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The Beauty Of The Husband by Anne Carson 9780224061308
RRP: €19.04€13.83Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of... -
Notebooks for Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9780486813707
RRP: €14.86€10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486813707Author Fyodor DostoyevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Shakespeare in an Age of Anxiety by Neville Grant 9781910996737
RRP: €35.69€34.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996737Author Neville GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Coincidance: A Head Test by Robert Anton Wilson 9780998713427
RRP: €21.41€16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998713427Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams) 440g -
Theory of Justice by Filippo Dionigi
RRP: €7.74€7.27John Rawls's A Theory of Justice is one of the most influential works of legal and political theory published since the Second World War. It provides a memorably well-constructed and sustained argument in favour of a new (social contract) version of the... -
A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV by David Asheri 9780199639366
€81.73Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it - its peoples and their achievements, together with the causes and course of the great wars that brought the... -
French Crime Fiction, 1945-2005: Investigating World War II by Margaret-Anne Hutton 9781138274969
RRP: €59.49€51.77In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over a hundred and fifty texts spanning more than sixty years. Included are well-known writers (male and female) such as... -
Mixed Race Literature by Jonathan Brennan 9780804736404
RRP: €33.31€28.73This collection presents the first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written by authors who represent multiple cultural and literary traditions-African-European, Native-European, Eurasian,... -
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini 9781250758149
RRP: €20.23€12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250758149Author Nicola GardiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 18mm -
The Uppsala Edda: DG 11 4to by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521857
RRP: €14.28€13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521857Author Heimir PalssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 327Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson 9780804718226
RRP: €35.69€32.01Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or... -
Roger Federer: Portrait of an Artist by Christopher Jackson
RRP: €11.89€7.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911335245Author Christopher JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 203gDimensions(mm)... -
Liberty, Equality, and Humbug: Orwell's Political Ideals by David Dwan 9780198738527
RRP: €34.50€24.75George Orwell is watching you and you're watching him. Britain pays its respects in the form of the Orwell Prize, the Orwell Lecture, and, more recently, Orwell Day. A statue of Orwell now stands outside Broadcasting House in London and he continues to... -
Experiences in Translation by Umberto Eco
RRP: €27.36€22.84In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco... -
Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War by Erica Sheen 9780198888611
RRP: €83.30€75.85Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson by Greg Clingham
RRP: €30.93€26.17Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find the New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson deeply informed and appealingly written. Each newly commissioned chapter explores aspects of Johnson's writing and thought, including his ethical grasp... -
Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare: Edward's Boys by Harry McCarthy
RRP: €20.23€17.52This Element provides the first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward's Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School ('Shakespeare's School') in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern... -
Battle of Britain by Ian Kennedy
RRP: €17.84€11.98The second in the new 'War Picture Library' series showcasing the finest combat comics illustrated by legendary and iconic artists. Two true stories of aviation heroism and derring-do - 'Never Say Die' and 'Steel Bats' - set during the Battle of Britain... -
The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner by John T. Matthews
RRP: €27.36€23.28The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety... -
Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery by P. Hunt 9781405188067
RRP: €34.45€29.83An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad-ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical... -
Shakespeare and Popular Music by Adam Hansen 9781441126986
€38.44Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites, showing how musicians have woven the Bard into their sounds. How have Shakespearean characters, words, texts and iconography been represented... -
James Joyce and the Matter of Paris by Catherine Flynn
RRP: €35.69€30.87In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902-03, she shows... -
Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law by Joseph R. Slaughter 9780823228188
RRP: €41.65€37.06In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena... -
Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches by Ellen Greene
RRP: €32.13€25.06Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's... -
Absalom, Absalom!: A Norton Critical Edition by William Faulkner
RRP: €17.84€15.98This Norton Critical Edition includes: The authoritative text of Absalom, Absalom!, established by Noel Polk in 1986 and accompanied by Susan Scott Parrish's introduction and explanatory footnotes.Two maps and five other images.A rich selection of... -
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal by E. L. Wright 9780745619668
€21.53What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging... -
A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume III: Books XVII-XXIV by Joseph Russo 9780198149538
RRP: €57.11€50.08Now available in paperback, this is the final instalment of a three-volume presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's Odyssey compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo... -
The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007 by Hayden V. White
RRP: €34.51€31.51Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where narrative is of primary concern, including history,... -
Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text by Sally Bushell
RRP: €107.10€89.87Do we map as we read? How central to our experience of literature is the way in which we spatialise and visualise a fictional world? Reading and Mapping Fiction offers a fresh approach to the interpretation of literary space and place centred upon the... -
The Work of Literature by Derek Attridge 9780198798903
€36.57What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible... -
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton by Professor J. R. Mulryne 9780719043505
RRP: €13.08€9.40Women Beware Women is among the most powerful and adroitly plotted of Jacobean tragedies. Written by Thomas Middleton, a later contemporary of Shakespeare, the play deals with topics of enduring fascination such as sexual and financial greed, the sexual... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781451621709
RRP: €11.89€10.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451621709Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Shakespeare: the 'Lost Years' by E. A. J. Honigmann 9780719054259
RRP: €23.79€21.21This literary detective story throws light on the problem of what Shakespeare was doing between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwright in London. Bringing forward historic and documentary evidence, this text argues that Shakespeare... -
Post-Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism by Jeffrey T. Nealon
RRP: €24.98€21.86Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the... -
Comedy: "An Essay on Comedy" by George Meredith. "Laughter" by Henri Bergson by Wylie Sypher
RRP: €30.35€26.70Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art-Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Moliere-used comedy to grasp the essence of humanity. Comedy, according to... -
History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene by Ian Baucom
RRP: €23.79€20.87In History 4 Degrees Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Putting black studies into conversation with climate change, Baucom outlines how the ongoing concerns... -
A Companion to Greek Religion by Daniel Ogden 9781444334173
RRP: €51.11€45.18This major addition to Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin
RRP: €23.79€18.12Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the... -
The Works of Patrick Branwell Bronte: Volume 2, 1834-1836 by Victor A. Neufeldt
RRP: €73.77€64.99This volume, first published in 1999, contains all of Patrick Branwell Bronte's known writings, excluding his letters, from 1834 to 1836. This title primarily focuses on the creation of Angria, and on the growing conflict between Alexander Percy, Earl of... -
Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence by Pablo Neruda 9780393306439
RRP: €33.31€28.16In this beautiful printing of Poirot's classic work-featuring new scans from newly made prints-we come to know the poet's magical world through his poems, his houses, the wonderful things he collected, and his friends.About the AuthorPablo Neruda was...