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Writing under the pseudonym "Jotabeche," Jose Joaquin Vallejo wrote forty-one short articles on Chilean life and society in the early republic. Known for their caustic wit, his writings were an instant success when they were first published in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006290282Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 268g

The Treaty of Bayonne of 1388 between Juan I, King of Castile, and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Pretender to the Castilian throne, was one of the most important treaties of the Hundred Years War. In the transcription of the documents, the...

A collection of new studies on one of the best known and most important British literary critics of the twentieth century. The book is divided into four sections: documentary analysis of Leavis's practice as a teacher, drawing on seminar notes, lecture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999499009Author Adam Taft LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Capitol Press PublishingPublisher Capitol Press PublishingWeight(grams) 200g

The House of Intellect embraces: persons who consciously and methodically employ the mind, the forms and habits governing the activities in which the mind is so employed, and the conditions under which these people and activities exist.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971986787Author Greg BacharFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Rowhouse PressPublisher Rowhouse PressWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988616127Author Zoltan IstvanFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Rudi Ventures LLCPublisher Rudi Ventures LLCWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063491Author Kurt BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins with eroticism. Irreverence coexists with a yearning for the sacred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393332094Author A. N. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679768852Author FifferFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674599239Author Ernest Bradlee WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 943g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674733343Author Richmond P BondFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759609525Author Dale WildmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 392g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996629966Author Robin BloorFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Karnak PressPublisher Karnak PressWeight(grams) 140g

At last it's available again, and in paperback, the book that Charlotte Capers' hosts of readers have been urging back into print. One of Mississippi's most fascinating personalities and one of its absolutely best raconteurs, Capers can hold any reader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998631417Author Kate Carroll De GutesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Two Sylvias PressPublisher Two Sylvias PressWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898757989Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916242237Author Willie MorrisFormat PaperbackImprint Yoknapatawpha PressPublisher Yoknapatawpha PressWeight(grams) 331g

This collection restores to current literature the creative work of a critic respected by his peers as one of the truly original practitioners in the most active age of modern criticism. Passionately committed, unaffected, practical and theoretical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312254193Author P. WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954648459Author Damon SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint Jeremy Mills PublishingPublisher Jeremy Mills PublishingWeight(grams) 807g

These writings, which first appeared in 1841, tell us much about the writer herself and the city in which she lived: Hartford, Connecticut. A cultural centre of the new nation, the city's Congregationalism, its free black society, and local literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930523633Author Vaclav HavelFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Readers InternationalPublisher Readers International

"I never think except when I sit down to write." - Attributed to Montaigne by Edgar Allan Poe From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell, Eliot, and Trilling in the twentieth, the best literary essayists combine a gift for observation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254325Author Partner Catherine TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Mad Creek BooksPublisher Mad Creek BooksWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063161078Author Jerald WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

An eminent Franklin scholar introduces us to the gregarious founding father who would be a welcome guest at any dinner table This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin's human side-his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063316Author Scott Russell SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Spanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini's Chiaroscuro explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political.Book InformationISBN 9780299160845Author Helen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820463162Author Wendell John CoatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 200g

Tom Bodett, Alaska's main comic export, is that rarest of commodities, an original new talent in American humor. His commentaries on "All Things Considered" and his radio spots for Motel 6 have delighted millions, but he's never been funnier...

This book reprints a wide variety of articles and speeches for the first time since they appeared in Spanish and foreign journals and in clandestine broadsheets from France. Some censored material has been restored.Book InformationISBN...

These essays by leading scholars of early modern attribution, editing, theater, and versification (including Andrew Gurr, Gary Taylor, and Brian Vickers) focus on questions of authorship, authority, and ownership in Marlowe, Peele, Shakespeare,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674436541Author David PorterFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998516288Author Merry GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Pink Umbrella Books LLCPublisher Pink Umbrella Books LLCWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934558297Author Paul WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Entwhistle Books,U.S.Publisher Entwhistle Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996324052Author Dawn DowneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dawn DowneyPublisher Dawn DowneyWeight(grams) 145g