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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439183441Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 395g

This study examines women's prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385424011Author Marita GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987463708Author Yuri KazakovFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Vladislav ZhukovPublisher Vladislav ZhukovWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272394Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint AutonomediaPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 75g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536947Author Claudia Roth PierpontFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

How can Latin Americans understand their past? Do ideologies which have been imported from Europe necessarily distort their view, or is that to underrate the power and objectivity of the ideas themselves? These questions are at the heart of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437460Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194665175Author Ranjit HoskoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hawakal PublishersPublisher Hawakal PublishersWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611458213Author Tim ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tended to see Romanticism as predominantly British, the term itself actually originated in Germany, where it became the banner of a Europe-wide movement...

"Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false...

The third installment of Harvard's five-volume edition of Robert Frost's correspondence.The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 1929-1936 is the latest installment in Harvard's five-volume edition of the poet's correspondence. It presents 601 letters, of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258781Author Agata Izabela BrewerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams. This book, more than any...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602234550Author Lara Messersmith-GlavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams)...

A collection of new studies on one of the best known and most important British literary critics of the twentieth century. The book is divided into four sections: documentary analysis of Leavis's practice as a teacher, drawing on seminar notes, lecture...

Rama goes to the monkey capital of Kishkindha to seek help in finding Sita, and meets Hanuman, the greatest of the monkey heroes. There are two claimants for the monkey throne, Valin and Sugriva; Rama helps Sugriva win the throne, and in return Sugriva...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307387387Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The boundless and miraculous is what Vincent van Gogh believed we should all seek - and to be satisfied with nothing less. This is exactly what he achieved in his art, despite many profound difficulties which he recorded in his letters. These letters...

"Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler" (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts about great poets and bad poets,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770833777Author J FrazerFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Theophania PublishingPublisher Theophania PublishingWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633915121Author Albert M HyamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Humanitarian lessons and practical insights from the prophet of Islam The words of Muhammad, messenger of God and prophet of Islam, have a special place in the hearts of his followers. Wielding an authority second only to the Qur'an, they are cited by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783414408662Author Chancellor WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Parker PublishingPublisher Parker PublishingWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm)...

The stories that Paul Filev has collected in this anthology of recent Macedonian fiction introduce English-language readers to a literature that has long been overlooked. Ranging from melancholy realism, such as Rumena Buzarovska's "Lily," to surreal...

An inspirational, allegorical guide to living. 'The Prophet' is the most famous work of religious fiction in the twentieth century and had sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran has his protagonist, called Simply the prophet,...

Not much can be known about the life of Maximianus, who has been called "the last of the Roman poets," beyond what can be inferred from his poetry. He was most likely a native of Tuscany, probably lived until the middle of the sixth century, and, at an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877889Author Christopher MacLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486821887Author Harry ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Essays on Politics and Society brings together the most significant writings on the topic by the acclaimed Victorian historian, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. This volume includes some of his most well-known and influential pieces, such as...

Analyses how South Africa's apartheid regime controlled neighbouring states beyond its own borders through invasion, disruption to fuel suplies, attempted assassination and the backing dissident groups. Joseph Hanlon pieces together the details of...

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life. When he died in...

'Achebe is the man who invented African literature because he was able to show, in the structure and language of Things Fall Apart, that the future of African writing did not lie in simple imitation of European forms but in the fusion of such forms with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390652402Author Ruskin BondFormat HardbackPage Count 149Imprint 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 9781735320106Author SciensFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Curious PublicationsPublisher Curious PublicationsWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A selection of the poems of Sappho and other Ancient Greek authors translated into English verse by Theodore Stephanides, with facing Greek texts from editions which correspond closely to the translations. There is a substantial introduction and...

First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in...

Stephen Nathanson's clear-sighted abridgment of Principles of Political Economy , Mill's first major work in moral and political philosophy, provides a challenging, sometimes surprising account of Mill's views on many important topics: socialism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141001876Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...