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Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader by Nigel Wood 9780582784543
$118.17'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' David LodgeThis anthology uses extracts from the works of the... -
What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch 9780691049861
RRP: $81.90$64.43World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at... -
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks
RRP: $58.40$46.14A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.About the AuthorPeter Brooks is... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism by Michael Levenson
RRP: $50.68$43.66This 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... -
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Four: Poetry 1903-1920, Prose, and Unpublished Writings by Robinson Jeffers
RRP: $154.05$137.10Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced but a major poet of the twentieth century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. Jeffers... -
A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer by Oyama Shiro 9780801443756
RRP: $38.98$31.20San'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... -
The Triumph of Religion by Jacques Lacan
RRP: $29.23$26.48"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was... -
'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njàls Saga by William Ian Miller
$87.28Nijals 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... -
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780007590070
RRP: $146.25$96.80The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold,... -
The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel As Artificial Life by Peter Boxall
RRP: $68.23$62.77In The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions. This new age requires us to reimagine our relation to our... -
Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love by Brad Gooch 9780061999154
RRP: $25.33$16.54The 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... -
The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel's Key Moments by John Matthew Fox 9781737847403
RRP: $21.43$15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737847403Author John Matthew FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint BookfoxPublisher BookfoxWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm -
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Project Blue Book - The Complete 1956 Report on UFOs by an Officer of the U.S. Air Force by Edward J Ruppelt 9781789872330
RRP: $25.31$24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789872330Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393417937
$16.61The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home... -
50 Books to Read If You're an Armchair Detective by Eric Karl Anderson 9781922616470
RRP: $15.58$11.29The 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... -
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone
RRP: $19.48$13.86Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection. Soon after, an... -
All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics by Douglas Wolk
RRP: $39.00$25.94Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book 'Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful ... All of the Marvels is magnificently marvellous. Wolk's work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all' ... -
Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books by Edward Abel Smith 9781526791986
RRP: $29.23$21.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Literary Translation by Chantal Wright
RRP: $74.08$65.09Routledge 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 Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $50.70$48.46Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher if not the only famous philosopher." He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes from an... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780719041310
RRP: $21.43$15.41The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's... -
Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing by Dr Will Sharpe 9780198819646
RRP: $33.13$31.43Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him afresh as a poetic innovator in continual flux, and in continual artistic debt: an author shaped by others... -
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $37.03$25.02The 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
$14.00Apologies 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: $50.68$44.09As 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... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV 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 ... -
Amphitryon: v. 1: WITH The Comedy of Asses AND The Pot of Gold AND The Two Bacchises AND The Captives by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: $48.65$45.61Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and... -
Trojan Women by Euripides 9780674995741
RRP: $48.65$45.61Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Lessons of the Masters by George Steiner 9780674017672
RRP: $52.55$41.75When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a... -
Tamil: A Biography by David Shulman 9780674059924
RRP: $60.35$48.40Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a... -
Demented Particulars: The Annotated 'Murphy' by Chris Ackerley
RRP: $48.73$44.28Demented Particulars offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's first published novel, Murphy. The book includes an extensive Introduction, which outlines the compositional and publishing history of the novel, the critical debate, an account of... -
Scotland: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Garry MacKenzie 9781784536411
RRP: $33.13$25.66With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of literature, from the religious poems carved on the rocks of its sacred monuments to the seedy urban novels of... -
Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and God by Claire Cronin
RRP: $25.33$16.77Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid - about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds... -
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke 9781902669700
RRP: $25.33$23.30Austin 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... -
The Essential Writings Of Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974232Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm)... -
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin 9780241239971
RRP: $39.00$26.85A 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... -
Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England by Callan Davies
RRP: $243.75$211.11This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson by Penny Fielding
RRP: $46.78$42.61This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and generic diversity and his geographical range. The chapters... -
How to do Shakespeare by Adrian Noble
RRP: $68.23$60.16'Adrian Noble vigorously highlights the extraordinary rhythmic, linguistic patterns Shakespeare gives the speaker. Any actor will find this book invaluable. For any student of Shakespeare it should be essential.' (From the Foreword by Ralph Fiennes)'How... -
In Search of Russian Modernism by Leonid Livak 9781421426419
RRP: $92.63$82.62A critical reexamination of Russian modernist cultural historiography.Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures by the Modern Language AssociationThe writing and teaching of Russian literary and...