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The Transferred Life of George Eliot by Philip Davis
RRP: £28.99£21.20Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as 'the feeling of entering the confessional in which she sees and hears all the secrets of human psychology--that roar which lies on the other side of silence'. This new biography of... -
Apuleius Metamorphoses V: A Selection by Stuart R. Thomson
£15.35This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Apuleius' Metamorphoses V, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for sections 11-24. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text... -
On Plato's <i>Timaeus</i> by Calcidius
RRP: £29.95£24.43Until the Renaissance, the work of Calcidius offered the medieval West almost the only direct access to Plato's corpus not dispersed in fragments. In the 4th century CE, Calcidius translated into Latin an important section of Plato's Timaeus,... -
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 9781107037779
£102.11This is the first complete scholarly edition of one of Hardy's greatest novels. The Return of the Native engages ambitiously with contemporary ideas and problems of existence, and would go on to become one of the major 'Wessex novels'. When composed in... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867931
RRP: £37.99£32.18The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters... -
Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser
RRP: £28.00£21.80Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is... -
Critical Terms for Literary Study by Frank Lentricchia
RRP: £26.00£25.25This expanded new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are: "Popular Culture"; "Diversity"; "Imperialism/Nationalism"; "Desire";... -
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson 9781844675388
£32.00In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since... -
Amphitryon: v. 1: WITH The Comedy of Asses AND The Pot of Gold AND The Two Bacchises AND The Captives by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: £24.95£23.76Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and... -
The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order by Hal Brands
RRP: £12.99£11.46An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things... -
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature by Espen J. Aarseth
RRP: £25.00£22.03Can computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode of discourse-novels, films, television series-is losing its dominant position in our culture? Is it... -
Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible" by Linda Wagner-Martin 9780826452344
£18.09This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist, a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays by Catherine M. S. Alexander
RRP: £25.99£21.99Which plays are included under the heading 'Shakespeare's last plays', and when does Shakespeare's 'last' period begin? What is meant by a 'late play', and what are the benefits in defining plays in this way? Reflecting the recent growth of interest in... -
Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr 9780061673467
RRP: £18.99£13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061673467Author David OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Deep Time: A Literary History by Noah Heringman
RRP: £30.00£23.66How the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"-most often associated with... -
My Life as a Godard Movie by Joanna Walsh
RRP: £15.95£9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492648Author Joanna WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy by Stephen Blackwood
£36.23Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most... -
The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony by Denise Riley 9780804739115
RRP: £23.99£21.16Marlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles's A Touch of Evil: "What does it matter what you say about other people?" The author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about yourself? She wonders why the requirement to be a... -
Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare by Stanley Cavell 9780521529204
RRP: £33.99£29.26Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and... -
The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy & Horror by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: £20.00£15.89Companion title to The Astounding Illustrated History of Science Fiction this new book reflects the same roots in Gothic literature but follows a complementary path through the 20th century, to the movies of Peter Jackson, the success of streaming TV... -
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Manga): Volume 1 by Yu Okano
RRP: £10.99£9.81It's been ten years since Rentt Faina, a luckless Bronze-class adventurer, set his eyes on becoming Mithril-class. Unfortunately, he finds himself helpless when confronted by a legendary dragon in the Water Moon Dungeon...and is summarily eaten. But... -
The Encyclopeadia of Girls' School Stories by Sue Sims
£16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847452573Author Sue SimsFormat PaperbackImprint Girls Gone By PublishersPublisher Girls Gone By Publishers -
The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture by Kevin Quashie 9780813553108
RRP: £31.00£22.38African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterises a person's desires, ambitions, hungers,... -
Studying English Literature by Dr. Ashley Chantler
£30.57This is a new textbook designed to help new undergraduates adopt a degree-level approach to the study of English literature in their first or foundation year. "Studying English Literature" offers a link between pre-degree study and undergraduate study by... -
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007588220
RRP: £12.99£9.80Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. 'I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something... -
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: £12.99£10.22Apologies 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)... -
Bookshops Jorge Carrion 9780857054463
RRP: £10.99£7.61"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrion has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 9780393421972
RRP: £13.99£12.25"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Karl Beckson, Sharon Marcus, and Michael Patrick Gillespie. "Early Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, including... -
Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose by John Milton 9780393979879
£18.49This Norton Critical Edition of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose includes "Lycidas"-widely considered the greatest short poem in English-the great tragedy Samson Agonistes, the masque Comus, the brief epic Paradise Regained, and eighteen sonnets as... -
Out of Time: A Philosophical Study of Timelessness by Samuel Baron 9780192864888
RRP: £86.00£78.01The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist. Almost every experience we have tells us so. There has been plenty of debate around what time is like, but not whether it exists. The goal of this book is to make the... -
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780198863120
RRP: £7.99£5.98"I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is now best remembered for its concluding story in which the great detective appears to plunge to his death into the waters at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, locked in... -
Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: £20.99£18.66Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of... -
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play by August Wilson 9780452261136
RRP: £15.00£10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452261136Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books... -
Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran
RRP: £22.99£20.16Interdisciplinarity covers one of the most important changes in attitude and methodology in the history of the university.Taking the study of English as its main example, this fully updated second edition examines the ways in which we have organized... -
An Elm Creek Quilts Companion: New Fiction, Traditions, Quilts, and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series by Jennifer Chiaverini 9780142196700
RRP: £19.90£15.81A beautiful keepsake volume to accompany the beloved New York Times bestselling seriesOver the course of the bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series, readers have expressed a longing to visit Elm Creek Manor, meet the quilters themselves, and admire their... -
A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries by Susan J. Wolfson
RRP: £29.95£24.43A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet's extraordinary career, in a new edition featuring seventy-eight verse selections with commentary.John Keats's career as a published poet spanned scarcely more than... -
Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612196930Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction Peter Stockwell 9781138781382
RRP: £37.99£33.64A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.The second edition of this seminal text features:* updated theory, frameworks, and examples... -
Shop Talk by Philip Roth
RRP: £12.99£9.34Philip Roth is the voice of our times.In a sequence of intimate conversations with some of the most influential and insightful writers of the twentieth century, Roth explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work and that of their... -
George Steiner: A Reader by George Steiner 9780195050684
RRP: £22.49£15.63As an incisive and provocative critic of literature, language, and culture, George Steiner has acquired an international reputation and a devoted following. "He scatters bright ideas everywhere," writes The New York Times Book Review, "and...