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Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler
RRP: $35.08$19.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062206237Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial -
The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $21.43$14.27This seminal book, Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, appeared in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, among them 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', 'Hamlet... -
Windy Arbours: Collected Critisism by Aidan Higgins 9781564783912
RRP: $35.08$23.99In 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... -
Money For Nothing P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591490
RRP: $25.33$17.73The action is mostly set at Rudge Hall, home to the obese miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm run by 'Chimp Twist, along with his cohorts 'Soapy' and 'Dolly' Molloy. who were all previously encountered in Sam The Sudden (1925) and... -
The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan: A Norton Critical Edition Christine de Pizan 9780393970104
RRP: $31.18$26.95This Norton Critical Edition presents selections from eighteen of Christine's major works in fresh, contemporary translations. Each text is fully annotated and is accompanied by an introduction placing it in the context of Christine's oeuvre and tracing... -
Enquiry into Plants: v. 1: Bks. I-V by Theophrastus
RRP: $48.65$45.61The first fruits of Greek botany.Theophrastus of Eresus in Lesbos, born about 370 BC, is the author of the most important botanical works that have survived from classical antiquity. He was in turn student, collaborator, and successor of Aristotle. Like... -
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022 by Jaime Green
RRP: $25.33$19.54A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green. Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of... -
Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption by Daniel Jones
RRP: $25.33$21.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593137048Author Daniel JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
The Red Hand: Stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple
RRP: $21.43$14.43Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along... -
Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and other Mysteries by Tim Parks
RRP: $29.23$23.69How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are given a... -
Women's Indian Captivity Narratives by Various 9780140436716
$26.27Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this anthology span the early history of this country (1682-1892)... -
The Bloodied Nightgown: And Other Essays by Joan Acocella 9780374608095
RRP: $48.73$32.72Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it - its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it sprung. In her hands, arts criticism... -
The Theology of Samuel Beckett by John Calder
RRP: $19.48$15.48Like all the greatest writers, Samuel Beckett was primarily interested in discovering the meaning and purpose of life and of the world into which we are born. Knowledgeable about the religion his family and education instilled in him, which as an adult... -
Essays: Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: $17.53$11.95Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays, Emerson takes the reader through different forms of... -
Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley 9781250310415
RRP: $33.15$22.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250310415Author Sloane CrosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Charmides by Plato
RRP: $48.65$45.61Mostly doubtful dialogues.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; ... -
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: $19.48$12.95'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' Sebastian Barry Over the... -
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: $19.48$12.95A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves,... -
Histories: Bk. V-VII by Herodotus
RRP: $48.65$45.61The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer by Pramoedya Ananta Toer 9781931859288
RRP: $29.23$19.27In these remarkable interviews with Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira, edited by Nagesh Rao, Indonesia's most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation. Toer here discusses personal and political topics he... -
Works: v. 1 by Lucian
RRP: $48.65$47.85Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and... -
The Beatest State in the Union: An Anthology of Beat Texas Writing by Christopher Carmona 9781942956082
RRP: $58.40$34.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942956082Author Christopher CarmonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya 9780231194570
RRP: $39.00$30.99Like 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... -
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness by Barbara Johnson
RRP: $50.68$48.11This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a... -
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers by John Gierach
RRP: $19.48$18.97Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, "America's best fishing writer" (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of "legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on... -
Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life by Donald Trump 9781593155711
RRP: $25.33$18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593155711Author Donald TrumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vanguard Press IncPublisher Vanguard Press IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Aeneas: Virgil's Epic Retold for Young Readers by Virgil
RRP: $42.88$42.51Two thousand years ago the Roman poet Virgil related the adventures of a hero called Aeneas. He was a man who escaped from the burning ruins of Troy and, 'driven by Fate', led his people to a new home in a distant land. The story of Aeneas and the... -
Three Lives: Alcibiades, Dion and Atticus by Cornelius Nepos 9780862922849
RRP: $42.88$42.69Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer who lived in the first century BC. His simple style of writing has made him a popular author for use in Latin classes at early school level. This book contains the Latin text of his lives of Alcibiades, Dion and... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by James Raven
RRP: $45.81$32.39In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative... -
Forgotten Manuscript by Sergio Chejfec 9781913867713
RRP: $23.38$16.17"Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer." -Patti Smith"Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn't exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain."The perfect green notebook forms the basis for Sergio Chejfec's work, collecting writing, and... -
Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti 9780872863170
RRP: $38.98$29.70Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the... -
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus 9780140442175
$22.76No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his... -
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994 by Bill Viola
RRP: $44.85$31.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262720250Author Bill ViolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm * 22mm -
Letters to Atticus: v. 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.61The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek by John Carey
RRP: $33.13$22.58Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of... -
Goethe, Volume 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691043449
RRP: $48.75$38.98Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man... -
Experiments on Reality by Tim Robinson
RRP: $27.28$19.01Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the globe... -
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 by Adrienne Rich 9780393311624
RRP: $36.08$25.56Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.About... -
The Statesman by Plato
RRP: $48.65$45.61On politics, pleasure, and poetry.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is... -
Walden Henry Thoreau 9781857151367
RRP: $33.13$23.95In this classic of American literature, Thoreau gives an account of his two years experience of the 'simple life' in the woods, telling how he sought and found material and spiritual sustenance in the solitude of the cabin which he built for himself on...