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Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
£99.16Orlando, a novel loosely based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf's lover and friend, is one of Woolf's most playful and tantalizing works. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. A substantial introduction... -
The Life of Bishop Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus 9780521313872
RRP: £39.99£33.26The Life of Wilfrid offers us a graphic portrait of one of the most forceful characters in the history of the English Church: a man courageous and energetic yet at the same time litigious, ostentatious and overbearing, his life punctuated by restless... -
Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction by Kimberley Reynolds 9780230239371
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories... -
The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot by George Levine
RRP: £21.99£18.75This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian... -
Hamlet: Language and Writing by Dympna Callaghan
£19.99This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the... -
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman
RRP: £16.99£13.09The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent... -
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories by William Trevor 9780199583140
RRP: £11.99£8.43Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seanchai, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of... -
Narratology and Classics: A Practical Guide by Irene J. F. de Jong 9780199688708
£34.90Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, which was developed in the 1960s, has helped us towards a better understanding of the how and why... -
Reading Samuel Johnson: Reception and Representation, 1750–1960 by Phil Jones 9781638040774
£96.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638040774Author Phil JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
£15.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case... -
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin
RRP: £22.00£17.36Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers... -
Milton: The Complete Shorter Poems by John Carey 9781405832793
£37.08This masterly edition contains all of Milton's English poems, with the exception of Paradise Lost, together with translations and texts of all his Latin, Italian and Greek poems. First published in 1968 - and substantially updated in 1996 - John Carey's... -
Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity by Jonathan White
RRP: £12.99£12.58During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array of disciplines. Over ten years, White conducted... -
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture by Slavoj Zizek 9780262740159
RRP: £36.00£30.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262740159Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 10mm -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Colin Burrow
RRP: £48.99£37.56Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and... -
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: £30.00£22.82The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year... -
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £40.00£29.39In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War... -
Salamati: Hamed's Persian kitchen; recipes and stories from Iran to the other side of the world by Hamed Allahyari 9781911668565
RRP: £25.00£16.13'By eating my food, you come into my family. You are sitting with me, with my grandparents, parents and cousins, talking, sharing and enjoying the feeling of being together.'Hamed Allahyari cooks to connect - for that joyful moment you can say salamati... -
Welsh Gothic by Jane Aaron 9780708326084
RRP: £25.00£18.81Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic... -
Jerusalem: City of the Book by Merav Mack
RRP: £22.50£19.35A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as... -
Exemplary Spenser: Visual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie Queene by Jane Grogan 9781138376328
RRP: £47.99£41.81Exemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" and examining how Spenser mobilises his pedagogic concerns through... -
Out Of Silence, Sound. Out Of Nothing, Something.: A Writers Guide by Susan Griffin
RRP: £15.99£9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094109Author Susan GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Cinema/Politics/Philosophy by Nico Baumbach 9780231184236
RRP: £25.00£19.59Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism," helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades,... -
De Oratore: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.23The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
Muriel Spark's Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by David S. Robb 9780948877148
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877148Author David S. RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift 9780393930658
£17.53"Contexts" features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings. "Criticism" provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations,... -
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions by Marina Yaguello
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046398Author Marina YaguelloFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
BESS of Hardwick: New Perspectives by Lisa Hopkins 9781526101297
RRP: £90.00£50.47Bess of Hardwick was one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was born the daughter of a country squire. But by the end of her long life (which a recent redating of her birth suggests was even longer than previously thought)... -
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Nick Broten
RRP: £6.50£6.11Thomas Robert Malthus' 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population helped change the direction of economics, politics, and the natural sciences with its reasoning and problem solving. The central topic of the essay was the idea, extremely prevalent in the... -
Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Robert J. C. Young
RRP: £23.95£20.97Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary... -
A Study Guide for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375397919
RRP: £9.95£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375397919Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein, The by Sharon Ruston
RRP: £25.00£19.07What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science,... -
The Brontes and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination by Alexandra Lewis
RRP: £30.99£22.85What does it mean to be human? The Bronte novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontes and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte each... -
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by Anthony Grafton 9780674060258
RRP: £26.95£23.51In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common... -
William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century by Joan Hawkins
RRP: £31.00£27.76William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded)... -
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter
RRP: £16.99£13.65The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning - and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro by Andrew Bennett 9781108822022
RRP: £22.99£19.56The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro offers an accessible introduction to key aspects of the novelist's remarkable body of work. The volume addresses Ishiguro's engagement with fundamental questions of humanity and personal responsibility, with... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault by Prof. Lisa Downing 9780521682992
RRP: £19.99£17.13French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the history of systems of knowledge,... -
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... -
Orations, Volume II by Aelius Aristides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Meticulous eloquence.Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated, versatile, and influential authors of the Second Sophistic era and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in AD 117,...