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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107149Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 193mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995456419Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library

'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606601211Author Charles DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The tradition of Decadent writing in the 19th century remains a fascinating current in the evolution of modern literature. This new anthology brings together key texts from an international range of Decadent writings and writings about Decadence, many of...

BE THE BEST AT... A series of brilliant how to guides for sports enthusiasts. With an easy guide to rules, equipment, clothing, diet and mental attitude, these are must-have guides to achieving sporting success. BE THE BEST AT GYMNASTICS Do you want to...

A generous "Contexts" section provides extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters as well as comments on the novel from her fellow writers and friends, among them E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. Also included are the short stories "The Mark on the Wall,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989082686Author Wayne K. ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 287Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather" of the Norwegian troll Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calling to the child in all of us. Here the Hidden Folk...

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399964869Author Francis JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Scobe PublishersPublisher Scobe PublishersWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

London today is embattled as rarely before. In a city of enormous wealth, poverty is rampant. The burnt-out hulk of Grenfell Tower stands as an appalling reminder that inequality can be so acute as to be murderous. Here, Claire Armitstead has drawn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679764014Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This selection is from L'Espace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems, sketches and free verse. Brilliantly translated by Richard Ellmann, Michaux asks readers to join him in a fantastic world of the imagination. It is a world where wry...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Burton Raffel's masterful translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English" - Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by Diana de Armas Wilson and including the translator's...

What is 'Englishness'? Who defines it? What impact have changes to England and the English, as well as England's relationship with the outside world, had on 'Englishness'? Has 'Englishness' become an anachronism at the turn of a new century?These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060956547Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159g

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an improved, accessible and throughly up-to-date edition. Starting with the authoritative Revels Plays edition of 1964, John...

This robust board book introduces very small children to the fun and function of getting around. Cheerful illustrations of trains, planes and automobiles are combined with simple new words to learn, and intriguing peep-through holes on every page.A...

The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the...

Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siecle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts,...

A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen. He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won...

South African author, pastor and activist, Mpho Tuti van Furth argues that while we think of reparations in relation to the colonial powers and the colonised as both a remunerative act and a punitive one, reparations rightly engaged should be part of a...

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics.In Ghosts, Osvald Alving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645251361Author Jean LorrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 5mm

Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material, from never-before-translated stories to plays and film scripts" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Literary Award (Translation) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780151006601Author Wislawa SzymborskaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684116690Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint WWW.Snowballpublishing.comPublisher WWW.Snowballpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great...

"The author has undoubtedly carried out a thorough re-evaluation and interpretation of property ownership and its multiple manifestations." (Hazel Jones, The Jane Austen Society, August 2023) "In this brilliant study of Jane Austen's fiction, Rita J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399973793Author Pam SkeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Pam SkeltonPublisher Pam SkeltonWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907282822Author Robbie MoffatFormat PaperbackPage Count 830Imprint Palm Tree PublishingPublisher Palm Tree PublishingWeight(grams) 798g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140150612Author James Bruce RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer,...

Jean d'Arras's splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant and complex literary works of the later Middle Ages. The author, promising to tell us "how the noble and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988202603Author Gerard De NervalFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Antipodes PressPublisher Antipodes PressWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Justus Lipsius' De Constantia (1584) is one of the most important and interesting of sixteenth century Humanist texts. A dialogue in two books, conceived as a philosophical consolation for those suffering through contemporary religious wars, De...

Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labe and Maurice Sceve to the...

In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513652511Author Branko MikasinovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Movement PublishingPublisher Movement PublishingWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm)...