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Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse translation, innovative verse paragraphing for reader-friendliness, and a facing-page Italian text. It also...

In England and America Dylan Thomas made his art and personality widely known through public readings, radio broadcasts and recordings. Many of the 25 short stories, autobiographical sketches and essays in Quite Early One Morning, a volume planned by...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of E. M. Forster's 1924 masterpiece, accompanied by Paul B. Armstrong's masterful introduction and expert annotations.Carefully chosen illustrations and a textual appendix to deepen student appreciation for...

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

In this ground-breaking study, Jonathan Wild investigates the literary history of the Edwardian decade. This period, long overlooked by critics, is revealed as a vibrant cultural era whose writers were determined to break away from the stifling influence...

The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600-41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern society by her religion and her gender. This remarkable woman, who until now has been relatively neglected...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Heart-breaking, heart-warming, and hilarious: a glorious debut' Ruth Hogan'Strong and taut' Anne Griffin 'Fresh, thoughtful and original - a charming debut' Irish Times'I really enjoyed this, Eleanor is a lovely writer'...

Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world...

With The Voices of Babyn Yar-a collection of stirring poems by Marianna Kiyanovska-the award-winning Ukrainian poet honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and survival by projecting their own imagined voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912726561Author Patrick CoghlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Instant ApostlePublisher Instant ApostleDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 14mm

Originally published in 1996, this book is a study of two of the central themes of medieval German mythology, the Dietrich and Nibelung legends. It traces its two legendary topics form their historical roots during the last centuries of the Roman Empire...

'Early modern women's manuscript poetry' is an anthology of texts by fourteen women poets writing between 1589 and 1706. It is the only currently available anthology of early modern women's writing which focuses exclusively on manuscript material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156026109Author E. M. ForsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

This edition of the best of Chaucer' s shorter poems ranges widely over the major concerns necessary to a full understanding of the text, including its occasion, literary tradition, sources, rhetoric, language, metre, mythology and themes. It is an...

Gerard Manley Hopkins initially planned to become a poet-artist. For five years he trained his eye, learned about contemporary art and architecture, and made friends in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. In her fascinating and beautifully illustrated book,...

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

With a glossary by: Davis, Norman;Book InformationISBN 9780198711018Author J. A. W. BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 682Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 186mm * 123mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492663613Author Manuel Chaves NogalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Publisher Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Weight(grams)...

A bold new collection of the writings of Miroslav Krleza, in English for the first time Miroslav Krleza was a giant of Yugoslav literature, yet remarkably little of his writing has appeared in English. In a body of work that spans more than five dozen...

Originally published in 1987, this is a thorough and lucid introduction and commentary to the whole of Goethe's Faust. It gives the student of German and European literature valuable insights into the most important work of Germany's foremost poet...

Schwarzenbach's clear, psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative narrative, with many intriguing parallels to her own life. Annemarie Schwarzenbach-journalist, novelist, antifascist, archaeologist, and traveler-has become a European...

Although Eliza Haywood was one of the best known and most prolific writers in her own time, there is no modern edition of her works. This edition provides representative texts from Haywood's entire career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630514105Author Stephen WilkersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)...

During the twenty-two years of their married life, W. B. and George Yeats corresponded regularly and fully whenever they were apart. They discussed his writing and other projects, their family and friends, and the social, artistic, and political scene in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987463784Author Gabriele D'AnnunzioFormat PaperbackImprint Vladislav ZhukovPublisher Vladislav ZhukovWeight(grams) 152g

In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905281312Author Philip RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Ullans PressPublisher Ullans PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland,...

What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity,...

Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that gradually turns to obsession. Though Sonia needs to create distance when Knut becomes too absorbing, she also yearns for a less predictable existence...

When Flesh Becomes Word collects nine different examples of British libertine literature that appeared before 1750. Three of these-The School of Venus (1680), Venus in the Cloister (1725), and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740)-are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400040216Author Michel de MontaigneFormat HardbackPage Count 1392Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1162gDimensions(mm)...

For the Love of a Life is a gentle but intricate international tale of love, set in modern-day China. Growing up in the aftermath of Mao's China as it breaks out of its past, Berenice, a beautiful young Chinese girl living in Beijing, finds herself...

This is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to support greater gender...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The complete text of Leviathan, one of the most important works of political philosophy ever written, carefully-and faithfully-edited for 21st-century readers. Spelling and punctuation have been thoughtfully...

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838754313Author Joseph O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 263Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513620787Author Branislav Brana CrncevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Movement PublishingPublisher Movement PublishingWeight(grams)...

This innovative book comprises nine essays from leading scholars which investigate the relationship between fiction, censorship and the legal construction of obscenity in Britain between 1850 and the present day. Each of the chapters focuses on a...

These spine-tingling stories are all set in the same south London Victorian theatre, but at different points in its history: first in its Victorian heyday, then during World War II and lastly in the 1970s, when it is no longer even a theatre but has been...