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Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the Greek tragedies and Herodotus's "History," as well as his edition of Hobbes's "Thucydides," David Grene has also had a major impact as a teacher and interpreter of texts both ancient and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226065809Author Wayne C. BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129151483Author Shireen StephenFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Reckon, "Black Joy: 2022 Best of Books""Those of us who have been following her work for a while have known Reid would come flying out of the gates and, well, here is the emphatic proof."-Laird Hunt, National Book Award finalist for ZorrieThot is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739702946Author Nate LippensFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot PressWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593766955Author Jose VadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974968032Author Enrico PeaFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 106g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999323137Author Believer MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint The BelieverPublisher The Believer

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999323113Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint The BelieverPublisher The...

Cicero is best known for his political speeches. His Catilinarian orations are regularly studied in third or fourth year Latin; his self-proclaimed role as savior of the Republic is much discussed in courses on Roman history. But, however fascinating...

Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous intelligence. Always sensitive to underlying tensions, she evokes the particular climate of countries and...

First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the channel, but about the very identity of the British state and its...

Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives, four...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415606639Author Wilson KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 340g

This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129151407Author Naina Lal KidwaiFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646009Author The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer...

When Naguib Mahfouz quit his job as a civil servant in 1971, a Nobel Prize in literature was still off on the horizon, as was his global recognition as the central figure of Arab literature. He was just beginning his post on the editorial staff of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734590791Author Annie CogganFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Public Space BooksPublisher Public Space Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250758156Author Lydia DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 127mm * 41mm

Looking for adventure and continuing a process of self-discovery, Janisse Ray has repeatedly set out to immerse herself in wildness, to be wild, and to learn what wildness can teach us. From overwintering with monarch butterflies in Mexico to counting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820360430Author Caroline CrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389967401Author Rajiv DograFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

A collection of 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage, featuring work by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders. Spanning comedy and tragedy, Alien Nation brilliantly illuminates what it's like to be an immigrant in America. ...

Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of articles published in book form. The aim of the journal is to present the more important Chinese studies in this field in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912524785Author Stuart HensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 135g

"Defoe's Review" tapped into a new cultural community, helping to create the climate for Steele and Addison to develop the "Tatler" and "Spectator" in later years. This volume is suitable for scholars researching the history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878201594Author Walter HomolkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.

Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose...

This volume contains nearly all the criticism that Alexander Coleman wrote for The New Criterion between 1994 and 2003. A specialist in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American literature, Coleman was also a superb essayist on music, and his wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733644665Author Daisy JeffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hachette AustraliaPublisher Hachette AustraliaWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679418962Author Henry David ThoreauFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to 'directions and dead ends' in...

The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown's new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the arts in the period from...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415488464Author G. Wilson KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353333935Author Devendra PrabhudesaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120704435Author K.R.Srinivasa IyengarFormat PaperbackImprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950268290Author Cedar SigoFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Wave BooksPublisher Wave BooksWeight(grams) 152g

In haunting prose that will follow you for days to come, Made Holy tells the story of the American family. Love, loss, and addiction entwine in this moving debut collection. Emily Arnason Casey employs the lyric imagination to probe memory and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867309Author Anna JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 332g