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Theatre in Scotland: A Field of Dreams by Joyce McMillan
RRP: $19.34$14.36'She has, to my knowledge, an almost unblemished record in never having failed to spot a great new play...' Philip Howard, from his Foreword Joyce McMillan has been writing about theatre in Scotland for more than three decades. As drama critic... -
Aristophanis Fabvlae II by N. G. Wilson 9780198721819
RRP: $31.59$31.31This new edition of Aristophanes is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text published in 1900-1. Since that date it has been possible to construct a far better picture of the transmission of the text from antiquity to the age of printing... -
Steppenwolf Tpb by H. Hesse
RRP: $24.50$14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312278670Author H. HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9780393264890
$24.95This second edition also includes: revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface and a note on the text by Leland S. Person; key passages from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and... -
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton 9781586489021
RRP: $18.05$11.98The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers... -
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward 9780743274074
$22.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274074Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Galatea and Midas: John Lyly by George Hunter 9780719078279
RRP: $25.79$23.35Galatea 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... -
Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century by Andrew Smith 9780312230425
RRP: $116.09$115.93Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicizes psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorization of the Gothic. The central premise is that the nineteenth-century Gothic produced a radical critique of accounts of... -
What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch 9780691049861
RRP: $54.18$42.96World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at... -
Helene Cixous: Writing the Feminine (Expanded Edition) by Verena Andermatt Conley
$21.48Born in Algeria in 1937, Helene Cixous achieved world fame for her short stories, criticism, and fictionalized autobiography (Dedans, 1969). Her work quickly became controversial because it frankly tested a distinction between male and female writing... -
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt 9780415438179
RRP: $49.01$43.06Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.About the AuthorMary Louise... -
Alternative Shakespeares by John Drakakis 9780415287234
RRP: $33.53$29.19When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares, John Drakakis brought together key essays by founding... -
The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais by Francois Rabelais
RRP: $38.70$31.33Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, Francois Rabelais' irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the... -
Travel Writing by Carl Thompson
RRP: $37.40$32.37An 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... -
Grotesque Weather and Good People Solah Lim 9781939568434
RRP: $15.47$10.62A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple... -
Andrew Marvell: A Literary Life Matthew Augustine 9783030592899
RRP: $23.21$15.89This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell's life (1621-1678) and of the great events which found reflection in his work and in which he and his writings eventually played a part. At the same time, considerable... -
Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels) by Sparknotes
RRP: $14.18$10.04NOW IN COLOR! Read Hamlet in graphic-novel form-with NO FEAR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare modern translations, this dynamic graphic novel-now with fully-colored illustrations-brings Hamlet's agony and revenge to life. The illustrations are... -
Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel by Jonathan H. Grossman 9780199682164
RRP: $41.27$30.08The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line in London opened. Charles Dickens's Networks explores the rise of the global, high-speed passenger transport network in... -
Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts by Anna Roberts 9780813064949
$25.74This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish... -
The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa by Vladimir Jabotinsky
RRP: $27.08$24.07"The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years... -
John Donne's Physics by Professor Elizabeth D. Harvey 9780226833514
RRP: $30.96$29.71A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine. In 1624, poet and preacher John Donne published Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a book that... -
Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism by Daniel K Green 9780990915034
RRP: $14.18$12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990915034Author Daniel K GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Cow Eye PressPublisher Cow Eye PressWeight(grams) 200g -
The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces by Henry James
RRP: $30.96$30.22This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multivolume "New York" Edition of Henry James' fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great... -
The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta Tanure Ojaide (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.) 9780367682880
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms.The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich... -
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls 9780226599373
RRP: $24.51$21.18"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small... -
History: Bks. I-IV by Herodian
RRP: $32.19$30.65A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
Tolkien's Hidden Pictures: Anthroposophy and the Enchantment in Middle Earth by Mark McGivern 9781584208952
RRP: $20.63$15.21J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy is not only a seemingly inexhaustible source of wonder and excitement, it is also a profound tale, relevant to our times and to the vital question: what is it to be a human being? Why have these books proved so... -
Dead Girls by Alice Bolin
RRP: $20.63$13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062657145Author Alice BolinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice by Pat Schneider 9780199933983
RRP: $23.21$19.65Many writing instructors teach writing through autobiography. By considering the lives of others and then contemplating their own lives, aspiring writers discover a wellspring of material that can be used in their prose. While not explicitly for courses,... -
Aristophanes: Clouds Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)) 9780856682100
RRP: $36.11$32.69Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus Kenneth Baxter Wolf 9781802078626
$143.98Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians, beginning with the monk Isaac in 851, who had denounced Muhammad in public. The first half of the treatise offers an extended apologia in... -
In Defense of Secrets by Anne Dufourmantelle
RRP: $30.95$27.45Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity. Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne... -
Dante: Convivio: A Dual-Language Critical Edition by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $39.98$35.82Dante's Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a series of self-commentaries on three of Dante's long poems. These allegorical love poems and philosophical verse become the basis for philosophical, literary, moral, and political exposition... -
A New Life Of Dante by Stephen Bemrose 9780859898454
RRP: $25.80$21.19This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. Dante is an intensely philosophical writer as well as a socio-political one,... -
The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England Professor Laura Saetveit Miles 9781843846284
RRP: $37.40$36.79Winner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies Award An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated... -
New Selected Journals, 1939-1995 by Stephen Spender
RRP: $58.05$39.85Private faces in public placesAre wiser and nicerThan public faces in private places.W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by David Thatcher Gies 9780521574297
RRP: $34.82$29.93This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide... -
Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene by Justin D. Edwards
RRP: $30.95$27.30An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era What can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a... -
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691157009
RRP: $45.15$36.57Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and... -
About Poems: and how poems are not about Anne Stevenson 9781780373454
RRP: $12.84$8.88In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by...