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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome Las Casas
RRP: $20.98$15.37Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he... -
Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art by Reginald Gibbons
RRP: $58.80$57.52"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The... -
In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales by M. Wynn Thomas 9780708322253
RRP: $31.48$24.49Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture... -
Dante: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth
RRP: $18.88$13.97In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe... -
Walden and Civil Disobedience (Collins Classics) by Henry David Thoreau 9780007925292
RRP: $6.28$5.19HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,... -
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems by Elizabeth Browning
RRP: $31.48$23.00Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in... -
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach 9780803260979
RRP: $35.68$26.94"Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all."-Janet Flanner, New YorkerSylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with... -
Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell by Toril Moi
RRP: $54.60$52.19This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi... -
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $27.28$19.95With an introduction by Simon CallowJudgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius.Who was... -
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel 9780300151305
RRP: $31.48$27.36A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on... -
The History of Wales in Twelve Poems by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786837660
RRP: $18.88$14.87Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives the general reader a sense of the view to be seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods... -
Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write Alex Johnson 9780711258013
RRP: $41.98$29.30Rooms of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals in which famous writers created their most notable works. The perennial question asked of all authors is, 'How do you write?'. What do they require of their room... -
Portsmouth, A Literary And Pictorial Tour by Matt Wingett 9780995639485
$32.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995639485Author Matt WingettFormat PaperbackImprint Life is AmazingPublisher Life is Amazing -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray
RRP: $25.18$17.60London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms by Ernst Cassirer 9780300074338
$44.75At his death in 1945, the influential German philosopher Ernst Cassirer left manuscripts for the fourth and final volume of his magnum opus, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. John Michael Krois and Donald Phillip Verene have edited these writings and... -
The Bhagavad Gita by Gavin Flood 9780393912920
$25.98A devotional, literary and philosophical work of unsurpassed beauty and relevance, the universal themes of The Bhagavad Gita-life and death, war and peace and sacrifice-resonate in a West increasingly interested in Eastern religious experiences and the... -
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather Love 9780674032392
RRP: $54.50$43.34Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that... -
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
RRP: $23.08$16.78Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose - whether everyday or sublime - into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the... -
k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) by Mark Fisher
RRP: $63.00$43.47Edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds, this comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004 - 2016, the collection... -
The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
RRP: $27.28$20.45Henry Fielding's picaresque tale of a young man's search for his place in the world, The History of Tom Jones is edited with notes and an introduction by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely in Penguin Classics.A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by... -
Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $23.08$16.78'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul?For help in understanding our most... -
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966-2006 by Edward Said
RRP: $35.68$26.19A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and cultural critic and political thinker Edward Said was one of... -
Annals and Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $42.00$31.31Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. Born in about AD 55, he served as administrator and leading senator. This career gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest levels, experience brought to bear on his writing. His major... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: $27.28$18.54Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love, death, grief and despair. His poetry celebrates the... -
Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $23.08$16.78The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to... -
Der Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: $62.98$55.94The full German text of Durrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.About the AuthorFriedrich Durrenmatt, P.K.AckermannBook InformationISBN... -
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
RRP: $27.28$18.481606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520281431
RRP: $31.48$26.36One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more by M. L. West
RRP: $18.88$13.97The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in... -
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: $27.28$19.61Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics.Dorothy Parker was the most... -
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Philosophical Perspectives by Elisabeth Camp 9780190651206
RRP: $56.68$41.98One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime. When a slim volume of her poems emerged on the American scene in 1890, her work created shockwaves that have not subsided yet. Famously precise and sparse,... -
Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction by William Allan
RRP: $18.88$13.97From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media... -
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Groom
RRP: $18.88$12.62The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home decor and... -
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth 9780711279858
RRP: $42.00$29.30"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life."The Times A lavishly illustrated... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780413775825
RRP: $18.88$17.26Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, it was fiercely attacked on publication for... -
Sexistence by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823293995
RRP: $50.38$44.44Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive... -
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill 9780226527284
RRP: $50.40$48.36We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind. So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson... -
Horace Opera by H. W. Garrod 9780198146186
RRP: $50.38$46.98The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the front of each page. There are... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $27.28$19.61Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As near perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get:... -
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict by Andrew Pettegree 9781800814936
RRP: $63.00$45.55'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David Kynaston Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published...