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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi 9780231143431
RRP: £25.00£19.39Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of... -
City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut by Robyn Creswell 9780691182186
RRP: £45.00£35.60How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and... -
Modernism: A Cultural History by Tim Armstrong 9780745629834
RRP: £16.99£15.22The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres... -
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
RRP: £74.00£64.45Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature Association Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards Winner, 2020 British Fantasy Awards, Nonfiction Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON... -
The Quarry: Essays by Susan Howe
RRP: £12.99£11.63A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new "Vagrancy in the Park" (about Wallace Stevens) through such essential texts as "The Disappearance Approach," "Personal... -
Literary Expressions of African Spirituality by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett 9781498515498
RRP: £45.00£39.18With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African... -
Irish Science Fiction by Jack Fennell 9781781381199
£39.05Irish Science Fiction revisits a critical paradigm that has often been overlooked or dismissed by science fiction scholars - namely, that science fiction can be understood in terms of myth. Science fiction springs from pseudo-science rather than 'proper'... -
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt 9780691205168
RRP: £13.99£10.52Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again... -
Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature Michael Hattaway (University of Sheffield) 9781405100458
RRP: £32.95£29.36This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing. An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers. Considers... -
The Unconscious by Anthony Easthope
RRP: £25.99£22.63The unconscious is a term which is central to the understanding of psychoanalysis, and, indeed everyday life. In this introductory guide, Antony Easthope provides a witty and accessible overview of the subject showing the reality of the unconscious with... -
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 9781107089020
£106.48Hardy's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), the first of his great series of Wessex novels, was originally published anonymously. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel... -
Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books by Nina Freudenberger
RRP: £27.50£22.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575443Author Nina FreudenbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc -
So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in 'Pride and Prejudice' by Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer
RRP: £24.99£24.15Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it... -
Religion in the Roman Empire James B. Rives (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) 9781405106566
RRP: £31.95£28.51This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western EuropeExamines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics... -
Romantics and Victorians by Nicola J. Watson
£32.47The second volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, introduces students to European romanticism and Victorian culture. Each period is discussed in terms of an overarching theme, providing a clear focus... -
An Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Michael O'Sullivan 9781912127702
RRP: £6.50£6.29Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy - not to mention one of the most challenging. Its topic is the nature of human knowledge, and the question of whether or not it is possible to have... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii by W. J. Leatherbarrow
RRP: £25.99£21.99Key dimensions of Dostoevskii's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. While remaining accessible to an undergraduate and non-specialist readership, the essays as a whole seek to renegotiate the terms in which... -
An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair 9780521537773
RRP: £41.99£36.92This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. The third edition includes an introduction by Simon Keynes. Between the end of the Roman occupation and the coming of the Normans, England was settled by Germanic races; the... -
The Creative Imagination by James Engell 9780674333246
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674333246Author James EngellFormat HardbackPage Count 435Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 785g -
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors by Elleke Boehmer 9780199253715
RRP: £35.99£30.15Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity, breadth, and insight, the book has... -
Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff!: Roy's True Story by Barrie Tomlinson
RRP: £14.99£11.72Roy Race was Melchester Rovers' super striker, and later manager and chairman; he is known everywhere simply as 'Roy of the Rovers'. Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff is the inside story of his life with Melchester, told by the man who knows him better than... -
Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction by Barry Forshaw 9780230361447
RRP: £44.99£44.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.76Government of state and self.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
An Analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View Mark Gridley 9781912127245
RRP: £6.50£6.29Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic... -
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 9780393961881
£13.33The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England. "Backgrounds" encourages comparison of 1665 documents... -
Autumn: A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children by Jennifer Aulie 9780946206483
£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206483Author Jennifer AulieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones Press -
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period by William St. Clair 9780521699440
RRP: £46.99£33.28During the four centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could be carried across time and distance, everyone engaged in politics, education, religion, and literature believed that reading helped to shape the minds, opinions,... -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: £14.99£12.71In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the... -
Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks: Technology, Law, Literature by Edwin Bikundo 9780367548919
RRP: £39.99£35.06In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the... -
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century by Lissette Lopez Szwydky
£37.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255872Author Lissette Lopez SzwydkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Russian Literature and Its Demons Pamela Davidson 9781845457570
RRP: £31.95£26.80"On the whole, the volume reads like a cohesive book ...and maintains a high standard of scholarship throughout. Investigators of Russian literary demonism in the future will surely want to consult this excellent work." * The Russian Review... -
Goethe, Volume 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691043449
RRP: £25.00£22.20Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man... -
For All Occasions: A Selection of Poems, Prose and Party Pieces by Peter Barkworth 9780413726506
RRP: £22.99£22.85This marvellous selections of over 200 pieces by writers as diverse and entertaining as Charles Dickens, John Betjeman, Noel Coward, Joyce Grenfell, Ogden Nash and Oscar Wilde are poems and prose writings which work best when read aloud. Peter Barkworth,... -
Les Mains Sales by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £28.99£23.38First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorJean-Paul Sartre, Walter RedfernBook InformationISBN 9780415039352Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint RoutledgePublisher... -
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Helen Vendler 9780691145341
RRP: £25.00£19.90In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no... -
Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt 9780715629253
£25.45The function of literature and words changes dramatically over the centuries, particularly when dealing with medieval literature. The most common misconception among students and dated textbooks is that medieval French literature is merely a 'recording'... -
The Open Work by Umberto Eco 9780674639768
RRP: £35.95£29.19More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its... -
The Earl of Oxford and the Making of Shakespeare: The Literary Life of Edward de Vere in Context by Richard Malim 9780786463138
RRP: £24.99£20.61The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries. This historical work investigates the role of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, establishing him as most likely the... -
The Graphic Novel: An Introduction by Jan Baetens
RRP: £23.99£19.51This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic... -
The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening by Jennifer Lynn Stoever
RRP: £24.99£21.67The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see "difference." At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The...