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The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius
RRP: €33.32€25.94The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical genius and the modernity of his narrative flow. Many of... -
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II by Joanna Lumley 9781529375930
RRP: €17.84€16.16'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... -
Marxist Literary Criticism Today by Barbara Foley 9780745338835
RRP: €29.74€23.07*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019* *Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019* Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to be published in decades, Barbara Foley argues that... -
The Cambridge Companion to French Literature by John D. Lyons 9781107665224
RRP: €28.55€24.24In 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... -
Civil War by Lucan 9780143106234
RRP: €15.46€13.84This is a magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic. Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. His "Civil War" portrays two of the most colourful and powerful figures of the age -... -
Between Two Stools: Scatology and its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift by Peter J. Smith 9780719097614
RRP: €23.79€20.96Now 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: €23.80€20.97For 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... -
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
RRP: €15.46€9.73A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson. The last six hundred years in British... -
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior
RRP: €17.84€13.35Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through... -
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with CSEC Study Guide and Modern English Translation by Sherice Blair
€15.10Develop knowledge of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night through detailed notes and glossaries which reinforce the text and fully prepare students for the CSEC English B examination.- Build a contextual understanding of the play and era through a range of... -
The Science Fiction Handbook by M Booker 9781405162067
RRP: €32.07€27.88The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster... -
Shakespeare and Ovid by Jonathan Bate 9780198183242
RRP: €63.07€46.99This 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
€97.89This 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... -
Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho by Diana L. Burgin 9780814712214
RRP: €29.74€25.79The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous." Anton Chekhov,... -
The Penetrated Male by Jonathan Kemp 9780615870861
RRP: €26.18€20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615870861Author Jonathan KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Jane Austen: The girl with the golden pen by Gill Hornby
RRP: €9.51€6.66[b]Bicentenary Edition" Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen[/b]In a country parsonage in the late 18th century, there lived a large family of seven children. They were all bright and clever and noisy, so nobody really noticed when little Jane turned... -
Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" by Graley Herren
RRP: €28.55€24.92Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's distinguished artistic career. The present book interprets the songs recorded for Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams by a single singer/dreamer. These... -
Teller and the Tale by Gabriel Josipovici
RRP: €17.84€12.82'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a... -
Sophocles Fabulae by Sophocles 9780198145776
€33.19This new Oxford Classical Text of Sophocles is the product of many years of close collaboration between the two editors. Most of the major difficulties of text and interpretation have been discussed in graduate seminars held in Oxford. The evidence of... -
The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy by Robert Rix 9781009359474
RRP: €35.70€29.24For 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: €27.36€23.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The First and Second Lady Chatterley Novels by D. H. Lawrence 9780521007153
RRP: €48.78€40.77D. 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: €47.59€39.58The 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... -
Surrealist Women: An International Anthology by Penelope Rosemont
RRP: €41.65€37.77Beginning 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... -
The Saga of the Jomsvikings by Lee Milton Hollander
RRP: €20.22€17.93In 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... -
Monster Girl Encyclopedia: Vol. 2 by Kenkou Cross
RRP: €27.36€22.46The definitive source guide for the entire monster girl genre! Told from the perspective of a wandering scholarof monsters, this tantalising tome includes 100 gorgeous full-colour illustrations of seductively-dangerous monster girls. Replete with... -
Promises, Promises by Adam Phillips
RRP: €17.84€11.66Has 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
€20.38The "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: €85.09€30.29Novelist, 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'... -
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac 9780393971668
€15.86The text is accompanied by an introduction, textual annotations by the editor, and a map of Paris. "Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists" illustrates Balzac's immense influence on other writers, among them Charles Baudelaire, Hippolyte Taine,... -
Horace: Odes Book III by A. J. Woodman
RRP: €30.93€27.38Book 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,... -
Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria by Tope Omoniyi 9782359260328
RRP: €15.41€11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782359260328Author Tope OmoniyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Amalion PublishingPublisher Amalion Publishing -
The Arabic Literary Heritage: The Development of its Genres and Criticism by Roger Allen 9780521485258
RRP: €59.49€51.67Roger 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: €26.17€22.84Jean 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... -
Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks': New Interdisciplinary Essays by Max Silverman
RRP: €23.79€20.96First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both a profound critique of the conscious and unconcious ways in which colonialism brutalises the colonised and... -
Medieval Latin Liturgy in English Translation by Matthew Cheung Salisbury
RRP: €31.54€25.55In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the Middle Ages. The public, organized worship of the Church had a central role in medieval life... -
Journal of Vampire Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1 (2021) by Anthony Hogg 9780645203417
€7.95Apologies 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)... -
On Ovid's Metamorphoses by Gareth David Williams 9780231200707
RRP: €59.50€46.55Ovid'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... -
Disaster Mon Amour by David Thomson
RRP: €20.22€17.39A deep-and darkly comic-dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world "In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster and catastrophe our best friends-how we... -
Homer: A Beginner's Guide by Elton T. E. Barker 9781780742298
RRP: €11.89€7.63Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and Helen of Troy. In this vivid introduction, Elton Barker and Joel...