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Oxford Student Texts: John Milton: Paradise Lost Book IX by John Milton 9780198326007
£11.76One of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions... -
The Secret History by Procopius
RRP: £10.99£7.77A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a... -
La Casa De Bernarda Alba: By Federico Garcia Lorca by H. Ramsden
RRP: £10.99£7.90Completed only two months before the author's execution in Granada at the age of thirty-eight, La casa de Bernarda Alba marks the completion of Lorca's 'trilogia de la tierra espanola' and is commonly held to be his greatest play. The theme of vitality... -
Round Ireland With A Fridge by Tony Hawks
RRP: £12.99£9.09'I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month'A foolhardy attempt to win a drunken bet led to Tony Hawks having one of the most unforgettable... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: £2.50£2.16From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional... -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: £14.99£13.03In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the... -
Change Your Life: Essential Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781782278580
RRP: £12.99£8.56Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental questions of love and death, of the chaos of the modern world... -
The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran by Kahlil Gibran
RRP: £22.00£16.02Poet, artist and mystic Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The Prophet, a book of poetic essays written in his youth, has sold over eight million... -
The Official Dune Colouring Book by Frank Herbert 9781399620093
RRP: £11.99£6.99The first official colouring book based on Frank Herbert's Dune - one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.Visit Arrakis in a whole new way as you colour in your favourite characters and scenes from Frank Herbert's enduring and beloved... -
Concordia (The Reconciliation of Richard II with London) by Richard Maidstone
RRP: £11.50£9.34The poem that Richard Maidstone wrote on the metropolitan crisis of 1392 reports information about the royal entry that concluded the crisis in greater detail than any other source. The poem is not primarily a report, however; like Maidstone's other... -
Proust and Venice by Peter Collier 9780521673389
RRP: £38.99£33.26Proust's famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) is a fascinating exploration not only of memory and desire, of high society and everyday life, but also of art. The study focuses on Venice, one of the hero's central... -
Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff 9781912766802
RRP: £13.99£9.26Blue Remembered Hills is Rosemary Sutcliff's memoir of her childhood, youth and her first love affairs. It's a classic of perfect writing about her close and not always easy relationship with her bipolar mother, life in the naval dockyards where her... -
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by Stanley Wells 9780199267170
RRP: £34.49£26.34A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction,... -
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction by Adrian Poole
RRP: £8.99£6.45What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists,... -
Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks: Stories and Secrets of Murder in the Making by John Curran
RRP: £16.99£11.87Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas,... -
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99£9.09Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit... -
Oxford Literature Companions: A Streetcar Named Desire by Annie Fox
RRP: £9.99£9.59Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Groom
RRP: £8.99£6.61The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home decor and... -
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings by Walt Whitman 9780393974966
£13.73Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as "Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. While continuing to provide... -
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966-2006 by Edward Said
RRP: £16.99£12.28A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and cultural critic and political thinker Edward Said was one of... -
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran.Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this... -
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore by Michael Dylan Foster 9780520271029
RRP: £25.00£21.19Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to... -
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart 9780008601119
RRP: £10.99£7.25‘A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart’s lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms and number-lovers alike will discover much they didn’t know about... -
The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter
RRP: £10.99£7.77`The language is refined, the smile not grave, My honest tongue recounts how men behave.' The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father... -
Beowulf: a new feminist translation of the epic poem by Maria Headley
RRP: £9.99£6.70A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the acclaimed novel The Mere Wife. Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf - and fifty years after... -
Oxford Literature Companions: The Kite Runner by Garrett O'Doherty 9780198437482
RRP: £9.99£9.59Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
RRP: £10.99£7.77Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses ... magic forests and enchanted towers ... little pigs and big bad wolves ... Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean?In this award-winning work... -
A Doll's House: York Notes for A-level by Frances Gray
RRP: £8.50£6.51An enhanced exam section: expert guidance on approaching exam questions, writing high-quality responses and using critical interpretations, plus practice tasks and annotated sample answer extracts. Key skills covered: focused tasks to develop your... -
Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory 9780393974645
£14.68No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses-Caxton's 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now generally... -
Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd
RRP: £16.99£12.28Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary,... -
The Iliad & The Odyssey: 2-Volume box set edition by Homer 9781398803633
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398803633Author HomerImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
In Search Of Shakespeare by Michael Wood
RRP: £16.99£12.28Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective story, the acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael... -
A Companion to Greek Tragedy by Justina Gregory 9781405175494
RRP: £42.95£37.97The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises... -
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth 9780711279858
RRP: £16.99£14.05"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life."The Times A lavishly illustrated... -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £14.99£10.95This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Coleridge's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by... -
W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
RRP: £8.99£6.08W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907. His first full-length collection, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1930. The many volumes he published thereafter included poetry, plays, essays and libretti, and his ceaseless... -
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780393927559
£18.71The editor's lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, the... -
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £30.00£21.35A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicistsHomer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles... -
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes 9780143137733
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137733Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collins Classroom Classics) by William Shakespeare
£3.17This classic edition of Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream is perfect for readers of all ages: it comes complete with the play, plus an introduction providing context, on page notes, timeline, and a character and theme index. Affordable...