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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant
RRP: €21.41€13.19Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years... -
Cubanthropy: Two Futures That Happened While You Were Busy Thinking by Ivan De La Nuez 9781911710042
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911710042Author Ivan De La NuezFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press UKPublisher Seven Stories Press UK -
An African Trilogy by Peter Matthiessen
RRP: €20.22€14.61During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent's many and diverse peoples and wildlife. The fruits of these journeys are three of the most impressive essays on the natural... -
Hummingbirds Between the Pages by Chris Arthur 9780814254844
RRP: €24.93€18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254844Author Chris ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Histories: Bks. 4-5 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Caesar Commentarii. I. (Gallic War): (Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento) by Julius Caesar 9780198146025
€33.77(Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento.) Edited by R. L. A. Du Pontet.Book InformationISBN 9780198146025Author R. L. A. Du PontetFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)... -
Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence 9780140183771
RRP: €15.46€10.82Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature... -
This Young Monster by Charlie Fox
€17.50This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a... -
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay
RRP: €17.84€11.34'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.'Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets; creator of Son of Baldwin'Standout..... -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
RRP: €39.26€29.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
The Annotated Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780674049239
€38.87A brilliant essayist and a master of the aphorism ("Our moods do not believe in each other"; "Money often costs too much"), Emerson has inspired countless writers. He challenged Americans to shut their ears against Europe's "courtly muses" and to forge a... -
Distant Voices by John Pilger 9780099387213 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41€2.73Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker, John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' versions of events to report the real stories of our time.The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is... -
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis by Jon M. Sweeney 9781612618364
€8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612618364Author Jon M. SweeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 184g -
Pro Caecina, etc. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.83The ascending statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius... -
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the outside by Edward Abbey 9780805008203
RRP: €23.80€15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805008203Author Edward AbbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 249g -
Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997 by Dodie Bellamy
RRP: €26.17€18.12In the twenty years that followed America's bicentennial, narrative writing was re-formed, reflecting new political and sexual realities. With the publication of this anthology, the New Narrative era bounds back to life, ripe with dramatic propulsion and... -
Hellenica: Bks. 5-7 by Xenophon
RRP: €29.69€28.42A continuation of Thucydides.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After... -
"In vain I tried to tell you": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics by Dell Hymes 9780803273436
RRP: €28.55€23.22A landmark volume that revolutionized our understanding of the power and significance of Native stories and storytellers in North America, "In vain I tried to tell you" showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native... -
Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn by Stoya
RRP: €13.08€8.78Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn is a series of essays, blog posts, and stories surveying more than a decade of poignant journalistic accounts from internationally recognized writer, actor, and pornographer Stoya.Stoya provides crucial examinations of... -
Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler
RRP: €21.41€12.27Apologies 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: €13.08€8.71This 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... -
Epigrams: v. 1 by Martial
RRP: €29.69€27.83Poetic concision in abundance.It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this... -
Money For Nothing by P. G. Wodehouse 9781841591490
RRP: €15.46€10.82The 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 by Christine de Pizan 9780393970104
RRP: €19.03€16.45This 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: €29.69€27.83The 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 Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by James Raven
RRP: €27.95€19.77In 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... -
The Red Hand: Stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple
RRP: €13.08€8.81Peter 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: €17.84€14.46How 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... -
On Buildings by Procopius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Late antique architecture.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533 ... -
The Little Book Of Philosophy by Andre Comte-Sponville
RRP: €15.46€10.82In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the 'big questions'. In doing so he reveals the essential bones of philosophical thought and shows why... -
Heroides by Ovid 9780674990456
RRP: €29.69€29.20Two early works by the consummate Latin love poet.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at... -
The Theology of Samuel Beckett by John Calder
RRP: €11.89€9.45Like 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... -
Feral Borough by Meryl Pugh
RRP: €15.46€10.64Set in the urban pastoral of an East London postcode, Feral Borough asks what it means to call a place home, and how best to share that home with its non-human inhabitants. Meryl Pugh reimagines the wild as 'feral', recording the fauna and flora of... -
We Too: Essays On Sex Work And Survival by Natalie West 9781558612853
RRP: €23.79€16.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558612853Author Natalie WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
Selected Writings of Paul Valery by Paul Valery 9780811202138
RRP: €17.84€15.51It begins with the poetry (French and English en face), including such masterpieces as "Le Cimetiere Marin" and portions of "La Jeune Parque"; then ranges through Valery's work in fields as various as architecture, logic, the dance, literature,... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 2: From Aristarchus to Pappus by I. Thomas 9780674993990
RRP: €29.69€27.83Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical... -
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: €11.89€7.90'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 Art of Fact: a Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism by Kevin Kerrane
RRP: €24.98€17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846309Author Kevin KerraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm *... -
Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer by Pramoedya Ananta Toer 9781931859288
RRP: €17.84€11.76In 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... -
Letters between Nin and Henry Miller by Anais Nin 9780156527910
€20.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156527910Author Anais NinFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics