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Mysteries of Dune: Sufism, Psychedelics, and the Prediction of Frank Herbert by Mahmoud Shelton 9780974146829
€9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974146829Author Mahmoud SheltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Temple of Justice BooksPublisher Temple of Justice BooksWeight(grams) 82g -
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Rebecca Warren 9780582414716
RRP: €9.51€7.32Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary... -
A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita by J.A.E. Curtis 9781644690789
RRP: €26.17€25.04Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its rich... -
The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine by Lucien Goldmann
€37.33This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Loewy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world... -
Poems by William Blake 9781857157109
RRP: €14.28€10.04Blake's explosive lyrical genius is here represented by the full text of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime. In addition there is a selection from the Prophetic Books in... -
Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach by James Lull 9780745621913
RRP: €21.41€19.09Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and... -
The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century by Madelyn Detloff 9780521896429
RRP: €107.10€80.03Modernism is commonly perceived as a response to the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century. To what extent then can we explain its continued persistence? Madelyn Detloff argues for modernism's relevance to our own age, a time of escalating... -
Literary Allusion in Harry Potter by Beatrice Groves
RRP: €30.93€26.93Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowling's series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potter's narrative techniques are rooted in the... -
Byron in Context by Clara Tuite
RRP: €28.55€27.19George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824), was one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic period, as well as a peer, politician and global celebrity, famed not only for his verse, but for his controversial lifestyle and involvement in the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes by Terry Gifford 9780521145763
RRP: €30.93€26.17Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the breadth of his literary range and cultural influence being... -
Republic, Volume II: Books 6-10 by Plato
RRP: €29.69€27.83The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family ca. 427 BC. In ... -
Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney * Edna O'Brien * Lynne Reid-Banks * Charlotte Bingham * Nell Dunn * Virginia Ironside * Margaret Forster by Celia Brayfield
RRP: €23.79€16.99'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' Vice In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A... -
Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective by Anne Whitehead
RRP: €17.84€16.01Writing against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and... -
Universal Tree and the Four Birds by Muhyiddin Ibn'Arabi
RRP: €30.88€11.82Through the story of the universal tree, representing the complete human being, and the four birds, representing the four essential aspects of existence, Ibn 'Arabi explains his teaching on the nature and meaning of union with God. Providing an excellent... -
The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth by Professor Lillian Nayder
RRP: €29.74€24.64Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer... -
Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism by Gabriel Egan
RRP: €45.21€39.72Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare... -
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 9780393954081
€14.72It also incorporates revisions that Hardy made in his "study copy" of the novel and in his marked printer's copy and page proofs for the Harper and Brothers "sixpenny edition" of 1901, whenever these revisions could be confidently judged to represent... -
Aeneid: Bks. 7-12: WITH Appendix Vergiliana by Virgil
RRP: €29.69€29.20"The classic of all Europe." -T. S. EliotVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life... -
The Women'S Suffrage Movement: *New Feminist Perspectives* by Maroula Joannou 9780719080456
RRP: €23.79€20.96Available in paperback for the first time, this important collection of essays illustrates the complexity, richness and diversity of the suffrage movement.Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women's suffrage... -
Aristotle by Aristotle
RRP: €29.69€27.83Peripatetic works on the human body and soul.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... -
Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens
RRP: €23.79€21.05This third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Collins Classics) by Jessie Weston 9780008485535
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide,In broidered bridle allHe worthily bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by... -
The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others’ Eyes by C. S. Lewis
RRP: €10.70€7.16How to Read provides guidance and reflections on the love and enjoyment of books. Engaging and enlightening, this well-rounded collection includes Lewis' reflections on science fiction, why children's literature is for readers of all ages, and why we... -
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory by Heather Love
RRP: €27.37€26.33The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, drug addicts, and political radicals. But in the next decades, many of these downcast figures... -
The JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis by Nahum M. Sarna 9780827603264
RRP: €88.06€66.43The JPS Torah Commentary series guides readers through the words and ideas of the Torah. Each volume is the work of a scholar who stands at the pinnacle of his field. Every page contains the complete traditional Hebrew text, with cantillation notes, the... -
The Complete Poems by John Milton
RRP: €23.80€17.48John Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. His early poems include the devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', 'Comus', a masque, and the pastoral elegy... -
Rome by Glyn Pursglove 9781906011222
RRP: €8.32€5.95All roads lead to Rome, the eternal city, the centre of Christendom, the lodestone of the pilgrim and the artist, the seat of the only Empire that has ever succeeded in uniting the European landmass. No literate traveller can escape its fascination, and... -
Study Guide to Othello by William Shakespeare by Intelligent Education 9781645425762
RRP: €19.03€15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645425762Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds by Jocelin of Brakelond 9780199554935
RRP: €10.70€7.68This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of... -
Ada to Zembla: The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov by David Vernon 9781739136109
€21.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739136109Author David VernonFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Endellion PressPublisher Endellion PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine by Oksana Maksymchuk
RRP: €20.22€15.58The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war,... -
British Dramatists by Graham Greene 9781853752285
RRP: €8.32€5.95Part of the "Writers' Britain" series, first published in the 1940s. This work offers Graham Greene's evaluation of British drama, from its roots in the Mystery and Miracle plays of the market carnival through Shakespeare and the Restoration to the 20th... -
Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature by Max Saunders 9780199657698
RRP: €60.69€41.35I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul Valery, Moi. Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism... -
The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction by Simone Caroti 9780786494477
RRP: €36.83€21.38This book presents a history of Iain M. Banks' Culture series from its inception in the mid-1970s to the last novel, The Hydrogen Sonata, which was published less than a year before Banks' death. Included in this history are Banks' origins as a writer,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature by M. O. Grenby 9780521687829
RRP: €30.93€26.05Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's... -
Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays by Robert Duncan
RRP: €49.98€47.74A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including... -
Beginning Modernism by Jeff Wallace
RRP: €13.08€9.40Modernism was the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. Yet despite its now-secure location in history, the radical experimental practices of modernism continue to bewilder as much as they excite. Beginning Modernism offers... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann by Ritchie Robertson 9780521653701
RRP: €30.93€26.17Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction, the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's... -
Shakespeare's White Others by David Sterling Brown 9781009384162
RRP: €35.70€28.76Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora - figures who are never quite 'white enough' - this bold and compelling work emphasises how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness... -
An Introduction to Arabic Literature by Roger Allen 9780521776578
RRP: €44.02€37.26Roger Allen provides a comprehensive introductory survey of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to the present. The volume focuses on the major genres of Arabic literature, dealing with Islam's sacred text, the...