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Poems of Al-Mutanabbi by A. J. Arberry 9780521108485
RRP: £39.99£33.26Al-Mutanabbi (AD 915-965), though universally considered the greatest of all the Arab poets, has seldom been translated or discussed outside Arab countries. This study uses the same format as and is intended to supplement Professor Arberry's Arabic... -
Philosophical Orations, Volume I by Maximus of Tyre 9780674997561
RRP: £24.95£23.39A Platonic evangelist’s lectures on the good life.Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical,... -
Selected Literary Essays by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £16.99£14.10This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary... -
Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger by Stephen, H. Grant 9781421411873
RRP: £29.00£26.29In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885,... -
Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva by Michael Payne 9780631182894
£41.03a Deconstructiona , a psychoanalysisa , and a semioticsa have become part of the vocabulary of contempoorary culture. Reading Theory introduces the principal texts by Derrida, Lacan and Kristeva that are behind these terms and that provide their contexts... -
Persuasion and Rhetoric by Carlo Michelstaedter 9780300191516
£20.24This translation of Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasion and Rhetoric brings the powerful and original work of a seminal cultural figure to English-language readers for the first time. Ostensibly a commentary on Plato's and Aristotle's relation to the... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre by Deborah Payne Fisk 9780521588126
RRP: £30.99£26.77This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time. No longer seen as a privileged arena for... -
Book of Sketches 1952-1957 by Jack Kerouac 9780142002155
RRP: £18.00£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142002155Author Jack KerouacFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 154mm * 119mm *... -
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo 9780393345438
RRP: £12.99£11.46In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £40.00£27.68In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he was received into the Church of... -
Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.76Two sophists on the history of sophistry.Flavius Philostratus, known as "the Elder" or "the Athenian," was born to a distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second century, and died around the middle of the third. A sophist who... -
Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death by Harold Bloom
RRP: £20.00£16.98"The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can."So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary... -
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel 9780993009372
RRP: £10.00£7.00Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything-including their native languages-to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, she translated poets from East Berlin and Vietnam to help broadcast their defiance to the rest of... -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by M. C. Howatson
RRP: £49.99£46.28The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales,... -
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner 9780300089226
£31.81Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling postwar poet, was a German-speaking, East European Jew. His writing exposes and illumines the wounds that Nazi destructiveness left on language. John Felstiner's sensitive and accessible book is the first critical... -
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
RRP: £22.00£17.63Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each... -
Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory by Katie Conboy
RRP: £30.00£23.69In many fields, the body is the topic generating exciting new research and interdisciplinary inquiry. Feminist theorists, in particular, have focused on the female body as the site where representations of difference and identity are inscribed. Drawn... -
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales by Stephen Fender
RRP: £8.99£7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776250Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9781585426423
RRP: £10.99£8.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585426423Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 23mm -
Humanism and the Latin Classics by Aldus Manutius
RRP: £29.95£24.03Aldus Manutius (c. 1451-1515) was the most important and innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was responsible for more first editions of classical literature, philosophy, and science than any other publisher before or since... -
The Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century by Sarah Dunnigan
RRP: £22.95£17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980298Author Sarah DunniganFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Shakespeare's Noise by Kenneth Gross
RRP: £28.00£27.39Kenneth Gross explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking--especially rumor, slander, insult, vituperation, and curse--and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays. Coriolanus's taunts or... -
Catullus by D. F. S. Thomson
RRP: £50.00£45.40This work contains a major revision of Douglas Thomson's Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978), with the addition of a full commentary and a wholly new introduction. For the introduction and for each of the poems there is an extensive and current... -
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing by Peter Hulme 9780521786522
RRP: £33.99£29.10The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive... -
A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £14.99£14.85An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated author In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of... -
Moralia: v. 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.76Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse by Anahid Nersessian
RRP: £19.00£18.90"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... -
A Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
RRP: £6.99£6.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225745Author Annie ErnauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 122g -
Letters to Atticus: v. 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
Words That Burn by Josephine Hart
RRP: £9.99£3.01Following the success of CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT, Josephine Hart compiles more poetry from the like of such poets as Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Frost and Lowell. An audio CD accompanies.* Author PR activity to include media interviews,... -
The Helene Cixous Reader by Susan Sellers
RRP: £37.99£33.38This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts... -
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography by Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: £28.00£23.38This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against... -
Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom 9781501164170
RRP: £16.00£9.48From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra-one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters-in "a masterfully perceptive reading of this... -
Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer" by Frederick W. Turner 9780300192513
£26.32The untold story of Henry Miller's explosive 1934 novel, banned in America for more than a quarter century Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is far more than a work that tested... -
Shadows in the Rainbow by Sharon Ellery 9781035804030
RRP: £11.99£8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035804030Author Sharon ElleryFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Cambridge Introduction to W.B. Yeats by David Holdeman
RRP: £23.99£19.99This introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers examines Yeats's poems, plays and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Yeats wrote with passion and eloquence about personal disappointments,... -
The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916047Author Boyd TonkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
New Selected Poems: Shuntaro Tanikawa by Shuntaro Tanikawa
RRP: £12.99£9.18Shuntaro Tanikawa has been the most inventive modern Japanese poet, ever since he published Alone in Two Billion Light Years (1952), his first book, aged twentyone. Undamaged by Japan's post-War trauma, he took up the language and ran with it. He has... -
L.M. Montgomery and Gender by E. Holly Pike
RRP: £31.00£27.36The celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Nineteen contributors take a variety of critical and theoretical positions, from historical analyses of the... -
The Writing Notebooks by Helene Cixous 9780826493033
RRP: £21.99£21.89Hne Cixous is among the most influential and original literary critics and feminist thinkers of our time. This volume reproduces - for the first time, in any language - a collection of pages from her original writing notebooks, offering a unique insight...