Literary Criticism

Disintegration in Frames examines the ways in which national identity and interethnic relations are approached, evaluated, and critically dissected in films by directors such as Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusturica, and Srdan Dragojevic; subcultural...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of changeOkonkwo is the...

'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Worsley's sparkling biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work, firmly busting the myth...

'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw...

An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside, Goodbye Tsugumi is an enchanting novel from one of Japan's finest writers.Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her an international sensation. Now she returns with a magical,...

Little children and their grown-ups can stick their fingers through the holes to become the arms of big and little monkey and tell a simple story. Little monkey learns to reach for a juicy mango to eat, swings through the jungle, and finds a leaf to...

The most translator notes in any Bible to help you clearly understand how the Bible was translated. Ever feel lost in translation? With the NET Full-notes Edition of the Holy Bible, you don't need to be. Modern readers can find it challenging to connect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720250Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621066118Author Carla ButwinFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing

A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature. "Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next...

'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' Sunday Times'There's so much . . . in Flanagan's beautiful, unclassifiable...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,...

This 75th anniversary edition of a classic bestseller is stunningly illustrated and designed to enchant fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology at all ages.Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly...

'No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani' - Mohammed El-Kurd, author of Rifqa 'I cannot think of a better collection to guide anyone seeking a moral role in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine' - Ilan Pappe, author...

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each...

'If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: "To fight against Fascism," and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: "Common decency."' Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250193421Author Blythe RobersonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

New parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, written by famed stage and screen actress, Dame Harriet Walter DBE'Bold and original... a book that anyone who cares about Shakespeare will want to own, and share' JAMES...

'Fascinating' The Times'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary SupplementPoet, artist, visionary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590301081Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808308Author Maureen MurdockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all - 'If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?' And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? ...

From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional...

Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page notes explain obscure literary and historical references,...

Dine with beloved writers in this 'utterly charming' (Nina Stibbe) new anthology of their very own favourite recipes, introduced by Bee Wilson.Agatha Christie's hot bean salad.Jack Kerouac's green pea soup.Allen Ginsberg's cold summer borscht.Daphne du...

A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths' beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical Norfolk.Norfolk, a land of peaceful broads, marshy fens, sprawling coastline and shady brecks, is the home of Dr Ruth...

Now in B-format paperback, this book describes ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's...

Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends-perfect for curious readers and academics alike.Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846542Author Sharon Garlough BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)...

A collection of meditations on poetry, art and life, taken from the creative writing lectures of one of South Korea's most prominent living poets'Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing. You've got to feel as if the soles of your feet are...

A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology' The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement' Daily Telegraph'An exhilarating feat, it takes its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671039776Author WilliamsFormat PaperbackImprint Simon & Schuster AustraliaPublisher Simon & Schuster AustraliaWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm) 175mm *...

Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern,...

This new Oxford Classical Text of Sophocles is the product of many years of close collaboration between the two editors. Most of the major difficulties of text and interpretation have been discussed in graduate seminars held in Oxford. The evidence of...

A milestone in the history of popular theology, 'The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil. This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil...

The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translationThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on...

'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385493918Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922602688Author Nick LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 7mm