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Basti by Intizar Husain
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175828Author Intizar HusainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Study Guide to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee by Intelligent Education 9781645421825
RRP: £9.95£6.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645421825Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes 9780571221387
RRP: £30.00£20.70At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was... -
With William Burroughs by Victor Bockris 9780312147679
RRP: £22.99£15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147679Author Victor BockrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 408g -
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
RRP: £24.99£21.78Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of... -
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson 9780691224305
RRP: £18.99£13.93From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial... -
Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick by Gabriel McKee 9780761826736
RRP: £47.00£41.20From his earliest stories, Philip K. Dick's science fiction had strong religious and philosophical themes. In Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter, Gabriel McKee gives an overview of Dick's religious experiences and his attempts at... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre by Richard Beadle 9780521682541
RRP: £26.99£23.20The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English... -
Singular Pasts: The "I" in Historiography by Enzo Traverso 9780231203982
RRP: £92.00£71.81Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor... -
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 9780393264234
£14.44This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel (1859) accompanied by twenty-seven illustrations, from original images by Halbot Knight Browne ("Phiz") to cartoons from The Simpsons.An expansive introduction and detailed explanatory... -
Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego by Christopher Hogarth
RRP: £125.00£107.86Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego examines the corpus of writing of two contemporary female authors. Both writers are of African descent, live in Europe and write about lives across Europe... -
Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer by Richard Bradford
RRP: £20.00£15.32The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of... -
Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford Clark by Max Stafford-Clark
RRP: £14.99£11.13Inside accounts of the making of some of the most influential theatre productions of the last four decades. Max Stafford-Clark has been at the cutting edge of theatre in Britain for more than thirty years. Taking Stock draws on diaries, photos and... -
Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard
RRP: £12.99£9.79A unique and captivating guide to the literary heritage of Venice. Venice, La Serenissima, is one of the most breath-taking cities in the world. From its earliest beginnings in the 7th century, Venice has been a magnetic centre of trade and culture,... -
City of God: v. 1: Bks.I-III by Edmund Augustine
RRP: £24.95£23.39A Church Father's theological citadel.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica... -
The Psychology of Art by L. S. Vygotskii 9780262720052
£35.64Vygotsky opened up an original field in the science of psychology, based on the sociohistorical theory of the nature of man's consciousness. This work, written more than forty years ago and now translated into English for the first time, approaches the... -
Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley
RRP: £36.00£30.77An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages. Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often... -
Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide by William J. Puette
RRP: £8.99£8.54"Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." -The Japan TimesThis is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century... -
Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff 9780226566177
RRP: £23.00£22.13Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the... -
The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move by Ann Rigney 9780198806400
£38.75Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was once a household name, but is now largely forgotten. This book explores how Scott's work became an all-pervasive point of reference for cultural memory and collective identity in the nineteenth century, and why it no... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound by Ira B. Nadel
RRP: £33.99£29.26This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars, who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. They consider the poetics, foreign influences, economics, politics and... -
Argonauts by Apollonius 9781906814755
RRP: £7.99£5.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814755Author of Rhodius ApolloniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Chanson des Chetifs and Chanson de Jerusalem: Completing the Central Trilogy of the Old French Crusade Cycle by Dr. Carol Sweetenham 9781138307247
RRP: £39.99£35.06The First Crusade was arguably one of the most significant events of the Middle Ages. It was the only event to generate its own epic cycle, the Old French Crusade Cycle. The central trilogy at the heart of the Cycle describes the Crusade from its... -
James Herbert - The Authorised True Story by Craig Cabell 9781782196709
£10.95For almost 40 years, Herbert was Britain's most popular horror author. With sales f over 50 million copies, he carved a niche in quality bestselling fiction all of his own. Famous for his Rats trilogy and The Fog, he broke away from the cut-and-thrust... -
After The End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse by James Berger 9780816629336
RRP: £20.99£18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816629336Author James BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Antisemitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Identity Politics by Philip Slayton
RRP: £14.99£9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823107Author Philip SlaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England by Heather Dubrow
£29.37As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts critics have questioned many of the assumptions underlying this definition,... -
Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene by Justin D. Edwards
RRP: £23.99£20.84An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era What can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a... -
Paul Gilroy by Paul Williams
RRP: £19.99£17.69Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery,... -
History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past by Jason Steinhauer 9783030851163
RRP: £22.99£16.61The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History... -
Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies by Stanley Fish 9780198129998
£29.62In a succession of provocative and wide-ranging chapters, Stanley Fish explores the rational basis of our literary, legal, and psychoanalytic interpretations. He argues that while we can never separate our judgements from the context in which they are... -
Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon 9780521092586
RRP: £37.99£32.97Caroline Spurgeon's pioneer study of the imagery of Shakespeare's plays shows how much light can be thrown on Shakespeare's own mind and thought and on the themes and characters of the plays by a detailed examination of his imagery. At the same time she... -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
RRP: £16.00£8.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745426Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity by Carl Phelpstead 9780708323915
RRP: £19.99£15.23Tolkien and Wales is the first book to offer a detailed examination of the influence of Wales on Tolkien's fiction and scholarly work, including some relatively neglected texts.About the AuthorDr Phelpstead is a Reader in English literature at Cardiff... -
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern by Greta LaFleur
RRP: £27.99£24.14Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston. Refuting arguments that... -
The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry by Michael Ferber 9780521154376
RRP: £22.99£19.04The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake and Shelley - whilst also... -
Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice by Alison Mark 9780333734384
RRP: £44.99£44.97Contemporary Women's Poetry is a unique resource for students, teachers, and anyone interest in contemporary poetry. It offers the opportunity for readers to engage with the work of important figures and issues in contemporary women's poetry from two... -
Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9780375725661
RRP: £17.50£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725661Author Gerard Manley HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge by John Worthen 9780521746434
RRP: £18.99£16.18Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative... -
Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film by Usha Vishnuvajjala 9781641893831
RRP: £95.00£90.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893831Author Usha VishnuvajjalaFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press