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Shakespeare: The Basics by Sean McEvoy
RRP: $38.98$34.50Now in its third edition Shakespeare: The Basics is an insightful and informative introduction to the work of William Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare's plays including the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations, this... -
The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare by Peter Brook
RRP: $19.48$14.18In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequence of essays, Peter Brook debates such questions as who was the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays, why... -
The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century by Robert E Norton
RRP: $58.48$51.68For many eighteenth-century European philosophers and writers, the beautiful soul was a symbol of enlightened humanity, carrying with it the possibility that aesthetic beauty and moral goodness would be fused in a new, indivisible unity. In the first... -
A Gallery of Recuperation: On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds by Jaime Semprun 9780262546171
RRP: $33.13$24.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546171Author Jaime SemprunFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation by W. J. T. Mitchell
RRP: $58.50$57.82In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Although we have many words about pictures, Mitchell notes that we do not yet have a satisfactory... -
Ghosts: Death'S Double And The Phenomena Of Theatre by Alice Rayner
RRP: $42.88$37.42Making spirits visible has been a part of the theatrical experience since at least the sixteenth century. Instead of illusions, however, ghostly doubles in theatre are materially real and pervasive. In Ghosts, Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial... -
Oxford Student Texts: Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Tale by Steven Croft 9780198325727
$22.93Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to... -
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Helen Vendler 9780691145341
RRP: $48.75$38.20In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no... -
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776069Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Photocopies by John Berger 9780747531722
$25.99This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and countrysides and... -
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards 9780712356961
RRP: $48.75$32.72The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour, and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to... -
Annotation by Remi H Kalir
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539920Author Remi Hi. KalirFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers by Demetrio S. Yocum 9780268207854
RRP: $54.58$47.07The first English translation of Petrarch’s Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of the “Father of Humanism.” Throughout Petrarch’s work, there is an undercurrent of tension between the secular and the sacred. In this... -
Selected Poems: Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $17.45$12.32Lewis 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... -
From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media by Silvio Gaggi 9780812216776
RRP: $46.78$45.71It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject-the self-is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras... -
The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War by Gebreyesus Hailu
RRP: $25.33$22.95Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception... -
The Isis Thesis: A Study Decoding 870 Ancient Egyptian Signs by Judy Kay King 9780976281405
$71.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976281405Author Judy Kay KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Envision Editions, Ltd.Publisher Envision Editions, Ltd.Weight(grams)... -
The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens: Anniversary edition by Paul Schlicke 9780199640188
RRP: $87.73$67.02Reissued to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens's birth, The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens (formerly The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens) draws together an unparalleled diversity of information on one of Britain's greatest writers:... -
Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture by Stephen Bending
RRP: $46.78$40.50Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world - whether willed or enforced - and of their engagement with the... -
Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems by Robert Pinsky
RRP: $25.25$17.37This text gathers together all Robert Pinsky's poetry, including 21 new poems. The verse essay "An Explanation of America" (Carcarnet, 1980) remains at the heart of this work. The book also includes "Ginza Samba", a history of the saxophone, and... -
Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff by Deborah A. Starr
RRP: $54.58$47.85The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of... -
Medea by Euripides
$15.60Though it wasn't successful at its first performance, in the centuries since then, Euripides's Medea has established itself as one of the most powerful and influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who avenges herself upon her... -
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History by New York Times
RRP: $81.90$56.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593234617Author New York TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide by Gerard O'Daly
RRP: $63.36$54.62b The most influential of Augustine's works, iCity of God/i played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. /b Augustine wrote City of God in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, at a time of rapid Christianization... -
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 9780393093322
$46.45Study of the genesis of the novel is facilitated by the reproduction of Dickens' working plans and, for the first time, by some thousands of meticulous textual notes. "Backgrounds" offers all of Dickens' correspondence about Bleak House as well as... -
A Game at Chess: Thomas Middleton by Thomas Middleton 9780719016349
RRP: $25.33$23.30For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James'... -
Katabatic Wind: Good Craic Fueled by Fumes from the Abyss by Stephen Crimi 9780996639415
RRP: $70.20$44.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996639415Author Stephen CrimiFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden
RRP: $25.33$6.84Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream... -
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition by Mark Twain 9780520267190
RRP: $74.10$61.64Autobiography of Mark Twain READER'S EDITION Now Available! Half the Size, All the Twain! ISBN 978052027255 "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have... -
The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose by Alain Badiou
$39.45The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the... -
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Thomas P. Adler 9780230228696
RRP: $46.78$46.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 9780674725676
RRP: $58.40$48.09The star of Northanger Abbey is seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, Jane Austen's youngest and most impressionable heroine. Away from home for the first time, on a visit to Bath with family friends, Catherine, a passionate consumer of novels... -
Flash in the Pan by David Blum 9781439193778
RRP: $29.23$28.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439193778Author David BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Judeo-Persian Writings: A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary Life by Nahid Pirnazar
RRP: $97.48$84.83Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic script and translations in English. Judeo-Persian writings not only reflect the twenty-seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they... -
Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters by Tobias Boes 9781501744990
RRP: $54.58$43.74In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel... -
A Play Book: Creating Writers, Creating Citizens by Mary Collins 9780985099787
RRP: $31.20$19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985099787Author Mary CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Entasis PressPublisher Entasis PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm -
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas 9781479806072
RRP: $33.13$29.39Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature Association Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards Winner, 2020 British Fantasy Awards, Nonfiction Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON... -
Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia" by Nahem Yousaf 9780826453242
$35.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction by James Como
RRP: $17.53$12.58Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a... -
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
RRP: $58.40$46.14The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico,...