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A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry by Robert Hass
RRP: $14.18$9.62From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike A Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
RRP: $25.79$18.42'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780199536788
RRP: $10.31$7.71This prose translation of the Odyssey is so successful that it has taken its place as one of the few really outstanding versions of Homer's famous epic poem. It is the story of the return of Odysseus from the siege of Troy to his home in Ithaca, and of... -
Histories: Bk. VIII-IX by Herodotus
RRP: $32.19$30.65The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
The Brontes and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination by Alexandra Lewis
RRP: $39.98$29.48What does it mean to be human? The Bronte novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontes and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte each... -
On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $25.79$22.97In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward... -
Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams 9781350200142
RRP: $16.76$15.54Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always... -
Writing Poems Peter Sansom 9781852242046
RRP: $16.76$11.39Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses, Peter Sansom shows you not how to write but how to write better, how to write authentically, how to say genuinely what you genuinely mean to say. This practical guide is illustrated... -
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart 9780008601089
RRP: $21.92$14.80'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms and number-lovers alike will discover much they... -
Papyrus: THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER Irene Vallejo 9781529343960
RRP: $32.25$21.97The bestselling phenomenon - an enthralling 6,000-year journey through the history of books and readingA FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR'Outstanding, universal and unique' NEW YORK TIMES'A literary phenomenon.' TLS'Masterly... -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364293
RRP: $16.76$9.96'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon... -
Librorum Ridiculorum: Bizarre Books from a Rare Bookshop by Brian Lake
RRP: $14.18$9.62A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop. Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons... and others are simply mad. This... -
Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: $28.38$22.39Since Gutenberg's time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine... -
The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature by Robert Irwin
RRP: $19.34$14.13Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, and ranging from Afghanistan to Spain, this unique collection provides a profound insight into the sheer vitality and depth of Classical Arabic literature. From the earliest surviving fragments of The Thousand... -
The Poems of Nakahara Chuya by Nakahara Chuya 9780852442555
$13.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852442555Author Nakahara ChuyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint GracewingPublisher Gracewing -
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth by Catherine McIlwaine
$41.93This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkien's enduring popularity. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images of his manuscripts, drawings, maps and letters, the book traces the creative process behind his most famous... -
The Joyce of Everyday Life Vicki Mahaffey 9781684485260
RRP: $30.95$24.88Part of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they... -
Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation by Bart Moore-Gilbert
RRP: $49.01$43.06Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production.Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western... -
Aetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems by Callimachus
RRP: $32.19$30.65The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939
RRP: $16.76$12.05Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social... -
Stigmata: Escaping Texts by Helene Cixous 9780415345453
RRP: $21.92$19.63A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Helene Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a... -
The Written World and the Unwritten World by Italo Calvino
RRP: $14.18$10.31'An indispensable writer ... Calvino, possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams to life' Salman RushdieThe difference between life and literature; the good intentions of holiday reading; the... -
AQA Drama and Theatre: A Level and AS by Su Fielder
$64.85Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A Level Subject: Drama and Theatre First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 This student book comprehensively covers both the AQA AS and A Level Drama and... -
The Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath
RRP: $11.60$8.58World-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion: 'If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down'. The volume has received wide coverage, fuelled much passionate debate and caused... -
Best-Loved Poems by Neil Philip
RRP: $16.76$11.39This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $14.18$9.97In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income,... -
Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. by M. L. West
RRP: $32.19$30.65Cyclic verse.Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of families or peoples. They are an important source of mythological record. Here is... -
The Connell Short Guide To Toni Morrison's Beloved by Theo Tait 9781911187059
RRP: $7.73$6.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187059Author Tessa RoynonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Ideas and Opinions Albert Einstein 9780679601050
RRP: $28.38$18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601050Author Albert EinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
Adam Bede by George Eliot 9780199203475
RRP: $11.60$8.58'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences...consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.' Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur... -
Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long Twentieth Century by Robert S. C. Gordon 9781800083615
RRP: $58.05$50.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800083615Author Robert S. C. GordonFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 530g -
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee 9780062571953
RRP: $18.05$12.05Hugo and Locus Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018"An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable." - George R. R. MartinAstounding is the landmark... -
The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright Ngugi wa Thiong'o 9780857426475
RRP: $19.34$16.81Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o offers in The Upright Revolution. Blending myth and folklore with an acute... -
Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
RRP: $19.35$14.14In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's... -
Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: $18.05$12.69Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century's rebellions and upheavals, including women's liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space... -
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: $32.25$25.27Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson's Princess."One of the most influential... -
The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
RRP: $38.70$29.09**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War,... -
John Donne - The Major Works by John Donne
RRP: $14.18$10.31This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Donne's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by rarely... -
So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures by Maureen Corrigan 9780316230063
RRP: $25.79$17.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316230063Author Maureen CorriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
The Horse Lover's Joke Book: Over 400 Gems of Horse-related Humour by Suzan St.Maur 9781872119397
RRP: $7.68$5.41Canadian born Suzan St Maur has lived in the UK since childhood. After an early career start in journalism on a local newspaper, she transferred her allegiances to advertising and later became a highly successful scriptwriter in business television and...