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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789507898Author Arcturus Publishing LimitedFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experienceWords for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India's earliest classical languages. Inspired by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024651Author Alison HardieFormat HardbackPage Count 792Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

The Granta Book of India brings together, for the first time, evocative, personal and informative pieces from previous editions of Granta magazine on the experiences of Indian life, culture and politics, including extracts from the highly successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375713002Author Amit ChaudhuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The Year of the Raven reaches new heights on dark wings! With a few years under its collective belt, the Hearthstone team needed to find an edge: sharper and more striking than a corvid's beak. In The Art of Hearthstone, Volume IV: Year of the Raven,...

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...

Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of...

Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century.These tales of ghosts, magic,...

Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today's readers an...

Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of...

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VI, contains annotated translations of the "hereditary houses" for the Ch'in and Han dynasties. Such "houses" were an invention of Ssu-ma Ch'ien and in early periods treated the history of various states. Here, however,...

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932016Author Rowan Hisayo BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at...

A brilliant new translation of the short improvisational fiction and memoirs of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature.This captivating translation assembles two volumes by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature and one of East Asia's...

Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of...

A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito-part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear...

A theology aims to explicate the nature of God. A metatheology investigates more fundamental issues concerning how to structure such an intellectual endeavour, and where it should begin. Approaches that ignore this more fundamental investigation risk...

Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world's first novel - and is certainly one of its finest. Genji, the Shining Prince, son of an emperor, is a passionate character whose...

Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist from Ukraine who joined left-wing circles in Japan and befriended the famous modernist writer Lu Xun in China...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604979558Author Jonathan StallingFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Kyokutei Bakin's Nanso Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has been adapted many times into film, television,...

The finest ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir, the most accomplished of Urdu poets.The prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals-a poetic form of rhyming couplets-in a distinctive Indian style...

This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling's connection with India, its people, culture, languages, and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling's works attracted interest among a large section of the British public, stimulating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358520286Author Pandit Gauri DuttPage Count 438Imprint Primus BooksPublisher Primus Books

Meng Haoran (689-740) was one of the most important poets of the "High Tang" period, the greatest age of Chinese poetry. In his own time he was famous for his poetry as well as for his distinctive personality. This is the first complete translation into...

This first and only study of North Korean literary history by a Western scholar deals with the crucial role played by Han Sorya, chairman of the D.P.R.K.'s Federation of Literature and Art from 1948 to his purge in 1962, both in devising the iconography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974597430Author Douglas J PenickFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mountain Treasury PressPublisher Mountain Treasury PressWeight(grams)...

"A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."-New York Times Book Review Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737318217Author J D WisgoFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Arigatai BooksPublisher Arigatai BooksWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

This revelatory volume brings together significant works in translations from nearly fifty Chinese writers. It includes poems, essays, fiction, songs and speeches written in an astonishing array of moods and styles, from sublime lyricism to witty...

This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750-1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. The present...

The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese...

This work by Vu Trong Phung, written in the 1930s, reports and expands on the author's meetings with North Vietnamese women who had made an "industry" of marrying European men. The Industry of Marrying Europeans is notable for its sharp observations,...

"John Stratton Hawley miraculously manages to braid the charged erotic and divine qualities of Krishna, the many-named god, while introducing us-with subtle occasional rhyme-to a vividly particularized world of prayers and crocodile earrings, spiritual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935548461Author Ogai MoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint One Peace Books, IncorporatedPublisher Social Club Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950321421Author Language GuruFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Language Mastery PublishingPublisher Language Mastery PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730794Author John Borzoi ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

This collection guides the reader through the complexity that is Japan. Although frequently misunderstood as a homogenous nation, Japan is a land of tremendous linguistic, geographical and cultural diversity. Hino Keizo leads the reader through Tokyo's...

Leung Ping?kwan is one of Hong Kong's most acclaimed poets. His poems display a unique blend of the literary and the down?to?earth, the modern and the traditional, the serious and the humorous, the local and the universal. He wrote, 'I want to write a...