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Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living!THThis incredibly hysterical cutting-edge collection of monologues will give an actor the extra bang he needs to land the perfect comedic role...

'This is the night mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order...' -- W.H. Auden Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday...

Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including...

Bicycling for Ladies is the trailblazing book that introduced women to bicycling and shocked a Victorian culture on its release in 1896. Today it remains comprehensive and useful, but also celebrates women's advancement in the sport and offers an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486406619Author Olaudah EquianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

An instant classic, The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinead Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced. Featuring: Niamh Boyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Brennan, Mary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679728955Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998713403Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354892790Author Bette DamFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

The Journals of George Eliot publishes for the first time the entire text of the surviving journals of the great Victorian novelist, and constitutes a new text by her - the closest she came to autobiography. The journals span her life from 1854, when she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596054004Author Louis JacolliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? ...

David Unaipon the man on the $50 note was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal political activist, he was also a scientist, a writer, a preacher and an inventor. In the 1920s, under contract to the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986239359Author J H BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Curious PublicationsPublisher Curious PublicationsWeight(grams) 136g

Joyce Marlow presents a fascinating and varied collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with material from 1914, she outlines the pre-war campaigns for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942801139Author Steve AylettFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Floating World ComicsPublisher Alternative Comics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258944247Author Baron WrangelFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845356460Author Parragon Books LtdFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint D.C.Thomson & Co LtdPublisher D.C.Thomson & Co LtdWeight(grams) 433gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head?Speaking in Tongues brings the weird, wonderful and surprising nuanced beauty of language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915972170Author Anthony FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565493Author Norman DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 168g

"What this charming, moving and fascinating collection proves is that the [letter] form itself - a scribbled note, a declaration of love, an outpouring of passion, a bitter word - has always been with us." - Mark GatissA good love letter can speak across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068170Author James GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 313g

MODERN TIMES brings together an extraordinary collection of Sartrean gems, many of which have never been translated into English before. From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, the volume contains an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578750842Author Christabelle Grace MarbunFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Christabelle MarbunPublisher Christabelle MarbunWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408009Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 840Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437873Author Marcus GarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486276199Author Stanley AppelbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250310415Author Sloane CrosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm

Bitesize nuggets of poo trivia too witty to wipe away. To celebrate the 540-millionth anniversary of the very first butthole - thanks sea sponges - this is the The Little Book of Poo(p). And, rather wonderfully, it's utter shit. A real turd. 100 per cent...

"Ronald's detailed and thoroughly enjoyable collection shows how it can take a visitor to appreciate what the residents are so used to, they take for granted." - Camden New Journal/Islington Tribune/West End Extra The most comprehensive anthology of...

After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594045Author Tom HennenFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312253998Author WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 143mm *...

Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily MailThis new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his...

A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What commonplace theme is very much like Yankee Doodle? Which composer is a scoundrel and a giftless bastard?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934255766Author Laura BondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Traveling PressPublisher Traveling PressWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...