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Devotion by Patti Smith 9780300240221
RRP: $18.88$16.86The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process. A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic-its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring... -
How to Pass National 5 English, Second Edition David Swinney 9781510420892
RRP: $25.18$23.94Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018This book contains all the advice and support you need to revise successfully for your National 5 exam. It combines an overview of the course syllabus... -
The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse by Francis Turner Palgrave
RRP: $23.08$15.14The Golden Treasury is one of the most loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate.It is arranged... -
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky
RRP: $27.28$19.61When Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalin's henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. In his former apartment, Rachel Polonsky... -
The Little Book of Yorkshire Humour Mark Whitley 9781855682764
RRP: $6.28$5.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855682764Author Mark WhitleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dalesman Publishing Co LtdPublisher Dalesman Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles 9781805300038
RRP: $42.00$28.27Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the... -
The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
RRP: $16.78$12.56The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists... -
Henry IV, Part II by Eric Rasmussen 9780230232150
$18.63From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's profound exploration of a prince's coming of age and the rejection of old Jack Falstaff. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a... -
100 Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors: Funny and True Easy to Read Short Stories to Stimulate the Mind (Perfect Gift for Elderly Women and Men) by Charlie Miller 9781648450938
RRP: $29.19$27.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450938Author Charlie MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm... -
Mary Robinson and the Gothic by Jerrold E. Hogle 9781009160872
RRP: $35.70$30.91Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776-80) and notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779-80), Mary Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid-1780s until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles,... -
Moral Essays: v. 3 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $52.40$49.12Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Oxford Literature Companions: La casa de Bernarda Alba: study guide for AS/A Level Spanish set text by Margaret Bond 9780198418368
$23.16Get to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions. The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and examiners and provide comprehensive coverage of... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
RRP: $18.88$18.10This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first... -
American Fiction Since 1940 by Tony Hilfer 9780582493506
RRP: $41.98$41.56In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction and black humour, the fiction of social protest, women's... -
Irish Literature Since 1800 by Norman Vance 9780582494787
RRP: $113.38$109.12This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which... -
Selected Letters by Jane Austen
RRP: $16.78$12.56'Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important.' Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's time and social position, and Austen's letters have a freedom and familiarity that only intimate writing can... -
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin 9780140441192
RRP: $27.28$19.61The Queen of Spades and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction showcasing Alexander Pushkin's application of Romantic sensibilities to uncompromising studies of human frailty. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $20.98$15.37Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,... -
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
RRP: $31.48$21.13Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' award in 2023How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow... -
Icelandic Histories & Romances by Ralph O'Connor 9780752428949
RRP: $27.28$20.73The Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries, are one of the world's great literary treasures. After an extended and lively introduction to the genre, Ralph O'Connor provides new translations for five of the greatest of... -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $35.68$24.93**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously illustrated selection of the life-changing... -
The Homeric Hymns by Michael Crudden
RRP: $18.88$13.76'With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins, With herself and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Aidoneus once Abducted...' Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with the two great epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey,... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.90The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the... -
Poetics by Aristotle
RRP: $18.88$13.97'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our... -
That's Not How You Wash a Squirrel: A collection of new essays and emails by David R Thorne 9780988689596
RRP: $38.14$33.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689596Author David R ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint 27bslash6Publisher 27bslash6Weight(grams) 268g -
How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
RRP: $31.48$25.91An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics-the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding storiesAristotle's Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of... -
The Complete Poems Of Sappho by Willis Barnstone
RRP: $35.68$25.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306130Author Willis BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
How to Read Middle English Poetry by Daniel Sawyer 9780198895244
RRP: $42.00$39.50How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre,... -
Henry Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists by Henry Eliot
RRP: $27.28$19.61Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world... -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
RRP: $31.48$23.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761808Author Fran LebowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Complete English Poems by John Donne
RRP: $31.48$23.84Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, elegiac and religious verse, and his independence of view, compact manner of expression encompassing conflicting moods, impassioned paradox, outbreaks of cynicism and wry humour make his work particularly... -
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide by David Whittaker
RRP: $79.78$70.10Offering 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... -
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $27.28$19.61In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the... -
"Pericles" by William Shakespeare
RRP: $20.98$19.03Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and... -
Mothers of the Mind: The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath by Rachel Trethewey 9781803991894
RRP: $52.50$38.93'The relationship between my grandmother and her mother was very important and indeed crucial to her childhood and the very early days of her writing ... So, to have more insight into this particular aspect of my grandmother's early life is very valuable... -
The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830 - 1890 by Robin Gilmour
RRP: $100.78$97.40This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated... -
A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 3 by S. J. Heyworth 9780198727828
RRP: $61.93$54.47The Aeneid, generally considered the greatest poem of Roman literature, is a story of migration, and Book 3 is at the heart of this story-the arrestingly dramatic account that Aeneas gives to the Carthaginian Queen Dido of his people's journey from the... -
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland
RRP: $10.48$7.69In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $42.00$30.85In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood asks:- Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?- How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?- How can we... -
French Literature: A Very Short Introduction by John D. Lyons
RRP: $18.88$13.97The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations. The first...