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Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod
RRP: $10.31$7.71Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the... -
Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking ancient innovation to solve tomorrow's challenges by Sam Tatam 9780857197870
RRP: $19.34$13.20When faced with new challenges, it's easy to feel our solutions need to be equally unprecedented. We think we need a revolution. But what if this is a big mistake? In Evolutionary Ideas, Sam Tatam shows how behavioural science and evolutionary... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780140446364
RRP: $12.89$9.44One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that... -
The Watkins Book of English Folktales Neil Philip 9781786787095
RRP: $19.34$12.77This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art - when the audience believed in... -
Richard II by Eric Rasmussen
$12.62From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's tragic history of a ruler losing his grip on power. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Richard II in... -
Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust
RRP: $12.89$9.44'the glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal' The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and political decline of the Republic, and in his two monographs... -
The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar 9780393602975
$25.80This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types, including multicultural versions and literary rescriptings. Along with the introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar are twenty-four critical essays exploring the various aspects of... -
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch
RRP: $64.49$48.52The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature -... -
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
RRP: $14.18$9.73No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: 'I, too, dislike it,' wrote Marianne Moore. 'Many more people agree they hate poetry,' Ben Lerner writes, 'than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely... -
Structuralism and Semiotics by Terence Hawkes 9780415321532
RRP: $38.69$34.37Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since then a generation of readers has used the book as an... -
Shakespeare and the Book Trade by Lukas Erne 9780521765664
RRP: $116.10$91.07Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare's printed plays and poems in his own time and to argue that... -
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time by A. S. Byatt
RRP: $14.18$10.31Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A. S. Byatt brings... -
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collins Classics) by George Orwell 9780008442613
RRP: $10.31$5.81The international bestselling classic from the author of Animal Farm. Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother,... -
The Quotation Bank: Frankenstein GCSE Revision and Study Guide for English Literature 9-1 by The Quotation Bank 9781999981648
RRP: $7.68$6.79Focusing on the core assessment objectives for GCSE English Literature 9-1, The Quotation Bank takes 25 of the most important quotations from the text and provides detailed material for each quotation, covering interpretations, literary techniques and... -
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: $14.18$10.31Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it... -
The Moon Almanac: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Lunar Year by Judith Hurrell 9781787839915
RRP: $12.89$9.03When can you spot the Hunter's Moon, a Smiling Moon or a Pink Moon? How can the phases of the moon help your garden grow? What influence does the moon have on hamsters, coral and skylarks? Navigate the rhythms of the night sky with this... -
Who Was William Shakespeare?: An Introduction to the Life and Works by Dympna Callaghan
RRP: $32.19$28.10A new study of Shakespeare s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. * Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular audiences *... -
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
RRP: $14.18$10.31Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear and... -
Darkness Visible by William Styron
RRP: $12.89$9.44This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound insight and remarkable candor, Styron tracks the progress... -
Wolf Hall Companion Lauren Mackay 9781911358619
RRP: $19.34$12.26An accessible and authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, published after the third and final book, The Mirror and the Light. Wolf Hall Companion gives an historian's view of what we know about Thomas Cromwell, one... -
George Herbert by George Herbert
RRP: $5.15$4.02In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
What Is Poetry?: The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems Michael Rosen 9781844287635
RRP: $9.02$6.67A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the country's leading children's poets.Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes... -
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780199552580
RRP: $14.18$10.31'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'... -
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
RRP: $23.21$15.87This is one of the wisest books I've read in years...--New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of... -
The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
RRP: $14.18$9.73'Anyone who reads or ever read children's books - read this. It's a joy.' Irish Times 'Exhilarating.' New York Times Book Review 'Sublime.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times ** An Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian and Irish Times Book of... -
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
RRP: $12.89$8.90Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a... -
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Jackson Crawford 9781624663567
RRP: $23.21$19.52"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge... -
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: $11.60$9.34The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose... -
The Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katharine M. Briggs
RRP: $19.34$17.52Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds, to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author, Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and... -
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books Clare Pollard 9780241354797
RRP: $14.18$10.31What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits explores the stories behind our favourite picture books, weaving in tales of... -
Power: A Reader by Mark Haugaard 9780719057298
RRP: $25.79$23.87An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes and Bourdieu alongside recent conceptions of power... -
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: $6.44$4.66With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran.Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this... -
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 9780199536450
RRP: $9.02$6.84The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli'... -
The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set by Homer 9780520306653
RRP: $54.18$45.72A stunning set of Homer's epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar. Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green's landmark translations of Homer's timeless epics are now available for the first time in this striking and... -
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
RRP: $14.18$10.31'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and... -
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever Christopher Hitchens 9780306816086
RRP: $23.21$13.85Christopher Hitchens's personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwanFrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is... -
The Complete Poems by William Blake
RRP: $21.92$16.36One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as... -
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert
RRP: $21.92$21.49"A feminist classic."-Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review"A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."-Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued... -
An Extra Mile Study Guide by Sharon Garlough Brown 9780830846566
$10.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830846566Author Sharon Garlough BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)... -
A Book of Middle English by Thorlac Turville–Petre
RRP: $48.96$43.89The fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation,...