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A Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375381284
RRP: £9.95£9.04Apologies 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 Histories: Bks. 1-3 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur - The Definitive Original Text Edition by P .J. C. Field
£30.24Peter Field's new edition of the Morte Darthur has been hailed as "our standard critical edition of Malory". This paperback of Vol 1 only makes the complete definitive original spelling text edition available, with the same pagination as in Vol 1 of the... -
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon 9780582642614
£13.78The master-storyteller turns his pen to rural village life with Ways of Sunlight in Trinidad: gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen; toiling cane-cutters reaping their harvest; superstitious old Ma Procop protecting the fruit of her Mango tree... -
John Florio: The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England by Frances A. Yates 9780521170741
RRP: £46.99£38.14John 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... -
How To Be Gay by David M. Halperin 9780674283992
RRP: £21.95£18.02No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you... -
This Isle is Full of Monsters: Shakespeare's Audiences and the Supernatural by Jon Kaneko-James 9780995778412
RRP: £10.00£8.77Apologies 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: £10.99£7.77This 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... -
Biofiction: An Introduction by Michael Lackey
RRP: £35.99£31.69Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting... -
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy by Park Honan 9780199232697
RRP: £31.49£28.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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... -
Ancient Epic by K King 9781118255346
RRP: £25.95£22.60Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics - Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the... -
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London 9780142437735
RRP: £13.53£10.62Apologies 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)... -
R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland: Party, Prose, and Political Aesthetic by Lachlan Munro 9781474498272
RRP: £25.99£21.06Explores the complex life of the most controversial and enigmatic Scot of his generation, and his contribution to Scottish life and lettersShortlisted for Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2022 Includes accounts of Graham's... -
Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010 by Szilard Borbely
RRP: £17.99£13.99An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary... -
Love Poems by Anne Sexton
£13.20Apologies 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 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 Frontier: 28 Contemporary Ukrainian Poets - An Anthology by Anatoly Kudryavitsky 9781911414483
RRP: £23.99£20.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414483Author Anatoly KudryavitskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications Ltd -
How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene by Travis Holloway
RRP: £10.99£9.60Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world? The end of the Holocene era is marked not just by melting glaciers or epic droughts, but by the near universal disappearance of shared... -
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 *... -
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... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin
RRP: £56.00£46.34In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
Vasko Popa: Poems by Vasko Popa
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373362Author Vasko PopaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
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... -
The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet by Marcel Danesi
RRP: £19.99£17.61Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017 Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer... -
Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiskaia
RRP: £12.99£12.31Apologies 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 -
Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway by Katherine West Scheil 9781108416696
RRP: £75.00£68.14What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterpreted and reshaped? Imagining Shakespeare's Wife examines representations of Hathaway, from the earliest... -
Theatre in Scotland: A Field of Dreams by Joyce McMillan
RRP: £14.99£11.13'She has, to my knowledge, an almost unblemished record in never having failed to spot a great new play...' Philip Howard, from his Foreword Joyce McMillan has been writing about theatre in Scotland for more than three decades. As drama critic... -
Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000 by Russ McDonald 9780631234883
RRP: £41.95£38.33Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory is an anthology of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. An anthology of about 50 of the most significant essays and book chapters published... -
The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev by Sergei Yesenin 9780996157087
RRP: £15.95£10.08Apologies 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)... -
A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 1 by Raymond Victor Schoder 9781585101757
RRP: £40.99£37.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101757Author Leslie Collins EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China by Su Shi 9780197585603
RRP: £22.99£19.56The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book... -
The Life of D. H. Lawrence: A Critical Biography by Andrew Harrison 9780470654781
RRP: £68.95£59.90Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D. H. Lawrence spans the full range of his intellectual interests and creative output to offer new insights into Lawrence's life, work, and... -
Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: £8.99£6.45'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his... -
Posthuman Glossary by Rosi Braidotti
£45.87If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a "posthuman condition"; the... -
Douglas Coupland - Shopping in Jail: Ideas Essays and Stories for the Increasingly Real 21st Century by Douglas Coupland
£9.54Apologies 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 *... -
Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia by Alexander Bogdanov
RRP: £15.99£15.02"[A] surprisingly moving story." -The New Yorker"Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it." -Slavic Review"Bogdanov's... -
The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories by Vernon Lee 9780198837541
RRP: £7.99£6.39I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of... -
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction by Zoe Bossiere
RRP: £16.95£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941628232Author Zoe BossiereFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Rose Metal PressPublisher Rose Metal PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Cratylus by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.39On names, forms, beauty, and lies.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is...