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Sidetracks by Richard Holmes 9780007204540
RRP: $27.28$20.92In this classic work, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical stories that have captured his fancy in the course of researching his books on the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir. ‘Sidetracks' is a sister... -
Shakespeare s Asian Journeys: Critical Encounters, Cultural Geographies, and the Politics of Travel by Bi-qi Beatrice Lei
RRP: $83.98$73.63This volume gives Asia's Shakespeares the critical, theoretical, and political space they demand, offering rich, alternative ways of thinking about Asia, Shakespeare, and Asian Shakespeare based on Asian experiences and histories. Challenging and... -
In a Dark Wood: A Memoir of Grief, Healing and the Mysteries of Love by Joseph Luzzi 9780008100667
RRP: $23.08$17.89A story of love and grief. `I became a widower and a father on the same day' says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante's `The Divine Comedy' helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love. On a cold November morning,... -
All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics by Douglas Wolk
RRP: $42.00$28.33Winner 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' ... -
Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics by Philip Slayton
RRP: $31.48$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823107Author Philip SlaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World by George Prochnik 9781783781164
RRP: $20.98$14.49By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig, born to an affluent Jewish family in Vienna, had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies became instant bestsellers, and his cultural patronage, his generosity,... -
Modern Times: Selected Non-fiction by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $31.48$23.33MODERN TIMES brings together an extraordinary collection of Sartrean gems, many of which have never been translated into English before. From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, the volume contains an... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance by Wyatt Michael 9780521699464
RRP: $65.08$44.81The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn... -
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller 9780811203227
$25.28One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others... -
An Introduction to Children's Literature by Peter Hunt 9780192892430
RRP: $107.10$89.82Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism by Susan J. Wolfson 9780804736626
RRP: $52.48$46.22Why care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism? The purpose of this book is to refresh today this care for criticism, applying a historically aware formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and... -
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities by Ursula K. Heise 9781032179292
RRP: $94.48$83.14The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future... -
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $18.88$13.97Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this... -
A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato's Ideal State Dr Stephen P. Kershaw 9781472136992
RRP: $27.28$18.54The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern imagination. But where did Atlantis come from, what was it like, and where did it go to?Atlantis was first... -
Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective Anne Whitehead 9781350192164
RRP: $31.48$28.69Writing against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and... -
Dionysus: Myth and Cult by Walter F. Otto
RRP: $33.58$29.90"This study of Dionysus . . . is also a new theogony of Early Greece." -Publishers Weekly"An original analysis . . . of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus." -Theology DigestA sensitive analysis of the spiritual significance... -
Tacitus Histories I: A Selection by Benedict Gravell
$40.87This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Histories Book I sections 4 (finis Neronis ...) to 7, 12-14, 17-23 and 26, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Histories Book I sections... -
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter 9781780748702
RRP: $27.28$19.61Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" first appeared, it immediately... -
Minor Attic Orators: v. 2: Dolycurgus - Dinarchus by J.O. Burtt
RRP: $52.40$49.90Four rhetoricians confronting Macedonian dominance.This volume collects the speeches of four orators involved in the ill-fated resistance of Athens to the power of Philip and Alexander the Great of Macedon.Lycurgus of Athens (ca. 396-325 BC) concentrated... -
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin
RRP: $27.28$19.61REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON 1Q84As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds - jazz, classical, folk,... -
A New Literary History of Modern China by David Der-Wei Wang
RRP: $79.70$67.94Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the world-a process of "worlding" that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A New Literary History of Modern China looks beyond... -
A writer's diary: Being extracts fromt he diary Virginia Woolf 9781903155882
RRP: $35.70$34.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155882Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
Making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Invention of Wonderland, The by Peter Hunt
RRP: $31.50$25.31'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' are two of the most famous, translated and quoted books in the world. But how did a casual tale told by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), an eccentric Oxford mathematician, to Alice... -
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels by Kenzaburo Oe 9780714530482
RRP: $20.98$17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714530482Author Kenzaburo OeFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Poor Tom: Living King Lear by Simon Palfrey
RRP: $65.10$63.40One of the most memorable and affecting Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. He has long been celebrated for his faithfulness in the face of his father's rejection, and the scene in which he saves his blinded father from suicide is regarded as... -
Dryden:Selected Poems by Paul Hammond 9781405835459
$94.29Dryden: Selected Poems is drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume The Poems of John Dryden, and includes a generous selection of his most important work. The great satires, MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel, are included... -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 9780393927924
$42.23Originally titled "The Saddest Story" and heralded by Graham Greene as "one of the finest novels of our century," Ford's 1915 tale of passion and deceit in the lives of two married couples is a modernist masterpiece. The Norton Critical Edition of The... -
The Seed Of Yggdrasill by Maria Kvilhaug 9781959350026
RRP: $126.00$88.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959350026Author Maria KvilhaugFormat PaperbackPage Count 646Imprint Three Little SistersPublisher Three Little SistersWeight(grams) 1102gDimensions(mm)... -
The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation by Louis Montrose
RRP: $63.00$62.27As a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of sixteenth-century patriarchal English society. Louis Montrose's long-awaited book, "The Subject of Elizabeth", illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her... -
Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life by Cynthia L. Haven
RRP: $39.88$27.15The first book about the Nobel Laureate's transformative but conflicted time in the Golden State."There is much to learn from this book about Milosz and California, yes, but also about poetry and the world."-Ilya KaminskyCzeslaw Milosz, one of the... -
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities Anne Whitehead 9781399508858
RRP: $88.20$71.61In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and... -
A History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk. 5-6 by Thucydides
RRP: $52.40$49.90Classic political realism.Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that ... -
A New Life Of Dante by Stephen Bemrose 9780859898454
RRP: $42.00$34.50This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. Dante is an intensely philosophical writer as well as a socio-political one,... -
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret by Deceased Jacques Derrida
RRP: $31.50$31.23The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by... -
Homer: A Beginner's Guide Elton T. E. Barker 9781780742298
RRP: $20.98$13.88Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and Helen of Troy. In this vivid introduction, Elton Barker and Joel... -
The Historical Novel by Jerome de Groot 9780415426626
RRP: $41.98$37.15The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible... -
Diablo: Book of Tyrael by Blizzard Entertainment 9781803368320
RRP: $58.78$35.22From Blizzard Entertainment, the makers of critically acclaimed games such as Warcraft (R), StarCraft (R), and Diablo (R) comes this exciting companion edition to Diablo III: Book of Cain, giving fans an in-depth look into the mind of Tyrael. One of... -
A Tale of Two Cities SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 59 SparkNotes 9781411469662
RRP: $12.58$9.58When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
Reception by Ika Willis
RRP: $41.98$37.72Reception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers, viewers, and audiences. Organized conceptually and thematically, this book provides a much-needed overview of the field, drawing on work in... -
The Authority of the State by Leslie Green 9780198273134
RRP: $163.80$126.74The modern state claims supreme authority over the lives of all its citizens. Drawing together political philosophy, jurisprudence, and public choice theory, this book forces the reader to reconsider some basic assumptions about the authority of the...