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Wine by Meg Bernhard
RRP: €11.89€9.13Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often... -
Edward Young: Night Thoughts by Edward Young 9780521069670
RRP: €53.54€40.06During the century after its publication in 1742, 'Night Thoughts' was one of the most popular, widely read and influential poems in the English language. However, there have been no editions of the poem since the middle of the nineteenth century. This... -
Sticker by Henry Hoke
RRP: €11.89€9.13"A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history." - Publisher's Weekly "A book that sticks with you long after you've read it." Volume 1 Brooklyn "Hoke's writing is blunt and honest, and Sticker is a collection worth... -
A Commonplace by Jonathan Davidson 9781912196333
RRP: €11.84€8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912196333Author Jonathan DavidsonFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
Blake: The Complete Poems by William Blake 9781405832809
RRP: €47.59€47.05William Blake (1757 - 1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visonary. Profoundly libertarian in outlook, Blake's engagement with the issues of his day is well known and this - along with his own idiosynratic concerns... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's History Plays by Warren Chernaik 9780521671200
RRP: €23.79€19.25Shakespeare's history plays, as fresh today as when they were written, are based upon the assumption that time is not simply a destroyer but a preserver, and that 'examples past' might enable us to understand the present and anticipate the future. This... -
An Introduction to Homer by W. A. Camps 9780198721017
€41.94This is a book for all readers of Homer, whether in translation or in the original. It attempts to characterize the poetic art of the Iliad and the Odyssey and to analyse in a simple way the reasons for its effectiveness.ReviewsWill delight lovers of... -
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys by Anthony Fowles 9781906075347
RRP: €13.08€12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075347Author Anthony FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order by Hal Brands
RRP: €15.46€13.64An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things... -
Connected History: Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
RRP: €23.79€23.54Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue duree or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected... -
The Proper Pirate: Robert Louis Stevenson's Quest for Identity by Jefferson A. Singer 9780199328543
RRP: €44.61€35.88Exploring the life and times of author Robert Louis Stevenson, The Proper Pirate takes readers on a psychological journey from the writer's clerical and constricted upbringing to a life of imagination and wonder culminating in the South Seas island of... -
After Atheism: Science, Religion and the Meaning of Life by Mark Vernon 9780230013421
RRP: €53.54€53.51If science has replaced God, is life necessarily meaningless? This book argues that the advances of science and the retreat of religion in secular society does not have to mean a life without spirituality.Book InformationISBN 9780230013421Author Mark... -
The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's <i>Iliad</i> by Seth L. Schein
RRP: €32.13€25.06From the Preface: This book is addressed mainly to non-specialist readers who do not know Greek and who read, study, or teach the Iliad in translation; it also is meant for classical scholars whose professional specialization has prevented them from... -
The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot
RRP: €13.08€8.71This seminal book, Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, appeared in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, among them 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', 'Hamlet... -
Circe and the Cyclops by Homer
€3.57'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...'The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little... -
Shakespeare's Tragic Justice by C. J. Sisson
RRP: €41.64€36.71The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first published in 1963, four aspects of the problems of justice in action in Shakespeare's great tragedies are explored. This study is based on... -
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw 9781789098570
RRP: €11.89€8.46"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... -
The Expanse and Philosophy by Jeff Nicholas
RRP: €22.55€15.14Enter The Expanse to explore questions of the meaning of human life, the concept of justice, and the nature of humanity, featuring a foreword from author James S.A. Corey The Expanse and Philosophy investigates the philosophical universe of the... -
Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction by David Farrier 9781517906269
RRP: €21.41€18.92How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system... -
Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present by Roger Luckhurst 9780582312043
RRP: €59.49€56.93At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve... -
The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly 9781442626539
RRP: €33.31€27.75When it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly's The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery's books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery's fiction, Epperly argues that... -
A Length of Road by Robert Hamberger
RRP: €15.46€10.23In 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... -
Epigrams: v. 1 by Martial
RRP: €29.69€27.83Poetic concision in abundance.It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this... -
Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet by Barry Miles
RRP: €21.41€15.41Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journals and correspondence to produce an immensely... -
Ecclesiastical History: v. 1: Bks.I-V by Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius
RRP: €29.69€27.83The first comprehensive history of early Christianity.Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. AD 260-340), born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus, whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt, but... -
The Illustrated World of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: €35.70€24.28The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's works have inspired artists for generations and have given rise to myriad interpretations of the rich and magical worlds he created.The Illustrated World of Tolkien gathers together artworks and essays from expert... -
The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle by Colin Duriez
RRP: €13.08€9.25The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis's college rooms, they included an... -
Handbook of Russian Literature by Victor Terras 9780300048681
€66.47This first encyclopedia of its kind in English covers ten centuries of Russian literature and includes nearly 1,000 entries by leading scholars. It will be an indispensable guide for students or the general reader. "The Handbook is an Eden for... -
The Penguin Book Of The Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English by Phillis Levin 9780140589290
RRP: €27.36€18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140589290Author Phillis LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert 9780199555864
RRP: €9.51€7.06Three 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... -
The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan by Christine de Pizan 9780393970104
RRP: €19.03€16.45This Norton Critical Edition presents selections from eighteen of Christine's major works in fresh, contemporary translations. Each text is fully annotated and is accompanied by an introduction placing it in the context of Christine's oeuvre and tracing... -
Enquiry into Plants: v. 1: Bks. I-V by Theophrastus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The first fruits of Greek botany.Theophrastus of Eresus in Lesbos, born about 370 BC, is the author of the most important botanical works that have survived from classical antiquity. He was in turn student, collaborator, and successor of Aristotle. Like... -
Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel by Neil Roberts 9781942954187
€132.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954187Author Neil RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by James Raven
RRP: €27.95€19.77In 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... -
Ecclesiastical History: v. 2: Bks.VI-X by Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius
RRP: €29.69€27.83The first comprehensive history of early Christianity.Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. AD 260-340), born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus, whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt,... -
A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality by Christina Van Dyke 9780198861683
RRP: €41.04€35.31Medieval philosophy is primarily associated today with university-based disputations and the authorities cited in those disputations. In their own time, however, scholastic debates were recognized as just one part of wide-ranging philosophical and... -
The Humanities and Public Life by Peter Brooks
RRP: €19.03€16.95This book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. And that this commitment, and the training and discipline of close reading that underlie it, represent something that the humanities... -
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann 9780195031034
RRP: €95.20€65.18'A truly masterful biography, wise in its completeness. If Joyce be a great writer, then this is a great book.' Sunday Times 'The greatest literary biography of the century.' Anthony Burgess, The ObserverBook InformationISBN 9780195031034Author Richard... -
The Literary Mind And The Carving Of Dragons by Liu Hsieh 9789629965853
RRP: €21.41€15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629965853Author Liu HsiehFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint The Chinese University PressPublisher The Chinese University PressWeight(grams)... -
Blowing the Bridge: Essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Rena Sanderson 9780313284519
€99.06This collection of recent essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls demonstrates the centrality of this Spanish Civil war novel in the author's life and canon and reestablishes the book's status as an American masterpiece. It provides a long...