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Ada to Zembla: The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov by David Vernon 9781739136109
$23.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739136109Author David VernonFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Endellion PressPublisher Endellion PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Pedagogies for Diverse Contexts Alan Pence (University of Victoria, Canada.) 9780815350064
RRP: $46.43$41.20Diversity can be a rich source of possibility and opportunity in early childhood education. Appreciating that learning and development are shaped by culture and context, history and values, the diversity of cases found in this volume provide a useful... -
Blood Brothers GCSE Student Guide Ros Merkin (Senior Lecturer, Department of Drama, Liverpool John Moores University) 9781474229982
RRP: $14.18$11.93Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their exams... -
Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture by Dr Barry J. Faulk 9780821420959
RRP: $27.08$24.07The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell... -
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Ramzi Fawaz
RRP: $32.24$27.952017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies ... -
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection by Richard Lansdown 9780198722557
RRP: $44.49$32.96Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful... -
An Analysis of Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History Pilar Zazueta 9781912128662
RRP: $8.39$8.11Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories... -
The Cambridge Companion to Milton by Dennis Danielson
RRP: $37.40$31.50An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition... -
In a Sound World by Victor Segalen
RRP: $19.34$12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222801Author Victor SegalenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
RRP: $18.06$12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452260092Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Random House... -
Shakespeare in Parts by Simon Palfrey 9780199591107
$45.65A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full... -
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century by Jenny Minton Quigley
RRP: $18.05$12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898838Author Jenny MintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior
RRP: $19.34$14.68Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through... -
The Moralized Ovid by Pierre Bersuire 9780674290846
RRP: $38.64$31.00An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid's stories, translated into English for the first time.Written in about 1340 in Avignon by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925 by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $32.25$25.21The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies by Janette Dillon 9780521674928
RRP: $25.79$20.87Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about... -
How To Read Shakespeare Nicholas Royle 9781862077300
RRP: $9.02$6.48William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is perhaps the most famous as well as strangest and most inventive poet and dramatist of all time. Although dead for hundreds of years, he is everywhere - in books and movies, in love and war, in the public world of... -
An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture Stephen Fay 9781912127276
RRP: $8.39$8.11Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters... -
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism by Jill Kraye
RRP: $34.82$29.41From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical... -
New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $11.60$8.58In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing. From the extraordinary ideas but sexless science of Jules Verne to the power of H. G. Wells's... -
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories by Michael Cox 9780192804471
RRP: $19.34$13.26The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century fictional ghost... -
London Barnaby Rogerson 9781903651032
RRP: $9.02$6.67London's poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge, from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday's lyrics retrieved from a pub floor. Like the city itself this... -
Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
RRP: $15.47$10.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492433Author Namwali SerpellFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Prof Colin Burrow 9780198883463
RRP: $32.25$27.34Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and... -
Buzzworthy: Cocktails Inspired by Female Literary Greats by Jennifer Croll
RRP: $19.34$14.33The author of Free the Tipple is back with another collection of delectable cocktails-this time a literary mix inspired by the world's most iconic women writers. The fifty recipes in this volume are as unconventional, imaginative, and refreshing as... -
A Length of Road: Finding Myself in the Footsteps of John Clare: A John Murray Original Robert Hamberger 9781473697935
RRP: $16.76$11.39In 1841 the 'peasant poet' John Clare escaped from an asylum in Epping Forest, where he had been kept for four years, and walked over eighty miles home to Northamptonshire. Suffering from poor mental health, Clare was attempting to return to his... -
Spatiality by Dr. Robert T. Tally
RRP: $29.66$26.01Spatiality has risen to become a key concept in literary and cultural studies, with critical focus on the 'spatial turn' presenting a new approach to the traditional literary analyses of time and history.Robert T. Tally Jr. explores differing aspects of... -
Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon 9780582642614
$17.78The 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... -
Selected Poems: Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $11.55$8.41Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems have been astonishingly popular with children and adults alike since the first publication of Alice in Wonderland in 1865, and have influenced the work of a host of modern writers, including James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borgese... -
Scotland: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Garry MacKenzie 9781784536411
RRP: $21.92$17.23With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of literature, from the religious poems carved on the rocks of its sacred monuments to the seedy urban novels of... -
Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost by William Poole
RRP: $46.38$46.18Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected national poet and explains how the single greatest poem of the English language came to be written.In early 1642 Milton-an obscure private... -
My Century by Aleksander Wat
RRP: $27.09$19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170656Author Aleksander WatFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Longus: Daphnis and Chloe by Longus 9780521776592
RRP: $36.11$31.31Longus' Daphnis and Chloe is arguably our finest surviving Greek novel. Written under the Roman Empire and engaging with romantic, pastoral and rhetorical themes, the story and characterisation have captured the imaginations of artists over the centuries... -
Gadamer and Hermeneutics: Science, Culture, Literature Hugh J. Silverman 9781138685789
RRP: $47.72$41.96This title, first published in 1991, opens with an account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneutics. Building upon the key theme of dialogue, Gadamer and Hermeneutics provides a series of essays, either... -
Euripides: Trojan Women by Barbara Goff 9780715635452
$32.83Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies by Penny Gay 9780521672696
RRP: $25.79$20.87Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by James Raven
RRP: $30.30$21.43In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative... -
Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics by Professor Marjorie Perloff
RRP: $30.96$29.71The "infrathin" was Marcel Duchamp's playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. "Eat" is not the same thing... -
West Indian Intellectuals in Britain by Bill Schwarz 9780719064753
RRP: $25.79$22.72The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain. Written in an accessible, lively style, with a range of wonderful and distinguished authors. Key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain; study... -
Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and the Historical Novel by Perry Anderson 9781804290798
RRP: $21.92$18.19There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In Different Speeds, Same Furies, Perry Anderson...