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This Isle is Full of Monsters: Shakespeare's Audiences and the Supernatural by Jon Kaneko-James 9780995778412
RRP: £10.00£9.01Apologies 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 -
Poems by William Shakespeare 9781857157079
RRP: £12.00£8.68This collection contains more than 80% of the sonnets, including all the famous ones. In addition, there are substantial extracts from the longer narrative poems Shakespeare wrote in his youth, songs from the plays, and celebrated soliloquies from... -
The Shadow of Perseus: A compelling, unputdownable retelling of the myth of Perseus by Claire Heywood
RRP: £16.99£11.95'A page-turning retelling . . . so interesting and thought-provoking' JENNIFER SAINT'A fresh and original take on the myth of Perseus . . . I was gripped by the human drama at the novel's heart' ELODIE HARPER*****Perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint,... -
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy by Park Honan 9780199232697
RRP: £31.49£28.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Book by Mary Ruefle 9781950268849
RRP: £17.99£12.30Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of... -
The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860--1930 by Meredith Martin
RRP: £42.00£37.81Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a... -
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London 9780142437735
RRP: £13.53£10.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437735Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
The Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: £11.99£8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179109Author Andrew DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 110gDimensions(mm)... -
Classical Literary Criticism by Penelope Murray
RRP: £10.99£7.99The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato... -
Love Poems by Anne Sexton
£13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395957776Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 111g -
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
RRP: £30.00£19.88Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year,... -
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: £8.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776069Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Theory and Analysis of Drama by Manfred Pfister
RRP: £43.99£38.14Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent and comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The materical on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods of drama, from... -
'The Tempest' in Context: Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness by Keith Linley 9781783083756
RRP: £14.99£14.90This engaging book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1611 would have brought to interpreting 'The Tempest'. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about civilized... -
The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity by Emily Senior
RRP: £30.99£21.91During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations... -
Queen of Spades by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9781853993138
£23.21Pikovaia dama (The Queen of Spades) has continued to fascinate readers since its first publication in 1834, and has been successfully adapted to both operatic stage and screen. The most generally admired of Pushkin's stories, it has earned a high place... -
The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard's Unknown Travels by Richard Paul Roe 9780062074263
£13.85Richard Paul Roe spent more than twenty years traveling the length and breadth of Italy to seek out and document the exact locations in which Shakespeare set his ten Italian Plays. Using as his compass only the exact lines spoken by characters in each... -
The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin by Sarah Knight 9780190886998
RRP: £40.99£38.58From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book... -
Cicero: Brutus and Orator by Robert A. Kaster 9780190857851
£30.73Cicero's Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early... -
Consciousness And The Novel by David Lodge
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' ObserverHow does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200... -
My Dead Book: A Novel by Nate Lippens 9781739702908
RRP: £15.00£13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Republic of Consciousness Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781739702908Author Nate LippensFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot... -
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
RRP: £16.99£12.47Should you finish every book you start?How has your family influenced the way you read?What is literary style?How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup?Why do you hate the book your friend likes?Is writing really just like any other job?What happens to... -
The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev by Sergei Yesenin 9780996157087
RRP: £15.95£10.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996157087Author Sergei YeseninFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Sensitive Skin BooksPublisher Sensitive Skin BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)... -
The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at its Limits by Jed Esty
RRP: £10.99£9.85As the US becomes a second-place nation, can it shed the superpower nostalgia that still haunts the UK? The debate over the US's fading hegemony has raged and sputtered for 50 years, glutting the market with prophecies about American decline. Media... -
The Little Review "Ulysses" by James Joyce
RRP: £25.00£21.32James Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed... -
Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire Priyasha Mukhopadhyay 9780691257709
RRP: £35.00£27.74How ordinary forms of writing—including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines—shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers... -
The First and Second Parts of King Edward Iv: Thomas Heywood by Richard Rowland 9780719080647
RRP: £19.99£18.10'Edward IV' (1599) was printed no less than six times up to 1626, and was one of the best loved plays of the early modern period, but this edition is the first since the 1870s. The play premiered at a moment when the representation of medieval history in... -
Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night Richard Cabut 9781785353468
RRP: £17.99£15.62This 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... -
The World Of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words by Raymond Chandler
RRP: £16.99£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804170482Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Hotel by Joanna Walsh
RRP: £9.99£7.89Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed... -
The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction by Elizabeth R. Baer 9780814336267
RRP: £36.95£33.76First mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied figures as Mary Shelley s monster in her novel... -
Four Romances of England: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, Athelston by Ronald B. Herzman
RRP: £34.00£28.20Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. These romances... -
The Great War in Irish Poetry: W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley by Fran Brearton 9780199261383
RRP: £53.00£52.66The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley... -
Historia Augusta: Volume II by David Magie
RRP: £24.95£23.76March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a ... -
Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £16.99£14.35Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle by Christopher Shields 9780190244842
RRP: £46.99£43.77The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and Japan; it also, appropriately,... -
The Festal Letters of Athanasius of Alexandria, with the Festal Index and the Historia Acephala David Brakke 9781802076820
£113.23Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-373) is one of the great personalities of late-antique Christianity, and he is well-known to theologians and historians alike as a champion of orthodoxy against the 'Arian' heresy and a proponent of the ascetic life... -
The Dorothy Dunnett Companion: Volume II by Elspeth Morrison 9780375726682
RRP: £20.00£14.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726682Author Elspeth MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 361gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780393977967
£14.28Richard Wilbur praises Palma's translation as "accurate as to sense, fully rhymed, and easy, as a rule, in its movement through the tercets. Readers will find it admirably clear and readable." The text is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations... -
Vernon Lee by Sondeep Kandola 9780746311769
RRP: £18.69£13.33This book is the first full-scale exploration of the fiction of one of the most influential women writing in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While Lee's work was well-admired in her own day, her fiction and her writings on...