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The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel by Marina MacKay 9780521713344
RRP: £22.99£19.56Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential... -
Rome's Mediterranean Empire: Books 41-45 and the Periochae by Livy
RRP: £13.99£10.15'I will do as the Senate decrees.' These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and... -
Deconstruction and Criticism by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780826476920
RRP: £22.99£22.85Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.Book InformationISBN 9780826476920Author Prof. Harold... -
Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Books 11-20 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Libri XI-XX) by Leofranc Holford-Strevens 9780199695027
RRP: £95.00£94.80This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall, published in 1968 but soon superseded by Marshall's own later discoveries as well as... -
Philodemus, On Poems, Books 3-4: with the fragments of Aristotle, On Poets by Richard Janko
£53.68The On Poems by the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (1st century BC) survived amid the library of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, which was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The papyrus-rolls in this, the only... -
A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds by Jacques Derrida 9780231066594
RRP: £35.00£27.50Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's writings over the last twenty-five years are gathered in this accessible introduction, A Derrida Reader. The... -
The Human Side of Enterprise by Stoyan Stoyanov
RRP: £6.50£6.11What makes a good manager? Though we can probably all point to someone we think of as a good manager, what precisely makes them so good at their job is a complex question - and one central to good business organization. Management scholar Douglas... -
Summary and Analysis of 1984: Based on the Book by George Orwell by Worth Books 9781504046800
RRP: £8.99£4.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046800Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
Balancing Acts: Conversations with Gerald Dawe on a Life in Poetry by Gerald Dawe
RRP: £17.99£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788558167Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
London by Barnaby Rogerson 9781903651032
RRP: £6.99£5.00London's poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge, from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday's lyrics retrieved from a pub floor. Like the city itself this... -
Oral Poetry by Ruth Finnegan 9781532645044
RRP: £32.00£23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532645044Author Ruth FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion by Patricia Palmer 9780521120333
RRP: £37.99£31.31The 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: £32.99£28.50Proclus' 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... -
The Bauman Reader by Peter Beilharz 9780631214922
RRP: £44.95£40.11The remarkably diverse writings of Zygmunt Bauman range across a large number of issues in sociology, politics, history, and cultural studies. This is the first collection of Bauman's writings that covers the entire breadth of his work, and includes a... -
Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations by Christine Kenyon Jones 9781350381391
RRP: £19.99£16.54Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she was a parson's daughter writing anonymously. This book explores how their lives, interests,... -
Philostratus: Apollonius of Tyana, III, Letters of Apollonius, Ancient Testimonia, Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.88The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.Philostratus' colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This volume, which... -
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens by Professor John O. Jordan
RRP: £25.99£21.99The 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... -
Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams by Callimachus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped... -
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity by Prue Shaw 9781631490064
RRP: £15.99£13.33Keenly aware that thousands of books have been written about The Divine Comedy, Prue Shaw-one of the world's foremost Dante authorities-is convinced that an accessible, non-scholarly work that explicated Dante is needed. Just as Dante becomes a poet with... -
Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction by Peter Stockwell
RRP: £37.99£33.38A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.The second edition of this seminal text features:* updated theory, frameworks, and examples... -
Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form by Paul K. Saint-Amour 9780190200954
RRP: £40.99£29.05Tense Future falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or predetermined by war. Part two shifts the focus... -
The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Poetry by Peter MacKay
RRP: £20.00£14.88This collection, covering 500 years of transgressive Gaelic poetry with new English translations, breaks the mould for anthologies of Gaelic verse. It offers poems that are erotic, rude, seditious and transgressive; that deal with love, sex, the body,... -
Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures by Antonio Cornejo Polar
RRP: £20.99£18.37Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most... -
Canto General by Pablo Neruda 9788437609300
RRP: £33.99£17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437609300Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 655Imprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.Weight(grams) 467g -
The Taming of the Shrew: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780199536528
RRP: £7.99£5.93Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew. It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in 1594 as The Taming of the Shrew through several eighteenth-century... -
The Early Finn Cycle by Kevin Murray 9781846826306
RRP: £22.50£22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826306Author Kevin MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The Cambridge Companion to the Brontes by Heather Glen
RRP: £25.99£21.99The 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: £23.99£20.37Apologies 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: £33.99£29.66Tolkien'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... -
Steppenwolf Tpb by H. Hesse
RRP: £18.99£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312278670Author H. HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192865861
RRP: £6.99£5.13'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... -
On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gerard de Nerval's Aurelia by C. G. Jung 9780691162478
RRP: £38.00£30.41In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zurich on the French Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurelia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent... -
The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem by Shira Wolosky 9780195371185
RRP: £19.99£15.41A 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... -
My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force
RRP: £20.00£17.16The books that we choose to keep--let alone read--can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most-books that define their dreams and ambitions and... -
Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor
RRP: £26.99£24.32An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood-nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied-Reading Boyishly is a story of mothers and sons, loss and... -
New Caribbean Junior Readers 1 by Diane Browne 9780602226732
£14.87Build on infant foundations to develop the reading and language skills needed by 7 to 11 year olds in Books 1-4, and consolidate and reinforce these skills with Book 5 for the final year of Primary School. - Develop comprehension and critical thinking... -
Islwyn Ffowc Elis by T. Robin Chapman 9780708316559
RRP: £4.99£4.04The 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... -
Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel by Dora Zhang
RRP: £24.00£23.03The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description-what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool." As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the... -
The King of Tars by John H. Chandler
RRP: £13.00£11.02The King of Tars, an early Middle English romance (ca. 1330 or earlier), emphasizes ideas about race, gender, and religion. A short poem, its purpose is to celebrate the power of Christianity, and yet it defies classification.About the AuthorJohn H... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 10: 1910-1940: The Modern Movement by Professor Chris Baldick 9780198183105
£102.88The 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...