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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987463784Author Vladislav ZhukovFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Vladislav ZhukovPublisher Vladislav ZhukovWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The last two volumes in this series have looked at the confrontation between Christian and Moor in Medieval Spain exclusively from the Christian side.This book attempts to redress the balance by looking at many of the same incidents from the Moslem...

The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar Wilde's aesthetic theory,...

Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been surpassed. Even today, this reimagining of fourteen timeless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914071515Author Bill DuvendackFormat PaperbackImprint Veneficia PublicationsPublisher Veneficia Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250128Author Jean LorrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783743131Author Jane BlissFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849021555Author Christopher MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904958581Author WssnFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Opening ChapterPublisher Opening ChapterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

Northern Windows/Southern Stars is a valuable, accessible and thought-provoking gathering of essays by the distinguished Irish poet and Professor Emeritus, Gerald Dawe. Re-tracing the issues and questions of poetry and politics in the Ireland of the...

In order to demonstrate that one story from the Dubliners is not only a turning point in that book but also a microcosm of a wide range of important Joycean influences and preoccupations, Coilin Owens examines the dense intertextuality of "A Painful Case...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250234Author Marie KrysinskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943813858Author Renee VivienFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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...

A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret...

During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the...

Miguel de Cervantes is probably the greatest writer of the Spanish Golden Age, whose influence on the Spanish language has been profound. Readers who know Cervantes only as the author of Don Quijote will be surprised and delighted by what they find in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956613766Author Lucy MarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Quills & Quartos PublishingPublisher Quills & Quartos PublishingWeight(grams)...

Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) is a unique figure in the history of the Catholic Church, thanks to her public visionary experiences during which she lost consciousness, while a deep voice, identifying itself as Christ, issued from her, narrating the feasts...

This book is devoted to a full and lucid exposition of Boyde's ideas. In the first two parts, the author presents a systematic account of the universe as Dante accepted it, and explains the processes of 'creation' and 'generation' as they operate in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943813919Author Philothee O'NeddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the 19th century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. John Henry Newman (1801-1891) was a dominant figure in both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic churches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501129247Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572161146Author Per Anders FogelstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Penfield BooksPublisher Penfield BooksWeight(grams) 526g

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...

Spanish contemporary poetry: An anthology presents a selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period, followed by guided and close...

Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla's foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious depths. Here are adventures and shipwrecks, raspy...

La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe. The novel follows Ana as she seduces cafe owners, philosophers, and wandering emigrants alike, each receiving a different...

Pestilence entered The ordinary pursuits of society were paralysed; all previously-formed plans of happiness, business, trade, occupation, and domestic arrangement, were checked as cruelly and abruptly as if every principle of the human mind were in a...

Vilmundar saga vidutan is an entertaining romance composed in the late Middle Ages in Iceland, where it remained popular for another five centuries. It tells of the adventures of Vilmundur, the rustic son of a farmer, whose rise through society is...

This volume contains a collection of new editions of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, scribes, illuminators, and dyers, written c. 1300-1500. Most are previously unpublished and...

Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is Andre Breton's second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred pages, it captures the first full decade of the surrealist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250111Author Enrique Gomez CarrilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

In the decades between the two World Wars, Greek writers and artists adopted surrealism both as an avant-garde means of overturning the stifling traditions of their classical heritage and also as a way of responding to the extremely unstable political...

For the past five years, this anthology has stirred reactions around the globe, exciting readers, critics, and publishers alike. Bringing new names and work of European writers to an international audience has shown the vitality of writing from Europe at...

Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the Scottish Highlands' folktales date back centuries and preserve the history and beliefs of a people deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645250289Author Leo TrezenikFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

This volume presents The Dybbuk, S. Ansky's well-known drama of mystical passion and demonic possession, along with little-known works of his autobiographical and fantastical prose fiction and an excerpt from his four-volume chronicle of the Eastern...