Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990082191Author Rj JosephFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Seventh TerracePublisher Seventh TerraceWeight(grams) 140g

Two different versions of Romeo and Juliet were published during Shakespeare's lifetime: the second quarto of 1599, on which modern editions are usually based, and the first quarto of 1597. The latter version was long denigrated as a 'bad' quarto', but...

Symbols and tropes of liquidity have long been connected to notions of the feminine and, therefore, with orthodox constructions of femininity and womanhood. Underpinning these ideas is the vital importance of water as life force, which has given it a...

Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking...

Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City's people and culture-its colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639688Author Pauline HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 167gDimensions(mm)...

The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill marks a significant development in literary recovery efforts related to Assia Wevill (1927-1969), who remains a critically important figure in the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sylvia Plath and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959052900Author Jonas MekasFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 162mm * 48mm

James Boswell's relish for life, unflinching honesty and wide social contacts make him one of the raciest and most entertaining of all diarists.This is a one-volume edition of the journals he kept while making his living as an advocate in...

Bringing together the study of the Greek classics and Indology, Arjuna-Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahabharata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod. Building on the ethnographic...

On a freezing winter's night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two...

One of the great figures of modern French literature. Swiss-born in 1887, but French to the core in spirit, Cendrars roamed the world for many years, a restless seeker who made life an adventure and his novels and poems the record of a never-satisfied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119712Author Daniel GumbinerFormat PaperbackImprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full text of James Marston's The Wonder of Women, alongside critical and textual notes. Previously to this volume, Sophonisba had appeared in print five times, once independently and four times in...

This book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature-namely, the postal system-determined how literature was produced and what was produced within literature. Language itself has the structure of a relay, where what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615685274Author Kenneth E HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Steering Committee PressPublisher Steering Committee PressWeight(grams)...

There is more to classical literature than just the classics. Here David Slavitt expands the canon by presenting vivid, graceful, and amusing translations of two neglected fragmentary works of Latin literature. The first is Publius Papinius Statius's...

The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius' work, from his lost biographical writing on...

Prize-winning prose and poetry by alumni and students of University College Cork in Ireland and University of Massachusetts, Lowell, in the U.S. This collection of stories, essays, and poems by emerging and established writers is introduced by U.S...

Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired - and condemned - for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in materialist causation, and its seductive advocacy of the Epicurean good life. Approaches to...

Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner's best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare's The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc...

When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging...

Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of an enemy that had been thoroughly demonized by the Allied press. Composed by German...

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, sponsored by the Modern Language AssociationAn anthology of literary gems compiled in early China, newly translated and annotatedIn 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist Liu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578812472Author Amirah MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Maui the WriterPublisher Maui the WriterWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616403928Author Frederick Winslow TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 86Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

"Selections from Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn" provides edited selections, together with an introduction, notes, and glossary, from a long and entertaining thirteenth century Welsh text which belongs to the genre of medieval translations. The source of "Ystorya...