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After years living in the heart of the American Empire, the dramatist and novelist Edgar Nkosi White returned to his native Monserrat, still essentially a colony as a British Overseas Territory. Deported to Paradise is a series of free-floating...

Throughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary magazines, wrote prefaces and introductions, and lectured at many universities. This selection represents...

Hatred of Translation thinks through translation with an emphasis on its disaggregation. These pieces address, sometimes obliquely, often with effrontery, the works of Rene Char, Herve Guibert, Hilda Hilst, Danielle Collobert, Franketienne, Mizoguchi...

Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482061Author Chloe AridjisFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyDimensions(mm) 205mm * 130mm *...

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon--"one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko...

Ford's novel, "Parade's End", has been acknowledged as one of the great British novels about World War I. This book features a selection of Ford's other writings about the war, and should shed light on the tetralogy. It includes reminiscences,...

The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the 'London Magazine', 'New Monthly Magazine' and other English Marketing Reviews of the 1820s are here brought together in a single volume, the only edition available in English. In...

Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Barthes. This season they'll bring the five-volume set to completion with the publication of "Masculine,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991998128Author Hylke SpeerstraFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Mokeham Publishing Inc.Publisher Mokeham Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 358g

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A collection of James's travel essays on English towns and villages, first published in American periodicals in the late nineteenth centuryBook InformationISBN 9780192813213Author Henry JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Oxford...

Laurie Graham's "Generation Games" column has appeared weekly in the "Daily Telegraph" since 1987. It has charted the true life and changing times of this struggling parent, whitener of cricket pads, provider of boil-in-the-bag...

Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854811380Author Christopher LigotaFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Warburg InstitutePublisher Warburg Institute

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996439756Author Jessie Van EerdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Orison BooksPublisher Orison BooksWeight(grams) 259g

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Tom Bodett, humorist, radio star, and pitchman for Motel 6, lives and writes in Homer, Alaska, the little town in the blue Northwest where America stops, carwise. "If you got into your car in New York, " he said, "and wanted to take a nice...

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Most modern critics (even those who have emphasized the `evolution' of Montaigne's ideas) have sought to explain away the contradictions and incoherences of Montaigne's Essais. Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently investigates the role of these...

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This volume brings together for the first time eight masterful essays on William Faulkner by one of his most eloquent and influential critics. Michael Millgate established himself as a leading authority on Faulkner with the publication of The Achievement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988616196Author Zoltan IstvanFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Futurity Imagine Media LLCPublisher Futurity Imagine Media LLCWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810147720Author Elizabeth Lindsey RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Curbstone PressPublisher Curbstone PressWeight(grams) 454g