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Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: $62.90$51.30After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of... -
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: $52.50$37.23The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The Journey from the Trenches, the two bestselling volumes on Sassoon from his biographer and foremost scholar,... -
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $23.08$15.83'A wonderful read.' Irish Times'Sad, gripping and powerful.' Margaret Drabble'Superbly clear, intimate and evocative.' New York TimesFrom the former poet laureate, Andrew Motion, In the Blood is an unforgettable evocation of family, school and country... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings 9780198828747
RRP: $22.03$16.09'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord
RRP: $44.00$35.99First published in 1960, Albert B. Lord's The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of... -
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: $16.78$15.18The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard "Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to... -
Vanity Fair and the Celestial City: Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England 1720-1800 by Isabel Rivers 9780198269960
RRP: $273.00$249.04In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the... -
Comparative Mythology by Jaan Puhvel 9780801839382
RRP: $55.65$49.69In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he... -
Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide by David Norris
RRP: $18.88$14.07James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as "Ulysses," but David Norris explores his life and work in this engaging and... -
If Animals Could Talk by Carla Butwin
RRP: $27.28$18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621066118Author Carla ButwinFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
The Wild Track: adopting, mothering, belonging by Margaret Reynolds
RRP: $20.98$14.11'A remarkable book...wise and arresting' Sarah Winman'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.' Helena KennedySingle, in her mid-forties and having... -
Alice, Curiouser and Curiouser by Kate Bailey
RRP: $73.50$56.22Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a cultural phenomenon. First published in 1865, it has never been out of print and has been translated into 170 languages. But why does it have such enduring and universal appeal for both adults and children? ... -
The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place by Sally Bayley 9780008414221
RRP: $35.68$24.09From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers. In the style of her memoir Girl with Dove, this book explores a child’s search for artistic... -
Greek Unseen Translation Dr John Taylor 9781350336179
RRP: $39.88$36.04This is a useful collection of 130 passages from Greek authors, ideal for students from pre-GCSE to A Level. Part 1 contains ten passages for the new Intermediate Certificate and twenty at GCSE level. Part 2 contains thirty lightly adapted post-GCSE... -
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 9780521425063
$19.38Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Measure for Measure has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version of Measure for Measure aims to be different from other editions of the play. It... -
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife by Francine Prose 9780061430800
RRP: $23.08$20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061430800Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 199mm *... -
Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality by Professor Craig Dworkin
RRP: $54.60$52.19With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations,... -
The Oxford Book of Death by D. J. Enright
RRP: $25.18$18.19The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside... -
Home And Exile by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $20.98$14.49This trenchant and illuminating book by one of Africa's most influential and celebrated writers is a major statement on the importance and dangers of stories, one in which Achebe makes telling use of his personal experiences to examine the political... -
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature by Malcolm Godden 9780521154024
RRP: $62.98$48.83This Companion has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and to provide a clear and accessible introduction for those encountering Old English literature for the first time. Including seventeen essays by distinguished scholars,... -
Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human by Boria Sax
RRP: $46.20$34.17Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations - deserts, deep woods, remote islands, glaciers, ocean depths, mountain peaks, caves, swamps, heavenly bodies and alternate universes. Legends tell us that imaginary... -
Dante the Theologian by Denys Turner
RRP: $62.98$54.47An understanding of Dante the theologian as distinct from Dante the poet has been neglected in an appreciation of Dante's work as a whole. That is the starting-point of this vital new book. In giving theology fresh centrality, the author argues that... -
The Work of Revision by Hannah Sullivan 9780674073128
RRP: $77.60$65.56Revision might seem to be an intrinsic part of good writing. But Hannah Sullivan argues that we inherit our faith in the virtues of redrafting from early-twentieth-century modernism. Closely examining changes made in manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs... -
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393356977
RRP: $16.78$16.74World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche-and psychoses-of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in... -
James Joyce's Ulysses: Critical Essays by Clive Hart
RRP: $60.90$48.17This book contains eighteen original essays by leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen separate chapters of "Ulysses". It attempts to explore the richness of Joyce's extraordinary novel more fully than could be done by any single scholar. Joyce's habit of... -
Magic(al) Realism by Maggie Ann Bowers 9780415268547
RRP: $54.58$47.52Bestselling novels by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a multitude of others have enchanted us by blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Their genre of writing has been variously defined as 'magic', 'magical' or... -
A Study Guide for Tenessee Williams's Orpheus Descending by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375385923
RRP: $20.90$19.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375385923Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
Blake's London: the Topographic Sublime by Iain Sinclair 9780854481705
RRP: $18.80$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854481705Author Iain SinclairFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society -
In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender by Barbara Fass Leavy 9780814751008
RRP: $52.48$46.35In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York... -
Cymbeline: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $18.88$13.97This is the first full-scale edition of Cymbeline for 37 years. During that time, there has been considerable interest in Shakespeare's late work in the theatre, and several notable productions have demonstrated the powerful impact of Cymbeline. Based... -
The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England by Emma Smith 9780367879068
RRP: $83.98$73.63Engaging with histories of the book and of reading, as well as with studies of material culture, this volume explores 'popularity' in early modern English writings. Is 'popular' best described as a theoretical or an empirical category in this period?... -
No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt by Andreas Hoefele
RRP: $61.93$57.02No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era. In this sustained study, Andreas... -
Antigone Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK) 9781474269377
RRP: $29.38$26.90Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so... -
Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 by Eamon Duffy
RRP: $47.25$40.64Personal prayer books and the jottings in their margins tell us about their owners and about life in late medieval and Reformation England In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the Book of Hours, unquestionably the... -
Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent by Alfreda Murck
RRP: $62.90$51.79Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting... -
Charles Dickens and 'Boz': The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author by Professor Robert L. Patten 9781107470316
RRP: $90.28$82.36Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking... -
Shakespearean Rhetoric: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers by Benet Brandreth
RRP: $39.88$35.78Classical Rhetoric, the art of persuasion, formed the sum and substance of Shakespeare's education and was the basis of his understanding of the power of language and how it worked to move, delight and teach. Rhetoric, which seeks to explain the way... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes
RRP: $63.00$48.91Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of... -
Aeneid 3 by Virgil 9781585102273
RRP: $39.88$33.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102273Author VergilFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 313g -
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley
RRP: $41.98$37.40In this critical biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Katharine Conley reevaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was as famous among the surrealists for his independence of mind as for his elaborate...