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Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini 9780198813118
$37.54In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics,... -
Selected Poems of Christopher Logue by Christopher Logue
RRP: $14.18$9.73The arrangement of these Selected Poems demonstrates the consistency of Christopher Logue's vision as it matured through a varied career. He published his first books in the early 1950s, in Paris, where he was associated with Alexander Trocchi, Samuel... -
Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious by N. Katherine Hayles 9780226447889
RRP: $29.67$28.55N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible... -
Shakespeare His Life and Works by Alan Riding
RRP: $32.25$22.87Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works.Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. Some 400 years after they were... -
Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa 9780312421724
RRP: $20.64$12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421724Author Mario Vargas LlosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
Reading Shakespeare's Mind by Steve Sohmer 9781526138071
RRP: $25.79$12.69This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerous characters and events were drawn from the author's life, and puts faces to the names of Jaques,... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: $6.45$5.92First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured but ardent tone, Woolf weaves together thought and... -
The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, Mencius by David Hinton
RRP: $30.95$21.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619028340Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520293632
RRP: $32.25$26.56The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this... -
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Neil Gaiman
RRP: $16.76$8.01Upon publication, "Don't Panic" quickly established itself as the definitive companion to "Adams" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". This edition comes up-to-date, covering the movie, "And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer and the build up to the... -
Collected Essays: Volume 1. The Englishness of the English Novel by Q. D. Leavis 9780521276771
RRP: $55.46$46.69Queenie Dorothy Leavis was one of the best critics of the novel. Her primary interest was in the English novel in its greatest period the nineteenth-century, but she had wide interests and wrote on the American novel as well; and her anthropological view... -
The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition by Andy Orchard
RRP: $38.64$31.51What offers over seven hundred witty enigmas in several languages? Answer: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. Riddles, wordplay, and inscrutable utterances have been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries. Often brief and... -
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature by Alison Lurie 9780316246255
RRP: $25.79$18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316246255Author Alison LurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Sticking It To The Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 by Andrew Nette
RRP: $42.56$28.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635248Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Poetic Edda by Henry Adams Bellows 9780486437101
RRP: $12.89$8.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437101Author Henry Adams BellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel by Deirdre David
RRP: $32.24$27.32In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
RRP: $15.48$10.60During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9780571191291
RRP: $14.18$13.89Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the live of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora's acceptance of the status quo undergoes a profound change. To the... -
Samuel Beckett: Faber Critical Guide by John Fletcher
RRP: $12.89$8.90Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Beckett and need a reliable guide to his plays? A Faber... -
Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness by Stevan M. Weine 9781531502669
RRP: $36.11$29.22A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century. Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem "Howl" opens with one of the most resonant... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
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... -
Universal Tree and the Four Birds by Muhyiddin Ibn'Arabi
RRP: $33.48$13.15Through the story of the universal tree, representing the complete human being, and the four birds, representing the four essential aspects of existence, Ibn 'Arabi explains his teaching on the nature and meaning of union with God. Providing an excellent... -
Stories and Society: Children's Literature in its Social Context by Dennis Butts 9780333522479
RRP: $58.04$58.01Children's literature is increasingly exposed to critical debate in England and America. There are indeed a number of histories and surveys of children's literature, but few works exist which discuss the contexts, ideologies and narrative structures of... -
A Dictionary of Fabulous Beasts by Richard Barber 9780851156859
RRP: $25.79$18.42A dictionary? No, this is really an astonishing ark filled with beasts from a fabulous zoo far more varied and entertaining than anything from ordinary natural history. From Abaia and Abath to Ziz and Zu, from the microscopic Gigelorum that nests in a... -
The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature by Remke Kruk 9781848859272
$34.09Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast... -
Lives of the Caesars: v. 2 by Suetonius
RRP: $32.19$30.65Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He... -
Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks by Dave Kyu 9781680511444
RRP: $21.87$18.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDave Kyu is a socially-engaged artist, writer, and project manager. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, he explores the creative tensions... -
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore 9780008331924
RRP: $19.34$17.35A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small... -
Artificial Paradises: Baudelaire's Masterpiece on Hashish by Charles Baudelaire 9780806514833
RRP: $14.18$11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806514833Author Charles BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 307g -
Edmund Spenser's Poetry by Edmund Spenser 9780393927856
$37.04This revised and enlarged Fourth Edition expands and improves on the strengths of the previous three editions. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed, and carefully annotated. An Editor's Note follows each section. This... -
An A-Z of Jane Austen Michael Greaney 9781350254206
RRP: $18.05$15.54Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z... -
The Norse Hamlet by Francois De Belleforest 9780615878911
RRP: $10.00$8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615878911Author Francois De BelleforestFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Hythloday PressPublisher Hythloday PressWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm)... -
Persecution and the Art of Writing by Leo Strauss 9780226777115
RRP: $30.96$29.71The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem-the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat... -
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets by Gerald Dawe 9781108414197
RRP: $39.98$35.32The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primarily at lovers of poetry, it examines a wide range of poets, including household names, such as Jonathan... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene by John Parham
RRP: $30.95$26.28The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity's alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how... -
Fairies and Fairy Stories by Diane Purkiss 9780752440736
RRP: $19.34$15.12From the dangerous beings of ancient myths and medieval folklore, to the sanitized wingy thingies of Shakespeare and the Victorians, and even modern myths of alien abduction, this book presents a history of fairies. It tells that they have a darker and... -
No Boys Play Here: A Story of Shakespeare and My Family's Missing Men by Sally Bayley
RRP: $12.89$8.82'Nobody writes like Sally Bayley' Lemn Sissay From the brilliantly original and critically acclaimed Sally Bayley, a literary story of working class childhood, absent or broken men and the power of literature to save and rebuild... -
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century by Marina Warner
RRP: $23.21$20.54Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how such pagan and Christian imagery about ethereal beings is embedded in a... -
Odysseus: A Verse Tragedy by Nikos Kazantzakis 9781935244257
RRP: $24.50$16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935244257Author Nikos KazantzakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Somerset Hall PressPublisher Somerset Hall PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm)... -
Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare: ‘All the World’s His Stage’ by Poonam Trivedi
RRP: $47.72$26.81This volume critically analyses and theorises Asian interventions in the expanding phenomenon of Global Shakespeare. It interrogates Shakespeare's 'universality' from Asian perspectives: how this has been modified or even replaced by the 'global bard' as...