Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995727953Author Solomon Ibn GabirolFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Azafran BooksPublisher Azafran BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476785189Author Colm ToibinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Originally entitled 'Life at Twenty-Five', Stevenson's first collection of essays conducts conversations with the reader about the most satisfying ways to rebel against Victorian respectability in the areas of love, marriage, money and leisure.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895571240Author Yuri AndrukhovychFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher Canadian Institute of Ukrainian...

The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses. But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and...

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire-a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of...

The Chronicle of Logothetes covers the period from the Creation of the World to the burial of emperor Romanos I Lekapenos in the summer of 948 AD. If we deduce a medieval text's importance and success from the number of extant manuscripts, this work must...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997777130Author Doug SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Black Scat BooksPublisher Black Scat BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

After years living in the heart of the American Empire, the dramatist and novelist Edgar Nkosi White returned to his native Monserrat, still essentially a colony as a British Overseas Territory. Deported to Paradise is a series of free-floating...

The Poems of Alexander Pope is a multi-volume edition of the poetry of Alexander Pope (1688–1744) resulting from a thorough reappraisal of his work, from composition through to reception. The annotations and headnotes are full and informative, and the...

Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do...

With this highly original collection of short stories, Catalonian writer Jaume Cabre takes his place among the masters of the form. In "Winter Journey", the reader encounters disparate and often desperate characters - pianist, cuckold, whore, organ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812973617Author Julia ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

On tissue-thin paper in a tiny, often undecipherable hand, Alice Toklas described her daily life in Paris in absorbing detail, like a latter-day Madame de Sevigne. Here are shrewd, witty observations on some of the most interesting artists, musicians,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482061Author Chloe AridjisFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyDimensions(mm) 205mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129151636Author Harry OlthetenFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913861469Author Julie GuinandFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Strangers PressPublisher UEA Publishing ProjectWeight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792765Author PEN Hong KongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 498g

For 50 years UEA's MA and MFA in Prose Fiction has brought together the best and brightest emerging writers from around the globe. The programme has produced such recent successes as Emma Healey, John Boyne, Naomi Alderman, Elizabeth Macneal, Tash Aw,...

A cycle of stories linking queer memory, activism, death, and art in a transpoetic history of desire and touch.Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual cycle of transpoetic stories that blend memory and movement in an innovative choreo-text of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982951Author Clark Ashton SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786869183Author Caroline KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942956082Author Christopher CarmonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams)...

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

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...

Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational, complete in themselves, and short-very short. Although...

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)...

The edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose of Edward Rushton (1756--1814). Blinded by trachoma after an outbreak on the slaving ship in which he was a young officer, Rushton returned to Liverpool to scratch a living as a publican,...

Traces the development of the forest as a central literary motif in medieval romance. Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the literature of the middle ages, is a broad study embracing a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544569621Author Robert AtwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 227g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955296338Author Jonathan HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Originally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, ""chick lit"" mutated from a movement in American women's avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287748Author Robert DixonFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

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 9783951981727Author Herbert SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Sofa-BooksPublisher Sofa-BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 15mm

Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that gradually turns to obsession. Though Sonia needs to create distance when Knut becomes too absorbing, she also yearns for a less predictable existence...

This book examines the most important writings of a tenth century Islamic theologian and jurist who was one of the most original thinkers of his period. It argues that Qadi al-Nu'man's works constituted new and vital genres in Ismaili Shi'i literature,...

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)...