Literary Collections

Ireland in Proximity surveys and develops the expanding field of Irish Studies, reviewing existing debates within the discipline and providing new avenues for exploration. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches, this impressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807019726Author Patricia PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859841631Author John SturrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso BooksWeight(grams) 244g

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. In Proclus' Commentary, the Parmenides...

These influential essay and lectures by T. S. Eliot span nearly a half century--from 1917, when he published The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, to 1961, four years before his death. With the luminosity and clarity of a first-rate intellect, Eliot...

Thomas Merton spent two weeks in Alaska in 1968 just prior to his fateful trip to the East. He had no thought of publication either of his journal or his conferences-the talks he gave to religious communities there. Although it was his nature to give his...

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...

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,...

An authoritative selection of the writings of one of the most important early American writers "A brilliant collection that reveals the extraordinary range of Cotton Mather's interests and contributions-by far the best introduction to the mind of the...

This eye-opening perspective on Stanley's expedition reveals new details about the Victorian explorer and his African crew on the brink of the colonial Scramble for Africa. In 1871, Welsh American journalist Henry M. Stanley traveled to Zanzibar in...

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...

Originally published in 1957, this volume brings together a collection of essays and hard to source translations on both well and lesser known German writers and poets, including Hoelderlin, Benn, Mann and Nietzsche. The essays are linked by a...

In the late fourteenth century the complex Middle English word "trouthe," which had earlier meant something like "integrity" or "dependability," began to take on its modern sense of "conformity to fact." At the same time, the meaning of its antonym,...

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 9781845231996Author Ifeona FulaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

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 *...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a stunning, emotional story of a young soldier's unthinkable act...and the unbreakable bonds between a sister and brother. Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when...

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 9780618001934Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

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...

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

Mock trial-Roman style.The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century AD and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from "the school of Quintilian." The collection-here made available for the first...

Robert Frost's poetry has triumphantly survived him, but most readers today have not known him in one of his most significant capacities-as teacher and lecturer. Here, collected for the first time, are excerpts from forty-six of his presentations...

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...

An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke . . . let the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028165Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

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)...

With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press...

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experienceWords for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India's earliest classical languages. Inspired by...

Pestilence entered The ordinary pursuits of society were paralysed; all previously-formed plans of happiness, business, trade, occupation, and domestic arrangement, were checked as cruelly and abruptly as if every principle of the human mind were in a...

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...

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...

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)...