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Horace: Odes II: Vatis Amici by Horace 9780198721635
RRP: €78.54€66.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Pensive Citadel by Victor Brombert 9780226828664
RRP: €23.80€20.21A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor. In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the... -
Praise of Folly by Erasmus 9781420961812
RRP: €8.32€8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420961812Author ErasmusFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm -
The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English by Adrian Hunter 9780521681124
RRP: €27.36€23.28The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story, this book examines the development of the short story in Britain and other English-language... -
Further Requirements by Philip Larkin
RRP: €17.84€11.66Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of... -
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 9780231176293
RRP: €26.18€20.66First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual... -
Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill
RRP: €23.79€23.07From "the man on whom nothing was lost," a unique guide to the elements of statecraft, presented through spirited interpretations of classic literary works "The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm," writes Charles... -
A Guide through Finnegans Wake by E.L. Epstein 9780813035345
RRP: €35.64€27.86Written in a complex, pun-based idiogloss and boasting a dreamlike narrative that defies conventions of plot and continuity, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake has been challenging readers since its first publication in 1939. The novel is so famously difficult... -
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.83The ethics of a statesman.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 a... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: €26.18€19.93An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry... -
The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology by Shirley Kaufman 9780952942641
RRP: €15.46€14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952942641Author Shirley KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Loki Books LtdPublisher Loki Books Ltd -
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: €35.64€28.63After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of... -
Creative Criticism: An Anthology and Guide by Stephen Benson
RRP: €34.50€27.82This is the first anthology and guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing. 'We murder to dissect' writes Wordsworth. It's a sentiment shared by many lovers of literature and art, as well as by artists and writers themselves. Too often... -
Oedipus the King/Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
RRP: €10.70€9.51Since it was first performed in Athens in the 420s BC, Oedipus the King has been widely regarded as Sophocles' greatest tragedy and one of the foundation stones of western drama. Taken as a model by Aristotle in his Poetics, it became a yardstick for... -
Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women's Romance Fiction by Kay Mussell 9780313239151
€99.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313239151Author Kay MussellFormat HardbackPage Count 217Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Shakespeare: A Beginner's Guide by Professor Ros King
RRP: €11.89€8.98Whether the fault of tedious teachers or hammy actors, Shakespeare is often seen as dry and impenetrable. In this fast-paced introduction, Ros King sets out to remind us of the sheer beauty and sophistication that can make Shakespeare's works a joy for... -
Heimskringla III. Magnus Olafsson to Magnus Erlingsson: Volume III by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521932
RRP: €14.28€13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521932Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled?: and another Twenty-Five Mysteries of Children's Literature by Dennis Butts 9780718895440
RRP: €26.78€20.73After the success of How Did Long John Silver Lose His Leg?, Dennis Butts and Peter Hunt take their forensic lenses to more mysteries that have troubled readers of children's books over the centuries. Their questions range from the historical to the... -
The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Mediaeval Welsh Literature by Rachel Bromwich 9780708313077
RRP: €41.64€32.21Little, if anything, is known historically of Arthur, yet for centuries the romances of Arthur and his court dominated the imaginative literature of Europe in many languages. The roots of this vast flowering of the Arthurian legend are to be found in... -
The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture by Eliezer Schweid 9781936235094
RRP: €24.98€21.12The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of 'Jewish culture'. This book is the first synoptic view of these developments that organises and relates them from this vantage... -
The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock by Jonathan Freedman 9781107514881
RRP: €35.69€31.45Alfred Hitchcock was, despite his English origins and early career, an American master. Arriving on US shores in 1939, for the next three decades he created a series of masterpieces that redefined the nature and possibilities of cinema itself: Rebecca,... -
Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night by Sukhdev Sandhu
€20.08Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Britain's capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as an evening in any new provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to... -
W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats 9780571222964
RRP: €10.70€7.24In 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... -
Maeve Brennan: Wit, Style and Tragedy: An Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke
RRP: €15.46€10.82Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was moulded by the cultural ideologies of nationalism and lit by the creative energy of the Abbey and Gate theatres. She was seventeen when her father was... -
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter 9781780748702
RRP: €15.46€10.82Longlisted 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... -
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9780393966350
€15.86It is fully annotated for undergraduate readers. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a rich selection of materials, some previously unavailable, for the study of contemporary psychological, social, and economic issues, as well as Wharton's private... -
Beginning Realism by Steven Earnshaw
RRP: €13.08€11.59Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as 'too slippery' to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students... -
Four-Legged Girl: Poems by Diane Seuss 9781555977221
RRP: €20.23€11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977221Author Diane SeussFormat PaperbackImprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 136g -
Critical Perspectives on Max Porter by David Rudrum 9781032662367
RRP: €160.65€139.56Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century. His striking books straddle the divide between poetry and prose as deftly as they combine literary experimentation with mainstream success. This book is the first study... -
Shakespeare and Queer Representation by Stephen Guy-Bray
RRP: €23.79€21.05In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare's works representation itself becomes queer.Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as... -
The Life of Slang by Julie Coleman 9780199679171
RRP: €15.46€11.44This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of slang in English-speaking nations around the world. The records of the Old Bailey and... -
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai
RRP: €38.02€33.32A Literary Hub Favorite Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the YearA provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism.Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found... -
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing by Robert Clarke
RRP: €27.36€23.28The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial... -
The Sound of Poetry / the Poetry of Sound by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: €33.32€32.59Sound - one of the central elements of poetry - finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental... -
Satires by Horace
RRP: €29.69€27.83Artful hexameters.Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 BC) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the... -
Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts by Laura Swift
RRP: €20.22€18.11The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main... -
Who's Who in Dickens by Professor Donald Hawes
RRP: €23.79€21.05Who's Who in Dickens is an accessible guide to the many characters in Charles Dickens' fiction. Dickens' characters are strikingly portrayed and have become a vital part of our cultural heritage - Scrooge has become a by-word for stinginess, Uriah Heep... -
Marcus Aurelius in Love by Marcus Aurelius 9780226378114
RRP: €27.37€26.33In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered-the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had... -
The Ethics of Life Writing by Paul John Eakin 9780801488337
RRP: €29.74€25.79A pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us... -
An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England by Bruce Mitchell 9780631174363
RRP: €46.35€42.17In the six centuries before the Norman Conquest, the Anglo--Saxons set their mark on England: the origins of much that is distinctive in modern English culture may be found in the period, most notably the English language itself. This outstanding book is...