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Tamburlaine the Great (Revels Student Edition): Christopher Marlowe by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $21.43$15.41Expanded footnotes designed to help readers from all levels of familiarity with Elizabethan drama. Emphasis on the play as a theatre text - informative stage-directions. Stimulating introduction, which makes something of a break from the orthodox style ... -
Why Horror Seduces by Mathias Clasen
$75.58From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captive us so? What is the... -
Empathy and the Novel by Suzanne Keen 9780199740499
RRP: $74.08$45.47Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and... -
Pasts at Play: Childhood Encounters with History in British Culture, 1750–1914 by Rachel Bryant Davies 9781526171825
RRP: $39.00$34.79This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters... -
Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems by Nicolas Michaud 9780812699197
$41.67In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants atop a swimming turtle, the sun goes around the world every day, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of... -
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt 9780691205168
RRP: $27.28$19.66Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again... -
What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures by Amos Oz 9780691219905
RRP: $33.13$23.81Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos OzIn the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These... -
Black Women Writers by Evans 9780385171250
$37.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385171250Author Mari EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Poetries and Sciences, A Reissue of Science and Poetry (1926, 1935) with Commentary by I. A. Richards 9780393006520
RRP: $29.25$24.30Richards here offers anew the 1935 edition of his work (then entitled Science and Poetry) with commentary that reveals not only the development of his own criticism but also the ways in which the relationship between the two disciplines has evolved. He... -
Forms of Poetic Attention by Lucy Alford 9780231187558
RRP: $48.75$38.20A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an instrument for tuning and refining the attention... -
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell
RRP: $87.75$69.65A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine... -
A Cheshire Christmas by Alan Brack 9780752453347
RRP: $19.48$14.72This colourful evocation of Christmas in Cheshire will enliven many an evening around a blazing fire. Wonder at the Mayor of Chester's sumptuous banquet where the tables groan under the sheer weight of food; experience the joy of the newly-wed Reverend... -
The Rise of the Arabic Book by Beatrice Gruendler
RRP: $70.10$56.47The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had... -
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman
RRP: $23.38$19.79In his brief life, Alexander the Great gained fame as the military genius who conquered the known world. After death, his legend only increased. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near... -
The TRAGIC Abyss by Louise Cowan 9780911005417
RRP: $42.90$38.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911005417Author Louise CowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Dallas Institute PublicationsPublisher Dallas Institute PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
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... -
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... -
The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity by Jonathan Freedman
RRP: $52.65$51.62As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and... -
Time Murderer Please by Raymond Dyer 9780856760389
RRP: $21.43$17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856760389Author Raymond DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Social Poetics by Mark Nowak 9781566895675
RRP: $27.28$18.06Social Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Social Poetics presents a... -
Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City by Deborah Epstein Nord 9780801482915
RRP: $48.73$42.26Literary traditions of urban description in the nineteenth century revolve around the figure of the stroller, a man who navigates and observes the city streets with impunity. Whether the stroller appears as fictional character, literary persona, or the... -
Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England by Jennifer Summit
RRP: $58.50$57.04In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which... -
Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante by Charles Williams 9780976402541
RRP: $36.95$26.93Apologies 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... -
Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality by Marjorie Garber 9780415875561
RRP: $35.08$31.28The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. Ghosts take the form of... -
Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media by Marie-Laure Ryan 9781421417974
RRP: $59.48$53.37Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game"... -
A Room of One's Own (Hero Classics) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800315389Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books by Philip Nel 9780190932879
RRP: $35.08$25.99Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One... -
Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway by Katherine West Scheil 9781108416696
RRP: $146.25$132.87What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterpreted and reshaped? Imagining Shakespeare's Wife examines representations of Hathaway, from the earliest... -
Horace: Satires Book II by Horace
RRP: $52.63$45.71The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet. Horace was an ironist, sneaky smart, and prone to hiding things under the surface. His Latin is dense and difficult. The challenges posed by these... -
Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation by Mark Stein 9780814251331
$59.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251331Author Mark SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 426g -
Greek Tragedy by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 9781405121613
RRP: $64.25$56.82Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its... -
The Literary Mind by Mark Turner 9780195104110
RRP: $58.48$46.41We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables... -
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The definitive illustrated guide by Tim Dedopulos
RRP: $48.75$31.94This essential reference book details everything the novice needs to know about the genre and everything the well-read fan is calling out for. Lavishly illustrated and expertly informed, it is edited by Tim Dedopulos and David Pringle, editor and... -
Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim 9780520268128
RRP: $39.00$30.99In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce... -
The Poetry of Sappho: An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems by Jim Powell 9780190937386
RRP: $30.21$27.94"The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge.... Jim Powell is fully aware of the dangers, and speaks of the 'fluidity, ease,... -
Plays 1682-1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682-1696 by Aphra Behn
$197.55Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic range and diversity. Her last five plays, written and... -
The Book of Esther: Word for Word Bible Comic: World English Bible Translation by Simon Amadeus Pillario 9780995603554
RRP: $19.48$17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995603554Author Simon Amadeus PillarioFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Word for Word Bible ComicsPublisher Word for Word Bible ComicsWeight(grams)... -
Cross-Channel Modernisms by Claire Davison
RRP: $50.68$45.98Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented both a political and an intellectual barrier between... -
American Porn by Heathcote Williams 9780993014185
RRP: $19.48$16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993014185Author Heathcote WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Thin Man PressPublisher Thin Man PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm -
The Museum of Augustus - The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, The Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry by Peter Heslin
RRP: $107.25$91.05In the Odes, Horace writes of his own work, "I have built a monument more enduring than bronze,"-a striking metaphor that hints at how the poetry and built environment of ancient Rome are inextricably linked. This fascinating work of original scholarship...