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The Development of Greek Biography: Expanded Edition by Arnaldo Momigliano 9780674200418
RRP: $52.55$41.75Arnaldo Momigliano traces the growth of ancient biography from the fifth century to the first century B.C. He asks new questions about the origins and development of Greek biography, and makes full use of new evidence uncovered in recent decades from... -
Advertising, Literature and Print Culture in Ireland, 1891-1922 by John Strachan 9780230298736
RRP: $87.73$87.69This is the first study of the cultural meanings of advertising in the Irish Revival period. John Strachan and Claire Nally shed new light on advanced nationalism in Ireland before and immediately after the Easter Rising of 1916, while also addressing... -
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition by Catherine J. Golden
RRP: $58.48$51.95In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work, The Yellow Wall-Paper, generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed... -
Works by Florus
RRP: $48.65$45.61A very short introduction to Roman history.Florus, born apparently in Africa, lived in Spain and in Rome during Hadrian's time. He wrote, in succinct rhetorical style, a summary of Roman history (especially wars) in two books in order to show the early... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2019-21 by Stephen Anderson
RRP: $62.38$56.49This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2019-21 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be... -
Hanes Cymry: Lleiafrifoedd Ethnig a'r Gwareiddiad Cymraeg by Simon Brooks 9781786836427
RRP: $38.98$29.70Mae'r gyfrol arloesol hon yn cyflawni dwy amcan. Yn gyntaf - ac am y tro cyntaf - mae'n cynnwys hanes lleiafrifoedd ethnig oddi mewn i'r diwylliant Cymraeg, a hynny o ddyddiau Macsen Wledig hyd heddiw. Yn ail, mae'n dehongli amlethnigrwydd o safbwynt... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Beats by Steven Belletto
RRP: $44.83$36.84The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached... -
Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making by John Fox
RRP: $33.13$29.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778090Author John FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 229mm *... -
Fictional London: A Guide to the Capital's Literary Landmarks by Stephen Halliday 9780750994057
RRP: $25.33$18.76'By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.' - Samuel JohnsonFrom Chaucer's pilgrims meeting in a Southwark inn to the Hogwarts Express leaving from King's Cross, London has always been a popular place for writers to weave into... -
Minor Attic Orators: v. 2: Dolycurgus - Dinarchus by J.O. Burtt
RRP: $48.65$45.61Four rhetoricians confronting Macedonian dominance.This volume collects the speeches of four orators involved in the ill-fated resistance of Athens to the power of Philip and Alexander the Great of Macedon.Lycurgus of Athens (ca. 396-325 BC) concentrated... -
Contested Liberalisms: Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press by Iain Crawford
RRP: $50.68$41.07Focusing on the importance of Martineau's contribution to the development of the early Victorian press, this book highlights the degree to which the public quarrel between her and Dickens in the mid-1850s represented larger fissures within... -
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $25.33$22.35An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the... -
The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin
RRP: $19.48$13.26Apologies 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 -
The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century by Cynthia Sundberg Wall
RRP: $156.00$150.17Virginia 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,... -
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Very Short Introduction by David Wallace
RRP: $17.53$12.58Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is... -
India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs by Santanu Das
RRP: $48.73$42.08Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914-1918 conflict and their... -
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing by Peter Hulme 9780521786522
RRP: $66.28$56.75The 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... -
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley
RRP: $35.08$21.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743451772Author MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 135mm *... -
The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser 9781421428994
RRP: $32.18$30.60An engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name.Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people,... -
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin
RRP: $29.25$29.00When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of... -
Astrotheology for Life: Unlocking the Esoteric Wisdom of Ancient Myth by David Warner Mathisen 9780996059046
RRP: $25.35$22.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996059046Author David Warner MathisenFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Beowulf BooksPublisher Beowulf BooksWeight(grams) 490g -
Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory by Houston A. Baker 9780226035383
RRP: $52.65$51.62Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic... -
Faust, Part I by Goethe
RRP: $19.48$14.10Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so... -
The Orphic Voice by Elizabeth Sewell
RRP: $35.08$25.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376011Author Elizabeth SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry by Gotthold Lessing
RRP: $56.55$50.86Originally published in 1766, the "Laocoon" has been called the first modern attempt to define the distinctive spheres of art and poetry, and its author, Lessing, the first modern esthetician. Lessing invented the modern concept of the artistic medium... -
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $52.63$44.46This 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... -
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity by Colin Burrow 9780199684793
$54.89OXFORD 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... -
The Athenian Constitution Written in the School of Aristotle by Peter J. Rhodes 9781786948373
RRP: $68.23$61.85This book is an edition of the Athenian Constitution, the only one to survive of 158 Constitutions written in the school of Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., of which a text on papyrus was found at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on an... -
Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor by Ankhi Mukherjee
RRP: $68.23$58.68In 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... -
Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Helene Cixous
RRP: $42.90$38.79Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In a magnetic, irresistible narrative, Cixous reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential... -
Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
RRP: $52.65$34.30Apologies 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 -
Nehru and the Spirit of India by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
$36.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670094233Author Manash Firaq BhattacharjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm *... -
Well Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks 9780156957052
RRP: $23.38$22.15Apologies 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 -
Kate Atkinson's "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" by Emma Parker 9780826452382
$33.40The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed to be a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and reading groups, as well as for literature students at school, college and university. The series aims to give readers... -
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability by Emily Apter
$55.65Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the "Untranslatable"-the realm of... -
Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels by Sebastian Groes 9780230232389
$62.95Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest contemporary authors who possesses that increasingly rare distinction of being a writer who is both popular with the general reading public and well-respected within the academic community. Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical... -
The Aesthetics of Care: On the Literary Treatment of Animals by Josephine Donovan
$57.23In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins... -
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust by Paul de Man
RRP: $38.98$37.81This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by... -
Literature and Psychoanalysis by Professor Jeremy Tambling
RRP: $38.98$28.31Literature and Psychoanalysis is an exciting, and compulsive working through of what Freud really said, and why it is so important, with a chapter on Melanie Klein and object relations theory, and two chapters on Lacan, and his work on the unconscious as... -
Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary by Colin MacCabe
RRP: $40.93$29.70Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to better understand our contemporary world. From nature to cultural appropriation and from black to terror, the most important words in political and cultural debate have...