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A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II by Joanna Lumley 9781529375930
RRP: $31.48$28.52'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good HousekeepingA sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II including... -
The Cambridge Companion to French Literature by John D. Lyons 9781107665224
RRP: $50.38$42.78In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and... -
Between Two Stools: Scatology and its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift by Peter J. Smith 9780719097614
RRP: $41.98$36.98Now available in paperback, Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology - humorous, carnivalesque, satirical, damning and otherwise - in English literature from the middle ages to the eighteenth century. Smith contends that the 'two... -
Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time by Roger Shattuck 9780393321807
RRP: $42.00$37.00For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and... -
Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde by Charles Juliet
RRP: $23.08$15.96Itself a mixture of idolatry, deft characterization, and critical insight, "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde" is both an entertaining and insightful contribution to our understanding of the lives and thoughts of two masters.About the... -
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
RRP: $52.48$45.74Fimi 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... -
Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 by Philip Roth
RRP: $71.38$47.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535402Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
The Dream of the Rood Michael Swanton 9780859895033
RRP: $48.28$44.18The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius. This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading... -
Write Like Hemingway by Cider Mill Press 9781604338874
RRP: $27.28$18.29An examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style.Acclaimed for his lean, succinct prose, Write Like Hemingway connects the dots between Ernest Hemingway's earliest writing job and his most memorable... -
Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 by Patrick Brantlinger
RRP: $56.68$49.73Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously... -
Tales from Herodotus by G.S. Farnell 9780862920913
RRP: $48.28$47.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Shakespeare and Ovid by Jonathan Bate 9780198183242
RRP: $111.30$82.93This is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid. Jonathan Bate examines the full range of Shakespeare's work, identifying Ovid's presence not only in the narrative poems and pastoral comedies,... -
Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological Performance by Emily McLaughlin
$172.75This volume explores how poets use different kinds of formal experimentation to change the way we think, and to allow us to try out new ways of perceiving existence and positioning ourselves within the world. Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological... -
Jane Austen, Early and Late by Freya Johnston 9780691198002
RRP: $73.50$58.70A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent... -
Works: v. 5: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.I-III by Flavius Josephus
RRP: $52.40$49.90Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill by Elaine Aston 9780521728942
RRP: $56.68$47.88Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion... -
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams 9780300240252
RRP: $39.88$33.98A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and... -
Homer: Poet of the Iliad by Mark W. Edwards
$64.24Homer: Poet of the "Iliad" is the perfect companion both for readers deepening their appreciation of the poem and its form and for those encountering Homer's work for the first time. Mark Edwards combines the advantages of a general introduction and a... -
Principles of Literary Criticism I.A. Richards 9781138123748
RRP: $50.38$44.77Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established... -
Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction Michael Scott 9781473612785
RRP: $31.48$21.11Your complete introduction to ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare has been hailed as one of the greatest thinkers of all time, one of the world's finest artists, poets and dramatists. Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction introduces and explains the plays by... -
The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy by Robert Rix 9781009359474
RRP: $63.00$51.60For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance by George Hutchinson 9780521673686
RRP: $48.28$41.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The First and Second Lady Chatterley Novels by D. H. Lawrence 9780521007153
RRP: $86.08$71.95D. H. Lawrence wrote his last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, three times in 1926-7, and it is the third version that has become famous. The three versions are in fact three different novels, varying greatly in length, a significant number of episodes,... -
John Clare in Context by Hugh Haughton 9780521020893
RRP: $83.98$69.85The marginalisation of John Clare, despite renewed interest in Romanticism and the literature of madness, is still an enigma. Perhaps more than any other poet of the period, Clare has never found the contexts in which his poetry can be read. This... -
The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie
RRP: $23.08$17.12'Wry, sharp-eyed and uncompromising, The Caiplie Caves is the most ambitious collection yet from an essential poet.' The Telegraph'Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spoken'. - Michael Hofmann, LRB The Canadian Karen Solie is rapidly... -
Rage by Simon Stephens
$25.47Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as 31 high-energy scenes, each one is based on a series of photos by Joel Goodman which captured the excitement and the mayhem of New Year's Eve... -
Encomium of Helen by Gorgias 9780862920531
RRP: $46.18$45.97The Encomium of Helen is thought to have been the demonstration piece of the Ancient Greek sophist, Presocratic philosopher and rhetorician, Gorgias. In this edition Malcolm MacDowell provides a useful introduction, the Greek text, his own English... -
Promises, Promises by Adam Phillips
RRP: $31.48$21.13Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new collection of essays which sets out to make and break the... -
David Guterson's "Snow Falling on Cedars" by Jennifer Haytock 9780826453211
$35.97The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed to be a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and reading groups, as well as for literature students at school, college and university. The series aims to give readers... -
G.K. Chesterton by Michael D. Hurley 9780746312100
RRP: $150.15$53.45Novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, historian, journalist, Christian apologist, literary and social critic, G.K. Chesterton was one of the most protean and prolific writers of his age, perhaps of any age. Bernard Shaw called him a 'colossal genius'... -
Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams by Callimachus
RRP: $52.40$49.90The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped... -
Horace: Odes Book III by A. J. Woodman
RRP: $54.58$48.32Book 3 of the Odes completes the lyric trilogy which Horace, who rivals Virgil as the greatest of all Latin poets, published in 23 BC. Arguably his most famous book, it opens with the six so-called 'Roman Odes', those defining texts of the Augustan Age,... -
The Arabic Literary Heritage: The Development of its Genres and Criticism by Roger Allen 9780521485258
RRP: $104.98$91.18Roger Allen here offers an account of the cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to the present day. Allen's organising principle is not that of traditional literary histories, but is rather... -
Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History by Kadji Amin
RRP: $46.18$40.30Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social... -
Journal of Vampire Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1 (2021) Anthony Hogg 9780645203417
$14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645203417Author Anthony HoggFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vampire Studies AssociationPublisher Vampire Studies AssociationWeight(grams)... -
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader by Donald E. Hall
RRP: $115.48$102.31The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key... -
On Ovid's Metamorphoses by Gareth David Williams 9780231200707
RRP: $105.00$82.15Ovid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale... -
Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney * Edna O'Brien * Lynne Reid-Banks * Charlotte Bingham * Nell Dunn * Virginia Ironside * Margaret Forster by Celia Brayfield
RRP: $41.98$30.45'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' Vice In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A... -
The Tragic Imagination: The Literary Agenda by Dr. Rowan Williams
RRP: $49.33$41.94The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens by Eleanor Cook
RRP: $67.20$61.64Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and...