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Reading Jane Austen by Jenny Davidson
RRP: $31.48$26.78Whether you're new to Austen's work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging account of how Austen's fiction works and why it matters. Exploring new pathways into the study of Jane Austen's writing,... -
The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones: Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics by Garland Cannon 9780521025263
RRP: $94.48$80.93Sir William Jones is best known for his famous Third Discourse of 1786 in which he proposed that Sanskrit's affinity to Greek and Latin could be explained by positing a common, earlier source, one known today as Indo-European. This brilliant thesis of... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui 9780691210759
RRP: $42.00$33.87An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or short philosophical sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this... -
Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J King
RRP: $42.00$41.58Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing-or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick... -
Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature by Julie Scott Meisami
RRP: $182.68$160.73The Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature is an authoritative reference source on the most important authors, works, genres, key terms, concepts and issues in the Arabic literary tradition. The Encyclopedia covers the classical (pre-Islamic to 1258),... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $105.00$70.33A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot... -
The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England Professor Laura Saetveit Miles 9781843846284
RRP: $60.88$58.99Winner 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... -
Surfacing: On being black and feminist in South Africa by Desiree Lewis 9781776146093
RRP: $58.78$50.69What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centres of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence each other? What are the histories and experiences of... -
Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $39.80$32.76Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else-the play of mourning. Howard... -
Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon by Lizbeth Goodman
RRP: $54.58$48.36A clear introduction to the idea of the canon, exploring the process by which certain works, and not others, receive high cultural status. The work of Shakespeare and Aphra Behn is used to illustrate and challenge this process.Book InformationISBN... -
The Prophecies by Nostradamus
RRP: $37.78$28.14The predictions of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating. He has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as the world... -
German Expressionist Cinema - The World of Light and Shadow by Ian Roberts
RRP: $39.88$33.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674602Author Ian RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm... -
Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction by Samantha J. Rayner
RRP: $52.50$46.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787357617Author Samantha J. RaynerFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 610g -
How To Talk To Your Cat About Gun Safety by Zachary Auburn
RRP: $24.15$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494924Author Zachary AuburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)... -
Letters from Wales: Memories and Encounters in Literature and Life by Sam Adams
RRP: $42.00$30.01Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters... -
Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians by John Colarusso
RRP: $52.50$41.79An exciting collection of mythology about heroes, heroines, villains, and monsters in the intriguing world of the nomad warriors of the CaucasusThe Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts expands... -
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: $44.10$42.65In "Unoriginal Genius" Marjorie Perloff explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts... -
John Derricke's the Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne: Essays on Text and Context by Professor Thomas Herron
RRP: $189.00$167.66John Derricke's Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a key work of English print-making, Irish and English history and cultural misunderstanding. The work attests to the complexity of English and Irish relations, colonisation, military... -
Shakespearean Territories by Stuart Elden
RRP: $50.40$48.36Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much... -
Reading Sedgwick by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $48.28$42.02Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect,... -
Late Romance: Anthony Hecht-A Poet's Life David Yezzi 9781250016584
RRP: $71.38$45.15Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America's greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognised as a master of formal verse that drew on wide-ranging cultural and literary sources, as well as Hecht's experiences as a soldier during... -
What is a Playhouse?: England at Play, 1520-1620 Callan Davies 9781032138077
RRP: $75.58$67.07This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship... -
Ecclesiastical History: v. 1: Bks.I-V by Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius
RRP: $52.40$49.90The first comprehensive history of early Christianity.Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. AD 260-340), born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus, whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt, but... -
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780521402323
$222.66F. Scott Fitzgerald began composing Tender Is the Night in the summer of 1925, but he struggled with the novel and reworked it intensively over the next nine years. A study of the disintegration of a talented young American psychiatrist, set among... -
Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound Susan Bennett (University of Calgary, Canada) 9781474246477
RRP: $33.58$30.18Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up... -
Dante by John Took 9780691154046
RRP: $88.20$72.03An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work. Dante's writings... -
Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy by Paula Marantz Cohen
RRP: $46.20$39.82An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy"Thoughtful, astute, invitingly readable-and uncommonly timely. Especially now that so many younger readers are casting suspicious... -
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Selected Writings by Francis O'Gorman 9780198858775
RRP: $54.58$47.82This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). This authoritative edition presents students with a new, more complete, more challenging,... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.90The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour c. 1720-1830 by Nigel Leask 9780198850021
RRP: $225.75$193.54Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge,... -
Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life Gerard Kilroy 9781138089075
RRP: $92.38$82.19Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life is the response, at long last, to Evelyn Waugh's call, in 1935, for a 'scholarly biography' to replace Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion (1867). Whereas early accounts of his life focused on the execution of the Jesuit... -
Alexander The Great: A Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: $31.48$28.60Nikos Kazantzakis is no stranger to the heroes of Greek antiquity. In this historical novel based on the life of Alexander the Great, Kazantzakis has drawn on both the rich tradition of Greek legend and the documented manuscripts from the archives of... -
The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on His Toe and Other Bourgeois Mishaps by Christopher Matthew 9781408704653
$22.24The path trodden by the middle-aged middle classes in Britain, smooth though it may appear to the less privileged, is in reality a peculiarly dangerous one, dogged by its own set of terrors, pitfalls and opportunities for social humiliation. In The Man... -
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick
RRP: $27.28$17.89Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism,... -
Before You Write Your Novel: Essential Skills for the First-time Novelist James McCreet 9781138186736
RRP: $41.98$37.72Previously available as "Before You Write a Word", Before You Write Your Novel sets out the essential techniques and approaches that lay the perfect foundation for writing your first novel. This concise and readable guide addresses the major stumbling... -
Women's Indian Captivity Narratives by Various 9780140436716
$28.29Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this anthology span the early history of this country (1682-1892)... -
We Will Tell Our Own Story!: The Lions of Africa Speak! by Adebayo C Akomolafe 9780982532768
RRP: $94.90$80.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982532768Author Adebayo C AkomolafeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Universal Write Publications LLCPublisher Universal Write Publications... -
German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust: Complicity and Gender in the Second World War by Elisabeth Krimmer
RRP: $71.38$63.69This important study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, and autobiographically inspired fiction. Through a historical and literary study of the complex relationship between... -
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance: Revised Edition by David Norbrook 9780199247196
RRP: $115.50$100.21Since its first publication in 1984, Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance has been recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative study of its kind. For this new edition, Norbrook has provided an extensive afterword which gives an... -
Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick, UK) 9780631167051
RRP: $73.40$65.25This major new introduction to comparative literature is for the students coming to the subject for the first time. Through an examination of a series of case studies and new theoretical developments, Bassnett reviews the current state of comparative...