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Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey by Daniel Keyes 9780156029995
RRP: $24.50$17.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156029995Author Daniel KeyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm *... -
The Poets of Alexandria by Susan A. Stephens 9781848858800
$26.08Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature... -
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance by Jayne Ann Krentz
RRP: $25.79$22.97In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume-all best-selling romance writers-explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances. In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and... -
Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader Mary Eagleton (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) 9781405183130
RRP: $43.80$39.49Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decadeIncludes extracts from all the major... -
Baby's First Wild Animals by Georgie Taylor 9781789589368
RRP: $9.02$6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789589368Author Georgie TaylorPage Count 10Imprint Imagine That Publishing LtdPublisher Imagine That Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 178mm * 15mm -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: $19.34$15.39John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers,... -
The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century Cynthia Sundber Wall 9780226871585
RRP: $103.20$99.34Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object - a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things, but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty,... -
The Siege of Tsingtau: The German-Japanese War 1914 by Stephenson, Charles 9781399074834
RRP: $19.34$14.33The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japans acquisition of Germanys Micronesian islands. Japans naval... -
Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor by Ankhi Mukherjee
RRP: $45.14$38.82In Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, Ankhi Mukherjee offers a magisterial work of literary and cultural criticism which examines the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis. Spanning three continents, this hugely... -
English Renaissance Drama by Peter Womack 9780631226307
RRP: $48.96$44.45The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including... -
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly 9781524732103
$9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524732103Author Helena KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Knopf Publishing GroupPublisher Knopf Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)... -
Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books by Perry Nodelman (Professor of English, University of Winnipeg, Canada) 9780820312712
$41.03This book examines the special qualities of picture books-books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the way in which the interplay of the verbal and... -
The Play Of The Eyes by Elias Canetti 9781847083555
RRP: $12.89$8.90The third volume of Canetti's autobiography is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937: years when the European catastrophe, already clear to anyone with eyes to see, was approaching its horrifying climax. To this great intellectual and spiritual... -
The Swedish Theory of Love: Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden by Henrik Berggren
RRP: $30.95$26.88In 2020 Sweden's response to COVID-19 drew renewed attention to the Nordic nation in a way that put the finger on a seeming paradox. Long celebrated for its commitment to social solidarity, Sweden suddenly emerged as the last country in the West to... -
On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives by Andrew H. Miller
RRP: $21.87$18.14"To be someone-to be anyone-is about...not being someone else. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling."-Adam Phillips"A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been...Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about... -
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion by Rosemary Jackson
RRP: $49.01$43.06This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural... -
The Blackwell History of the Latin Language James Clackson (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781444339208
RRP: $46.38$41.16This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language... -
Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka
RRP: $29.01$20.56The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the... -
Performativity by James Loxley
RRP: $25.79$22.82Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the... -
The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide by Christopher Gair
RRP: $12.89$10.02The Beat Generation were a radical group of American writers whose relaxed, gritty and candid writing inspired generations. In his chronicle of the origins, adventures, and inner workings of the Beat movement, Christopher Gair reveals how it sparked one... -
Francis Durbridge: The Complete Guide: with an annotated listing of his novels and his works for radio, television, the stage and the cinema by Melvyn Barnes
RRP: $16.76$13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912582198Author Melvyn BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Williams and WhitingPublisher Williams and WhitingWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: $28.38$19.47"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction to... -
A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language Egbert J. Bakker (Yale University, USA) 9781118782910
RRP: $48.96$44.66A comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume, with contributions from leading international scholars covering the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language. A... -
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $34.82$29.41This Companion to Victorian Poetry provides an introduction to many of the pressing issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. It introduces readers to a range of topics - including historicism, patriotism, prosody, and... -
S/Z by Roland Barthes 9780374521677
RRP: $15.48$11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374521677Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
Rue Traversière by Yves Bonnefoy 9781803092713
RRP: $18.05$16.03A beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy. Praised by Paul Auster as “one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout... -
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity by Colin Burrow 9780199684793
$36.31OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an... -
A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $6.45$5.92Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin
RRP: $68.37$60.24In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin
RRP: $18.05$12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562436Author Ha JinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Four-Legged Girl: Poems by Diane Seuss 9781555977221
RRP: $21.93$13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977221Author Diane SeussFormat PaperbackImprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 136g -
Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh 9781733628167
RRP: $34.83$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733628167Author Jason Bahbak MohagheghFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence Press -
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White
RRP: $21.92$12.67'White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose will have you hooked all the way from Orwell to le Carre' Sunday Times, Books of the... -
Pro Milone by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $32.19$29.97Speeches from turbulent times.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death... -
Coriolanus by Eric Rasmussen 9780230284135
$12.62From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's gripping political and personal tragedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Coriolanus in performance,... -
Introducing Bakhtin Sue Vice 9780719043284
RRP: $25.79$19.01There is no other comprehensive introduction to Bakhtin. The book is aimed at arts students - the primary market. Deals extensively with gender issues.About the AuthorSue Vice is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of SheffieldBook... -
Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute 9780226922317
RRP: $29.67$28.55As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including "The Golden Fruits", which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir... -
Well Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks 9780156957052
RRP: $15.47$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156957052Author Cleanth BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
Fables: Fables by Phaedrus
RRP: $32.19$32.04Fabulous verse.Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a Hellenized Roman living in Asia Minor during the late first century of... -
Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda
RRP: $30.96$21.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594484827Author Ben YagodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...