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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788491114437Author Napoleon HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 127mm * 23mm

The present translation of the Reminiscences is based on the second Russian edition, published in Moscow in 1971 and edited by the Dostoevsky scholars S. V. Belov and V. A. Tunimanov. They have carried Grossman's work further by rearranging the...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with...

This thrilling collection of twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. George R. R. Martin himself offers a brand-new A Game of...

'A gripping real-life financial thriller.' CLAER BARRETT, AUTHOR OF WHAT THEY DON'T TEACH YOU ABOUT MONEY'Fast-paced and highly accessible ... A must read.' GILLIAN TETT, AUTHOR OF ANTHRO-VISION'Anybody who wants to understand the cryptocurrency mania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910974414Author Stig AbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Comma PressPublisher Comma Press

In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of...

'O tell me the truth about love.' W.H. AudenMany of the most popular works in the English language celebrate love in all its forms: that heady first flush, the agony of heartbreak, joyful reunions, the love of a parent for a child... And what better way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935626640Author William A HallockFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CuriosmithPublisher CuriosmithWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Neoliberalism has firmly taken hold in Wales. The 'clear red water' is darkening. The wounds of poverty, inequality, and disengagement, far from being healed, have worsened. Child poverty has reached epidemic levels: the worst in the UK. Educational...

In these searing profiles the author dissects the lives of fifteen infamous Nazis,including Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Ernst Roehm, Hans Frank, Rudolph Hoess, Albert Speer, and Hitler himself. He also analyzes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593332511Author James RallisonFormat PaperbackImprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 692gDimensions(mm) 192mm * 142mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855682443Author Gervase PhinnFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dalesman Publishing Co LtdPublisher Dalesman Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

This is a detailed account of the theatrical fortunes of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the British stage, from the 1590s to the 1990s. The substantial, illustrated introduction traces the rise of the play from theatrical neglect in the eighteenth century...

From the fierce and funny Clive James, this is Britain in the twenty-first century - from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, and from Britain's Got Talent to contemporary art.Between 2007 and 2009, Clive James wrote and presented A Point of View for BBC...

Politics looked straightforward when Patrick Kidd took over the reins of the daily political sketch in The Times in 2015. David Cameron had just won a general election and would clearly be Prime Minister for as long as he wanted; George Osborne was his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906523138Author Chris BrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

A selection of plays representing the most innovative and respected voices working in contemporary Spanish theater.Book InformationISBN 9780984616053Author Frank HentschkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Martin E. Segal Theatre CenterPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129134622Author Raghvendra SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdPublisher Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996744775Author HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Hat & BeardPublisher Hat & Beard

This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life...

'Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences' If you want to be a writer, then you'd better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That's the message from Stephen Marche in this irresistibly droll broadside. Perseverance, in the teeth...

A side-splitting collection of the most earnest and mangled attempts at the English language made by generations of schoolchildren. Be they funny, irreverent or just plain silly, Mr McGreevy's Absolute Howlers are guaranteed to have you weeping with...

'Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.' TimeOne of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned...

The only current anthology to survey the rich variety of contemporary African drama The plays included in this volume are: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka; Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song by Femi Osofisan; The Rise and...

Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new collection of essays which sets out to make and break the...

The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn-as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy-was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069320Author A Hilliard AtteridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title that will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of British history. The speechmakers are: King Henry V;...

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an...

Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow--microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African psyche. Everything is there: the...

Elizabeth Siddal is remembered as a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel and the muse and wife of Gabriel Rossetti. She is cast as a tragic heroine much like the Ophelia she modelled in the renowned Millais painting. But Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story overturns this...

Soppy meets Sarah's Scribbles in this sweet collection of comics about the simple, precious, silly, everyday moments that make up a relationship. What began as stray doodles on scraps of paper became an internet sensation when Catana Chetwynd's...

"Unparalleled in British medical history James Owen Drife charted his reactions to the medical world in which he worked and published them, initially in World Medicine and then the British Medical Journal (BMJ). This book is sometimes painfully frank, at...

Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadith-the reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds-is a major figure in the history of Islam. Ibn Hanbal's piety and austerity made him a folk hero, especially after his principled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889538Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 365gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408934Author Thomas PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar, and the best of...

This volume in the definitive edition of Thomas Traherne contains his best-known works, Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations. Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674), a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until...

What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self...