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The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780195388701
RRP: $103.20$71.47Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go... -
The Novel: A Biography by Michael Schmidt 9780674724730
RRP: $43.80$37.69The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by... -
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends by Simon Young 9781496839466
RRP: $37.35$37.01In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales... -
Writing Poetry by W. N. Herbert
RRP: $49.01$43.06This volume presents new versions of key chapters from the recent Routledge/Open University textbook, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings for writers who are specialising in writing poetry. It offers the novice writer engaging and creative... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Byron by Richard Lansdown 9780521128735
RRP: $25.79$14.73Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth-century writers, artists,... -
Ariel's Gift by Erica Wagner
RRP: $14.18$9.73Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last century. When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and... -
Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 by Katerina Clark
RRP: $55.41$44.69A long-awaited corrective to the controversial idea of world literature, from a major voice in the field.Katerina Clark charts interwar efforts by Soviet, European, and Asian leftist writers to create a Eurasian commons: a single cultural space that... -
Culture/Metaculture by Francis Mulhern
RRP: $25.79$22.82Culture/Metaculture is a stimulating introduction to the meanings of 'culture' in contemporary Western society. This essential survey examines:* culture as an antidote to 'mass' modernity, in the work of Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, Jose Ortega y Gasset,... -
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept by Timothy Clark
RRP: $34.82$30.73The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical... -
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark 9780307951267
RRP: $32.25$19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2020. Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2020 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2020 and Pulitzer Prize... -
Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews during the Rif War (1909-27) by Elisabeth Bolorinos Allar
RRP: $103.20$99.60How were Moroccan Muslim and Jewish cultures depicted in Spanish literature, journalism, and photography during the Rif War and what did this portrayal reveal about conflicting visions of Spanish identity? Runner-up for the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish... -
The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire by Nicholas Cronk 9780521614955
RRP: $33.53$28.37As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire... -
The English Poems of George Herbert by George Herbert 9780521177207
RRP: $47.72$40.42George Herbert (1593-1633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His volume of poems, The Temple, published posthumously in 1633, became one of the most widely read and influential collections of the seventeenth... -
The Membranes: A Novel by Ari Larissa Heinrich
RRP: $18.05$15.58It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media... -
The Encyclopedia of the Gothic, 2 Volume Set William Hughes (Bath Spa University, UK) 9781119064602
RRP: $44.18$40.60The Encylopedia of the Gothic features a series of newly-commissioned essays from experts in Gothic studies that cover all aspects of the Gothic as it is currently taught and researched, along with the development of the genre and its impact on... -
Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: $22.56$19.49A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times. The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and... -
New Orleans: A Writer's City by T. R. Johnson
RRP: $25.80$19.23The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the... -
Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton by David Quint
RRP: $67.08$53.34Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation... -
Our Secret Territory: The Essence of Storytelling by Laura Simms
RRP: $25.79$16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591811725Author Laura SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 320g -
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton by Professor J. R. Mulryne 9780719043505
RRP: $14.18$10.47Women Beware Women is among the most powerful and adroitly plotted of Jacobean tragedies. Written by Thomas Middleton, a later contemporary of Shakespeare, the play deals with topics of enduring fascination such as sexual and financial greed, the sexual... -
The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World 2e by Jack David Zipes 9780312293802
RRP: $64.49$58.01Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Bringing to bear... -
Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by T. Hardy 9780333949283
RRP: $96.74$92.61Thomas Hardy's first love was always poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was fifty-eight years old, having already established his reputation with fourteen novels and over forty short stories, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published... -
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: $12.89$12.87Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or ourselves - by... -
Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement by Daniel Just
RRP: $116.10$84.20Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691234533
RRP: $16.76$12.01Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life-and how he might guide yours, tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie-Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title... -
The Insistence of History: Revolution in Burke, Wordworth, Keats, and Baudelaire by Geraldine Friedman 9780804725446
RRP: $85.14$73.96Through a series of theoretically informed readings, this book explores the uncanny effectivity of history in its seeming absence in canonical works by Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire written in the shadow of the French Revolution and the... -
Ethics, Theory and the Novel by David Parker 9780521452830
RRP: $116.10$86.75The virtual suppression of explicit ethical and evaluative discourse by current literary theory can be seen as the momentary triumph of a sceptical post Enlightenment reflective tradition over others vital to a full account of human and literary worth... -
Women and the Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion Avril Horner 9781474425568
RRP: $30.95$25.58This collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of `Women and the Gothic .About the AuthorAvril Horner is Emeritus Professor at Kingston University, London. Sue... -
Teaching Literature in the Real World: A Practical Guide by Patrick Collier
RRP: $25.79$23.08Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher education classroom head on. Whether you're teaching in a community college, a state school, a liberal... -
The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature by Robert Welch 9780198661580
RRP: $138.68$131.52The literature of Ireland displays an exceptional richness and diversity - whether in Irish or English, by native Irish and Anglo-Irish writers or by outsiders like Edmund Spenser whose works were deeply imbued with the country in which he lived and... -
Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form by Kevin Ohi
RRP: $39.99$35.57The beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text's vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the... -
The Art of Poetry: Edexcel GCSE Relationships by Neil Bowen 9780995467156
RRP: $15.47$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467156Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackImprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 222g -
The Frontier: 28 Contemporary Ukrainian Poets - An Anthology by Anatoly Kudryavitsky 9781911414483
RRP: $30.95$26.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414483Author Anatoly KudryavitskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications Ltd -
Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body by Evelyn Tribble 9781472576026
RRP: $33.53$29.63What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests... -
Catullus by Julia Haig Gaisser 9780199280353
$122.50Oxford Readings in Catullus is a collection of articles that represent a sampling of the most interesting and important work on Catullus from around 1950 to 2000, together with three very short pieces from the Renaissance. The readings, selected for... -
The Cambridge History of South African Literature by David Attwell 9781009343787
$53.01South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored... -
Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks': New Interdisciplinary Essays by Max Silverman
RRP: $25.79$22.72First 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... -
Into the Pensieve: The Philosophy and Mythology of Harry Potter by Patrick McCauley 9780764349454
RRP: $29.66$19.41This book takes a look at the arc of the storyline in Harry Potter, digging below the surface to explore ethical, mythological, and religious meanings in J.K. Rowling's best-selling series. Why do we find ourselves so intrigued with the tale of Harry... -
In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch
RRP: $19.34$15.92From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch-the... -
A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita by J.A.E. Curtis 9781644690789
RRP: $28.37$23.54Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its rich...