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Hemingway's Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway by Matthew C Nickel 9780615753416
RRP: £22.95£19.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615753416Author Matthew C NickelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint New Street Communications, LLCPublisher New Street Communications, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Women's Writing on the First World War by Agnès Cardinal 9780198122814
£37.74The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the War's impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.76The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
Sexti Properti Elegi by S. J. Heyworth 9780198146742
RRP: £22.99£22.85Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the... -
Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection by James Crews 9781732743458
RRP: £20.99£12.13This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr. Martin Luther... -
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
RRP: £13.50£12.34D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf's edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel-for the general reader and the student as much as for the scholar. The editors use as their copy-text the original 1818 version,... -
Method of Medicine: v. I, Bk. 1-4 by Galen
RRP: £24.95£23.76Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129-?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner, who... -
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renée Bergland 9780691235288
RRP: £28.00£19.76A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets,... -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor
RRP: £12.99£9.34Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the... -
Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies by Kate Hext 9780198875376
RRP: £25.00£21.19Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema become the... -
A Celtic Miscellany: Selected and Translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson by Kenneth Jackson
RRP: £12.99£9.34Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the... -
Books to Die For John Connolly 9781473612181
RRP: £25.00£17.03Winner of the 2013 Agatha, Anthony and the Macavity Awards for Best Crime Non-Fiction.With so many mystery novels to choose from and so many new titles appearing each year, where should the reader start? What are the classics of the genre? Which are the... -
The Saga of the Jomsvikings by Lee Milton Hollander
RRP: £16.99£15.07In A.D. 986, Earl Hakon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjorunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse... -
After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21st Century by Tyler Bradway 9781108739733
RRP: £22.99£19.56After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice. It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer... -
Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett by Bennett Simon 9780300058055
£22.38One of the most important characteristics of tragic drama-as of psychoanalysis- is the focus on the family. Dr. Bennett Simon here provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea, Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, O'Neill's... -
A Month And A Day: & Letters by Ken Saro-Wiwa 9780954702359
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954702359Author Ken Saro-WiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 220g -
Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell by Peter Porter
RRP: £12.99£8.80In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's... -
Equus by Peter Shaffer 9780582097124
£16.81Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? While treating the boy, a psychiatrist discovers his own life is paradoxically in the witness box.Book... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan F. S. Post
RRP: £8.99£6.65Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase... -
How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences by Scott R. Harris 9781452241340
RRP: £34.99£30.32This brief, introductory book provides readers with a step-by-step guide to reading and understanding a social science research article. The author demonstrates the many strengths of social research, including its advantages over ordinary ways of knowing... -
The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology by Cheryll Glotfelty 9780820317816
£32.21The Ecocriticism Reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology... -
All Booked Up: A Reading Retrospective by Susan Elkin 9781916668416
RRP: £9.99£7.32Reflecting on seventy years of voracious reading, All Booked Up invites you to reflect on the transformative power of literature on a life through fifteen captivating chapters, each focusing on a different book. Opening with Five Go Off In A Caravan,... -
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization by J. C. McKeown 9780199982103
RRP: £15.99£12.23The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without them. And yet they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs,... -
Mirror of the Marvelous: The Surrealist Reimagining of Myth by Pierre Mabille 9781620557334
RRP: £16.99£11.08A surrealist exploration of the marvelous in ancient, classic, and modern works from around the world * Reveals the "marvelous" in works from William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Chretien de Troyes, and Arthur Rimbaud; legends and... -
Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History by Franco Moretti 9781844671854
£13.98In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers... -
Desiring Arabs by Joseph A. Massad
RRP: £20.00£19.80Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society... -
Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the in Between by Mark I West 9781666938876
RRP: £85.00£75.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666938876Author Mark I WestFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Nick Broten
£6.69Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed, but also... -
Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd by Phillip Mallett
RRP: £8.99£7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776151Author Phillip MallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture by Liz Gloyn
£27.99What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling? Why do the monsters of antiquity continue to stride across the modern world? In this book, the first in-depth study of how post-classical societies use the creatures from... -
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £21.00£18.02Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This expanded edition includes a new preface by the author as well as her post-9/11... -
Anarchist Seeds Beneath The Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward by David Goodway
RRP: £22.99£15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862218Author David GoodwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 621g -
Works: v. 3 by Julian
RRP: £24.95£23.76The emperor who renounced Christianity.Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and ... -
My Life With John Steinbeck: The story of John Steinbeck's forgotten wife Gwyn Steinbeck 9781999675202
RRP: £11.99£8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999675202Author Gwyn SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Lawson Publishing LimitedPublisher Lawson Publishing Limited -
Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction Robert J. C. Young (Wadham College, Oxford) 9781405120944
RRP: £33.95£31.21This seminal work-now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface-is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory. Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire,... -
Color by Fox: The Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television by Kristal Brent Zook 9780195106121
RRP: £14.99£12.58Offering a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s, this book provides, for the first time ever, an interpretation of black TV based in both journalism and critical theory. Locating a persistent... -
Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky by Bryan Karetnyk
RRP: £12.99£9.34SHORTLISTED FOR THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE GLOBAL READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, they... -
Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles Tragic Hero and His Time by Bernard M. W. Knox 9780300074239
£23.45In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examines Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in the context of fifth-century B.C. Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries-and in particular in disentangling Sophocles'... -
The Sea by David Farrell Krell 9781350080539
£27.19Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is... -
Works: v.1 by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A soldier's chronicle of Rome in decline.Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325-ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor...