Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156290562Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

A facsimilie copy of his most influential work by Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659), being a powerful and multi-layered allegory in the form of a conversation between three birds - an eagle, a raven and a dove - which represent the State, the Established Church...

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578946Author David ElliotFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 1405g

A harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream. Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living...

This text presents an analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Subscribing...

A miscellany of learned literature from Alexandria and beyond.This volume presents a selection of Hellenistic prose and poetry, ranging chronologically from Philitas of Cos through Alexander of Aetolia and Hermesianax of Colophon to Euphorion of Chalcis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912484058Author Angelis PublicationsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Angelis PublicationsPublisher Angelis PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616409272Author Montague SummersFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982470Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555972646Author William MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 340g

Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065315Author James Edward AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 231g

This collection of essays celebrates 10 years of the SI Leeds Literary prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women writers. These are important words spoken by important women about the lives they have lived, their experiences, and all the...

This is the second of two collections of MacNeice's prose writings, prepared by Alan Heuser. The first, concentrating on his literary criticism, came out in 1987 (still available from OUP). The present collection will be of interest to a wider...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788131901854Author Wilhelm AmekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 493Imprint B Jain Publishers Pvt LtdPublisher B Jain Publishers Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 554g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527457Author Juan Ramon JimenezFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on losing her baby, Giles Foden on the origins of 'The African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534528Author Charles BeveridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 822Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944682132Author Professor Michael GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Spuyten Duyvil PublishingPublisher Spuyten Duyvil PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726286Author Raymond CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus of Smyrna, whom C. M. Bowra called "the most accomplished and the most musical" of the early elegists, has not been as lucky as other poets of his era. Not updated by any recent papyrological discoveries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998088624Author Danyelle FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Wonderstruck BooksPublisher Wonderstruck BooksWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

Herman Bang (1857-1912) was a sharp-witted observer of the society and manners of his age; with an eye for telling details, he could at one moment mercilessly puncture hypocrisy and arrogance, at the next invoke indignant sympathy for the outcasts and...

The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the 'London Magazine', 'New Monthly Magazine' and other English Marketing Reviews of the 1820s are here brought together in a single volume, the only edition available in English. In...

This second volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1887-1888 contains 182 letters, of which 120 are published for the first time, written from late December 1887 to November 19, 1888. These letters continue to mark Henry James's ongoing efforts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425784Author Tour Format PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA

These letters document Martinu's life in his own words, from his student days in Prague and Paris to his triumphs in American exile. The 121 letters collected in this book document Martinu's life in his own words, beginning as a student in Prague and...

Fragmentary Modernism begins from a simple observation: what has been called the 'apotheosis of the fragment' in the art and writing of modernism emerged hand in hand with a series of paradigm-shifting developments in classical scholarship, which brought...

Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, Les Miserables--but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, left unfinished and not published until after his...

A tough and determined book bringing new ideas to bear - deserves serious consideration' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES Traditionality and Genrelooks for a new approach to romance, a way to assess and interpret individual romances in terms of their...

Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore: A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas is an autobiography of Maurice Baker's life in Malaya and Singapore from the 1920s to the 1940s. His memoir extends from the earliest of childhood memories with his family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156290609Author Cyril ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996116282Author George T WilkersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Bleakhouse PublishingPublisher Bleakhouse PublishingWeight(grams) 168g

These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.ReviewsSimply masterful...These clear, uncluttered translations are dreamlike. * The Review of Higher...

Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, the eighth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of thirteen Divine Poems and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806863Author Maria EdgeworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Horse's MouthPublisher Horse's MouthWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

For some, a sense of place is about travel, about plunging oneself into new settings. For others, it is about being-and knowing-home. This book is a collection of essays, memoirs, nature writing, and travel narratives that document the impact this sense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912561094Author Rita Ann HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work. Poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks was a singular force in American culture. The first black woman...