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An Essay on the Tragic by Peter Szondi
RRP: $37.03$32.60Peter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books two parts consists of a series of commentaries on... -
When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition by Jack Zipes
RRP: $70.18$61.80For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why?In When Dreams Came True, Jack... -
Silent Spring by Nikki Springer
RRP: $12.68$11.91Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides in American agriculture helped thrust environmental consciousness to the fore of modern politics and... -
Comic Faith: Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce by Robert M. Polhemus 9780226673219
RRP: $50.70$48.46"Polhemus sketches several distinctions between nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists and concludes that what most characterizes the nineteenth century, from the perspective of the twentieth, is the tendency in its comic fiction to criticize and to... -
Before You Write Your Novel: Essential Skills for the First-time Novelist by James McCreet
RRP: $38.98$34.50Previously 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... -
Dryden:Selected Poems by Paul Hammond 9781405835459
$86.87Dryden: Selected Poems is drawn from Paul Hammond and David Hopkins's remarkable five-volume The Poems of John Dryden, and includes a generous selection of his most important work. The great satires, MacFlecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel, are included... -
Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974 by Dianne C. Luce 9781643363554
$68.50Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthyDevotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be... -
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness by Rhodri Lewis
RRP: $48.75$38.20An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's HamletHamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern... -
How Picturebooks Work by Maria Nikolajeva 9780415979689
RRP: $126.73$109.47How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of... -
The Aphorism and Other Short Forms by Ben Grant 9780415829298
RRP: $38.98$34.50The aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement. It has been used and studied from classical times to contemporary theory and takes on a new relevance when we look at today's communication media such as text... -
John Milton Prose: Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education by John Milton 9781405129312
RRP: $66.20$59.24Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent genius to major issues of domestic, religious and political liberty. This superbly annotated new... -
Why Homer Matters: A History by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $48.75$28.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250074942Author Adam NicolsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
The Sniper Encyclopaedia: An A-Z Guide to World Sniping by Walter, John 9781784382407
RRP: $48.75$36.31The Sniper Encyclopaedia is an indispensable alphabetical, topic-by-topic guide to a fascinating subject. It is intended as a companion volume to John Walter's Snipers at War (Greenhill Books, 2017) and is another addition to the Greenhill Sniper... -
Reckless Minds: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
RRP: $39.00$30.65The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos... -
The Romance of the Rose: Third Edition by Guillaume de Lorris
RRP: $81.90$65.21Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English... -
Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays by C S Lewis
RRP: $25.33$17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062643599Author C S LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Antonin Artaud: From Theory to Practice by Lee Jamieson 9781871551983
RRP: $23.38$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551983Author Lee JamiesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Caxton's Golden Legend by Mayumi Taguchi 9780198867968
$127.30This is volume I of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton. It is an English translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea (ca. 1267), a collection... -
Old Norse Mythology Comparative Perspectives by Pernille Hermann
RRP: $48.65$38.79Old Norse mythology is elusive: it is the label used to describe the religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring such well-known gods as Odin and Thor, yet most of the narratives have come down to us in manuscripts from the Middle Ages mainly... -
Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman
RRP: $38.98$34.20In Stagestruck noted novelist and outspoken critic Sarah Schulman offers an account of her growing awareness of the startling similarities between her novel People in Trouble and the smash Broadway hit Rent. Written with a powerful and personal voice,... -
The Swedish Theory of Love: Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden by Henrik Berggren
RRP: $46.78$40.64In 2020 Sweden's response to COVID-19 drew renewed attention to the Nordic nation in a way that put the finger on a seeming paradox. Long celebrated for its commitment to social solidarity, Sweden suddenly emerged as the last country in the West to... -
Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment by Ruth Heholt 9781783488827
RRP: $87.75$80.81Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with absence, memory and nostalgia. Yet experiences of haunting... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel by Lisa Rodensky 9780198744689
$68.25Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly... -
Mythology For Dummies by Amy Hackney Blackwell 9781394187935
RRP: $37.03$25.17Discover (or rediscover!) history's greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you're looking for a helpful companion to... -
Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative: Updated Edition by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780691176123
RRP: $37.03$29.48The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the first English translation of one of the most important... -
The Game and Playe of the Chesse by William Caxton
RRP: $24.38$20.75Despite its title, Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse does not, in fact, have much to say about a game or about playing it ... Instead, the work uses the chessboard and its pieces to allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the... -
The Book of the Thousand and One Nights (Vol 4) by J. C. Mardrus
RRP: $70.18$62.58Volume four of this translation of the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.Book InformationISBN 9780415045421Author J.C. MardrusFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 585g -
Keynotes and Discords: Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers by George Egerton 9780826481856
$66.75This series covers texts of women writers whose work is being increasingly discussed in the study of the development of the 20th century and the Modernist movements of the 19th century, placing the works in their context.Book InformationISBN... -
D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence by John Worthen 9780521437721
RRP: $81.88$61.83The first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence was originally published in 1991, and draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them hitherto unpublished, to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary... -
Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture by Juliet John 9780198184614
$162.65This is the first major study of Dickens's villains. They embody, John argues, the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and 'theatrical' aspects of his writing. Though there have been many studies of both the macabre and the dramatic Dickens, this book... -
Sexual Dissidence by Jonathan Dollimore 9780198827054
RRP: $140.40$97.23Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this... -
On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose by Theodore Roethke
RRP: $35.10$26.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591563Author Theodore RoethkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 326g -
The Promise of the Suburbs: A Victorian History in Literature and Culture by Sarah Bilston
RRP: $63.38$61.58A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women Literature has, from the start of the nineteenth century, cast the suburbs as dull, vulgar, and unimaginative margins where,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft by Claudia L. Johnson 9780521789523
RRP: $50.68$42.88Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognised as a writer of formidable talent across a range of genres, including journalism, letters and travel writing, and is increasingly understood as an heir to... -
Breathing Aesthetics by Jean-Thomas Tremblay
RRP: $38.98$34.20In Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and... -
Young Rilke and His Time by George C. Schoolfield
RRP: $214.50$205.02A look at neglected aspects of the early career of one of the premier poets of the German language. Although Rainer Maria Rilke and his work have been much studied and written about over the past century -- as befits the perhaps most important... -
Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance by Richard Wilson 9780719070259
RRP: $38.98$28.31Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family... -
Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt by Bonnie Honig
RRP: $74.00$66.65Consisting almost entirely of new essays specially prepared for this volume, Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt illuminates the diversity of contemporary feminisms while also generating new and suggestive readings of Hannah Arendt's political... -
Asking Around: Background to the David Hare Trilogy by David Hare 9780571170630
RRP: $29.23$22.58David Hare's trilogy of plays - Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War - first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993, examines the crises facing three great British institutions - the Church, the Law and the Labour Party. In... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421896
RRP: $83.85$75.11Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about...