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Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation by Roger Housden 9781400047994
RRP: €24.99€16.24Apologies 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 -
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Map by Martin Thelander 9789152770931
RRP: €9.51€6.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789152770931Author Martin ThelanderPage Count 2Imprint Paris GrafikPublisher Paris GrafikWeight(grams) 17gDimensions(mm) 148mm * 105mm * 1mm -
Jolly Good Detecting: Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age by Bruce Shaw 9780786478866
RRP: €42.83€35.22This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humour in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humour as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a... -
The Annotated Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 9780393072198
RRP: €38.07€35.14Since its publication in 1868, the beloved children's classic Little Women, has been handed down from mother to daughter. It has inspired an opera, three films and a musical. In this lavish four-colour edition, renowned Alcott expert John Matteson brings... -
Three Renaissance Travel Plays by Tony Parr 9780719058004
RRP: €19.03€17.22This 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... -
Harmony of the Creative Word: The Human Being and the Elemental, Animal, Plant and Mineral Kingdoms by Rudolf Steiner
RRP: €15.41€13.07In one of his most popular lecture courses - formerly published as Man as Symphony of the Creative Word - Rudolf Steiner presents an extraordinary panorama of spiritual knowledge centring on the human being. We are the harmony of creation - a microcosm -... -
From Shadow To Light: The Life & Art of Mort Meskin by Steven Brower 9781606993583
RRP: €47.59€31.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606993583Author Steven BrowerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1313g -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 2 by Leon Wieseltier
RRP: €16.65€11.02About the AuthorLeon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties. Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties. Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and author most... -
From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic by Mary R. Bachvarova
RRP: €61.87€33.80This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, the... -
The Book by Amaranth Borsuk
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535410Author Amaranth BorsukFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 17mm -
Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914 by Vivi Lachs 9780814343555
€33.72New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914. Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of... -
Histories: Bks. 4-5 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The 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... -
Caesar Commentarii. I. (Gallic War): (Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento) by Julius Caesar 9780198146025
€33.77(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)... -
Jeanne D'Albret: Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration by Katleen M Llewellyn
RRP: €30.94€29.57This edition presents in English, for the first time, Jeanne d'Albret's Letters to the king, his mother, his brother, her own brother-in-law, and the queen of England, together with her Ample Declaration (1568) defending her decampment to the Protestant... -
Lupercal by Ted Hughes 9780571383993
RRP: €17.84€11.66Lupercal was Ted Hughes's second collection, containing some of his most brilliant animal poetry. It confirmed his reputation as a major talent in British poetry. 'Hughes has found his own voice, created his own artistic world and has emerged as a poet... -
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
RRP: €45.21€39.72What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns... -
Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence 9780140183771
RRP: €15.46€10.82Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature... -
The Poetry of Sorley MacLean by Emma Dymock
RRP: €8.27€6.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841058Author Emma DymockFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
An Analysis of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Rebecca Pohl
RRP: €7.74€7.27The 1979 publication of Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert's ground-breaking study The Madwoman in the Attic marked a founding moment in feminist literary history as much as feminist literary theory. In their extensive study of nineteenth-century women's... -
The Iliad SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 35 by SparkNotes
RRP: €7.13€5.24When 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... -
Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance by Catherine Nicholson
RRP: €64.26€55.68In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly... -
The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs of the Imperial Visit to Datong by Pu Songling 9780197606308
RRP: €27.36€23.75The 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 Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute by one... -
Lost Goddesses Of Early Greece by Charlene Spretnak 9780807013434
RRP: €29.75€19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013434Author Charlene SpretnakFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm *... -
Vernon Watkins on Dylan Thomas and Other Poets and Poetry by Vernon Watkins 9781909844056
RRP: €14.27€10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909844056Author Vernon WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Parthian BooksPublisher Parthian Books -
Equus by Peter Shaffer 9780582097124
€20.00Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? While treating the boy, a psychiatrist discovers his own life is paradoxically in the witness box.Book... -
The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII by Jacques Lacan
RRP: €21.41€19.09"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. A whole crowd... -
Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires by Mark D. Jordan 9781531504533
RRP: €26.17€22.84FINALIST, THE RANDY SHILTS AWARD FOR GAY NONFICTION, THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARDS A passionate exhortation to expand the ways we talk about human sex, sexuality, and gender. Twenty-five years ago, Mark D. Jordan published his landmark book on the... -
I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century by Michel Foucault
RRP: €28.55€24.80To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Riviere decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old... -
The Poetry and Drama of Jackie Kay: (Scotnotes Study Guides) by Lorna Smith
RRP: €8.27€6.46Jackie Kay served as Scotland's Makar from 2016 to 2021 and is one of Scotland's foremost writers. Much of her work explores her own life and heritage, her upbringing and the cultural forces which shaped her. Many of her poems illuminate the stuff of... -
Aeschylus: v. III: Fragments by Aeschylus
RRP: €29.69€27.83Tantalizing quotations from lost tragedies.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably... -
The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz by Hafiz 9780140196238
RRP: €14.27€13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140196238Author HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm)... -
Apuleius Metamorphoses V: A Selection by Stuart R. Thomson
€17.98This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Apuleius' Metamorphoses V, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for sections 11-24. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text... -
The Divine Comedy: II. Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €22.00€16.62First published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1939.Book InformationISBN 9780195004137Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm) 204mm... -
Modern Times: Selected Non-fiction by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €17.84€13.03MODERN TIMES brings together an extraordinary collection of Sartrean gems, many of which have never been translated into English before. From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, the volume contains an... -
Hela by Mari Izzard
€13.15"Do's dim hawl 'da ti adael, Do's dim hawl 'da ti anghofio pwy wyt ti" "You don't get to leave, You don't get to forget who you really are" Erin, a young mother, has lost her son - but no one will listen. Driven and desperate, she must find him... -
Greek Historical Inscriptions 478-404 BC by Robin Osborne
€49.35This volume is both a companion to the editors' Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, and a successor to the later part of the Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, edited by Russell Meiggs and David M. Lewis... -
A Companion to the History of the Book by Simon Eliot
RRP: €39.21€35.87A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose "As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer." Choice "If you want to... -
Bronte's Wuthering Heights by Ian Brinton
€33.31This is a concise but comprehensive student guide to studying Emily Bronte's classic novel "Wuthering Heights". After its relatively modest reception in 1847, Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" has become one of the most widely-read novels of the... -
Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: €14.27€10.03The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'... -
The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature by Dermot Cavanagh
RRP: €22.60€20.85This is a new edition of this established guide for students studying literature for the first time. This up-to-the minute foundational guide introduces the full range of literary forms, styles, theories and critical strategies which new students need to...