Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884141303Author Frank WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 653g

James Loeb (1867-1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he spent the second half of his life. Organized in...

In this brave and devastatingly beautiful anthology, the illustrious poet and editor Aracelis Girmay gathers complex and intimate pieces that illuminate the nuances of personal and collective histories, analyses, practices, and choices surrounding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789991054612Author Ahmed KoromaFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Sierra Leonean Writers SeriesPublisher Sierra Leonean Writers SeriesWeight(grams)...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China...

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon--"one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757167Author Rebecca ShannonhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important literature written by women during this period has survived. Edited by I. M. Plant, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome is a comprehensive anthology of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486821887Author Harry ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Praise for Mezcal:"Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the...

This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly...

The short lyric poem appears with great frequency in Sanskrit collections and displays a wide range of themes. Bhartri*hari is the most famous composer. Amaru and Bilhana also offer excellent examples. This anthology of the Love Lyrics of three Indian...

The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander-the first Black American economist"Sadie Alexander embodies the Black feminist saying, 'the political is personal.' Her speeches...

Ford's novel, "Parade's End", has been acknowledged as one of the great British novels about World War I. This book features a selection of Ford's other writings about the war, and should shed light on the tetralogy. It includes reminiscences,...

The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the 'London Magazine', 'New Monthly Magazine' and other English Marketing Reviews of the 1820s are here brought together in a single volume, the only edition available in English. In...

Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This expansive collection seeks to shed light on that injustice, putting some of America's most cherished voices in a conversation in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806355917Author Frank AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 654Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 744g

Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Barthes. This season they'll bring the five-volume set to completion with the publication of "Masculine,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486834092Author Margaret FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Through a cross-cultural and comparative approach, it reveals both changes and significant continuities in the symbolism that conferred meaning to iron smelting over two thousand years in East and Central Africa. North America: Indiana U PressBook...

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'), the poet Hmedan al-Shwe'ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the...

Despite feminist reassessments to the contrary, the conventional view that Elizabeth Gaskell personified the Victorian feminine ideal is still very much in place today. Challenging that view in an experimental biography, Felicia Bonaparte proposes that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670091157Author Anand TeltumbdeFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Penguin Allen LanePublisher Penguin Random House India

Towns and cities have been arenas around which societies have organized themselves: as centres of trade and economic activity; as foci of political action and authority; as military garrisons; as sites of ritual power; and as places of refuge and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067357Author Thomas HodgkinFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 517g

New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The...

"Everyone is free here. . . . The cities are open. They are open to the world and to the future. That is what gives them all an air of adventure; and . . . a kind of touching beauty." So wrote the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre on a 1945 trip to the...

This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works. From the 1880s it became apparent to writers in France that their diaries-a supposedly private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140256987Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 194mm *...

The humanist Hermann Schotten, or Hermannus Schottennius Hessus (c. 1503-1546), student, schoolmaster, and university lecturer in Cologne, was the author of a number of works on humanist pedagogy. His Confabulationes tironum litterariorum of 1525, a...

This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford,...

The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America - these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781436351263Author Michael Lee O'NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979374197Author Jesse JohnsonFormat PaperbackImprint Couples PublishingPublisher Couples PublishingWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954412125Author Stanley KonopkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Source Point PressPublisher Source Point Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788854417809Author Jean de La FontainePage Count 20Imprint White StarPublisher White StarWeight(grams) 160g