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Aeneid 3 by Virgil 9781585102273
RRP: $37.03$30.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102273Author VergilFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 313g -
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth 9780415355292
RRP: $33.13$29.68When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the... -
Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives by Katherine Elkins
RRP: $48.73$43.91With the story of a madeleine dipped in tea, Marcel Proust makes famous moments that transport one to an earlier time thought lost forever. His In Search of Lost Time announces a quest narrative with lost time as its goal. We follow the journey of a... -
The Outsider (L'Etranger) by Ben Okri 9781786826657
$22.78Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare... -
Stan Lee: A Life by Bob Batchelor
RRP: $35.08$25.25The definitive biography of Marvel legend Stan Lee, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.Stan Lee's extraordinary life was as epic as the superheroes he co-created, from the Amazing Spider-Man to the Mighty Avengers. His ideas and voice are at... -
The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces by Henry James
RRP: $46.80$45.69This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multivolume "New York" Edition of Henry James' fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great... -
The Historical Novel by Georg Lukacs 9780803279100
$71.82Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel by Anthony Roche 9780521666862
RRP: $52.63$44.46Brian Friel is widely recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright, winning an international reputation through such acclaimed works as Translations (1980) and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). This 2006 collection of specially commissioned essays... -
Rilke: The Life of the Work by Charlie Louth
RRP: $224.25$204.52The life of Rilke's work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the development of that life as it unfolds over Rilke's career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us when we read? This is a question of the greatest interest to Rilke, who... -
The Cambridge Companion to Camus by Edward J. Hughes
RRP: $50.68$42.88Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of... -
A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice by Kenji Yoshino 9780061769122
RRP: $31.18$19.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061769122Author Kenji YoshinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Ballads and Songs of Peterloo by Alison Morgan 9781526144294
RRP: $38.98$34.34Ballads and songs of Peterloo is an edited collection of poems and songs written following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. This collection, which includes over seventy poems, were published either as broadsides or in radical periodicals and newspapers... -
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales by Stephen Knight
RRP: $63.38$54.29Although nearly everyone has heard the name of Robin Hood, few have actually read any medieval tales about the legendary outlaw. Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren set out to correct this discrepancy in their comprehensive collection of all... -
Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times by Tobias Menely 9780271078731
RRP: $54.50$47.78Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the... -
An Introduction to Applied Semiotics: Tools for Text and Image Analysis by Louis Hebert 9780367351120
RRP: $74.08$65.09An Introduction to Applied Semiotics presents nineteen semiotics tools for text and image analysis. Covering a variety of different schools and approaches, together with the author's own original approach, this is a full and synthetic introduction to... -
No Other Book by R. Jarrell 9780060956387
RRP: $23.38$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060956387Author R. JarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger 9780393925890
RRP: $25.33$22.35It is canonical as a cultural text, rather than a purely literary one, as this Norton Critical Edition reflects. An extensive "Contexts" section includes maps, photographs, and documents showing how and why Alger used the backdrop of New York... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London by Lawrence Manley 9780521722315
RRP: $48.73$41.30London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland... -
Gay Canon by Robert Drake 9780385492287
RRP: $38.90$28.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385492287Author Robert DrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9781420974720
$12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420974720Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 2mm -
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert L. Dreyfus 9780710806550
$104.29First Published in 1984. This book was born out of a disagreement among friends. Paul Rabinow, attending a seminar given in 1979 by Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle which concerned, among other things, Michel Foucault, objected to the characterization of... -
An Introduction to Gaelic Fiction by Moray Watson
RRP: $40.93$33.52The first guide to Gaelic fiction - covering the full expanse of the canon Tracing the history of Gaelic fiction over the last century, Moray Watson looks at the work of well-known authors such as Iain Moireach, Tormod Caimbeul and Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn,... -
Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania by Karin Littau 9780745616599
RRP: $35.08$31.28Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers have often read excessively, obsessively, and for sensory stimulation? Posing these and other questions,... -
Anna Karenina: A Norton Critical Edition by Leo Tolstoy 9780393966428
$30.48"Backgrounds and Sources" includes central passages from the letters of Tolstoy and his correspondents, S. A. Tolstoy's diaries, and contemporary accounts translated by George Gibian exclusively for this Norton Critical Edition. Together these materials... -
The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by Kevin J. Hayes
RRP: $44.83$38.14This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American... -
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3 by Malcolm Lyons
RRP: $39.00$28.10Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love,... -
On Narrative by W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226532172
RRP: $32.18$31.65The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human... -
30 Great Myths about Jane Austen by Claudia L. Johnson
RRP: $40.85$27.94A fascinating look into the myths that continue to shape our understanding and appreciation of Jane Austen. Was Jane Austen the best-selling novelist of her time? Are all her novels romances? Did they depict the traditional world of the aristocracy? Is... -
Feminizing Chaucer by Jill Mann 9780859916134
RRP: $48.73$34.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages by Beryl Smalley
RRP: $62.40$55.01The Bible is the most widely read book in the world. From the transcription of the Old Testament to Greek, to the collection of the Gospels, the Bible has always been in a state of literary and scholarly transition. In her classic work, The Study of the... -
The Half Healed by Michael Symmons Roberts
RRP: $23.40$16.46The poems in Michael Symmons Roberts's fifth collection move in a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals. As ever, this is a metaphysical poetry rooted in physical detail - but the bodies here are displaced, disguised, in... -
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by Lingua Franca 9780803279957
RRP: $37.03$30.38In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism. And the... -
Preromanticism by Marshall Brown
RRP: $97.50$85.43A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This is a major achievement, an artfully written and carefully articulated contribution to the theory of literary history, and a powerful interpretation of eighteenth-century literature with which all scholars... -
Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse by Bella Millett 9780198119975
RRP: $140.40$127.78The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses written in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related religious works of the `Katherine Group', offer a vivid insight into the religious life of the time, and their rich and... -
The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen by Jeremy Black 9780803262409
RRP: $31.18$25.56The adventures and antics of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the last half-century. Fleming's novels were bestsellers in their day, and the Bond films have been even more popular, becoming the most... -
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison by Justine Tally 9780521678322
RRP: $44.83$38.14Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion... -
American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen by Gavin Cologne-Brookes 9780807178591
$44.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807178591Author Gavin Cologne-BrookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism by Dr Evelyn Gajowski
$72.46The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical... -
Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante by Charles Williams 9780976402541
RRP: $36.95$27.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976402541Author Charles WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by Angelyn Mitchell 9780521675826
RRP: $52.63$44.46The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry...