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Homer Vol. III. Odyssey (Books I-XII) by D. B. Monro 9780198145318
RRP: $39.96$39.92Homer Vol. III. Odyssey (Books I-XII)Book InformationISBN 9780198145318Author D. B. MonroFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 129mm * 17mm -
James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child by Mary Adams 9781032314778
RRP: $37.03$32.90This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents' grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties.Mary Adams links Joyce's... -
And: Phenomenology of the End by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351702Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas by Emily Gowers 9780691193144
RRP: $74.10$66.94The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and cultureAn unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend of the emperor Augustus: Maecenas was one of the... -
The Wheelwright's Shop by George Sturt 9780521091954
RRP: $56.53$44.56George 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... -
Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction by Michael Levy 9781107610293
RRP: $44.83$36.54Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic -... -
Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: $33.13$25.66The debate and discussion around Game of Thrones has covered questions of climate issues, industrialization, and questions of power, sex and gender. But in this essential companion to both George R.R. Martin's novels and the HBO show, Carolyne Larrington... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn
RRP: $48.73$41.30The 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... -
The Dog Husband by Rose McDonagh 9781914114069
RRP: $21.43$17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914114069Author Rose McDonaghFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Reflex PressPublisher Reflex Press -
The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy by John Sellars 9781853997242
$57.23It is a commonplace to say that in antiquity philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but precisely what such claims amount to has remained unclear. If ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's... -
R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams: The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry by M. Wynn Thomas
RRP: $48.73$36.66The great religious poetry of R. S. Thomas and the poetry of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is rooted in a remarkable late-twentieth-century tradition of spiritual poetry in Wales that includes figures as different as Saunders Lewis... -
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper
RRP: $27.28$24.75It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary,... -
Cicero Philippic II: A Selection by Christopher Tanfield
RRP: $35.08$31.30This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Philippic II sections 44-50 (... viri tui similis esses) and 78 (C. Caesari ex Hispania redeunti...)-92, and the A-Level (Group 2)... -
Reception by Ika Willis
RRP: $38.98$34.50Reception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers, viewers, and audiences. Organized conceptually and thematically, this book provides a much-needed overview of the field, drawing on work in... -
The concept of nature in Marx by Alfred Schmidt
RRP: $35.08$34.20In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this... -
A Book for Her by Bridget Christie
RRP: $21.43$16.44Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women's Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever. A Book For Her details Christie's twelve years of anonymous toil in the... -
Jane Austen's Emma by John Sutherland
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776137Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Philip Larkin by Laurence Lerner 9780746311370
RRP: $36.45$33.31Philip Larkin is one of the finest English poets of our time. His poetic personality - nostalgic, wry, melancholy, ironic, witty and haunting - has appealed to a far wider audience than that of literary specialists, while also winning the respect of... -
Lives of the Caesars: v. 2 by Suetonius
RRP: $48.65$45.61Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He... -
Northanger Abbey: York Notes for AS & A2 by Glennis Byron
RRP: $15.58$11.99THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy... -
Walter Benjamin: Or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism by Terry Eagleton 9781844673506
RRP: $31.18$27.18From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.A classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theoristAbout the AuthorTerry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow,... -
Jane Austen and the War of Ideas by Marilyn Butler 9780198129684
RRP: $122.85$93.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading by Virginia Jackson
RRP: $68.25$54.09How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Because Dickinson's writing remained... -
The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture by Anna McFarlane
RRP: $83.83$76.09In this companion, an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk... -
Classical Literary Criticism by Penelope Murray
RRP: $21.43$15.15The 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... -
The Tragic Imagination: The Literary Agenda by Dr. Rowan Williams
RRP: $45.81$38.94The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
The Dorothy Dunnett Companion: Volume II by Elspeth Morrison 9780375726682
RRP: $39.00$25.90Apologies 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 *... -
Poetic Intention by Edouard Glissant 9780982264539
RRP: $33.13$22.76This marks the publication of the first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant's classic meditation on poetry and art. In this wide-ranging book, Glissant discusses poets, including Stephane Mallarme and Saint-John Perse, and visual... -
Shakespeare and Literary Theory by Jonathan Gil Harris
$54.89OXFORD 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
$69.24The 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... -
Poems about Horses by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: $19.48$13.86Many 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
$94.11Quintilian Institutionis Oratoriae Vol. IBook InformationISBN 9780198146544Author Michael WinterbottomPage Count 392Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 193mm * 127mm * 26mm -
The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing 9780231122696
RRP: $54.60$43.29Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of... -
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History by Josef Benson 9781442277946
RRP: $68.25$63.36Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. As the focus of recent major films and a successful... -
Yoruba Proverbs by Oyekan Owomoyela
RRP: $62.40$55.79Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan Owomoyela's introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural... -
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist by Chris Paling 9781472134882
RRP: $19.48$13.26'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus GBP300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope... -
All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics by Douglas Wolk 9781788169295
RRP: $19.48$15.11WINNER OF THE 2022 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK 'Magnificently marvellous' Junot Diaz 'An account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology out of the dodgiest of commercial occasions ... a... -
Twentieth Century Paris: 1900-1950: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard
RRP: $39.00$36.68Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to... -
Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a literacy legacy by Derek Hand 9781782053293
$81.45This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an event which sparked something akin to a period of national... -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison 9780674673779
RRP: $60.35$47.62Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument...