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Fragmentary Republican Latin: Volume VI by Robert Maltby
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three foundational Roman poets.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry.Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans... -
Jean Baudrillard by Richard J. Lane
RRP: £19.99£17.69Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial theorists of our time, famous for his claim that the Gulf War never happened and for his provocative writing on terrorism, specifically 9/11. This new and fully updated second edition includes: an... -
William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
RRP: £10.99£7.32William 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... -
William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians by Keith Dockray 9781781554159
RRP: £16.99£12.94For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occupation of the English throne; a blessing because,... -
Euripides: Hippolytus by Ben Shaw 9780521678278
RRP: £11.25£9.90Treating 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... -
Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958 by Yurou Zhong
RRP: £30.00£23.29Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation's civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. They declared it an archaic hindrance to... -
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller 9780811203227
RRP: £11.99£11.86One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others... -
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer
RRP: £16.99£12.18Apologies 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 *... -
Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 by Elleke Boehmer
RRP: £10.99£7.77`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' ... -
Understanding The Grapes of Wrath: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents by Claudia Durst Johnson 9780313305757
£55.26When 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: £16.95£11.80One 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: £29.00£25.18Apologies 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 *... -
A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
£17.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061985515Author C. S. LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476g -
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Professor Aaron Sachs
RRP: £35.00£25.91Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them-and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells... -
Harry Potter: The Film Vault - Volume 8: The Order of the Phoenix and Dark Forces by Jody Revenson 9781789094169
RRP: £14.99£7.94The Harry Potter Film Vault series condenses the rich concept art of the Harry Potter film series into twelve collectible volumes. Harry Potter: The Film Vault compiles the filmmaking secrets and visionary artistry behind the Harry Potter films into a... -
Culture in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745653556
RRP: £14.99£13.58In its original formulation, 'culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating 'the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture... -
Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame by Cary Wolfe
RRP: £23.00£22.13Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in "Before the Law", Cary... -
The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
RRP: £43.99£39.44From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters... -
The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry by Edward Clarke 9781782793700
RRP: £12.99£11.46This 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... -
A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama by Alison Findlay 9780631205098
RRP: £37.95£33.36We know that women made up a significant part of Renaissance theatre audiences but how might they have read the plays presented there?About the AuthorAlison Findlay is a lecturer in English at Lancaster University, specializing in feminist approaches to... -
A Historical Guide to Mark Twain by Shelley Fisher Fishkin 9780195132939
RRP: £23.49£19.99Mark 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... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973 by Slav N. Gratchev
RRP: £17.99£15.90Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for... -
With Dust Still in His Throat: The Writing of B. L. Coombes, the Voice of a Working Miner by B. L. Coombes 9781783161492
RRP: £11.99£9.00The 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... -
Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web by J. McGann 9780312293529
RRP: £89.99£89.87This 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... -
Modernism, Empire, World Literature by Joe Cleary
RRP: £34.99£30.49After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dracula by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: £19.99£15.66Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen by Jennifer Bain
RRP: £23.99£20.37This 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 Affect Theory Reader 2: Worldings, Tensions, Futures by Gregory J. Seigworth 9781478024910
RRP: £26.99£23.32Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in... -
Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2: Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles by Julian Curry
RRP: £14.99£11.13'This book gives some of the very best of Shakespeare's twenty-first-century colleagues an opportunity to share insights that can only come from playing him' Nicholas Hytner, from his Foreword Twelve leading actors take us behind the scenes of... -
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan 9781476753614
RRP: £24.00£14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476753614Author KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese: A Course in Classical Chinese by Zong-qi Cai
RRP: £35.00£28.14This 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... -
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse by Anahid Nersessian
RRP: £19.00£16.60"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over--like this world, and some of the people in it." In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them--"Ode to a... -
Tu Fu by William Hung 9780674334847
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674334847Author William HungFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 612g -
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Peter Atkins
RRP: £11.99£8.43The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where... -
More Than Cool Reason: Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor by George Lakoff
RRP: £23.00£22.13"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.'... -
On Sophistical Refutations: v. 3: On Comin to Be Passing Away - On the Cosmos by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.88Fallacies, contraries, consistencies.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three... -
The Secret Life of Puppets by Victoria Nelson
£42.59In one of those rare books that allows us to see the world not as we've never seen it before, but as we see it daily without knowing, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the supernatural still holds for a secular mainstream culture... -
Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language by Wilt L. Idema 9781624665233
RRP: £18.99£15.67The saga of the Three Kingdoms-which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180-220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states-remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional... -
Yi Sang: Selected Works by Choi Mee Don
RRP: £21.99£14.83Winner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of... -
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader by Donald E. Hall
RRP: £54.99£48.72The 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...