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"[Eleanor's] sense of respect, her tact, her utter lack of obsequiousness ...and her uncanny ability to ask difficult questions ...have endeared her to readers and listeners."-Carol Shields Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most...

Essays on Ricardian Literature develops issues and themes first broached in John Burrow's ground-breaking book Ricardian Poetry and incorporates a bibliography of his published writings, which have revolutionized critical appreciation of medieval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999762011Author A PfisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint TownsendsPublisher TownsendsWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm

Romeo and Juliet is not only one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, it is one of the most popular stories in the world. Yet while the play has rarely been off the stage, it has undergone radical transformations in performance. It has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494064358Author Vivian E RobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258682Author Megan BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788797426227Author Marion WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint Nybrogade PressPublisher Nybrogade Press

Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his...

These forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail the breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era that was the '60s and '70s. And finally, here, they tell it like it was. Their stories range from Vietnam to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644207Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399168888Author Julia ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 426g

A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of Native stories and storytellers in North America, "In vain I tried to tell you" showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native...

Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls "hermit crab essays." The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary,...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fiction literature and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, critics, and scholars from around the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586177102Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 227g

William Carlos Williams's place among the great poets of our century is firmly established. This anthology of selections drawn from the whole range of his work-poetry, fiction, autobiography, drama and essays-shows conclusively that his prose was also...

Essays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster. This is a book about loving things-books, songs, people-in the shadow of a felt, looming disaster. Through lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching essays,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723470Author Nicholas MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 254g

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First Place Winner in Non-Fiction from the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's beautifully written The Art of Astonishment explores the rich intellectual, religious, and philosophical...

Ventriloquized Voices is a fascinating examination of the appropriation of the feminine voice by male authors. In a historical and theoretical study of English texts of the early modern period, Elizabeth D. Harvey looks at the transvestism at work in...

Ernie O'Malley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of the leading figures in the Irish independence and civil wars, he survived wounds, imprisonment and hunger strike, before going to the USA in 1928 to fundraise on de Valera's behalf. Broken...

The literary legacy of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) consists of numerous works in which the traditional restraints of language are abandoned for spontaneous and surprising expression. Her writings challenge the reader, yet also offer an inviting...

The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique...

Thoreau said that the honourable institution of friendship is `older than Hindostan and the Chinese Empire'. Much older in fact, for it originated with Adam, who soon desired the `rational delight' of fellowship, whereupon God agreed that it was not good...

In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618902811Author Dave EggersFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Academic)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Emile Zola. Written at the height of his career as a leading proponent of Naturalism, The Experimental Novel serves to illuminate the author's approach to the practice and purpose of writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956005097Author Alfred ChesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Readers at all levels will find even-handed coverage of politics in sub-Saharan Africa's more than thirty states from the early years of independence to today. Readings in African Politics provides an overview of key topics and themes that...

For the first time, Peninsula gathers the voices of Durham University's emerging writers into an ambitious and culturally diverse volume, covering aspects of the human experience from identity and diaspora to philosophy and the significance of place...

Selected by editor Mireille Silcoff, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2021. Book InformationISBN 9781771965033Author Mireille SilcoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646146Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackImprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer Magazine

The first book-length selection from the extraordinary unpublished diary of the late-Victorian writer “Michael Field”—the pen name of two female coauthors and romantic partnersMichael Field was known to late-Victorian readers as a superb poet and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353338459Author Joseph MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

The first single-volume anthology of Brecht's writings on both art and politics This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094574Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538347Author Elisa GabbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 124mm *...

What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes, featured by a yet-to-be-named...

Leung Ping?kwan is one of Hong Kong's most acclaimed poets. His poems display a unique blend of the literary and the down?to?earth, the modern and the traditional, the serious and the humorous, the local and the universal. He wrote, 'I want to write a...