Literary Collections

This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books,...

Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important literature written by women during this period has survived. Edited by I. M. Plant, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome is a comprehensive anthology of...

Chaucer: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. It provides a clear critical analysis of the texts, while also providing some necessary background to key medieval ideas and the historical period in which he lived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991573400Author Caitlin WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint May DayPublisher May DayWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have failed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609423407Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Publisher Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Weight(grams)...

The short lyric poem appears with great frequency in Sanskrit collections and displays a wide range of themes. Bhartri*hari is the most famous composer. Amaru and Bilhana also offer excellent examples. This anthology of the Love Lyrics of three Indian...

Essays on Literature brings together ten of the most important literary reviews and essays written by the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. Spanning his writing career, the essays allow the reader to track...

This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800859548Author Anderson AraujoFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

This collection contains some of Bly's seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on Hirshfield, Stevens, Whitman, Wright, Rilke, Machado,...

Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This expansive collection seeks to shed light on that injustice, putting some of America's most cherished voices in a conversation in...

A reissue of the 1974 Columbia U. Press edition of the letters of Florentine humanist Poggius (1380-1459) to his friend de Niccolis regarding the rediscovery of lost classical texts. Translated (from the Latin) with notes by Phyllis Walter Goodhart...

Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806355917Author Frank AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 654Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 744g

Pan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D. The narrative is rich in detail and characterized by purity and economy of style. Covering the period from...

Challenges many of the dominant beliefs in the discourse on development and aid. Is the world witnessing a global associational revolution spearheaded by development non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? Is the relationship between states and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620835220Author Nicolette MashileFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Financial BunnyPublisher Financial BunnyWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Through a cross-cultural and comparative approach, it reveals both changes and significant continuities in the symbolism that conferred meaning to iron smelting over two thousand years in East and Central Africa. North America: Indiana U PressBook...

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'), the poet Hmedan al-Shwe'ir was an acerbic critic of his society and its morals. Living in the Najd region of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670091157Author Anand TeltumbdeFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Penguin Allen LanePublisher Penguin Random House India

Towns and cities have been arenas around which societies have organized themselves: as centres of trade and economic activity; as foci of political action and authority; as military garrisons; as sites of ritual power; and as places of refuge and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067357Author Thomas HodgkinFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 517g

Counteracts the misconception of Africa having no history before colonisation. Eminent historian A. Adu Boahen gives an African perspective on colonialism. A. ADU BOAHEN was Professor Emeritus of History, University of Ghana (Legon), fellow of...

It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for both to be true. This impossibility is a species of rational necessity, a phenomenon that uniquely characterizes the relation...

New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848710658Author John Charles RylePage Count 22Imprint Banner of TruthPublisher Banner of Truth

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525567332Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501350184Author John GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

"Everyone is free here. . . . The cities are open. They are open to the world and to the future. That is what gives them all an air of adventure; and . . . a kind of touching beauty." So wrote the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre on a 1945 trip to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355202871Author Ratnakar ShettyFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works. From the 1880s it became apparent to writers in France that their diaries-a supposedly private...

Demonstrates the reciprocal influences between Christianity and politics throughout South African history. Almost three-quarters of South Africans in the late-1990s call themselves Christians. From colonial times, when missionaries embroiled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998724669Author Paul HerronFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Sky Blue PressPublisher Sky Blue PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880105774Author Dr Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140256987Author Bruce ChatwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 194mm *...

The humanist Hermann Schotten, or Hermannus Schottennius Hessus (c. 1503-1546), student, schoolmaster, and university lecturer in Cologne, was the author of a number of works on humanist pedagogy. His Confabulationes tironum litterariorum of 1525, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569027462Author Steven ColatrellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258875664Author Ludwig Von MisesFormat HardbackPage Count 906Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light, by esteemed Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke, is a monologue delivered by the "she" in Beckett's play. This...