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William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
RRP: $14.18$9.73William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury. Lord... -
Surrealist Women: An International Anthology by Penelope Rosemont
RRP: $45.15$40.94Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the... -
Euripides: Hippolytus by Ben Shaw 9780521678278
RRP: $14.51$13.11Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis... -
Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
RRP: $10.31$8.24'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-si`ecle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the... -
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer
RRP: $21.92$15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971286Author Norman MailerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Understanding The Grapes of Wrath: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents by Claudia Durst Johnson 9780313305757
$71.29When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, it had an explosive effect on the public, calling attention to the problems of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression. This casebook provides a rich source of primary materials on the period and... -
Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic by Tony Magistrale 9780879724054
RRP: $21.87$15.22One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony... -
Crossovers Expanded, Volume 1 by Sean Lee Levin 9780990567394
RRP: $37.41$33.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990567394Author Sean Lee LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Meteor HousePublisher Meteor HouseWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Greek Mathematical Works: Selections: v. 1: From Thales to Euclid by I. Thomas
RRP: $32.19$30.44Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical... -
A Poem a Day by Nicholas Albery 9781883642389
$19.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883642389Author Karen McCoskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth PressWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall by Eliot Cohen 9781541644861
RRP: $32.25$23.27William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost. In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. Cohen reveals how the battling princes of Henry IV and scheming senators of Julius Caesar can teach us to better... -
Vagabond Spirit of Poetry, The Edward Clarke 9781782793700
RRP: $16.76$14.78This book delineates different manifestations of the vagabond spirit of poetry through the ages. In doing so, it makes claims for the efficacy of poetry in our industrialized world, where we are presented with environmental, political and economic... -
The English Renaissance 1500-1620 Andrew Hadfield (University of Wales) 9780631220244
RRP: $59.28$52.14This lively and stimulating book guides students through the historical contexts, key figures, texts, themes and issues in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature. The English Renaissance, 1500-1620 sets out the historical and... -
Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell by Colin Davis
RRP: $25.79$22.97The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have... -
Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford Clark by Max Stafford-Clark
RRP: $19.34$14.58Inside 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... -
A Historical Guide to Mark Twain by Shelley Fisher Fishkin 9780195132939
RRP: $30.30$25.79Mark Twain (born Samuel Clements), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, lapsed Confederate soldier and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers. Beyond his works themselves, the... -
Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth 9780226065588
RRP: $32.25$31.40The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form... -
With Dust Still in His Throat: The Writing of B. L. Coombes, the Voice of a Working Miner by B. L. Coombes 9781783161492
RRP: $15.47$11.92The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this... -
An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Rachele Dini 9781912284757
RRP: $8.39$8.11The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism's treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider... -
Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web by J. McGann 9780312293529
RRP: $116.09$115.93This book describes and explains the fundamental changes that are now taking place in the most traditional areas of humanities theory and method, scholarship and education. The changes flow from the re-examination of the very foundations of the... -
The Europeans by Henry James 9781107004030
$128.38The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. James's The Europeans gently satirizes both early... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen by Jennifer Bain
RRP: $30.95$26.28This specially commissioned collection of thirteen essays explores the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), monastic founder, leader of a community of nuns, composer, active correspondent, and writer of religious visions, theological... -
The Golden Age of Spanish Drama by Gary Racz 9780393923629
RRP: $19.34$17.32From the late sixteenth century and well into the seventeenth, Spain produced one of the most vibrant and popular dramatic canons in the history of theatre, known as the Comedia. Collected, translated and edited by the pre-eminent scholars in the field... -
How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese: A Course in Classical Chinese by Zong-qi Cai
RRP: $45.15$36.30This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners.How... -
The Poetry and Drama of Jackie Kay: (Scotnotes Study Guides) by Lorna Smith
RRP: $8.97$7.25Jackie Kay served as Scotland's Makar from 2016 to 2021 and is one of Scotland's foremost writers. Much of her work explores her own life and heritage, her upbringing and the cultural forces which shaped her. Many of her poems illuminate the stuff of... -
Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language by David Crystal
RRP: $19.34$16.19For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original... -
Spice and Wolf, Vol. 14 (manga) by Isuna Hasekura 9780316442657
RRP: $14.18$10.04Previously, Lawrence and Holo traveled to the town of Svernel in order to meet with the Myuri Mercenary Company and find out more about Holo's past companions and her home. But now Lawrence has gotten completely caught up in the political strife of... -
Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory by Heather Love
RRP: $29.67$28.55The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, drug addicts, and political radicals. But in the next decades, many of these downcast figures... -
Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb by Eric G. Wilson
RRP: $32.25$27.50An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work "[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb."-New Yorker A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) found inspiration in London's... -
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny by Clare Asquith
RRP: $28.37$20.46The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of poems dedicated to the young Earl of Southampton: Venus and... -
This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray by Mark Ford
RRP: $24.50$16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908998279Author Mark FordFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street by Pat Rogers
RRP: $32.25$23.61The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and... -
Understanding Metalepsis: The Hermeneutics of Narrative Transgression by Julian Hanebeck 9783110764611
RRP: $27.09$23.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJulian Hanebeck, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany. Book InformationISBN 9783110764611Author Julian HanebeckFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Commentary for Students by David Raeburn 9780199595617
RRP: $30.95$28.86This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling... -
Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines by Stuart Murray 9781350172173
$21.97Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has... -
Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books by Ian C. Ellis 9780399532382
RRP: $30.96$22.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399532382Author Ian C. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 by Carole Levin
$58.01From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern England. Poets, princesses, or pirates, the women of power and agency found in these pages are indeed worth... -
Ovid: Metamorphoses Book XIV by Ovid 9780521007931
RRP: $37.40$33.31In Book XIV of the Metamorphoses Ovid takes his epic for the first time into Italy and continues from book XIII his close intertextual engagement with Virgil's Aeneid. His tendentious treatment of his model subordinates Virgil's epic plot to fantastic... -
The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
RRP: $14.18$10.15The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement... -
Intermediate Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook by Jenneke A. Oosterhoff
RRP: $58.04$50.67Intermediate Dutch is designed for learners who have achieved a basic proficiency and wish to refine their knowledge of grammatical structures. This Workbook, along with its companion volume Basic Dutch, provides clear and concise summaries of the...