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All Booked Up: A Reading Retrospective by Susan Elkin 9781916668416
RRP: $19.48$13.86Reflecting on seventy years of voracious reading, All Booked Up invites you to reflect on the transformative power of literature on a life through fifteen captivating chapters, each focusing on a different book. Opening with Five Go Off In A Caravan,... -
Irish Women Poets Rediscovered: Readings in poetry from the eighteenth-twentieth century by Maria Johnston 9781782054795
RRP: $68.25$56.20Irish Women Poets Rediscovered is a ground-breaking collection of original essays which brings to new recognition the lives and work of seventeen remarkable Irish women poets spanning the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Its unique format combines... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.61The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the... -
The Death of Camus by Giovanni Catelli 9781787383869
RRP: $29.23$26.60In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of... -
Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England: The Dark Arts of Projectors by Valerie Hamilton
RRP: $23.38$19.79This little book tells the truthful story of how the Bank of England actually came into being. It is a story of pirates, treasure, random good fortune and sheer determination. This is an institution founded on risk, daring and imagination. The tale is... -
The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes by C. S. Lewis
$23.30The revered teacher and best-selling author reflects on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to reading books in this delightful collection drawn from his wide body of writings. More than fifty years after his death, revered... -
Roman de Brut by Wace 9780192871268
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to... -
Romanticism by David Stevens 9780521753722
RRP: $17.06$15.64Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Romanticism offers guidance through the diversity of uses and meanings of the word 'romantic', not in terms of fixed definitions or essential qualifying characteristics, but rather in... -
Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James by S. T. Joshi 9780977173488
RRP: $48.75$42.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977173488Author S. T. JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 457gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.61The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman by Gregory Castle 9780813061351
$60.98The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to forming and... -
A Dictionary of Narratology by Gerald Prince
RRP: $46.78$40.64History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns,... -
What Happens in Hamlet by J. Dover Wilson
RRP: $60.43$45.96John Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has been widely translated. Hamlet has excited more curiosity and aroused more... -
Prophecies of the Brahan Seer by Alexander Mackenzie 9781852171360
RRP: $15.58$8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852171360Author Alexander MackenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
John Donne by John Donne
RRP: $17.53$11.86John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in... -
The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: Choosing Tough Words by Angelica Michelis 9780719063015
RRP: $38.98$34.75The first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy's poetry is both respected by academics, and widely read and enjoyed by both children and adults. Approaches Duffy's work from a variety of literary theoretical... -
Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Abel
RRP: $44.85$43.15"A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of... -
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: $23.38$16.44Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath... -
Murder Trials by Cicero
RRP: $29.23$21.35Cicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan F. S. Post
RRP: $17.53$12.58Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase... -
The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth by Stephen Gill
RRP: $50.68$42.88The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a... -
Balkan Essays by Chris Agee 9780993553202
RRP: $48.75$41.50Collection of essays by Hubert Butler, edited by Chris Agee and Jacob Agee, published by The Irish Pages PressBook InformationISBN 9780993553202Author Chris AgeeFormat HardbackImprint IRISH PAGESPublisher IRISH PAGES -
Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo by Padraig Belton 9781912284634
RRP: $12.68$11.91Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as "evolving" from... -
Joseph Andrews with Shamela and Related Writings by Henry Fielding 9780393955552
$36.64An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) as well as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men, selections from The Champion, and the Preface to The... -
Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters by John Keats
RRP: $19.48$13.86WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPIONJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most... -
Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction: The Silvicultural Novel by Anna Burton 9780367747916
RRP: $77.98$68.37This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of... -
The Comics Journal Library Volume 10: The EC Artists Part 2 by Gary Groth
RRP: $68.23$43.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999455Author Michael DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Dickens on America & the Americans by Michael Slater 9781911454854
RRP: $97.50$97.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454854Author Michael SlaterFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations by Kenneth Worthy
RRP: $74.08$65.09Carolyn Merchant's foundational 1980 book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution established her as a pioneering researcher of human-nature relations. Her subsequent groundbreaking writing in a dozen books and over one hundred... -
Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time by Francois Hartog
RRP: $42.90$33.85Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts,... -
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz 9780385499095
RRP: $25.33$17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and Nobel Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780385499095Author Naguib MahfouzFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bantam... -
Tree by Matthew Battles
RRP: $19.48$14.96Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower... -
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin
RRP: $35.08$17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470232Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books... -
The January Children by Safia Elhillo 9780803295988
RRP: $25.33$22.95Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets 2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry "A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems."-Publishers WeeklyIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan... -
As You Like It by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $15.58$13.96From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's journey into the Forest of Arden. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of As You Like It in performance,... -
Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference by John Gillies 9780521458535
RRP: $77.98$64.86In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and... -
Understanding Children's Literature by Peter Hunt
RRP: $74.08$65.09Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children's literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline.The fourteen chapters draw on insights from... -
On the Gods and the World: Orpheus and the Presocratics in the Derveni Papyrus by Vojtěch Hladký 9780192873156
RRP: $210.60$190.38The Derveni papyrus is a multi-layered and intricate philosophical and religious treatise written in Greek, probably just before 400 BCE. Since its discovery in 1962, the papyrus has attracted the attention of scholars in several areas of Classical... -
Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition by Philip Nel
RRP: $44.83$39.80Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated edition Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children's literature and culture. Mapping this... -
Trench Coat by Professor Jane Tynan
RRP: $19.48$14.96Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We think we know the trench coat, but where does it come from and where will it take us? From its origins in the trenches of WW1, this military...