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"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." -David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Charles Bowden's Red Line is a look at America through the window of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956952592Author John TytellFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Beatdom BooksPublisher Beatdom Books

Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture.Book...

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 *...

This 1995 book takes as its starting point Plato's incorporation of specific genres of poetry and rhetoric into his dialogues. The author argues that Plato's 'dialogues' with traditional genres are part and parcel of his effort to define 'philosophy'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119019Author Daniel Levin BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

A historical reconstruction of the campaign to end the slave trade in Southeastern Nigeria. The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950, is a history of the campaign waged by Great Britain in colonial Nigeria from approximately...

Israeli playwright and director Hanoch Levin was one of the most original and innovative writers of his generation. Although Levin is familiar within the Israeli cultural context-and despite the steadily growing stream of literary and theatrical research...

"Reeve's book is an excellent companion to Plato's Apology and a valuable discussion of many of the main issues that arise in the early dialogues. Reeve is an extremely careful reader of texts, and his familiarity with the legal and cultural background...

The ancient Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful, and inescapable that controlling their destiny within it was their constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces manifested themselves through misfortune and illness,...

The Ethical Vision of George Eliot is one of the first monographs devoted entirely to the ethical thought of George Eliot, a profoundly significant, influential figure not only in nineteenth-century English and European literature, nineteenth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547085746Author MR Joseph EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Examines one society's reaction to a period of prolonged, rapid population decline, a trauma that seems likely to become ever more common in African in years to come. Colonial rule triggered rapid population growth in most of Africa. Why then did...

A scholarly edition of journals and letters by Fanny Burney. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198124320Author Fanny BurneyFormat HardbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615845494Author Melanie VillinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Silver Birch PressPublisher Silver Birch PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

A Ghanaian explores the increasing influence of China across the region, a Kenyan student activist writes of exile in Kampala, a Liberian scientist shares her diary of the Ebola crisis; a Nigerian journalist travels to the north to meet a community at...

Graphis Journal #376Take a deep dive into the minds of some of today's renowned designers, photographers, art directors, and more inside the Graphis Journal. A quarterly print and digital magazine we hope inspires your creativity - The Journal is filled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122607Author John MasefieldFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 563g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955889639Author Simon LeysFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970652669Author Ph. D. The Rev. Joseph P. ChristopherFormat PaperbackPage Count 716Imprint St Athanasius PressPublisher St Athanasius PressWeight(grams)...

Qian Zhongshu was one of twentieth-century China's most ingenious literary stylists, one whose insights into the ironies and travesties of modern China remain stunningly fresh. Between the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the...

This beautiful collection of interviews, conducted by journalist, poet, novelist and artist Jacqueline Bishop, features insightful and entertaining conversations with many of Jamaica's most significant writers including Olive Senior, Lorna Goodison,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593314074Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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)...

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, Shorter Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645021714Author Cathryn MoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Change Empire BooksPublisher Change Empire BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to...

Seven essays that make the compelling case for coming to your own informed conclusions in an age of extremes. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the...

An illustrated wit-and-wisdom-style packaging of quotes and excerpts from the fiction and nonfiction of Edgar Allan Poe, organized by theme and presented in a lighter-than-Poe context. This book will collect several hundred quotes and aphorisms from...

In a world where literary scandals often end up in court, the issue of responsibility in writing has never been more important. In this groundbreaking study, Carl Tighe asks the questions every writer needs to consider:*What is it that writers do? Are...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598530308Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm)...

American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself-and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn's hundredth birthdayTruth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394713489Author M.F.K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Homer and the Poetics of Hades offers a new and unique approach to the Iliad and, more particularly, the Odyssey through an exploration of the role and function of the Underworld as a poetic resource permitting an alternative perspective on the epic past...

Spanish contemporary poetry: An anthology presents a selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period, followed by guided and close...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353337698Author Sanjukta NandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

D. H. Lawrence expected The Rainbow to have 'a bit of a fight' before it was accepted, but 'The fight will have to be made, that is all'. It was suppressed, just over a month after publication, in November 1915. The American publisher would make thirteen...

Kind Katie shares her bread and cheese with an old woman on her way through the forest. The woman thanks her with the gift of a magic porridge pot - but it's important to give the pot the right instructions, or the porridge will get out of hand... With...

Even among the richly talented generation who wrote for the stage during the Restoration, Etherege was, from the start, considered to be a very special kind of innovator. His first play, The Comical Revenge (1664), with its partisan portrait of the...