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Annoying the Victorians by James R. Kincaid
RRP: $52.48$45.80What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self... -
The Dragon Has Two Tongues by Glyn Jones 9780708316931
RRP: $35.68$27.49The classic study of the English-language writing of Wales in the first half of the twentieth century by Glyn Jones, drawing on his personal acquaintance with writers like Dylan Thomas, Idris Davies and Caradoc Evans. Tony Brown had the opportunity to... -
Spenser's Irish Work: Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation Thomas Herron 9780754656029
RRP: $283.50$246.29Exploring Edmund Spenser's writings within the historical and aesthetic context of colonial agricultural reform in Ireland, his adopted home, this study demonstrates how Irish events and influences operate in far more of Spenser's work than previously... -
Dust by Michael Marder
RRP: $20.98$16.57Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking... -
The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation by David Crystal
RRP: $60.88$44.69This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio, transcribed... -
Study Guide to The Divine Comedy by Dante by Intelligent Education 9781645420743
RRP: $33.58$26.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645420743Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present Tison Pugh 9780415617277
RRP: $75.58$66.55From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide... -
Selected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay 9780856359590
RRP: $31.48$22.62A magnificent anthology of the finest works of Edna St. Vincent Millay, perhaps the premier American lyricist of the twentieth century. --This text refers to an alternate paperback edition.Book InformationISBN 9780856359590Author Edna St. Vincent... -
Aesthetic Ideology by Paul De Man 9780816622047
RRP: $41.98$37.40An important reconsideration of ideology by one of this century's most eminent theorists.This long-awaited volume by one of the major figures of twentieth-century thought represents perhaps the most provocative, serious, and important rethinking of... -
Tip of the Tongue: Reflections on Language and Meaning by Peter Brook
RRP: $23.08$17.12A thoughtful and deeply personal book by a master theatre-maker. In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English, and the many levels on which we... -
Wagner and Russia by Rosamund Bartlett 9780521035828
RRP: $92.38$80.09Wagner is often held to have exerted a greater impact on modern culture than any other artist, yet the history of the reception of his works in Russia has remained largely unexplored. This book, which draws extensively on unpublished archival materials... -
Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin by Pierre Assouline
RRP: $29.38$22.76One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Translated into dozens of languages, Tintin's adventures have sold millions of copies. Yet, despite Tintin's enduring popularity, Americans know almost... -
Ethics, Politics and Justice in Dante by Giulia Gaimari 9781787352292
RRP: $73.50$65.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352292Author Giulia GaimariFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 450g -
The Statesman by Plato
RRP: $52.40$49.90On politics, pleasure, and poetry.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is... -
One Good Turn: a Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski 9780684867304
RRP: $29.40$20.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684867304Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 140gDimensions(mm) 190mm *... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dante by Rachel Jacoff
RRP: $56.68$47.88This 2007 second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante is designed to provide an accessible introduction to Dante for students, teachers and general readers. The volume was fully updated and includes three new essays on Dante's works. The... -
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays by Eric Rasmussen 9781137271440
RRP: $84.00$83.08Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of the fascinatingly varied body of plays that has become known as 'The Shakespeare Apocrypha'. As a companion to their award-winning The RSC... -
Catullus: Selected Poems by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9780300275292
RRP: $42.00$40.74A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus... -
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
RRP: $79.78$70.10What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns... -
A Gay Guy's Guide to Life Love Food: Outrageously Delicious Recipes (Plus Stories and Dating Advice) from a Food-Obsessed Gay by Khanh Ong 9781760788872
RRP: $31.48$24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760788872Author Khanh OngFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PlumPublisher Pan Macmillan AustraliaWeight(grams) 745gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 192mm * 20mm -
The Medieval Imagination by Jacques Le Goff 9780226470856
RRP: $58.80$57.52To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval men and women by analyzing the images of man as microcosm and the Church as mystical body; the symbols of power such as flags and oriflammes; and the... -
Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 Jon Cook (University of East Anglia) 9780631225546
RRP: $79.70$72.70Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 brings together key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry. Helps readers to think critically about the nature of modern poetry, and to engage... -
Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case by Batya Gur 9780060926540
RRP: $35.68$24.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926540Author Batya GurFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville by Stephen A. Barney 9780521145916
RRP: $98.68$82.19This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560-636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains... -
Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum 9780393327519
RRP: $56.70$48.13To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees:... -
Emile Zola: A Very Short Introduction by Brian Nelson 9780198837565
RRP: $18.88$13.97Emile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways... -
Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children's Literature by Danielle Russell 9781496841186
$70.83Contributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Rivera, Wendy Rountree, Danielle Russell, Anah-Jayne Samuelson, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Andrew Trevarrow, and Richardine Woodall Home... -
Chuang Tzu by David Hinton
RRP: $31.48$18.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book by Kelly Anton 9780137967445
RRP: $102.88$76.38Learn graphic design using Adobe InDesign Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the... -
We Own the Forests and Other Poems by Hans Borli
RRP: $29.30$24.70Hans Borli (1918-89) was born and lived in the wooded country of Hedmark in south eastern Norway. His days seem to have been divided into two separate parts: by day, he lived the physically demanding life of a lumberjack, but by night, he turned poet and... -
The Arthurian Revival: Essays on Form, Tradition, and Transformation by Debra N. Mancoff
$202.86Discrete inquiries into 15 forms of the Arthurian legends produced over the last century explore how they have altered the tradition. They consider works from the US and Europe, and those aimed at popular and elite audiences. The overall conclusion is... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume III: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: $52.40$49.90A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
The Sexual World of the Arabian Nights by David Ghanim
RRP: $41.98$36.56From the stories of wives and their lovers to those of kings and their conquests, to the overarching story of Shahrazad and Shahryar, the tales of the Arabian Nights have offered countless audiences entertainment and enjoyment as well as serving as... -
Schrader on Schrader by Paul Schrader
RRP: $39.88$28.31Schrader on Schrader is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most genuinely fascinating and uncompromising writer-directors in American film.Raised as a Calvinist and hence forbidden to partake of 'worldly pleasures' such as movies, Paul... -
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton by Millicent Bell 9780521485135
RRP: $69.28$59.60The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable... -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
RRP: $23.08$20.29This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The... -
F.M.R.L. - Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound Daniela Cascella 9781782798170
RRP: $20.98$18.52Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and 'deranged essays', with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691144733
RRP: $42.00$33.87When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no... -
Concerning E.M. Forster by Frank Kermode 9780753823361
$24.49A major reassessment of the one of the greatest English novelist of the twentieth century, from celebrated critic Sir Frank Kermode. CONCERNING E.M. FORSTER is a rich, varied and original portrait of a literary great. When Sir Frank Kermode delivered the... -
What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why) by Susan Allen Ford 9781350416710
RRP: $37.78$31.96The first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today. Jane Austen was a...