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The Oxford Book of the Sea by Jonathan Raban 9780192801944
RRP: $16.76$12.05It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Seafarer' is only the first in a long series of... -
After Sebald: Essays and Illuminations by John Coetzee 9780957152861
RRP: $20.64$14.98A collection of essays and other texts by eleven internationally acclaimed writers, critics and artists.Over a decade after his death W.G. Sebald remains a major presence in world literature. He has a devoted readership in many different countries. This... -
A Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory Peter Brooker (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.) 9781138955486
RRP: $58.04$50.67The Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory provides researchers and students with an up-to-date guide through the vibrant and changing debates in Literary and Cultural Studies. In a field where meanings are frequently complex and ambiguous, this text... -
Travelling Servants: Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850 Kathryn Walchester 9781032240749
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure, Katheryn... -
Be Kind TEEN Breathe 9781781454749
RRP: $12.89$8.90Be Kind is a guided notebook with tools, advice and inspiration to help teenagers be compassionate to themselves and others.Book InformationISBN 9781781454749Author TEEN BreatheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ammonite PressPublisher GMC... -
The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics by Edward Hetzel Schafer
RRP: $45.15$41.45In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but... -
Modernism and After: English Literature 1910-1939 by John Smart 9780521711562
RRP: $11.29$10.63Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Modernism and After focuses on those writers working in English between 1910 and 1939 whose work signalled a dramatic change in the sense of what art could and should be. An overview of... -
Nothing Personal: An Essay by James Baldwin
RRP: $25.80$15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006429Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 133mm * 13mm -
Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry
$17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382277354Author Cyrus MistryFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book Company -
The Impossible by Georges Bataille 9780872862623
RRP: $16.76$15.20In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 1 by Andre Laks
RRP: $32.19$30.65A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Restoration Drama: An Anthology David Womersley (University of Oxford) 9780631209034
RRP: $54.12$49.81This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts. It offers a representative sampling of the types of... -
Thomas Campion by Thomas Campion
RRP: $11.60$8.10In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture: Dark Fictions by Claire Gorrara 9780199246090
RRP: $167.70$145.67The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture offers a lively introduction to the post-war French roman noir from a cultural studies perspective. A populist and widely disseminated genre, the French roman noir has suffered from a reputation as a minor genre... -
The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era by Simone Murray 9781421426099
RRP: $45.15$40.61How has the Internet changed literary culture?2nd Place, N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature by The Electronic Literature OrganizationReports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the... -
Dialectic in Action: An Examination of Plato's Crito Michael C. Stokes 9780954384593
$74.12Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and... -
Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century by Christina Lupton 9781421425764
RRP: $55.47$49.17How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read?Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century-when working hours increased and lighter and quicker forms of reading (newspapers,... -
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, Revised Edition by William S Burroughs 9780814253830
RRP: $20.58$15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253830Author William S BurroughsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Mavis Gallant: The Eye and the Ear by Marta Dvorak 9781487505301
RRP: $63.21$54.92With a confidante's insights, Marta Dvorak sets up an innovative connection between Mavis Gallant's dazzling writing and the whole spectrum of the arts. She simultaneously engages with the feats of art making and the adventures of reading, looking, and... -
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern by Greta LaFleur
RRP: $36.11$31.63Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston. Refuting arguments that... -
The Writings of St. Paul by Paul Saint 9780393972801
RRP: $20.63$18.34This thoroughly revised and expanded edition includes an entirely new introduction to Paul and the central issues surrounding his writings, as well as several newly included sections of writings from Paul's time to the present, among them "Annotated... -
Natural History: v. 1: Bks.I-II by Pliny the Elder
RRP: $32.19$30.65An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly... -
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation by Peter France 9780199247844
RRP: $85.14$75.54Translation has been a crucial process in world culture over the past two millennia and more. In the English-speaking cultures many of the most important texts are translations, from Homer to Beckett, the Bible to Freud. Although recent years have seen a... -
The Modern American Novel by Malcolm Bradbury 9780192892348
$46.74The Modern American Novel is an indispensable handbook for all those interested in the novel and American culture. This new, completely revised and updated edition of Malcolm Bradbury's examination of the modern American novel offers an extensive account... -
Death and the King's Horseman: A Norton Critical Edition by Wole Soyinka 9780393888720
RRP: $32.57$24.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393888720Author Wole SoyinkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
What the Demon Said by Matt Cardin 9781614983620
RRP: $32.25$26.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983620Author Matt CardinFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus Press -
The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida by John Forrester 9780521424660
RRP: $51.59$42.91The Seductions of Psychoanalysis reflects on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relation to other disciplines. John Forrester probes the origins of psychoanalysis and its most beguiling concept, the transference, which is... -
(Sem)Erotics: Theorizing Lesbian: Writing by Elizabeth A. Meese 9780814754702
RRP: $28.37$24.76Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma by Kali Tal 9780521565127
RRP: $49.01$40.39Worlds of Hurt presents a coherent rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation, using as its focus the Holocaust, the Vietnam war, and the phenomenon of sexual violence against women. Survivors of these traumas... -
Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources: Volume 2 by Timothy Gantz
RRP: $41.93$38.33Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths-and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative... -
A Short Survey of Surrealism David Gascoyne 9781900564663
RRP: $11.55$10.53Gascoyne's membership of the Surrealist movement and his association with its leading members - among them Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali - placed him in an ideal position to witness and record the development and significance of... -
Mythology For Dummies by Amy Hackney Blackwell 9781394187935
RRP: $24.50$16.69Discover (or rediscover!) history's greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you're looking for a helpful companion to... -
Historical Noir by Barry Forshaw
RRP: $12.89$3.93It's one of the most successful - and surprising - of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and protodetectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. There is now an army of historical sleuths operating from the mean streets of Ancient Rome... -
Shakespeare and Lost Plays: Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England by David McInnis
RRP: $45.14$38.82Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) pivotal context; by situating it alongside the hundreds of plays known to Shakespeare's original audiences, but lost to us. David McInnis reassesses the... -
Great Gatsby and Modern Times by Ronald Berman 9780252065897
RRP: $24.50$21.57"A stunning piece of work. If Fitzgerald could have wished for one reader of The Great Gatsby, it would have been Ronald Berman. Berman's criticism creates an ideal companion piece to the novel--as brilliantly illuminating... -
Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology Gordon Braden (University of Virginia, VA) 9781405101165
RRP: $57.99$52.32This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors. Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever... -
Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts by Conor Carville
RRP: $24.50$22.23Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts is the first book to comprehensively assess Beckett's knowledge of art, art history and art criticism. In his lifetime Beckett thought deeply about visual culture from ancient Egyptian statuary to Dutch realism, from... -
Keynotes and Discords: Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers by George Egerton 9780826481856
RRP: $43.85$43.81This series covers texts of women writers whose work is being increasingly discussed in the study of the development of the 20th century and the Modernist movements of the 19th century, placing the works in their context.Book InformationISBN... -
Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life by Jerome Bruner 9780674010994
RRP: $30.90$25.08Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to daydreams between chores. Stories are what we use to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the eminent... -
The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings (1867-1893) by Charles S. Peirce
RRP: $30.95$27.40" . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." -Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books"The Monist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome...