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The Mountain Poems Of Meng Hao-jan by Hao-Jan Meng
RRP: €15.46€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972869232Author Hao-jan MengFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 164g -
Tragedies, Volume I: Hercules. Trojan Women. Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra by Seneca
RRP: €29.69€27.83Spectacular verse drama.Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that... -
Greek Orators I: Antiphon, Lysias by M. Edwards 9780856682476
€35.81Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies ... -
Confessions: Volume I by Augustine
RRP: €29.69€27.83The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica... -
Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng
RRP: €24.98€21.35Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color... -
The Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780486434414
RRP: €8.91€7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434414Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
RRP: €11.89€7.90The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events ... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen by James McFarlane 9780521423212
RRP: €34.50€29.06Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
RRP: €13.08€9.44Billy Collins is one of the world's most popular poets. While his poems often begin in the everyday and domestic, fans know that they might end anywhere - and that they will lift their heads from the book to a world startlingly different from the one... -
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] by Adam Long 9781493077298
RRP: €15.46€11.44TheatreAbout the AuthorAdam Long (London), Daniel Singer (Southern California), and Jess Winfield (Hollywood) are the original members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.Book InformationISBN 9781493077298Author Adam LongFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines by Stuart Murray 9781350172173
€19.96Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has... -
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
RRP: €19.03€13.82Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs--but people do need help iand encouragemnt to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading... -
Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill by Jeffrey Wainwright 9780719067556
RRP: €23.79€20.96Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry 'recognises that words fail us'. These essays explore Hill's struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. This book seeks to show how all his work is marked by the quest for the right pitch... -
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honore de Balzac
RRP: €15.46€11.66'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing himself... -
Shakespeare and Virtual Reality by Stephen Wittek 9781009001878
RRP: €20.23€17.52Teaching Shakespeare through performance has a long history, and active methods of teaching and learning are a logical complement to the teaching of performance. Virtual reality ought to be the logical extension of such active learning, providing an... -
Is This Why Africa Is? by Marricke Kofi Gane 9781909326200
RRP: €8.32€7.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909326200Author Marricke Kofi GaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Marrickegane PublishingPublisher Marrickegane PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Shakespeare by David Lehman
RRP: €23.79€15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171684Author David LehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition by Gaius Valerius Catullus
RRP: €27.37€21.54Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including... -
Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories by Enda Duffy
RRP: €24.98€20.46This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning... -
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate 9780385423397
RRP: €27.37€21.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385423397Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming by Tao Yuanming 9781556596728
RRP: €19.03€13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596728Author Tao YuanmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
The Portable Medieval Reader by Various 9780140150469
€16.58DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: THE PAGEANT OF THEMIDDLE AGES - IN THEOLOGY, HISTORY, TRAVEL, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE- BROUGHT TO LIFE BY WRITERS OF THE PERIOD 1050-1500. DANTE ALIGHIERI, FRANCESCO PETRARCA, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, SAINT THOMAS... -
Ecogothic by Andrew Smith 9781526106896
RRP: €23.79€20.96This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the... -
Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: €16.65€11.60Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous... -
Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals. As soon as I saw, I was done for...All my dreams were of Leucippe.' Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five 'Greek... -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
RRP: €27.36€27.19For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and resources of the Mediterranean world upon the Greeks and... -
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi 9781595340412
RRP: €21.41€14.64This book tells us how maps help us to understand where we are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain our realities. "Maps of the Imagination" explores how writers and cartographers use many... -
The Viking Age: A Reader by Angus A. Somerville 9781487570477
RRP: €49.98€44.09In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through... -
What is a Playhouse?: England at Play, 1520-1620 by Callan Davies
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship... -
Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice by Markham J. Geller
RRP: €29.69€25.92Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Represents the first... -
Othello by William Shakespeare 9780812969153
RRP: €11.90€8.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969153Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 200g -
Surfacing: On being black and feminist in South Africa by Desiree Lewis 9781776146093
RRP: €33.31€28.73What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centres of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence each other? What are the histories and experiences of... -
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
RRP: €11.89€4.18'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe... -
Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction by Victoria Aarons 9781498517164
RRP: €113.05€98.91This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally... -
Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings by Paul Poplawski
RRP: €29.74€27.11Ranging from early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection explores the myriad ways in which literary texts are informed by their historical contexts. The thirty-one chapters draw on varied themes and perspectives to present stimulating... -
The Curtain: Essays by Milan Kundera
RRP: €17.84€11.66In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often, Kundera suggests, a novel is thought about only within... -
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton 9780198859550
RRP: €10.70€7.68'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.' In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The... -
Maxims by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: €13.08€9.25The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.About the AuthorLa Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) was a French classical... -
Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora by Anindya Raychaudhuri 9781783482634
RRP: €41.65€38.66Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the... -
Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets by Kenneth Paul Kramer 9781561012855
RRP: €17.84€13.72This exploration of T. S. Eliot's last major poem, Four Quartets, examines the poem's potential to transform readers' faith journeys. Kramer shows that the power of Four Quartets is its ability to create a dynamic interaction between the poem and the...