Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530073Author George Mackay BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264387Author Jindrich StyrskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm)...

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 *...

By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race The late Anthony...

Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth,...

'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek' In his speeches as president, Barack Obama had the power to move people from all over the world as few...

As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. In bold, blunt prose, one of the greatest First...

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's...

Mark Girouard has, he claims, scarcely ever thrown away a letter that he has received, and here he selects and reproduces 29 of them, ranging from his early childhood during the war to recent years, and uses them to characterise and memorialise their...

Three foundational Roman poets.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry.Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans...

Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait...

'The Firm', as the royal family styles itself, judged by real corporate standards, is a mess. Any consultants called in from outside to scrutinise its inner workings would find all the familiar flaws of a family business that has outgrown its original...

Inge Bondi combines her recollections with Ernst Haas' letters, poems, photos, to narrate Haas's 40 year photography career. The book is in itself a letter from Bondi to Haas. "[S]heds new light on the life of renowned Magnum photographer, Ernst Haas,...

One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971286Author Norman MailerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' ...

`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond...

"Magnificent." -People MagazineThe instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson.Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142002179Author Neal CassadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *...

*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 5 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of practice: What are the practical, everyday, and lifelong...

Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship by your favourite classic authors.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a...

"The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knitters. They share their knitting triumphs and disasters as well as their life triumphs and disasters. . . . These essays will break your heart. They will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606601211Author Charles DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476753614Author KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners.How...

The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China...

From the earliest FA Cup finals in the 1870s between teams of former public schoolboys to the glittering world of 21st-century Champions League matches contested by squads of millionaires, The Times has been at pitchside to write the history of football...

A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533113Author Professor Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Some travel is vital to the traveller. Sometimes you need to get home or get away. Sometimes this is far from easy. Compelling stories about journeys which needed to be made. You might call it necessary travel writing.Book InformationISBN...

Fallacies, contraries, consistencies.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three...

The saga of the Three Kingdoms-which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180-220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states-remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional...

A collection of irreverent and poetic short works from legendary actor Vincent D'Onofrio This is not a story woven around plot, characters, and contrivance. Rather, it is what acclaimed actor Vincent D'Onofrio's mind produces when on idle, when he is not...

Winner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501349812Author Alfred ArtleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 218mm...

In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912368174Author J. A. GilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Cockatrice BooksPublisher Cockatrice Books

'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring to mind the colour & fragrance of the fields, of a season...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061353369Author Anne D LeClaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...