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The material collected here is a treasure trove, a fine retrospective and a comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland's greatest living novelist, John Banville. Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012's Ancient Light; each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399511131Author Kenneth WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 728Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 1002g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795348945Author C.D. InnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta Books

Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228814306Author Robert Eighteen-BisangFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 685g

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...

Forever immortalised as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first 'books' as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers - Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third - these...

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...

'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 9780995456419Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackImprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library

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...

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 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'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113269Author Dewi RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

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

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

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 9780812968552Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 300g

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,...

H.D. called By Avon River "the first book that really made me happy." In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.'s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that...

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...

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...

Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? Bien sur. For a real taste of saucy early European humor, one must cross the Channel to France. There, in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the sophisticated met...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 9780062643544Author C.S LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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)...