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The Book Lover's Joke Book Alex Johnson 9780712354516
RRP: $12.89$9.03The Book Lover's Joke Book is the funniest book about books you'll ever read. You'll find jokes about writers, agents, publishers, librarians, grammar, poetry, bookcases, and lightbulbs. There are rib-ticklers for typographers, crackers for critics, and... -
Staging and Re-cycling: Retrieving, Reflecting and Re-framing the Archive by John Keefe 9780367501754
RRP: $47.72$41.96In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking. The book includes a... -
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by John J. L. Mood
RRP: $15.47$12.05Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections... -
Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion by Patricia Palmer 9780521120333
RRP: $49.01$40.39The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland sparked off two linguistic events of enduring importance: it initiated the language shift from Irish to English, which constitutes the great drama of Irish cultural history, and it marked the beginnings of English... -
The Elements of Theology: A Revised Text with Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Proclus 9780198140979
RRP: $42.56$36.77Proclus' Elements of Theology is a concise summa of the Neoplatonic system in its fully developed form; and for the student of late Greek thought second in importance only to the Enneads of Plotinus. Professor Dodds has provided a critical text based on... -
To the Lighthouse: A Norton Critical Edition by Virginia Woolf 9780393422597
$14.96This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The American edition of the novel, first published by Harcourt Brace in 1927, introduced and annotated by Margaret Homans. * A 1924-28 chronology of To the Lighthouse's composition, revision, publication and... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin 9780674019812
RRP: $37.35$33.73Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant... -
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780393928839
$17.71An extensively revised "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides geographical and political insights into mid-nineteenth century France and places the novel in the context of contemporary authors and works. A map of 1830s France, political and literary... -
The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic by David Townsend 9780812233476
$78.75Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a... -
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames 9780691135199
RRP: $38.70$30.04A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to todayWhy do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a... -
X by Alistair McDowall
RRP: $14.18$11.11"McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss ... a play that will gnaw away at you. It's sci-fi - and theatre - at its best." The Stage ... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume V: Western Greek Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
RRP: $32.19$30.65A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
William Barnes by William Barnes
RRP: $11.60$8.10In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens by Professor John O. Jordan
RRP: $33.53$28.37The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his... -
Samson Agonistes and Other Poems: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition by John Milton
RRP: $18.71$18.00In Samson Agonistes, Milton's last great work, he addresses questions that pressed insistently on the imagination of all who were unhappy with the changes wrought by the Restoration. How do we respond to the experience of defeat, and to fears of having... -
Words That Burn by Josephine Hart
RRP: $12.89$2.94Following the success of CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT, Josephine Hart compiles more poetry from the like of such poets as Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Frost and Lowell. An audio CD accompanies.* Author PR activity to include media interviews,... -
The Tin Ring: My Memoir of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by Zdenka Fantlova 9780857162298
RRP: $16.76$12.05The Tin Ring is moving memoir of love, loss and hope. Zdenka Fantlova's peaceful life was changed forever when she was sent to Terezin concentration camp. Here, she was given a humble engraved tin ring by her first love Arno. When he gave her the ring he... -
The Rover by Aphra Behn 9781408152119
RRP: $12.89$11.51Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to courtesans - take the initiative. Featuring multiple plot lines, which deal with the adventures of a group... -
Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology: A Guide to Practice by Peter Emerson 9780230595408
RRP: $116.09$115.93This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. It describes the background to discursive and narrative approaches and then takes the reader through a variety of analysis at different 'levels'. These focus on... -
Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition by Stephen Greenblatt 9780691160245
RRP: $23.21$17.00In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields... -
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition by Walter J. Ong 9780415538381
RRP: $49.01$43.06Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition... -
Mothering by the Book - The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy Jennifer Pepito 9780764239533
RRP: $15.47$11.53"Wit and wisdom for every mother, everywhere."--ERIN LOECHNER, author of Chasing Slow Becoming a better, happier mom starts with the stories you tell your kids As a mom, you want to nurture a strong family, but fear steals your joy. Sometimes you... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Brontes by Heather Glen
RRP: $33.53$28.37The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate by Adeline Johns-Putra 9781009060813
RRP: $30.95$26.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009060813Author Adeline Johns-PutraFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers
RRP: $43.85$38.26Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never... -
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
RRP: $15.47$10.99In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a... -
The Prince Of Minor Writers by Max Beerbohm
RRP: $21.92$16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178287Author Max BeerbohmFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192865861
RRP: $9.02$6.84'Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.' Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman's body be measured against a man's life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Measure explores these questions through a series of... -
The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem by Shira Wolosky 9780195371185
RRP: $25.79$19.88A uniquely comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to poetic form, The Art of Poetry moves progressively from smaller units such as the word, line, and image, to larger features such as verse forms and voice.In fourteen engaging, eloquently written... -
The Roman Occupation of Britain and its Legacy by Rupert Jackson
RRP: $41.27$37.41This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province's independence from Roman rule in AD 409. Incorporating for the first time the most recent archaeological discoveries from... -
Drift by Caroline Bergvall 9781937658205
RRP: $20.63$14.24Caroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today's sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, "Drift," which takes the anonymous 10th century... -
Victor Hugo Bradley Stephens 9781789140842
RRP: $16.76$12.05Victor Hugo (1802-85) is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic campaign against artistic tradition and defying the... -
Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: Essays on the Novels, the Film and the Stage Productions by Steven Barfield 9780786440306
RRP: $28.37$23.18Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials stands as a landmark in fantasy literature. Comprised of the novels The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, the award-winning epic trilogy has been adapted for radio, stage, and film in both... -
The Outlandish Companion Volume 1 by Diana Gabaldon 9781780894935
$26.43Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels. In this beautifully illustrated compendium, Diana Gabaldon opens a door through the standing stones and offers a guided tour of what lies within... -
Islwyn Ffowc Elis by T. Robin Chapman 9780708316559
RRP: $6.44$5.42The first full examination in English of the career and works of the most popular Welsh author of the twentieth century. Elis laid solid foundations for the contemporary novel in Welsh on which other writers were able to build in the 1960s and 1970s. In... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 10: 1910-1940: The Modern Movement by Professor Chris Baldick 9780198183105
$132.72The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of... -
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" by Kate Maurer 9780764586736
$7.33This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and "tames" the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespeare intended for the general public rather than for... -
John Ruskin: An Idiosyncratic Dictionary Encompassing his Passions, his Delusions and his Prophecies by Michael Glover 9781848223745
RRP: $25.79$19.96From Aesthete to Ziffern, Baby-Language to Verbosity, Badgers to Railway Stations: this gloriously serendipitous dictionary presents the life, times and strong opinions of John Ruskin (1819-1900) - art critic, patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, social... -
The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History by Andrew W. M. Smith 9780719087868
RRP: $25.79$22.72The ghost story 1840-1920: A cultural history examines the British ghost story within the political contexts of the long nineteenth century. By relating the ghost story to economic, national, colonial and gendered contexts, it provides a critical... -
Poems by Emily Bronte 9781857157284
RRP: $15.48$11.20* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will make ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black-and-white pattern on each spine * Full-cloth, flexible covers * Sewn bindings *...