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Document Forms for Official Orders of Appointment in the Mughal Empire by John F. Richards 9780906094143
£58.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094143Author John F. RichardsFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust -
W. B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
RRP: £6.99£5.00'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.'W B Yeats was one of the foremost... -
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva 9780140187595
RRP: £18.00£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140187595Author Marina TsvetaevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-18 by E. J. Clery 9780719040276
RRP: £19.99£17.82How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What did the term 'Gothic' mean, when Horace Walpole used it in the subtitle of his experimental novel The Castle of Otranto? How did a type of writing which... -
Categories by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39The philosopher's toolkit.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Tip of the Tongue: Reflections on Language and Meaning by Peter Brook
RRP: £10.99£7.93A 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... -
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: £28.00£21.80For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political... -
The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation by David Crystal
RRP: £28.99£21.28This 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... -
Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Gillian Beer 9780521743617
RRP: £37.99£31.31Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the... -
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent by Richard Bruce Nugent
RRP: £22.99£20.01Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Protege of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale... -
Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft by Professor Steven G. Kellman
RRP: £18.99£16.72Though it is difficult enough to write well in one's native tongue, an extraordinary group of authors has written enduring poetry and prose in a second, third, or even fourth language. Switching Languages is the first anthology in which translingual... -
October Child by Linda Bostroem Knausgard
RRP: £12.99£11.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642860894Author Linda Bostroem KnausgardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint World EditionsPublisher World Editions -
Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: £33.00£29.99This series is conceived as a library of bilingual editions of works chosen for their importance to Italian literature and to the international tradition of art and thought Italy has nurtured. In each volume an Italian text in an authoritative edition is... -
The Names of Homeric Heroes: Problems and Interpretations by Nikoletta Kanavou 9783110578201
RRP: £19.00£15.55The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an old topic, which famously interested Plato, and an object of constant scholarly attention from the time... -
Fear, Reverence, Terror by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: £25.00£21.32We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us to... -
Poems from the Edge of Extinction: The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library by Chris McCabe 9781473693005
RRP: £12.99£8.60Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century... -
Writing Facts: Interdisciplinary Discussions of a Key Concept in Modernity by Susanne Knaller 9783837662719
RRP: £44.99£36.74"Fact" is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the sciences, its impact on aesthetic models and systems of knowledge. The practice of writing provides an... -
It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow 9780143106685
RRP: £22.00£17.97A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times [London])A Penguin Classic"Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we... -
Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide by Professor John Took
RRP: £20.00£14.29John Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri. The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it,... -
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht 9781350178533
RRP: £10.99£10.98This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following: * Contexts (Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; World War II and exile; sources; influential... -
Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutes and Organizations across Nations by Katherine Erdman
RRP: £6.50£6.11The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology - and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the... -
Punk is Dead by Richard Cabut
RRP: £17.99£15.39This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night... -
A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375378048
RRP: £9.95£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375378048Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
Readings by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: £20.50£17.38Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. As her work shows, the best method for doing so is through extended practice in the ethics of reading. In... -
Greek Anthology: v. 3 by W. R. Paton
RRP: £24.95£23.39A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called... -
The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: £32.00£19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Last Year in Mexico by Francesca Bratton 9781529383379
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Poignant and fiercely intelligent, this is the best work of creative non-fiction I have read in years' FIONA MOZLEY'Profound, moving and courageous' NICHOLAS ALLEN, IRISH TIMESIn April 1931, modernist poet Hart Crane arrived in Mexico City. Between mood... -
The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf by Susan Sellers
RRP: £25.99£21.89Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful... -
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Jack Halberstam
RRP: £20.99£18.10In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and... -
Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World by Michael Holquist 9780415280082
RRP: £25.99£22.63Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogics, this book now includes a new introduction, concluding chapter... -
Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange by Helen Palmer
RRP: £25.99£25.18Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation, or making-strange, from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory. She explores how we... -
The New Short Story Theories by Charles E. May
RRP: £17.99£15.90The first edition of May's Short Story Theories (1976) opened with an essay entitled "The Short Story: An Underrated Art." Almost two decades later, the short story suffers no such slight. Publishers and critics have become increasingly interested in the... -
Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection by Seamus Perry 9780198712022
RRP: £42.99£35.64Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language, and co-author, with Wordsworth, of Lyrical Ballads; one of England's... -
The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century by Kathryn Bond Stockton
RRP: £22.99£20.01Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal "gayness," in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of... -
Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval 9780816627370
RRP: £19.99£17.54A new approach to feminist thought that challenges current critical theories.In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781108461825
RRP: £8.99£7.40For this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new introduction. It draws on recent research in theatre to set Romeo and Juliet in its mid-1590s context, making connections with other plays by... -
An African Elegy by Ben Okri
RRP: £12.99£9.09Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road. Okri's dreams are made on the stuff of Africa's colossal economic and... -
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert
RRP: £26.99£23.32Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute... -
The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse by Emrys Jones 9780199561339
RRP: £26.49£21.53The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the 'Golden Age' of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Yet this anthology, which includes both undisputed masterpieces and... -
A Reading Diary: A Year Of Favourite Books by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £10.99£7.32While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be...