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Beowulf: The Critical Heritage Andreas Haarder 9781138009103
RRP: $104.98$92.90Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the year 1815,... -
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry by James Chandler 9780521680837
RRP: $54.58$46.18More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no... -
Shakespeare for Grown-ups: Everything you Need to Know about the Bard by Elizabeth Foley
RRP: $23.08$16.78'Rather jolly and very helpful' The TimesNeed to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado and general reader alike. ... -
Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England by William H. Sherman 9780812220841
RRP: $50.38$44.44In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal... -
Doing Creative Writing by Steve May
RRP: $41.98$37.15Are you beginning a creative writing course? Or thinking about taking one?Doing Creative Writing is the ideal guide to what you should expect, what will be expected of you and how you can get the most from your course.It clearly and concisely... -
Dear Angel of Death by Simone White 9781937027674
RRP: $25.20$17.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937027674Author Simone WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 250g -
Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus Augustus Caesar 9780198317722
RRP: $74.53$62.18Res Gestae Divi Augusti The Achievements of the Divine AugustusBook InformationISBN 9780198317722Author Augustus CaesarFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America by Xine Yao
RRP: $48.28$42.67In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of... -
Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism by Simon Goldhill 9780521011761
RRP: $83.98$69.85Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in both the modern and the ancient worlds. It looks at the Renaissance, when men were burned at the... -
The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick by Kyle Arnold 9780199743254
RRP: $40.93$30.83Widely recognized as one of the most inventive and iconic science fiction writers of all time, Philip K. Dick is an author whose literary sophistication elevated the sci-fi genre into the storytelling powerhouse it is today. His works, known for their... -
Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish by Naomi Seidman 9781503639263
RRP: $58.78$50.69There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach, turning its gaze not... -
City of the Dead: The Fascinating Supernatural History of Edinburgh by Jan Andrew Henderson 9780992856137
$25.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992856137Author Jan Andrew HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Black HartPublisher Black HartWeight(grams) 152g -
The Wheelwright's Shop by George Sturt 9780521091954
RRP: $60.88$47.99George Sturt's frank and moving account of his trade as a wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world since banished by technology. The wheelwright's shop where he entered business had... -
Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson 9781496425805
RRP: $31.48$24.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496425805Author Sarah ClarksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn
RRP: $52.48$44.48The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and... -
Sophocles Fabulae by Sophocles 9780198145776
$58.57This new Oxford Classical Text of Sophocles is the product of many years of close collaboration between the two editors. Most of the major difficulties of text and interpretation have been discussed in graduate seminars held in Oxford. The evidence of... -
The Law Of Chaos: The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock by Jeff Gardiner 9781909394193
RRP: $29.38$19.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394193Author Jeff GardinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 215g -
Persuasion by Jane Austen 9780674049741
RRP: $62.90$54.35Published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in 1817, Persuasion crowns Jane Austen's remarkable career. It is her most passionate and introspective love story. This richly illustrated and annotated edition brings her last completed novel to life with... -
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
RRP: $33.58$24.38From Colm Toibin comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Toibin not only explores the often tense relationship between writers... -
Roman de Brut by Wace 9780192871268
RRP: $20.98$15.37'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to... -
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff 9780226660608
RRP: $56.70$55.59Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously... -
A Life In Words by Paul Auster
RRP: $31.48$21.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807771Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Jane Austen and the War of Ideas by Marilyn Butler 9780198129684
RRP: $132.30$100.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader Klaus Stierstorfer 9781138783201
RRP: $83.98$74.19The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vital interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of diaspora studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key... -
Shakespeare and Literary Theory by Jonathan Gil Harris
$59.12OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an... -
W. B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 by R. F. Foster
$74.57The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle... -
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 9780393972863
RRP: $29.38$25.73Known only as the "Ex-Colored Man," the protagonist in Johnson's novel is forced to choose between celebrating his African American heritage or "passing" as an average white man in a post-Reconstruction America that is rapidly changing. This Norton... -
Poems about Horses by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: $20.98$15.37Many kinds of equine characters grace these pages, from magnificent war horses to cowboys' trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. We encounter the famous Trojan horse in Virgil's Aeneid, only to see it... -
Quintilian Institutionis Oratoriae Vol. I by Michael Winterbottom 9780198146544
$101.35Quintilian Institutionis Oratoriae Vol. IBook InformationISBN 9780198146544Author Michael WinterbottomPage Count 392Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 193mm * 127mm * 26mm -
Reading Across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance by Shari Stone-Mediatore 9780312295677
RRP: $94.48$68.23In light of postcolonial and feminist critiques of 'experience' and 'identity', how can feminists engage stories of marginalized peoples' experience in the development of feminist theories and modes of activism that take account of the diversity of... -
A Concise Companion to Modernism David Bradshaw (Worcester College, Oxford) 9780631220558
RRP: $73.40$65.25This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it. Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind... -
Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
RRP: $18.88$13.19Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came to Europe in 1908 and settled in London, where he became a central figure in the literary and artistic world, befriended by Yeats and a supporter of Eliot and Joyce, among others. In 1920 he moved to... -
Heart of Darkness SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 32 SparkNotes 9781411469815
RRP: $12.58$9.58When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare by Peter Brook
RRP: $20.98$15.71In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequence of essays, Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays, why... -
A Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375381284
RRP: $20.90$19.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375381284Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)... -
The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme 9781903155226
RRP: $35.70$32.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155226Author Thea HolmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 139mm * 19mm -
John Florio: The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England by Frances A. Yates 9780521170741
RRP: $98.68$80.09John Florio is best known to the present day for his great translation of Montaigne's Essays. To his contemporaries he was one of the most conspicuous figures of the literary and social cliques of the time. By her reconstruction of Florio's life and... -
An Apology for Poetry (or the Defence of Poesy): Sir Philip Sidney by R.W. Maslen 9780719053764
RRP: $27.28$25.47An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy), by the celebrated soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important work of literary theory published in the Renaissance. The new introduction and notes include a wealth of new information and new... -
A Companion to Women in the Ancient World Sharon L. James (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) 9781119025542
RRP: $75.50$69.11A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and... -
This Isle is Full of Monsters: Shakespeare's Audiences and the Supernatural by Jon Kaneko-James 9780995778412
RRP: $21.00$18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995778412Author Jon Kaneko-JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beul Aithris PublishingPublisher Beul Aithris PublishingWeight(grams) 231g