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Aldous Huxley was one of the most prophetic intellectuals of the twentieth century, and his best-known work was a novel of ideas that warned of a terrible future then 600 years away. Though ""Brave New World"", was published less than a century ago in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114488Author Dylan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632063526Author Andrea ChapelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553212464Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593439340Author Richard D. HeffnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955296314Author Richard PevearFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph EditionsWeight(grams) 126g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558856066Author Miguel PineroFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Arte Publico PressPublisher Arte Publico Press

Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write...

Oedipus the King is the best-known play we have from the pen of Sophocles and was recognized as a masterpiece in Aristotle's Poetics, which cites the play more often than any other as an example of how to write tragedy. The principal character is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816621170Author Helene CixousFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646023Author Black Mountain InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer MagazineWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621459323Author Reader's DigestFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm)...

Friedrich Durrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions, his...

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The edition presents De Quincey's work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough...

Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644391877Author Andrew MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955821360Author Robert Henry CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 2118gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951142391Author Elissa WashutaFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 145mm...

Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been surpassed. Even today, this reimagining of fourteen timeless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949641349Author Jazmina BarreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Two Lines PressPublisher Two Lines PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486275635Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Drawn from Aelfric's Old English Lives of the Saints, this is an edition of the lives of the little-known virgin spouses: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria. As well as the Old English original texts, it provides the...

Paek Nam-nyong's Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992916121Author Montague KobbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ragpicker Press LtdPublisher Ragpicker Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250310385Author Marilynne RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm *...

In Leaves from the Garden of Eden, Howard Schwartz, a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from Jewish folk tradition. Just as Schwartz's award-winning book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021143Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Manchester Fourteen Miles was the inscription on the signpost outside 'Moss Ferry', the village where 'Hilda Winstanley' grew up before the First World War. The seemingly short distance from the capital of England's cotton industry was nonetheless the...

Colonel Thurman Shuller's war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. The group surgeon character in the motion picture Twelve O'clock High was based on Shuller during his...

Herodotus' Histories was composed well before the genre of Greek historiography emerged as a distinct narrative enterprise. This book explores it within its fifth-century context alongside the extant fragments of Presocratic treatises as well as...

A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville's later masterful account of American democracy Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981961Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067159Author Geoffrey SparrowFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 354g

Focusing on the first 20 years of Katherine Mansfield's life, from her birth in 1888 to her final departure from New Zealand in 1908, this biography reveals the importance of Mansfield's childhood and teenage years to her development as a writer and...

Greek literature is divided, like many literatures, into poetry and prose, but in Greek the difference between them is not that all prose is devoid of firm rhythmic patterning. In the earlier Roman Empire, from 31 BC to about AD 300, much Greek (and...

Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ...

'Which writer today is not a writer of the Holocaust?' asked the late Imre Kertesz, Hungarian survivor and novelist, in his Nobel acceptance speech: 'one does not have to choose the Holocaust as one's subject to detect the broken voice that has dominated...

Presents cutting-edge criticism on the theme of Katherine Mansfield and childrenWhat Virginia Woolf called 'Childlikeness' is a facet of Mansfield's personality which permeates every aspect of her personal and creative life. It is present in her mature...

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the study of nonsense.About the AuthorAnna Barton, Lecturer in English, The University of Sheffield. James Williams, Lecturer in English,...