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'Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence' George Steiner. It is impossible to overstate the influence world literatures have had in defining each other. No culture exists in isolation; all writers are part of the...

'Who would you say knows himself?' In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was...

With a new introduction for the paperback.London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386933Author David Bentley HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular...

'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular...

Isobel Wylie Hutchison was many things: a botanist, traveller, poet and artist. She travelled solo throughout the arctic collecting plant samples, wrote and published extensive volumes of essays and poetry, and was - in short - one of the most remarkable...

A bumper collection of the work of award-winning West Country journalist and author David Foot, 'Footprints' spans the full range of his work - from cricket, football and boxing to theatre, local history and murder. With an observant eye, a fascination...

For this updated edition of one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, Tom Lockwood has added a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices which have occurred over the last two decades. Investigating...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351689Author Dodie BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969290Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Modern LibraryPublisher Modern LibraryWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371979Author Juan Eduardo CirlotFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

In this extraordinary collection of twenty tales, Richard Ford, a master short-story writer in his own right, has selected his personal favourites from among more than two hundred of Chekhov's tales and novellas. Included are the familiar masterpieces...

Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the "greater part of the pleasure of this life," namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the...

'An arresting, deeply reported new book' Washington Post'This gripping, inflaming book, itself an act of fury, shows how revenge can transmute into politics or be crushed by it' Larissa MacFarquhar'Flock has a novelist's knack for creating suspense . . ...

This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The aim...

This handy guide to The Odyssey will introduce students to a text, which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. Readers will be introduced to the world in that the Odyssey was produced, to the text itself and to its origins in oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608688456Author U.S. AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Did you know: - that, with more than 17,000 skeletons in its collection, the Museum of London has over three times the amount of dead bodies than a full-capacity audience at the Royal Albert Hall? - that 'Farting Lane' (Carting Lane, off the Strand) was...

A captivating, eloquent and nuanced book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night...

The long-awaited collection of some of the best columns, principally on sport, written by Martin Kelner, gathered together for the first time with some memoires and unpublished material. With a foreword by Gary Lineker.Book InformationISBN...

From the author of the international bestseller Sweetbitter, a memoir of survival, starting over, and love in all its complicated guises. Even after achieving her dream of selling her debut novel, Stephanie Danler feels adrift in New York. Struggling in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525508984Author Emily NussbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the...

Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and ingenious versatility. His works engage in argument but are also full of allegory, imagery, myth, paradox and intertextuality. He astutely characterises the participants whom he portrays in conversation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881024Author Jason CowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881024Author Jason CowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorThe Useless Information Society is a group of journalists, TV personalities and other assorted oddbods who meet twice a year to get enormously drunk and swap -...

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent...

A visual pep talk of charts and essays on feeling better about not feeling better.Maybe This Will Help is one part the funny and relatable graphs that fans of Am I Overthinking This? and of Michelle Rial know and love, and one part the honest stories...

The development of the modern world has brought with it rampant light pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night and exacting a terrible price--wasted energy, damage to human health, and the sometimes fatal interruption of the life patterns of...

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of 20th-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. Portions is a substantial selection of these...

This volume provides a selection of four plays by Philip Massinger who, from 1625 to 1640, replaced John Fletcher as principal dramatist for the King's Men, the chief London theatre company for more than forty years. The selection consists of two of...

Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptation and frustration, "the women on the island" are prisoners of the power of the place, the power of the...

Once it blooms, it changes everything. Love is uplifting, enlightening, transforming. In this timeless collection of more than 80 sonnets, William Shakespeare pays tribute to our most beautiful emotion. Read and share them with the one you love.About the...

Once it blooms, it changes everything. Love is uplifting, enlightening, transforming. In this timeless collection of more than 80 sonnets, William Shakespeare pays tribute to our most beautiful emotion. Read and share them with the one you love.About the...

An account of two lives during the war in Ukraine: one Ukrainian, one Russian, by the internationally bestselling author of Heimat Diaries of War is a magnificent feat of witness' Alison Bechdel 'Nora Krug's narrative can emotionally drain the...

James Crosbie was Britain's most wanted man in 1974. With a successful business and an enviable lifestyle, he seemed to have everything going for him - until he got bored with his life and turned to armed robbery. He ended up in Peterhead Prison, doing...

A collection of proverbs in the original Gaelic, and translated into English covering family, work, money, self-Improvement and food and drink amongst other topics. Gaelic proverbs tell it like it is, and provide advice for a myriad of situations. This...