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Alchemy: Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction by Joanna Kavenna 9781910749166
RRP: $31.48$29.06Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the 'real life' story. Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying 'fact... -
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books Martin Edwards 9780712356961
RRP: $52.50$35.76The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour, and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to... -
A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9789353420710
RRP: $16.80$15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353420710Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 4mm -
The Enigma of Gogol: An Examination of the Writings of N. V. Gogol and their Place in the Russian Literary Tradition by Richard Peace 9780521110235
RRP: $79.78$67.79Gogol's place in Russian literature is unique. He is Russia's classic comic writer, yet the phrase 'laughter through tears', which has been applied to him, hints at darker and more tragic overtones. One of the most idiosyncratic of writers, his influence... -
Priestley'S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture by John Baxendale 9780719072871
RRP: $41.98$30.49Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century... -
Kebra Nagast (the Glory Of Kings): The True Ark of the Covenant by Miguel F. Brooks 9781569020333
RRP: $46.10$31.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569020333Author Miguel F BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 338g -
The Classic FM Musical Treasury: A Curious Collection of New Meanings for Old Words by Tim Lihoreau 9781783962563
RRP: $27.28$18.82There are all sorts of people, events and sounds that exist in the musical world for which there are no words. We have been sadly bereft of a satisfactory way to describe the contortion of a singer's mouth when reaching for the high notes; the audience... -
Pansy by Andrea Gibson 9781938912986
RRP: $31.50$24.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912986Author Andrea GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams)... -
A Glossary of Literary Terms by Geoffrey Galt Harpham 9781285465067
$104.27First published over fifty years ago, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS remains an essential resource for all serious students of literature. Now fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship on recent and rapidly evolving critical theories, the new... -
The Analects of Confucius (Lun Yu) by Confucius 9780195112764
RRP: $31.48$24.00In the long river of human history, if one person can represent the civilization of a whole nation, it is perhaps Master Kong, better known as Confucius in the West. If there is one single book that can be upheld as the common code of a whole people, it... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393417937
$18.40The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home... -
Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books by Edward Abel Smith 9781526791986
RRP: $31.48$23.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
So You Think You Know Jane Austen?: A Literary Quizbook by John Sutherland
RRP: $14.68$11.13How well do you really know your favourite author? Ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre Le Faye challenge the reader to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test how well you remember a novel... -
The Homeric Hymns by Apostolos N. Athanassakis
RRP: $47.25$42.50The best-selling, essential, and straightforward translation of the Homeric Hymns, accompanied by an expanded introduction and updated expert notes.A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric Hymns are also fine poetry... -
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells 9781108707633
RRP: $48.28$41.08The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of Atwood's writing in multiple genres that has spanned six... -
Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd by Jane Austen 9781909572218
RRP: $20.98$16.32Sanditon is Jane Austen's last novel, unfinished when she died in 1817. A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wrote as a teenager and in private throughout her life. In her ground-breaking essay, Todd contextualizes Austen's... -
Virgil's "Aeneid" by Robert Deryck Williams 9780862920449
RRP: $41.98$39.98The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long unavailable, sets the Aeneid in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil... -
Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp 9781783527083
RRP: $52.50$36.65This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century,... -
Moving Voices: Black Performance Poetry Asher Hoyles 9781870518642
RRP: $33.60$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518642Author Asher HoylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 401g -
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition by Mark Twain 9780520267190
RRP: $79.80$66.38Autobiography of Mark Twain READER'S EDITION Now Available! Half the Size, All the Twain! ISBN 978052027255 "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have... -
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan 9781787384705
RRP: $42.00$38.87A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary... -
The Perils of the One by Stathis Gourgouris
RRP: $63.00$48.91From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler, a transcendental... -
The History of Music Production by Richard James Burgess 9780199357178
RRP: $76.63$49.98Richard James Burgess draws on his experience as a producer, a musician, and an author in this history of recorded music, which focuses on the development of music production as both art form and profession. This comprehensive narrative begins in 1860... -
The Emigrants by Mr George Lamming
$36.48The Emigrants is an elaborately conceived novel, dense with dynamic characters and evocative details. First published in 1954, it focuses initially on the emigrant journey, then on the settling-in process. The journey by sea and subsequent attempts at... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268102661
RRP: $48.28$42.86To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic work March 1917, Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel. The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's... -
From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic by Mary R. Bachvarova
RRP: $109.18$59.64This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, the... -
Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England by Zachary McLeod Hutchins 9780199998142
RRP: $193.20$171.00As Christopher Columbus surveyed lush New World landscapes, he eventually concluded that he had rediscovered the biblical garden from which God expelled Adam and Eve. Reading the paradisiacal rhetoric of Columbus, John Smith, and other explorers, English... -
So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein by Jeff Solomon 9780816696826
RRP: $44.08$39.19Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and... -
Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England by C. Fox 9780230617049
RRP: $94.48$94.44Elizabethan English culture is saturated with tales and figures from Ovid s Metamorphoses. While most of these narratives interrogate metamorphosis and transformation, many tales - such as those of Philomela, Hecuba, or Orpheus - also highlight... -
Conversations with John Banville by Earl G. Ingersoll 9781496828767
$60.35John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and although he ultimately decided he lacked the talent for... -
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History by New York Times
RRP: $88.20$60.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593234617Author New York TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Selected Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
RRP: $18.88$13.97'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical,... -
From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature Richard Ruland 9781138642065
RRP: $39.88$36.88Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the... -
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780199753635
RRP: $26.23$19.40Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go... -
A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry by Naomi Foyle 9780995767539
RRP: $20.98$15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995767539Author Naomi FoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
Letters to Wilfred B. Talman and Helen V. and Genevieve Sully by H P Lovecraft 9781614982562
RRP: $63.00$57.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982562Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192865809
RRP: $14.68$11.13'We that are true lovers run into strange capers.' Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It's capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to the play,... -
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist Chris Paling 9781472134882
RRP: $20.98$14.70'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus GBP300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope... -
English Literature for the IB Diploma Carolyn P. Henly 9781510467132
$108.05Developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (R)Everything you need to deliver a rich, concept-based approach for the new IB Diploma English Literature course. - Navigate seamlessly through all aspects of the syllabus with in-depth... -
Horace: Odes II: Vatis Amici by Horace 9780198721635
RRP: $138.60$117.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.