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Battle of Britain by Ian Kennedy
RRP: £14.99£10.28The second in the new 'War Picture Library' series showcasing the finest combat comics illustrated by legendary and iconic artists. Two true stories of aviation heroism and derring-do - 'Never Say Die' and 'Steel Bats' - set during the Battle of Britain... -
A Collection Of Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £10.99£7.46A 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... -
Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages by David Carrillo-Rangel 9783030260316
£54.99This book addresses the history of the senses in relation to affective piety and its role in devotional practices in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the sense of touch. It argues that only by deeply analysing this specific context of perception can the... -
The Return of the Native: A Norton Critical Edition by Thomas Hardy 9780393927870
£20.81It is accompanied by more than 500 editorial footnotes, many new to this edition, that provide essential historical background and glossing of dialect words. Also new to the Second Edition are the twelve illustrations from the novel's first serial... -
Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedlander
RRP: £22.99£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590519110Author Saul FriedlanderFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach by Erich Auerbach
RRP: £22.00£17.63Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. Yet the true depth of Auerbach's... -
i: six nonlectures by E. E. Cummings 9780674440104
RRP: £26.95£22.64The author begins his "nonlectures" with the warning "I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer." Then, at intervals, he proceeds to deliver the following:1. i & my parents2. i & their son3. i & selfdiscovery4. i & you & is5. i & now &... -
Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages by Claire M. Waters
RRP: £66.00£57.78Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from... -
The Walking Dead: The Best of the Official Walking Dead Magazine by Titan Magazines
RRP: £17.99£8.61As The Walking Dead returns for its highly anticipated 7th season, fans of the show can celebrate all things The Walking Dead with this special collection of features, interviews and more pulled from the magazine, which has been keeping fans up to date... -
Ulysses on the Liffey by Professor Richard Ellmann 9780195016635
RRP: £36.49£25.45A new and illuminating critique of the narrative, ethical and aesthetic strands in Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.Book InformationISBN 9780195016635Author Professor Richard EllmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher... -
Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger 9780393925890
RRP: £12.99£11.46It is canonical as a cultural text, rather than a purely literary one, as this Norton Critical Edition reflects. An extensive "Contexts" section includes maps, photographs, and documents showing how and why Alger used the backdrop of New York... -
The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction by Alison Shonkwiler 9781517901523
RRP: £21.99£19.19As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by neoliberalism and globalization, increasing financial abstraction has presented a new political urgency for contemporary writers. Globalized finance, the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and the... -
The Edexcel Poetry Anthology: Relationships - The Student Guide by David Wheeler 9781911477310
RRP: £19.99£16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911477310Author David WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Red Axe BooksPublisher Red Axe Books -
Robert Browning: Selected Poems John Woolford 9781405841139
RRP: £35.99£35.55Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was one of the defining figures of the Victorian age. Famous in his lifetime for his elopement and marriage to Elizabeth Barratt, his critical reputation grew steadily in the years following her early death. Browning's... -
The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
RRP: £31.00£24.43In "The Company We Keep", Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics to its root sense, Booth proposes that the... -
The Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth: Images of Christ's Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings by Philip Ryken 9780830853724
RRP: £16.99£13.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830853724Author Philip RykenFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 188gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 10mm -
Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Critical Guide by Sonya Andermahr 9780826492753
£27.40"Jeanette Winterson: A Contemporary Vritical Guide" is a comprehensive introduction to Winterson's writing. It brings together new essays by leading critics writing on key topics across her work from early successes like "Oranges are Not... -
Modernism Michael H. Whitworth (Merton College, Oxford) 9780631230786
RRP: £40.95£36.17This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism. A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical... -
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory by Matthew Garrett
RRP: £23.99£20.37Narrative theory is essential to everything from history to lyric poetry, from novels to the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Narrative theory explores how stories work and how we make them work. This Companion is both an introduction and a contribution to... -
Apollonius of Tyana: v. 1, Bks. 1-4 by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.76The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.This biography of a first-century AD holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. In a grandly baroque style style Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and... -
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
£8.94A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general... -
The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli by John M. Najemy
RRP: £25.99£21.99Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby 9780674237834
RRP: £18.95£17.27"Fascinating and instructive...King's philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy."-Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America's most revered... -
Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mary Klages 9780826490735
RRP: £21.99£21.89This "Guide for the Perplexed" provides an advanced introduction to literary theory from basic information and orientation for the uninformed leading on to more sophisticated readings. It engages directly with the difficulty many students find... -
The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time Daniel S. Burt 9780816078608
RRP: £19.95£19.71Which novels are truly great, and why? The Novel 100, Revised Edition is a unique reference that profiles great novels drawn from all cultures and periods of literature. Each entry provides a plot summary and assessment of a particular novel, with an... -
Encyclopaedia of Girls' School Stories: Volume Two by Sue Sims
£16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847452603Author Sue SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Girls Gone By PublishersPublisher Girls Gone By Publishers -
The Poetry of Jack Spicer by Daniel Katz
RRP: £28.99£27.12This is the first full-length critical monograph on Jack Spicer's work. In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing, demanding,... -
The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature by David Thatcher Gies 9780521738699
RRP: £36.99£32.06This is the first comprehensive history of Spanish literature to be published in English since the 1970s. It brings together experts from the USA, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Together, the essays cover the full range of Spanish poetry, prose, and... -
Swoon: A Poetics of Passing out by Naomi Booth 9781526171603
RRP: £20.00£14.53Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning’s rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. This study demonstrates that passing-out has had a pivotal place in English literature... -
Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Early-Medieval Medicine by Anne Van Arsdall 9780367753771
RRP: £35.99£31.69Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has... -
Shelley: A Critical Reading by Betty T. Bennett
£33.67Concentrating on the major poems, Earl R. Wasserman provides a comprehensive critical reading that is organized in terms of conceptual structure of Shelley's work. This achronological structure originates in the poet's contradictory impulses toward... -
Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia by Miya Qiong Xie
RRP: £54.95£43.66Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe-these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensively in their literary works. Now China's Northeast but a contested frontier in the first half of the... -
The Short Story: An Introduction by Paul March-Russell
RRP: £21.99£20.43This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction. In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics... -
Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change by Adam Trexler 9780813936925
£29.85Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth's... -
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More by Graham Tarrant
RRP: £19.99£11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510741577Author Graham TarrantFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare: Edward's Boys by Harry McCarthy
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element provides the first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern... -
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £26.49£19.01Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns... -
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century: The Literary Agenda by Maryanne Wolf 9780198724179
RRP: £23.49£19.97The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
The Paston Women: Selected Letters Diane Watt 9781843840244
RRP: £19.99£16.97The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing. The Paston letters form one of only two surviving collections of fifteenth-century correspondence, in their case especially rich in letters from the... -
Birha Da Sultan - Shiv Kumar Batalvi Nu Chitran Rahi Shradhanjali by Dr Kavita Singh 9781636407098
RRP: £8.00£7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636407098Author Dr Kavita SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint White Falcon PublishingPublisher White Falcon PublishingWeight(grams) 132g