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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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936787791Author Natalie Eve GarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565146Author Odelia YoungeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to...

London possesses a literary heritage which is unique and in large part unrivalled in any city in the world. In this book, literary London is presented through its authors and literature: William Shakespeare, Andrea Levy, G.A. Henty, Geoffrey Chaucer,...

`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.' ...

Tender, moving, heartfelt and warm (and sporadically scandalous and outrageous too), these are the private messages between people in love. Yet they are also correspondence between the rulers of nations. From Henry VIII's lovelorn notes to Anne Boleyn...

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Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholar In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khaldun applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. Ibn Khaldun is widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975081Author Charles BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 161mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941656280Author Aleksandra M RohdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Dale Street BooksPublisher Dale Street BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354893346Author Ajay ChhibberFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 250mm...

This extensively revised anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, it balances...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780740743405Author Brian CraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLCPublisher Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, talking about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909914261Author Neil WaldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell BooksDimensions(mm) 180mm * 110mm * 4mm

A Freeman Award Winner for Young Adult Literature For two teens, falling in love is going to make a world of difference in this beautifully translated, bold, and endearing novel about love, loss, and the pain of racial discrimination. As a Korean...

In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434841Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 126mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735842960Author David MervielleFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint North-South BooksPublisher North-South Books

This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson. There are essays -- many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries -- on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895550507Author R.Gerard CulletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Publisher Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486218304Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm)...

An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years traces the passages of life from age one to one hundred through quotations from the world's greatest writers. Moving year by year, with surprising and illuminating juxtapositions of quotations from figures as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958921050Author Paul J MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Light on Light PressPublisher Light on Light PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345525857Author Jim DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 754gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

"Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the reader's life." --Michael Chabon A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last...

A groundbreaking collection of abolitionist writing from throughout the history of American slaveryFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the ambiguity of the reconstruction era, resistance and protest writing were a central part of...

A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work.Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work...

Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and philosophical power of sound and music, and...

The emperor who renounced Christianity.Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062149893Author E B WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 358g

Lyric essays by Fran Lock on subject of the Feral in context of queer, Irish, Gypsy Romani Traveler, working class people and women.Book InformationISBN 9781739265281Author Fran LockFormat PaperbackImprint Out-Spoken PressPublisher Out-Spoken Press

This is the French anthropologist as we've never heard him before: Marc Auge coined the term `non-place' to describe uniquitous, global airports, hotels and motorways filled with anonymous individuals. In this new book, he casts his anthropologist's eye...

I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and important,"...

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Curious Pursuits is a collection of personal essays, book reviews and articles from the fierce, ingenious mind of Margaret Atwood, ranging from 1970 to the present. Atwood remembers moving to London...

Poets and astronomers often ask the same questions. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Throughout human history, poetry has provided stories about what people observe in the sky. Stars, planets, comets, the moon, and space...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684225309Author Hilton HotemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Casa Editrice VesuviusPublisher Casa Editrice VesuviusWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815726777Author Fiona HillFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 916gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

The Arctic: An Anthology features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the North Pole. The contributors include British, American,...