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The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo by Tony Tanner 9780521783743
RRP: £38.99£32.28The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. His work is familiar to generations of students and scholars, and has helped shape our understanding of the major nineteenth and twentieth... -
Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation by Mark J. P. Wolf 9780415631204
RRP: £48.99£43.06Mark J.P. Wolf's study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches... -
The 100 Best Books Children's Books by Brian Alderson 9781903385982
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385982Author Brian AldersonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212g -
Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life by Jane McVeigh 9783030965105
RRP: £22.99£18.14Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction to Richmal Crompton's... -
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £9.99£7.15A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story 'The School of... -
Greek Grammar by Herbert Weir Smyth 9780674362505
RRP: £66.95£54.35Sponsored by the Department of Classics of Harvard University, a revised edition of the late Professor Smyth's A Greek Grammar for Colleges is now available. All necessary corrections have been made, and the book retains the form which has long made it... -
The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes by Jane Austen
RRP: £14.00£12.26It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and... -
Greek Anthology: Volume I: book 1: Christian Epigrams by W. R. Paton
RRP: £24.95£23.76A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 short Greek poems in the sparkling and diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a hundred poets and collected over many centuries. To the original collection, called the Garland... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf by Jane Goldman 9780521547567
RRP: £23.99£19.04For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema,... -
The Art of Poetry: Forward Poems, revised selection by Michael Meally 9780995467149
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467149Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
RRP: £22.49£20.04This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we... -
Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy Essays by Lewis Vaughn 9780197751916
RRP: £25.99£25.88Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays is a concise, self-guided manual that covers the basics of argumentative essay writing and encourages students to master fundamental skills quickly, with minimal instructor input. Opening... -
Evoking (and forgetting!) Shakespeare by Peter Brook
RRP: £10.99£7.87The text of a talk given by renowned theatre director Peter Brook in Berlin in 1998, addressing essential questions about performing Shakespeare today. Brook invites us to consider the actual conditions of the Elizabethan theatre and the actual qualities... -
Repeat Performances: Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses by Laurel Fulkerson 9780299307509
RRP: £75.00£74.23Although repetition is found in all ancient literary genres, it is especially pervasive in epic poetry. Ovid's Metamorphoses exploits this dimension of the epic genre to such an extent that past critics have faulted it as too filled with recycled themes... -
Cormac Mccarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" by Stephen Tatum 9780826452467
£18.09This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains... -
Rome Glyn Pursglove 9781906011222
RRP: £6.99£5.17All roads lead to Rome, the eternal city, the centre of Christendom, the lodestone of the pilgrim and the artist, the seat of the only Empire that has ever succeeded in uniting the European landmass. No literate traveller can escape its fascination, and... -
Crick Crack Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series) by Merle Hodge 9780435989514
£13.78A revealing novel of childhood about Tee who is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.Book InformationISBN 9780435989514Author Merle HodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Pearson... -
Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700 by Dr Paul Salzman
RRP: £12.99£9.34In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of... -
The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian
RRP: £12.49£10.22Based 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... -
The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus by Andrew Klavan
RRP: £18.99£16.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310364610Author Andrew KlavanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 148mm * 26mm -
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £8.99£6.22FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? ... -
Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War by J. Silkin 9780333653999
RRP: £44.99£44.97The poetry of the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language. Unique for its immediacy and searing honesty, it has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding of and response to war and the suffering it creates... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy by Dale Kramer 9780521566926
RRP: £33.99£29.26Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge... -
Shakespeare and Gesture in Practice: Shakespeare in Practice by Darren Tunstall 9780230276420
£28.38When actors perform Shakespeare, what do they do with their bodies? How do they display to the spectator what is hidden in the imagination? This is a history of Shakespearean performance as seen through the actor's body. Tunstall draws upon social,... -
Quotable Shakespeare Max Morris 9781849535847
RRP: £6.99£5.17This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works... -
Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea by Rosalind Morris 9780231143851
RRP: £25.00£19.59Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" transformed the analysis of colonialism through an eloquent and uncompromising argument that affirmed the contemporary relevance of Marxism while using deconstructionist methods to... -
The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England by Ethan Knapp
RRP: £29.95£26.91Long neglected as a marginal and eccentric figure, Thomas Hoccleve (1367-1426) wrote some of the most sophisticated and challenging poetry of the late Middle Ages. Full of gossip and autobiographical detail, his work has made him immensely useful to... -
Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick J. Murphy
RRP: £28.95£26.49Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time-classics such as "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid by Philip Hardie
RRP: £34.99£29.75Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America... -
Reading and the Reader: The Literary Agenda by Philip Davis 9780199683185
RRP: £22.49£17.13The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism by Michael Levenson
RRP: £25.99£22.39This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central... -
Medieval Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Elaine Treharne
RRP: £8.99£6.65This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry,... -
Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines by Jacques Lezra 9781137591890
RRP: £24.99£20.50Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the... -
A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer by Oyama Shiro 9780801443756
RRP: £19.99£16.15San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood. After completing a... -
'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njàls Saga by William Ian Miller
£44.76Nijals saga the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf... -
The Poems of W.B. Yeats: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Michael O'Neill 9780415234764
RRP: £19.99£17.69Deeply involved with Irish culture and history, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest poets writing in the last two centuries. This sourcebook provides essential help for readers who wish to learn more about his powerful, haunting poems... -
Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love by Brad Gooch 9780061999154
RRP: £12.99£8.71The ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born more than eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. Rumi has been compared to Shakespeare for his outpouring of creativity and St... -
Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry
£17.06Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying... -
I Remember by Georges Perec
RRP: £9.99£6.96'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available for the first time in English, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered... -
50 Books to Read If You're an Armchair Detective by Eric Karl Anderson 9781922616470
RRP: £7.99£5.98The perfect gift for book-loving friends and family, 50 Books to Read If You're an Armchair Detective will provide lots of inspiration for fans of cosy crime to discover lesser known books and revisit forgotten classics. Whether you're a Richard Osman...