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The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Steven Monte 9781474481489
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $51.70Explores the intricate hidden organisation of Shakespeare's Sonnets Discusses Shakespeare as a writer with career aspirations as a poet Analyses individual poems, especially anthology pieces and minor" sonnets, from new perspectives Explores... -
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.74WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory... -
The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
Booksplease Price: $73.71Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur... -
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.29'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order'One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and... -
Everybody's Protest Novel by James Baldwin 9780807016947
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807016947Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Devotion by Patti Smith 9780300240221
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.68The 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
Booksplease Price: $25.28Exam 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.53The 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... -
On Architecture: v. 2: Bks.VI-X by Vitruvius
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.30The Renaissance man avant la lettre.Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial... -
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.36When 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 Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles 9781805300038
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.78Shakespeare 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... -
Lost Goddesses Of Early Greece by Charlene Spretnak 9780807013434
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013434Author Charlene SpretnakFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm *... -
The Essential Atlas: Star Wars by Daniel Wallace
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $54.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345477644Author Daniel WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1168gDimensions(mm) 300mm... -
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Jackson Crawford 9781624663567
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $32.89"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge... -
The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.29The 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
Booksplease Price: $19.19From 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... -
Mary Robinson and the Gothic by Jerrold E. Hogle 9781009160872
Booksplease Price: $37.44Celebrated 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: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.30Topics 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
Booksplease Price: $24.51Get 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... -
American Fiction Since 1940 by Tony Hilfer 9780582493506
Booksplease Price: $43.24In 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: $113.38Booksplease Price: $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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.29'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... -
Last of the Summer Wine 9781845137113
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.43Quite simply, Last of the Summer Wine is the longest-running comedy programme in the world. It premiered 37 years ago, in 1973, and, after 31 series it finally came to an end last year - even though all its original protagonists - Compo, Foggy, even Nora... -
A Study Guide for Yarin Martel's Life of Pi by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375398534
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $19.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375398534Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm)... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.19Introducing 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Winner 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.52The 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... -
Stories and Tales Hans Christian Andersen 9780415285988
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.99A true classic of Western literature, Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, arguably the most notable children's writer of all, has delighted young and old for generations. This unique collection was first translated for George Routledge over 130... -
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction Grady Hendrix 9781594749810
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.33SEE the amazing vintage book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, knife-wielding killer crabs! READ the shocking plots involving devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! LEARN the stories of long-forgotten creators as... -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.08**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 Magic of Terry Pratchett Marc Burrows 9781399000499
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.32The Magic Of Terry Pratchett is the first full biography of Sir Terry Pratchett ever written. Sir Terry was Britain's best-selling living author, and before his death in 2015 had sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide. Best known for the... -
Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice by Alison Mark 9780333734384
Booksplease Price: $95.61Contemporary Women's Poetry is a unique resource for students, teachers, and anyone interest in contemporary poetry. It offers the opportunity for readers to engage with the work of important figures and issues in contemporary women's poetry from two... -
The Homeric Hymns by Michael Crudden
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.74'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,... -
The Official Dune Colouring Book by Frank Herbert 9781399620093
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.10The first official colouring book based on Frank Herbert's Dune - one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.Visit Arrakis in a whole new way as you colour in your favourite characters and scenes from Frank Herbert's enduring and beloved... -
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs 9780393342925
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $35.24When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as "a bible" and vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the... -
Poetics by Aristotle
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.74'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: $38.14Booksplease Price: $35.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689596Author David R ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint 27bslash6Publisher 27bslash6Weight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 15mm -
How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.92An 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... -
How to Read Middle English Poetry by Daniel Sawyer 9780198895244
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $41.39How 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.52Who 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...