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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946963642Author Nicolas SlonimskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Albatross PublishersPublisher Albatross PublishersWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm)...

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance, Homer's ancient Greek epic The Odyssey is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin...

A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452295636Author Wendy NorthcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 237gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068619588Author Brian EatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Blossom Spring PublishingPublisher Blossom Spring Publishing

Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914337178Author Robert LeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909735989Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Aziloth BooksPublisher Aziloth BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics... Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion...

Boyfriends masquerade as straight bros to have fun on an early internet porn site. Sex on Viagra; sex on acid. A lesbian bar sells out, turning barflies into doms for hire. In Spain, an exchange student lets two young men flip a coin to see who will have...

Iceland is a land of stories; from the epic sagas of its mythic past, to its claim today of being home to more writers, more published books and more avid readers, per head, than anywhere in the world. As its capital (and indeed only city), Reykjavik has...

This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486253992Author Angel FloresFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint 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 9781950830022Author Tiffany Yates MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint E3 PressPublisher E3 PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid, Fasti 2.533-616, 687-852, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809007356Author Elmer RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

THE SECOND BOOK FROM THE VIRAL TWITTER (X) @FESSHOLE'A ridiculously reliable source of joy, shock and horror' - James O'Brien'I sometimes read one of those fesses and wonder if I submitted it myself the night before, after a few beers' - James May The...

Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays. Featuring work by some of the most prolific...

Brought to you by YouTube Vlogger Alfie Deyes, The Pointless Book, accompanied by the free downloadable app, is the ultimate addition to his YouTube channel a weird and funny video-diary of fun, challenges and nothingness: bake a cake in a mug; take part...

Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richerTravel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens when we arrive...

Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end up wanting to keep' RACHEL JOYCEThis is a medical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914287329Author David ChasumbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdPublisher Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

In 2002 the Court of Appeal, in London, proclaimed that James Hanratty's guilt, in the infamous A6 Murder case, had been proven by the DNA evidence from the now disbanded Forensic Science Service; thereby ?nally, after 40 years of controversy, hoping to...

Chantry Westwell has used her profound knowledge of the Library's unrivalled Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscript collections to explore some of literature's most enduring and multi-layered stories, together with the deep history of...

The third edition of Hamlet offers a completely new introduction to this rich, mysterious play, examining Shakespeare's transformation of an ancient Nordic legend into a drama whose philosophical, psychological, political, and spiritual complexities have...

In the late 18th century, Members of the English gentry - a tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants, and a rough analog for the contemporary "middle class" - the Pastons' experience, recorded ...

Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, Susan McKay talks again to the people she 'uneasily' called 'her own', those from a Protestant background in Northern Ireland. Against the backdrop of...

Animal lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness of their feline friends with these insightful and curious poems from the singular minds of funny cats. In this hilarious book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, the author of the internationally syndicated...

'A hugely significant and wonderfully haunting collection' William Boyd In the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed and the people he encountered. Collected...

Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published. Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585093731Author Georges PoltiFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Book TreePublisher Book TreeWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880014908Author Daniel HalpernFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's most repressive states - North Korea. 'A most perceptive and eye-opening account of everyday life in North Korea'...

Alfie Deyes is back with another instalment of his unique brand of nothingness. Bigger, better and even more pointless,The Pointless Book 2 is once again full of hilarious challenges and crazy activities, and the ultimate accessory to Alfie's wonderful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486401461Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 55gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951949181Author Lingo MasteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Lingo MasteryPublisher Lingo MasteryWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion_____What does it now mean to call yourself...

_______________ '[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times 'Yes, Jacobson is an entertainer ... And he does indeed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910121566Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint White Crow ProductionsPublisher White Crow ProductionsWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...