage and photography, Every issue of Granta is in print and many issues - such as 'Travel', 'Dirty Realism', 'The Family', 'India' and 'Unbelievable' - are classics. Granta only publishes work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733569422Author Troy James WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Apocalypse PartyPublisher Apocalypse PartyWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century.These tales of ghosts, magic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316485340Author Jenny SlateFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells of the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero viewed unromantically. Grettir spends his childhood violently defying authority:...

Facsimile edition of an important witness to the impact of the Normans on the ecclesiastical culture of England. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, MS F [London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A.viii, folios 30-70] is unique in presenting a sustainedly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532314Author Professor Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Young Mrs Burton is the third in a series of autobiographical novels written by Margaret Penn, following on from Manchester Fourteen Miles and The Foolish Virgin. It tells of Hilda Winstanley's (Margaret Penn's) marriage to a journalist who became an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934170601Author Ronald K. SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Process MediaPublisher Process MediaWeight(grams) 1072g

La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe. The novel follows Ana as she seduces cafe owners, philosophers, and wandering emigrants alike, each receiving a different...

Not much can be known about the life of Maximianus, who has been called "the last of the Roman poets," beyond what can be inferred from his poetry. He was most likely a native of Tuscany, probably lived until the middle of the sixth century, and, at an...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538255Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478220Author Editors of N+1Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588141491Author Edris RanjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Ibex Publishers, IncorporatedPublisher Ibex Publishers, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

The "Little Clay Cart" is, for Sanskrit theatre, atypically romantic, funny, and thrilling. This most human of Sanskrit plays is Shakespearian in its skilful drawing of characters and in the plot's direct clarity. One of the earliest Sanskrit dramas,...

John Tripp had a chameleon genius which enlivened the literary life of Wales for nearly three decades. Poet, short story writer and journalist, he was an outspoken and often controversial writer. Charming, abrasive, lyrical and satirical, 'The Meaning...

Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, Les Miserables--but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, left unfinished and not published until after his...

Vilmundar saga vidutan is an entertaining romance composed in the late Middle Ages in Iceland, where it remained popular for another five centuries. It tells of the adventures of Vilmundur, the rustic son of a farmer, whose rise through society is...

Bringing together the study of the Greek classics and Indology, Arjuna-Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahabharata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod. Building on the ethnographic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498181709Author Lieh TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Raped and colonized, coerced and silenced--this has been the position of Haitian women within their own society, as well as how they have been seen by foreign occupiers. Romanticized symbols of nationhood, they have served, however unwillingly, as a...

This volume contains a collection of new editions of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, scribes, illuminators, and dyers, written c. 1300-1500. Most are previously unpublished and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156290548Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

A miscellany of learned literature from Alexandria and beyond.This volume presents a selection of Hellenistic prose and poetry, ranging chronologically from Philitas of Cos through Alexander of Aetolia and Hermesianax of Colophon to Euphorion of Chalcis...

Essays on festive drama - plays, pageantry and traditional ceremonies - of the European middle ages, with comparative material. Festive drama, in these studies, includes processions and folk-customs as well as full-blown plays, from Spain, the...

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...

You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon...