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Hippolytus by Euripides 9780862920746
£25.45This useful edition includes Ferguson's introduction to the history of Greek theatre along with full notes and vocabulary.Book InformationISBN 9780862920746Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury... -
Circe and the Cyclops by Homer
RRP: £3.00£2.97'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...'The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little... -
Literary Translation Chantal Wright 9780415745321
RRP: £37.99£33.38Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from... -
The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist by Margaret C. Jones 9781350293953
RRP: £15.99£14.50In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated... -
SuperJoe Does NOT Do Cuddles by Michael Catchpool 9781913747657
RRP: £11.99£8.52SuperJoe is convinced he doesn't need cuddles from his mum. He flies around the neighbourhood rescuing people from escaped tigers, runaway trains and raging rivers, all while battling his nemesis the Grey Shadow. Naturally, he refuses all cuddles. Until... -
The Prevention of Literature by George Orwell 9781913724313
RRP: £5.00£4.59George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
Stylistics: Text, Cognition and Corpora Jane Lugea 9783031104213
RRP: £34.99£30.11This textbook introduces the reader to contemporary approaches to language analysis such as cognitive stylistics and corpus stylistics, reflecting recent shifts in research trends and offering students a practical way to access and understand these ... -
W. B. Yeats: An inspiring collection from one of Ireland's greatest literary figures W.B. Yeats 9781474625654
RRP: £6.99£5.17'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.'W B Yeats was one of the foremost... -
Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton by Brian Russell Graham 9781032379197
RRP: £19.99£17.69Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how things are done with words in Milton’s and Blake’s poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters... -
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £18.99£12.83The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of... -
Much ADO about Nothing (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford) by William Shakespeare 9781420952865
£7.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952865Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Cicero: Catilinarians by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £25.99£22.61As consul in 63 BC Cicero faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. Cicero's handling of this crisis would shape foreverafter the way he defined himself and his statesmanship... -
Sincerity and Authenticity by Lionel Trilling
RRP: £25.95£25.00"Now and then," writes Lionel Trilling, "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's... -
The Complete Euripides Volume II Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195388695
RRP: £12.49£9.24Based 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 series offers new translations that go... -
The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida by Dr. Sean Burke
RRP: £31.00£25.85For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Sean Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows... -
Spacecraft by Timothy Morton
RRP: £9.99£7.89Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do... -
The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg by Natalia Ginzburg
RRP: £19.99£17.81Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories... -
The Poetry of Tony Harrison by Sean Sheehan 9781906075156
RRP: £9.99£9.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075156Author Sean SheehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Soul and Form by Georg Lukacs 9780850362510
RRP: £14.95£13.29GyArgy LukAcs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. "Soul and Form" was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of... -
Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation by Andrew M. Miller
RRP: £17.99£15.13Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense as possible of how the Greeks themselves thought and wrote about the world. Miller's skillful introduction... -
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke 9781902669700
RRP: £12.99£11.95Austin Clarke's classic story of British colonial education is the subject of Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. It is the story of a boy whose mother struggled against seemingly impossible odds to give her son the best available education... -
Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
RRP: £30.00£29.25This text takes a close look at eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a new vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta, Funmilayo Fakunle, Ifeoma Okoye, Zaynab Alkali, Eno Obong and Simi Bedford are the... -
A Rhetoric of Motives by Kenneth Burke
RRP: £27.00£21.46As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely aesthetic and literary; but after "Counter-Statement" (1931), he began to discriminate a 'rhetorical' or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of... -
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin 9780241239971
RRP: £20.00£13.77A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his... -
Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word by Marc Smith
RRP: £11.99£10.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402218996Author Marc SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 379gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 152mm... -
British Transport Police: A definitive history of the early years and subsequent development by Malcolm Clegg 9781399095471
RRP: £25.00£17.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems by Jorie Graham 9781857542257
RRP: £17.99£12.73Jorie Graham's poetry insists that "the visible world" exists: but what is its existence? Beyond the subjective, the lyric, she ventures with philosophical rigour into an area "saturated with phenomena", in Helen Vendler's phrase, a place of shifting... -
Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater Seth Lerer 9780226014418
RRP: £18.00£17.59This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son" is,... -
Cockatoos on a cruise by Russell Punter 9781801319591
RRP: £5.99£3.85When Bruce and Sue the cockatoos take their little nephew Lou on a luxury cruise, he causes chaos on every deck. But he might just save the day in the end...Another title in the popular phonics readers series, which makes learning phonics fun.Lou the... -
Deep Waters by Belinda Black 9781398481497
RRP: £9.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398481497Author Belinda BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Reading Dante by Giuseppe Mazzotta
RRP: £22.00£21.22A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his... -
The Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend by Andrew Orchard
RRP: £18.99£12.94From Loki to Thor, Ragnarok to BeowulfA gripping and truly mesmerising delve into the Norse legendsFrom bestselling books to blockbusting Hollywood movies, the myths of the Scandinavian gods and heroes are part of the modern day landscape.For over a... -
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton 9780393314427
RRP: £25.00£21.14His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien regime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of... -
London: A Cultural and Literary History by Richard Tames 9781904955214
RRP: £15.00£13.86It may not be the longest, deepest or widest river in the world but few bodies of water reveal as much about a nation's past and present, or are suggestive of its future, as England's River Thames. Tales of legendary lock-keepers and long-vanished weirs... -
Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel by Patricia Ingham 9780415082228
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Lucid, multilayered and cogently argued, this volume will provoke debate and encourage students and scholars to rethink their views on... -
Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness by Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey 9781421448206
RRP: £23.00£17.60Do Jane Austen novels truly celebrate—or undermine—romance and happy endings?How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy readers' thirst for romance?... -
The Illustrated Courtroom by Elizabeth Williams 9781956470420
£43.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956470420Author Elizabeth WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Redwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Redwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)... -
National Theatre Connections 2021: Two Plays for Young People Miriam Battye 9781350233492
RRP: £12.99£12.05It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2021 features work by brilliant... -
The Poems of Andrew Marvell Nigel Smith 9781405832830
RRP: £39.99£39.24Little known as a poet in his own time, Andrew Marvell (1621-78) was a patriotic politician and champion of religious toleration during the Restoration. Although long celebrated for the great love lyric, To His Coy Mistress, the last century has seen his... -
Tunnel of Mirrors by Ferne Arfin 9781802270648
RRP: £12.99£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802270648Author Ferne ArfinFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Green River PressPublisher Green River PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...