Literary Collections

Raped and colonized, coerced and silenced--this has been the position of Haitian women within their own society, as well as how they have been seen by foreign occupiers. Romanticized symbols of nationhood, they have served, however unwillingly, as a...

This volume contains a collection of new editions of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, scribes, illuminators, and dyers, written c. 1300-1500. Most are previously unpublished and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169973367Author Michel E ChevreulFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 576g

"T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty shimmers with confidence as it tours the surreal chaos of gender, art, and desire. Its declarative sentences seductive, abject, caustic, moving, informative, and utterly inventive herald a new world, one in which we are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882190249Author Yohaku YorozuyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Polar Bear & CompanyPublisher Polar Bear & CompanyWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980605Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the internal and external changes observed in the cities of Makiivka and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Aseyev scrutinizes his immediate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737318200Author J D WisgoFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Arigatai BooksPublisher Arigatai BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374517199Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is Andre Breton's second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred pages, it captures the first full decade of the surrealist...

Passage of Tears cleverly mixes many genres and forms of writing--spy novel, political thriller, diary (replete with childhood memories), travel notebook, legends, parables, incantations, and prayers. Djibril's reminiscences provide a sense of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250785909Author Jordan KisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm

Essays on festive drama - plays, pageantry and traditional ceremonies - of the European middle ages, with comparative material. Festive drama, in these studies, includes processions and folk-customs as well as full-blown plays, from Spain, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119415Author Claire BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation,...

This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and "the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails." Located in history and memory, her life cracks open questions of identity at the heart of an...

Syrian poet Samir Tahhan collected folktales from old men sitting outside their houses in Aleppo, drinking tea. Afraid these stories would disappear with the passing of this generation, Tahhan also went to halls and events to hear professional...

Dubbed "a Columbus of new poetic continents" because of his search for a poetics as diverse as the universe itself, Velimir Khlebnikov is the creator of some of the most extraordinary poems in the Russian language. Sometimes surreal, sometimes esoteric,...

This was the first edition of Dekker's plays to appear in print since the late nineteenth century. Thus, for many years prior, Dekker had been the least accessible of the prominent Elizabethan dramatists, with the result that his anthologized plays had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999952280Author Nigel JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint The Hmm FoundationPublisher The Hmm Foundation

At the time of her death in 2004, Lucia Berlin was known as a brilliant writer of short stories, beloved by other writers but never achieving wide readership or acclaim. That changed in 2015 with the publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739620837Author Florance PhilipFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Triniti PublicationsPublisher Triniti PublicationsWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

The first quarto of Hamlet is radically different from the second quarto and Folio versions of the play, and about half their length. But despite its uneven verbal texture and simpler characterisation, the first quarto presents its own workable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610975117Author E Allison PeersFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Developing a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the unconscious and the divided psyche, The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti offers a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156290548Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

A selection of Shakespeare's work focusing on the theme of love. From the passion of the sonnets, the poignant balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet to the bewitched love scene between Titania and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, this anthology cuts...

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by...

Here in one volume are the top one hundred poems, as determined by a survey of more than 1,000 anthologies-the poems in English most frequently anthologized, the poems with the broadest, most enduring appeal. From Shakespeare to Dickinson to Frost, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523504268Author Mo WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 157mm * 160mm...

From the late 18th to the early 20th century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some - like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits - are still...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984897381Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 51gDimensions(mm) 158mm * 111mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999136508Author James GallantFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Odd VolumesPublisher Odd VolumesWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

An intimate account of everyday life and art in 1970s New York from a pioneering feminist artist Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) produced a vast body of work that includes sculptures, outdoor installations, drawings, illustrations, artist's books, lyrical...

With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and...

Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes,...

A gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris-whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jones-presents a book about his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857283931Author Geoffrey P. NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Subtle and illuminating life of Chaucer, drawn against the turbulent backdrop of 14th century England. `Brewer brings to his task a full scholarly knowledge of the sources of Chaucerian biography... Of obvious value to students reading Chaucer and to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830454Author Dubravka UgresicFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open LetterWeight(grams) 139g