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Selected Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins
RRP: $10.31$7.71Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling, from the religious ecstasy of `he Blessed Virgin' to the torments of his loneliness and... -
King Edward III by William Shakespeare 9780521596732
RRP: $12.89$10.84The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen by Mary Poovey 9780226675282
RRP: $38.70$37.73"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism and Marxist literary criticism that I know of." So writes critic Stephen Greenblatt about The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, Mary Poovey's... -
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer by Piero Boitani
RRP: $33.53$28.37The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material... -
The Divine Comedy: III. Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $23.85$18.54An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair... -
Hannah More: The First Victorian by Anne Stott 9780199274888
$69.26Hannah More (1745-1833), the daughter of an obscure schoolmaster, began her working life as a teacher at her sisters' school in Bristol. In her thirtieth year she came to London to persuade the actor-manager David Garrick to put on one of her plays. Her... -
Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiskaia
RRP: $16.76$16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580056731Author Taisia KitaiskaiaFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing Group -
This Is Not A Science Fiction Textbook by Mark Bould 9781915983091
RRP: $23.21$15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915983091Author Mark BouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert 9780199555864
RRP: $10.31$6.98Three Tales offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. A Simple Heart is set in the Normandy of Flaubert's childhood, while Saint Julian and Herodias draw on medieval myth and the biblical story of John the... -
Poems from the Edge of Extinction: The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library Chris McCabe 9781473693005
RRP: $16.76$11.39Gold 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... -
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw 9781789098570
RRP: $12.89$9.44"Khaw's got a sterling premise, enduring lore, and the fresh talent to voice it." Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box A gorgeously creepy classic haunted house story based on Japanese folklore, combining The Haunting of... -
Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation by Melissa Sihra 9780230006478
RRP: $58.04$58.01Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth century. Chapters consider the intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality and the... -
Yi Sang: Selected Works by Choi Mee Don
RRP: $28.37$19.43Winner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of... -
Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein, The by Sharon Ruston
RRP: $32.25$24.99What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science,... -
A Study Guide for Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375398053
RRP: $12.84$12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375398053Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm)... -
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone
RRP: $12.89$9.44Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection. Soon after, an... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6, 1934–1936 by Ernest Hemingway 9780521897389
RRP: $45.15$31.27The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934–June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' and 'The... -
Allegories of the <i>Iliad</i> by John Tzetzes
RRP: $38.64$31.51In the early 1140s, the Bavarian princess Bertha von Sulzbach arrived in Constantinople to marry the Byzantine emperor Manuel Komnenos. Wanting to learn more about her new homeland, the future empress Eirene commissioned the grammarian Ioannes Tzetzes to... -
Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him by Kevin Connolly
$22.37The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted... -
Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor: The Actors are Come Hither - the Performance of Tragedy in a Secure Psychiatric Hospital by Murray Cox
RRP: $51.60$49.92Between 1989 and 1991 several of Shakespeare's tragedies were performed in the central hall of Broadmoor Hospital. This book sets these important events on record. It offers insights into the impact of such drama, in such a setting, upon actors and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shelley by Timothy Morton 9780521533430
RRP: $33.53$28.37Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was an extraordinary poet, playwright and essayist, revolutionary both in his ideas and in his artistic theory and practice. This 2006 collection of original essays by an international group of specialists is a... -
Bohemians: A Very Short Introduction by David Weir
RRP: $11.60$8.58The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the... -
Shopping in Jail: Ideas, Essays, and Stories for the Increasingly Real Twenty-First Century Douglas Coupland 9783943365863
$12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365863Author Douglas CouplandFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 111gDimensions(mm) 195mm *... -
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation by Roger Housden 9781400047994
RRP: $27.09$18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400047994Author Roger HousdenFormat HardbackPage Count 173Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318g -
Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming by Tao Yuanming 9781556596728
RRP: $20.63$14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596728Author Tao YuanmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
Lorca'S Romancero Gitano: Eighteen Commentaries by Herbert Ramsden 9780719078248
RRP: $14.18$12.89This poem-by-poem guide to Lorca's Romancero gitano was prompted by the need for some form of guidance to the overwhelming amount of critical material published on the book, the relative neglect or misunderstanding of certain poems and a concern to... -
Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts: An Introduction Thomas Schmitz (University Of Bonn, Germany) 9781405153744
RRP: $42.51$37.87This book provides students and scholars of classical literature with a practical guide to modern literary theory and criticism. Using a clear and concise approach, it navigates readers through various theoretical approaches, including Russian Formalism,... -
Performing Shakespeare: Preparation, Rehearsal, Performance by Oliver Ford Davies
RRP: $16.76$12.26An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies offers practical advice to actors, directors and drama students... -
Anabasis by St John Perse 9780156074063
RRP: $19.35$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156074063Author St John PerseFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 129mm * 7mm -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780679603313
RRP: $27.09$18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679603313Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
Three Renaissance Travel Plays by Tony Parr 9780719058004
RRP: $20.63$18.67This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and exploration.. Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the... -
Quantum Poetics: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures Gwyneth Lewis 9781780370705
RRP: $12.84$9.00In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Western Greek Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: $32.19$30.65A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
The Magic of Terry Pratchett by Marc Burrows 9781526765505
$26.54The Magic Of Terry Pratchett is the first full biography of Sir Terry Pratchett ever written. Sir Terry was Britain's best-selling living author*, and before his death in 2015 had sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide. Best known for... -
Moominpappa's Book of Thoughts by Sami Malila
RRP: $7.73$5.70Moominpappa's Book of Thoughts is a collection of philosophical anecdotes and other profound insights from the most senior Moomin, providing readers with an essential roadmap on how to go about life. During his long and eventful life, Moominpappa has... -
An Analysis of Edmund Gettier's Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Jason Schukraft 9781912127498
RRP: $8.39$8.11For 2,000 years, the standard philosophical model of knowledge was that it could be defined as a justified true belief. According to this way of thinking, we can know, for example, that we are human because [1] we believe ourselves to be human; [2] that... -
Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life by Laurel Richardson 9780813523798
RRP: $42.57$31.33How do the specific circumstances in which we write affect what we write? How does what we write affect who we become? How can we maintain professsional and personal integrity in today's university? In a series of traditional and experimental writings, a... -
Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology by Edgerton Skyes
RRP: $33.53$29.19First published in 2001. Part of the Routledge Who's Who series, this is an accessible, authorative and enlightening definitive biographical guides to a range of subjects. Focusing on mythology, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to world... -
Timon of Athens: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.60$8.80The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
Caesar Commentarii. I. (Gallic War): (Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento) by Julius Caesar 9780198146025
$36.61(Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento.) Edited by R. L. A. Du Pontet.Book InformationISBN 9780198146025Author R. L. A. Du PontetFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...