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Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris by Jean-Marie Guehenno 9780190495848
RRP: £15.99£12.23Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction Jean Guehenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi... -
Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History by M. A. R. Habib
RRP: £24.95£21.78Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period. ... -
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand 9780452282315
RRP: £19.01£14.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452282315Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176g -
Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions by Peter Mack
RRP: £30.00£23.29A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging... -
Marcel Proust by Michael Wood
RRP: £18.99£16.32A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself writing about Proust's work as an event and... -
Black Betty: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley
RRP: £17.99£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743451789Author Walter MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 136mm * 25mm -
The Difficulty of Being a Dog by Roger Grenier 9780226308289
RRP: £15.00£13.05The forty-three lovingly crafted vignettes within The Difficulty of Being a Dog dig elegantly to the center of a long, mysterious, and often intense relationship: that between human beings and dogs. In doing so, Roger Grenier introduces us to dogs real... -
Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading by Alan Sinfield 9780198119951
RRP: £71.00£61.85If we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance? This key question in the politics of reading and subcultural practice informs Alan Sinfield's book on writing in... -
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga by O Cathasaigh,Tomas 9780268037369
RRP: £39.00£34.52Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomas O Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular. O Cathasaigh... -
The Nature of Narrative: Fortieth Anniversary Edition a 40th Anniv. Ed. b 40th Anniv. Ed by Robert Scholes 9780195151763
RRP: £18.99£13.34For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert... -
Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head by Eliot Borenstein 9781501767821
RRP: £35.00£29.45Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and... -
Reading Dante by Giuseppe Mazzotta
RRP: £22.00£21.22A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his... -
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide by David Whittaker
RRP: £37.99£33.38Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement... -
Amitav Ghosh by Anshuman A. Mondal 9780719070051
RRP: £14.99£13.64Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav... -
The Cambridge Companion to The Essay by Kara Wittman 9781009011143
RRP: £22.99£19.56The Cambridge Companion to the Essay considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay from the moment it's named in the late sixteenth century to the present. What is an essay? What can the essay do or think or reveal or know that other... -
A Collection Of Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £10.99£7.25A clear-eyed, uncompromising collection of essays from the "conscience of his generation" and the author of 1984 (V. S. Pritchett). One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his... -
The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome by James Uden 9780199387274
RRP: £97.00£77.71The Invisible Satirist offers a fresh new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome. Breaking away from the focus in recent scholarship on... -
The Evangelical and Oxford Movements by Elisabeth Jay 9780521286695
RRP: £30.99£19.99This book is devoted to the writings of the Evangelical and Oxford movements, whose leading members were key figures in the religious debate that so preoccupied early Victorian society. The Evangelical writers included here - Charles Simeon, Francis... -
The Literary in Theory by Jonathan Culler 9780804753739
RRP: £91.00£78.92Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, History by Alexandra Warwick 9780719074943
RRP: £19.99£17.82Jack the Ripper: Media, culture, history collects together some of the best academic work on the most important and sensational murder case of the nineteenth century. Leading scholars in the fields of history, media and cultural studies debate the... -
Introduction to Literary Analysis: A Complete Methodology by Louis Hebert
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book provides a complete guide to analyzing literary works, from an introduction of basic principles to the finer details.Separated into three sections, the book covers:* Principles-this looks at what literary analysis is, its three main components,... -
The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice' by Janet Todd
RRP: £23.99£20.37Named in many surveys as Britain's best-loved work of fiction, Pride and Prejudice is now a global brand, with film and television adaptations making Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy household names. With a combination of original readings and factual... -
Travel Writing by Carl Thompson
RRP: £28.99£25.09An increasingly popular genre - addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics - travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown.In this volume, Carl Thompson:introduces the... -
Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse by Gary Lachman 9781909232440
RRP: £11.99£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909232440Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence by Carl Kerenyi
RRP: £35.00£27.74Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a... -
Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd by Phillip Mallett
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776151Author Phillip MallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Matthew Carl Strecher 9780816691982
RRP: £17.99£15.90In an "other world" composed of language-it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest-a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers... -
An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction: Chartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social Problem Novel by Gregory Vargo
RRP: £30.99£19.99How does the literature and culture of early Victorian Britain look different if viewed from below? Exploring the interplay between canonical social problem novels and the journalism and fiction appearing in the periodical press associated with... -
Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics by Frederik Byrn Kohlert 9780813592299
RRP: £85.00£73.81Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Kohlert examines the genre's potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially... -
Ecosemiotics: The Study of Signs in Changing Ecologies by Timo Maran
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element provides an accessible introduction to ecosemiotics and demonstrates its pertinence for the study of today's unstable culture-nature relations. Ecosemiotics can be defined as the study of sign processes responsible for ecological phenomena... -
Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640 by David M. Bergeron
RRP: £19.99£17.69Through an investigation of the dedications and addresses from various printed plays of the English Renaissance, the author recuperates the richness of these prefaces and connects them to the practice of patronage. The prefatory matter discussed ranges... -
Galatea and Midas: John Lyly by George Hunter 9780719078279
RRP: £19.99£17.82Galatea and Midas are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Lyly took up the story of two young women, Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune... -
The Cambridge Companion to Rilke by Karen Leeder
RRP: £25.99£21.99Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on... -
Crime Fiction: From Poe to the Present by Martin Priestman 9780746312179
RRP: £18.69£13.33Since Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue inaugurated the detective whodunnit in 1841, narratives following the same basic structure have continued to flood the fiction market. This book examines why this form has proved so tenacious, and... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians by Phillip Davis 9780199269204
RRP: £43.49£42.08Inaugurating a major new series, successor to the Oxford History of English Literature but excitingly new in its emphasis on 'literary history', this volume covers the flowering of Victorian literature, from the decade when Tennyson started writing In... -
Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
RRP: £13.99£13.30Brian Attebery's "strategy of fantasy" include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the reader's strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with the text. Drawing on a number of current literary... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781107539785
RRP: £22.99£17.70The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King,... -
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran: Bilingual, English with Arabic translation by Jamil Elabed 9780992899523
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992899523Author Jamil ElabedFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jamil ElabedPublisher Jamil ElabedWeight(grams) 386g -
Imagination and Language: Collected Essays on Constant, Baudelaire, Nerval and Flaubert by Alison Fairlie 9780521269216
RRP: £41.99£32.68Innumerable scholars have looked to Alison Fairlie for guidance in locating important areas for research and in choosing productive and provocative critical questions to ask about nineteenth-century French literature. These essays contain not simply... -
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Eric Sandberg 9781476673486
RRP: £35.99£29.60Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the "Queens of Crime." Alongside writers like Agatha Christie, she perfected the whodunnit, but also used the genre to explore social, ethical, and emotional matters. Her characters, particularly Lord Peter Wimsey and his...