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Jacob's Room by Virgina Woolf 9780192857392
RRP: €9.51€6.89'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.' Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows... -
Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature by Abigail Williams 9780691170688
RRP: €35.70€28.19How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation-and how this still shapes the way we readReading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about:... -
Works: v. 1: The Life AND Against Apion by Flavius Josephus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.64Three late dialogues.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 rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in... -
Endymion: John Lyly by David Bevington 9780719030918
RRP: €17.84€16.23Full and comprehensive commentary. Solid and scholarly introduction. A welcome edition to this renouned series .About the AuthorDavid Bevington is Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of ChicagoBook InformationISBN... -
After the Fall by Arthur Miller
RRP: €11.89€8.46Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of his past relationships. One of these an ill-fated marriage to the charming and beautiful Maggie, who went from operating a... -
Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop
RRP: €17.84€14.22This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings-the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams-novelist, poet,... -
Thoroughly Mischievous Person PB: The Other Arthur Ransome by Alan Kennedy
RRP: €27.97€21.23First published in 1930, Swallows and Amazons secured Arthur Ransome's reputation as one of the most influential children's authors of all time, yet prior to writing fiction he had had a turbulent career as a journalist and war correspondent in... -
Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology by Steven D. Carter 9780804722124
RRP: €59.50€47.49This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of... -
Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness by Jason Whittaker 9780192845870
RRP: €34.50€29.06The stanzas beginning, 'And did those feet' are among the most famous works written by the Romantic poet and artist, William Blake. Set to music by Hubert Parry in 1916 and renamed, 'Jerusalem', this hymn has become an emblem of Englishness in the past... -
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai 9780231139410
RRP: €45.22€36.90In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,... -
A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire by J. C. McKeown 9780195393750
RRP: €17.84€13.72The ancient Romans have left us far more information about themselves than has any other Western society until much more recent times. But what we know about them is sometimes bizarre, and hardly fits the conventional view of the Romans as a pragmatic... -
A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess by Paul Phillips 9780719072055
RRP: €35.70€32.94A Clockwork Counterpoint is the first book to examine the musical side of Anthony Burgess, an astonishingly prolific, underrated and talented composer, revealing how his lifelong involvement in music is an essential key toward understanding his life and... -
Henry James: A Very Short Introduction by Susan L. Mizruchi
RRP: €10.70€7.68An elegant introduction to one of America's most complex and influential writers. From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals through his mature life as a major American man of letters, Henry James (1843-1916) created a unique... -
Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution by Margaret Cohen
RRP: €32.13€25.06Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist... -
The Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9780674676220
RRP: €135.60€110.85Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in... -
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country by Michael Davis 9780367887865
RRP: €47.59€41.72In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years by A. David Moody
RRP: €26.76€23.13The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound weaves together the illuminating story of his life, his achievements as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice. The... -
The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr by Jack Parlett
RRP: €24.98€21.86A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets The Poetics of Cruising explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of leading poets, from Walt Whitman in the nineteenth century... -
C.S. Lewis: Letters to Children by C. S. Lewis 9780684823720
RRP: €20.22€12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684823720Author C. S. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 123g -
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
€35.78The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their... -
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein by Andrew Smith
RRP: €28.55€22.66The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly... -
The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
RRP: €14.27€10.63Attempts to find the person (if any) behind the legend of King Arthur have been going on for a long time. The search has revealed many interesting facts and it has also led to sharp disagreements. By the 1980s, the search was more or less abandoned,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment by Timothy Clark
RRP: €27.36€23.28The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a... -
Post-Colonial Transformation by Bill Ashcroft
RRP: €45.21€39.72In his new book, Bill Ashcroft gives us a revolutionary view of the ways in which post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control.The most comprehensive analysis of major features of post-colonial studies ever compiled, Post-Colonial... -
Performing Shakespeare: Preparation, Rehearsal, Performance by Oliver Ford Davies
RRP: €15.46€11.02An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors and drama students... -
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis by Alan Jacobs
RRP: €32.71€22.94By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations... -
New Hampshire by Robert Frost
RRP: €11.89€8.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525565345Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm)... -
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents by Thomas K. Hubbard
RRP: €42.84€34.38The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period - from the earliest Greek... -
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by John J. L. Mood
RRP: €14.27€10.77Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections... -
The Dragon Has Two Tongues by Glyn Jones 9780708316931
RRP: €20.22€15.58The 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... -
The Collected Peter Pan by Sir J. M. Barrie 9780198878384
RRP: €9.51€6.89'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of... -
Spenser's Irish Work: Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation by Thomas Herron
RRP: €160.65€139.56Exploring 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: €11.89€11.13Object 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... -
Classical Literature: An Introduction by Neil Croally 9780415468138
RRP: €47.59€42.20Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter provides information on important general topics, such as... -
Study Guide to The Divine Comedy by Dante by Intelligent Education 9781645420743
RRP: €19.03€14.36Apologies 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 by Tison Pugh
RRP: €42.83€37.71From 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... -
Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 by Stephen Regan 9780199549825
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. Yeats This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the... -
Animal Farm: Special Illustrated Edition: 2021 by George Orwell 9780956136152
€12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956136152Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Muddler BooksPublisher Muddler BooksWeight(grams) 156g -
Magic(al) Realism by Maggie Ann Bowers 9780415268547
RRP: €30.93€26.93Bestselling 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...