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Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan by Michael Livingston 9781035004188
RRP: £12.99£10.23NOW WITH EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIALFrom author and scholar Michael Livingston, Origins of The Wheel of Time is an authorised exploration of the inspirations behind the acclaimed series, including the first biography of its creator, Robert Jordan. With an... -
Becoming Beautiful by Becca Lee 9780994623720
RRP: £15.00£13.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994623720Author Becca LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Becca LeePublisher Becca LeeWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm -
The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad by Joseph Conrad 9780521191920
RRP: £39.99£35.33Since the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes, many of them published for the first time and many more taken from hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound... -
Hyphen by Dr. Pardis Mahdavi
RRP: £9.99£7.77Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan by Dominic Head 9781108727297
RRP: £23.99£20.70This Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan's work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the... -
A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell
RRP: £30.00£24.17A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937 offers a new critical perspective on the weird that combines two ways of looking at weird and cosmic horror. On the one hand, critics have considered weird fiction in relation to aesthetics - the emotional effects... -
Livy: Ab urbe condita Book VI by Livy
RRP: £27.99£24.27Book VI of Livy's Ab urbe condita covers the history of Rome from 390 to 367 BC, a period during which the city, while in the process of recovering from being sacked by the Gauls, faced serious civil disturbance, the resolution of which fundamentally... -
Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique: Critical Engagements with Benita Parry by Sharae Deckard
RRP: £39.99£35.06Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry's oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and... -
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Timothy Morton
RRP: £22.99£20.16Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely studied works of English literature, and Frankenstein's creature is a key figure in the popular imagination. This sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts,... -
Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac: Texts, Translation and Notes by Bertram Colgrave 9780521313865
RRP: £38.99£33.26Written around 730-740 the Life of Guthlac by the monk Felix is an important and colourful source for the obscure early history of East Anglia and the Fens. It describes how the youthful Guthlac (674-714) won fame at the head of a Mercian warrior band... -
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£8.40The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
F.M.R.L. - Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound Daniela Cascella 9781782798170
RRP: £9.99£8.69Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and 'deranged essays', with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the... -
Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts by Shiamin Kwa
RRP: £18.99£15.67The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or... -
Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels) by Sparknotes 9781411479883
RRP: £10.99£7.78NOW IN COLOR! Read Macbeth 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 the time-old tale of greed and power to life. The illustrations... -
Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion by Douglas Charles Kane 9781611460896
RRP: £42.00£36.93Douglas C. Kane reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father's work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some remote... -
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard 9780804722155
£28.64An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with Freud's... -
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare by Arthur F. Kinney 9780198703495
£35.00Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each... -
Emilia Morgan Lloyd Malcolm 9781350200258
RRP: £12.99£11.86'A spicy work of biographical conjecture ... It's also a rousing reminder of the countless creative women who have been written out of history or have had to fight relentlessly to make themselves heard.' EVENING STANDARD 'The great virtue of Lloyd... -
Dark Matter by Aase Berg 9780984475285
RRP: £10.99£7.60Berg's hallucinatory, post-cataclysmic epic takes place in an unremitting future-past. The bodies mutate and hybridize. They are erotic and artificial, art and adrenaline. Available for the first time in English as a complete collection, the poems of... -
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
RRP: £12.99£8.41A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson. The last six hundred years in British... -
Great Books by David Denby 9780684835334
£20.56Explores the current debate about what constitutes a classic and the revolutionary power great works of literature contain.Book InformationISBN 9780684835334Author DenbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon &... -
New Essays on The Great Gatsby by Matthew J. Bruccoli 9780521319638
RRP: £28.99£24.42The introduction to this volume charts the fortunes of The Great Gatsby from its mixed reception and disappointing sales on publication in 1925, through its increasing popularity in the 1940s, to its critical and popular elevation from the standing of an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
RRP: £23.99£19.99Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature... -
Testimonia. Origines by Cato
RRP: £24.95£23.76Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of... -
Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel, Coleridge: Great Shakespeareans: Volume III by Roger Paulin
RRP: £34.99£33.23In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel and Coleridge to the reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution provides a sketch of its subject's intellectual and professional biography... -
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Map by Martin Thelander 9789152770931
RRP: £7.99£5.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789152770931Author Martin ThelanderPage Count 2Imprint Paris GrafikPublisher Paris GrafikWeight(grams) 17gDimensions(mm) 148mm * 105mm * 1mm -
The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by Samuel R. Delany
RRP: £15.99£14.86Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school... -
The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins by Jenny Bourne Taylor 9780521549660
RRP: £25.99£21.99Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels,... -
Moving Voices: Black Performance Poetry Asher Hoyles 9781870518642
RRP: £16.00£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518642Author Asher HoylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 401g -
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars by Paul Fussell 9780195030686
RRP: £19.99£13.74A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.Book InformationISBN... -
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies by Neil Lazarus
RRP: £33.99£29.66The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key... -
On Women by Susan Sontag
RRP: £16.00£9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250876850Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm * 23mm -
CONTESTED CASTLE: GOTHIC NOVELS AND THE SUBVERSION OF DOME by Kate Ellis 9780252060489
RRP: £19.99£17.54The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the... -
The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright's Archaeology of Death by Abdul R. Janmohamed
RRP: £23.99£21.16During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the "relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent," and that he... -
The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic by Susan Castillo Street 9781349693337
RRP: £29.99£27.59This book examines 'Southern Gothic' - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do 'Southern' and 'Gothic' mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss,... -
Aeschylus Tragoediae: Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoedias by Aeschylus 9780198145707
£27.89Contains the Greek texts of the seven extant plays of Aeschylus: "Persae", "Septem contra Thebas", "Supplices", "Agamemnon", "Choephoroe", "Eumenides", and "Prometheus Vinctus".Book InformationISBN 9780198145707Author Denys PageFormat HardbackPage Count... -
The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought by Bruno Snell 9781621380337
£14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380337Author Bruno SnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Spanish Gypsy by George Eliot Antonie Gerard van den Broek 9780367876159
£46.97In 1864, George Eliot began writing her longest poem, "The Spanish Gypsy". This project exhausted her, and her partner took the manuscript away from her for fear it was making her ill. This work explains what Eliot read to research the poem, which parts... -
An Analysis of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene Nicola Davis 9781912127573
RRP: £6.50£6.21Richard Dawkins provides excellent examples of his reasoning and interpretation skills in The Selfish Gene. His 1976 book is not a work of original research, but instead a careful explanation of evolution, combined with an argument for a particular... -
The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory by Paul Wake
RRP: £27.99£24.28Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11...