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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780679783220
RRP: £19.99£15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783220Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)... -
The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, Second Edition by Robert Motherwell 9780674185005
RRP: £37.95£31.51The Dada Painters and Poets offers the authentic answer to the question "What is Dada?" This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations was prepared by Robert Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures:... -
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare 9781472520296
RRP: £8.99£7.99Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry. Claire... -
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James 9781529042085
RRP: £20.00£14.29Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this, the last book he completed before his death, the much-loved poet, broadcaster and author offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the... -
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 9780393957242
£12.37It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on... -
Sensible Shoes Study Guide by Sharon Garlough Brown 9780830843336
RRP: £10.99£8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830843336Author Sharon Garlough BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)... -
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £9.99£6.64From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia. Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker... -
Selected Poems: Keats by John Keats
RRP: £8.99£6.45Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly -... -
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury
RRP: £12.99£9.09For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language.'Love bade me welcome . . ... -
Aristophanes: Frogs by Judith Affleck 9780521172578
RRP: £11.25£9.81Treating 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... -
The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
RRP: £22.99£16.68Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur... -
Blind Ossian's Fingal: Fragments and Controversy by James Macpherson
RRP: £15.00£11.13Ossian is a collection of epic poems that bring out the figure of the hero, Fingal, which name comes from Scots Gaelic Fionnghall, meaning 'White Stranger'. The poems where originally written in Gaelic and translated by James MacPherson into English,... -
Ephrem the Syrian: Select Poems by Sebastian P. Brock 9780934893657
RRP: £30.00£25.25Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of... -
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
RRP: £16.99£12.68Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause... -
Latin: An Intensive Course by Floyd L. Moreland
RRP: £35.00£28.14This is a comprehensive introduction to Latin forms and syntax, designed to train the student in reading ancient texts at an early stage.Reviews"[Teachers] more concerned with no-nonsense thoroughness will not be disappointed." * Classical News and Vews... -
Vi Spy: Never Say Whatever Again by Maz Evans 9781911490746
RRP: £7.99£5.23The second adventure in Maz Evans's laugh-out-loud funny Vi Spy series! PRAISE FOR THE SERIES: 'Twists, turns, spies and surprises. What more do you want? Tears? Laughter? Maz Evans delivers them all.' FRANK ... -
The Tale of Sinuhe by R. B. Parkinson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Tale of Sinuhe, from c.1875 BC, has been acclaimed as the supreme masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian poetry, a perfect fusion of monumental, dramatic, and lyrical styles, and a passionate probing of its culture's ideals and anxieties. This anthology... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Bernard O'Donoghue
RRP: £8.99£6.45Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a... -
Short Stories in Chinese: New Penguin Parallel Text by John Balcom
RRP: £9.99£7.11Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary fiction from the world's most spoken language. These eight short stories, with parallel translations, offer students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without... -
Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge 9780190685423
£30.16Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this... -
Agatha Christie: Plots, Clues and Misdirections: Thirty-three ways the Queen of Crime deceives us by Sally and Tony Hope 9781915853189
RRP: £9.99£7.11Why do Agatha Christie's novels continue to inspire each generation? The answer is the quality and range of her puzzles: her rich and varied structures of deception. Christie broke the mould of detective fiction and rewrote the implicit rules of the... -
Darkness Visible by William Styron
RRP: £9.99£7.11This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound insight and remarkable candor, Styron tracks the progress... -
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by Al Alvarez 9780747559054
RRP: £16.99£12.28Using the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area of human behaviour: suicide. "The Savage God" explores the cultural attitudes, theories, truths and... -
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict by Andrew Pettegree 9781800814936
RRP: £30.00£21.35'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David Kynaston Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published... -
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
RRP: £25.00£16.99This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well... -
Object Lessons by Eavan Boland 9781857548822
RRP: £14.99£10.77'I have put this book together, not as a prose narrative is usually constructed, but as a poem might be. In turnings and returnings. In parts which find and repeat themselves and re-state the argument until it loses its reasonable edge and hopefully... -
New Oxford Student Texts: Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer by Diane Maybank
£11.76Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on 'She Stoops to Conquer' by Oliver Goldsmith.Student... -
On Sparta by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.09Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and... -
D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study by Anais Nin
RRP: £12.99£10.15In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: "It will not be published and out by tomorrow, which is what a writer would like when the... -
Virginia Woolf in Richmond by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £16.99£15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912430031Author Virginia WoolfFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications -
Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings, some of them dating back to before 1918. There are essays of generalisation,... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby 9780674237834
RRP: £18.95£15.77"Fascinating and instructive...King's philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy."-Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America's most revered... -
Key Writings by Henri Bergson
RRP: £24.99£24.26The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age. Henri Bergson stood as one of the most important philosophical voices of that tumultuous time. An... -
Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh by Kathryn Aalto 9781604695991
RRP: £15.00£8.94Loved Goodbye Christopher Robin? Learn more about the real place that inspired the beloved stories. Delve into the home of the world's most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin,... -
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner 9780198718789
£23.63This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her... -
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel 9780008429973
£7.55A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London... -
Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism by Susan J. Wolfson 9780804736626
RRP: £24.99£21.67Why care about poetic form and its intricacies, other than in nostalgia for a bygone era of criticism? The purpose of this book is to refresh today this care for criticism, applying a historically aware formalist reading to poetic form in Romanticism and... -
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks
RRP: £24.99£16.38Feminist Theory established bell hooks as one of international feminism's most challenging and influential voices. This edition includes a preface by the author, reflecting on the book's impact and the development of her ideas since it was first... -
Scottish Literature: In English and Scots by Douglas Gifford 9780748608256
RRP: £37.00£35.61This substantial new volume is a stimulating yet in-depth introduction to Scottish literature in English and Scots. From medieval to modern, the entire range of literature is introduced, examined and explored. Aimed primarily at those with an interest... -
Under Brinkie's Brae by George Mackay Brown 9781904246077
RRP: £7.50£5.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246077Author George Mackay BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited