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A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton 9780198859550
RRP: $17.53$12.58'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: $21.43$15.15The 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: $68.25$63.36Is 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: $29.23$22.48This 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... -
Greek Tragedy by H. D. F. Kitto 9780415610193
RRP: $37.03$32.90Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge... -
Ancient Greek Literature by Tim Whitmarsh 9780745627922
RRP: $38.98$34.50In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting-edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible... -
Discourses: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Epictetus
RRP: $48.65$45.61From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled permanently... -
British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology by Robert DeMaria 9781118952481
RRP: $54.50$50.41Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A... -
The Transnational Beat Generation by Nancy M. Grace 9780230108417
RRP: $87.73$87.69This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the... -
Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by Bell Hooks
RRP: $27.28$17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890797Author Bell HooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Woman: The Full Story by Michele Guinness
RRP: $29.23$19.11At a time when the status of women is still being debated and challenged, how can women play a leading role in society, the workplace and the church? Michele Guinness has been there and done that - not without opposition and not without compromise. In... -
Other Asias by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: $64.25$56.82In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole. Major work from one of the world's most... -
Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book by Elaine Treharne 9780192843814
RRP: $63.36$58.13Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as... -
Baby Doll and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $25.33$19.11Tennessee Williams's controversial Hollywood screenplay Baby Doll opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of her twentieth birthday. Enter wily Sicilian Silva... -
Politics: v. 21 by Aristotle
RRP: $48.65$45.61The natural state of mankind.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Sweetly Sings Delaney: A Study of Shelagh Delaney's Work 1958-68 by John Harding 9781906075835
RRP: $29.23$26.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075835Author John HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Beowulf: A Student Edition by George Jack 9780198710448
RRP: $70.18$58.79Beowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials necessary... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Marie Borroff
$27.32This Norton Critical Edition includes: Marie Borroff's acclaimed verse translation, marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes.Laura L. Howes's full introduction along with Borroff's seminal essay, "The Metrical Forms" as well as her "Translator's Note"... -
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley
RRP: $38.98$34.20In this critical biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Katharine Conley reevaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was as famous among the surrealists for his independence of mind as for his elaborate... -
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal by Christopher Eagle 9780367867782
RRP: $77.98$68.37Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is... -
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature by Dr. Jennifer Richards 9780521824705
RRP: $175.50$131.14Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the early modern interest in conversation as a newly identified art. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on... -
Naturales Quaestiones: v. 1: Bks.I-III by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $48.65$45.61Following nature in pursuit of ethics.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making,... -
Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler) 9781635579048
RRP: $33.13$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579048Author V (formerly Eve Ensler)Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g -
Word as Bond in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration by Douglas J. Canfield 9780812281620
$186.07For centuries, the transmission of power in feudal European society depended on a code of fidelity, of political allegiance, and truth to one's word. The word as bond extended to include not only the pledge of allegiance between subject and king, but the... -
The Shadow of Perseus: A compelling, unputdownable retelling of the myth of Perseus by Claire Heywood
RRP: $33.13$22.50'A page-turning retelling . . . so interesting and thought-provoking' JENNIFER SAINT'A fresh and original take on the myth of Perseus . . . I was gripped by the human drama at the novel's heart' ELODIE HARPER*****Perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint,... -
Intertextuality by Graham Allen
RRP: $38.98$34.50This successful introduction to intertextuality deftly introduces this crucial area and relates its significance to key theories and movements in the study of literature. The third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter, looking at... -
Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law by E. P. Thompson 9780521469777
RRP: $76.03$64.86E. P. Thompson's long-awaited book on William Blake was published shortly after the historian's death in August 1993. Acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, it appears now for the first time in paperback. Written with a vivid passion,... -
The Roman Occupation of Britain and its Legacy by Rupert Jackson
RRP: $62.38$56.12This 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... -
Homer by Barbara Graziosi
RRP: $25.33$17.73Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By... -
The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian
RRP: $24.36$19.42Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond... -
Henry V by Eric Rasmussen
$15.70From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great exploration of patriotism and war. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Henry V in performance,... -
Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited by Michael Millgate 9780199275663
$76.52Michael Millgate's classic biography of the great novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was first published in 1982. Much new information about Hardy has since become available, often in volumes edited or co-edited by Millgate himself, and many established... -
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature by M. H. Abrams 9780393006094
RRP: $52.65$44.42In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789-1835)-the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in... -
Scum Manifesto by Valerie Solanas 9781849351805
RRP: $15.60$12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351805Author Valerie SolanasFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 89g -
Passions of Our Time by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $58.50$54.19Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent... -
Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus 9780872208209
RRP: $35.08$29.07By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae--the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this volume enables readers to compare the two's... -
Theories of Mythology by Eric Csapo
RRP: $68.15$60.12Theories of Mythology provides students with both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth, the most elementary form of narrative. Both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to... -
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction by Janice Allan 9781032570525
RRP: $87.73$77.38The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well... -
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross 9780226005508
RRP: $29.25$25.45The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture... -
Word Unheard: A Guide Through Eliot's Four Quartets by Harry Blamires 9781138998445
RRP: $64.33$56.86Eliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by...