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The Histories: v. V by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.76Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Living Work for Living People Andrew King 9781032346557
RRP: £35.99£29.83Extending the limits of the award-winning Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers (2016) and its companion volume (and also award-winning) Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press: Case Studies (2017), Work and the... -
30 Great Myths about Jane Austen Claudia L. Johnson (Princeton, NJ) 9781119146865
RRP: £20.95£14.23A 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... -
Living Revision: A Writer's Craft as Spiritual Practice Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew (Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew) 9781558968011
RRP: £12.99£8.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558968011Author Elizabeth Jarrett AndrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Skinner House BooksPublisher Skinner House BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan by Ted Scheinman 9780865478213
RRP: £10.99£9.80The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother's world behind, he nonetheless found... -
Greek Tragedy Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College, USA) 9781405121613
RRP: £32.95£28.92Greek 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 Sound of Poetry / the Poetry of Sound by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: £28.00£27.39Sound - one of the central elements of poetry - finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental... -
Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England Meg Twycross 9781138257856
RRP: £45.99£40.84Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing... -
A Study Guide for Markus Zusak's The Book Thief by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375396882
RRP: £9.95£9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375396882Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 73g -
The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) by Deirdre Osborne
RRP: £23.99£20.37This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture. While there are a number of anthologies covering Black and Asian literature, there is no volume that comparatively... -
Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait Jiri Pelan 9788024639093
RRP: £12.00£10.26Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats, and women (in roughly that order)," Bohumil... -
A Theory of Literary Production by Pierre Macherey
RRP: £16.99£15.22Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey's first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived wisdom, and quickly established him as a pivotal figure... -
Apollonius of Tyana: v. 2, Bks. 5-8 by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.76The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.This biography of a first-century AD holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. In a grandly baroque style style Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and... -
AntiPoems: New and Selected by Nicanor Parra 9780811209601
RRP: £12.99£12.95Antipoems: New and Selected, a fresh bilingual gathering as well as retrospective of the work of Chile's foremost poet, reintroduces him to North American readers after thirteen years. Though he has been hardly unproductive, the politics of his homeland... -
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography Rosemary Ashton (University College, London) 9780631207542
RRP: £41.95£37.41Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist and guilt-ridden opium addict.About the AuthorRosemary Ashton is... -
The Supergirls: Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines (Revised and Updated) by Mike Madrid 9781935259336
£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935259336Author Mike MadridFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Exterminating Angel PressPublisher Exterminating Angel PressWeight(grams)... -
There and Back Again: J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit by Mark Atherton 9781780762463
£49.51'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.' The prophetic words of Galadriel, addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlorien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, are just as pertinent to J R R Tolkien's own fiction. For... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Vera J. Camden
RRP: £23.99£20.37The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis explains the link between literature and psychoanalysis for students, critics and teachers. It offers a twenty-first century resource for defining and analyzing the psychoanalytic dimensions of... -
Social Poetics by Mark Nowak 9781566895675
RRP: £13.99£9.50Social 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... -
Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings by Rob Latham
£42.39Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics... -
Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena by Philomena Cunk 9781538766767
RRP: £30.00£17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538766767Author Philomena CunkFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Ancient Greek Religion: A Sourcebook Emily Kearns (University of Oxford, UK) 9781405149280
RRP: £33.95£30.15Ancient Greek Religion: Historical Sources in Translation presents a wide range of documents relating to the religious world of the ancient Greeks from the earliest surviving literature to around the end of the fourth century BCE. Presents a wide range... -
Memory by Anne Whitehead 9780415402736
RRP: £22.99£20.16The concept of 'memory' has given rise to some of the most exciting new directions in contemporary theory. In this much-needed guide to a burgeoning field of a study, Anne Whitehead:presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing... -
Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair by Michael Dango
RRP: £27.99£24.14In this expansive and provocative new work, Michael Dango theorizes how aesthetic style manages crisis-and why taking crisis seriously means taking aesthetics seriously. Detoxing, filtering, bingeing, and ghosting: these are four actions that have come... -
Sanskrit Poetry from Vidyakara's Treasury by Daniel H. H. Ingalls
RRP: £32.95£26.85In this rich collection of Sanskrit verse, the late Daniel Ingalls provides English readers with a wide variety of poetry from the vast anthology of an eleventh-century Buddhist scholar.Although the style of poetry presented here originated in royal... -
Our Hymns, Our Heritage: A Student Guide to Songs of the Church by David Leeman 9780802429292
RRP: £21.99£19.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802429292Author David LeemanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Moody PublishersPublisher Moody Publishers -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926-1929 by Ernest Hemingway 9780521897358
RRP: £25.00£19.54The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the American mainstream. Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor at... -
A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Terri Ochiagha
RRP: £12.99£11.95The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than... -
Lyric Cousins: Poetry and Musical Form by Fiona Sampson
RRP: £23.99£21.85Today, poetry and art music occupy similar cultural positions: each has a tendency to be regarded as problematic, `difficult' and therefore `elitist'. Despite this, the audiences and numbers of participants for each are substantial: yet they tend not to... -
The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages by Beryl Smalley
RRP: £32.00£31.81The 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... -
Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy by Dr Sarah Olsen
RRP: £25.99£22.61This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays... -
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature by Peter Brand 9780521666220
RRP: £49.99£44.02Italy possesses one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe, stretching back to the thirteenth century. This substantial history of Italian literature provides a comprehensive survey of Italian writing since its earliest origins... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen by Deborah Cartmell
RRP: £26.99£22.80This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular... -
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
RRP: £30.00£23.66Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy talesJack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet... -
Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century by Sarah Cole
RRP: £30.00£23.29H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such concepts as "time machine," "war of the worlds," and "atomic bomb," exerting vast... -
The <I>Trojan Epic</I>: <I>Posthomerica</I> by Quintus of Smyrna
RRP: £26.50£26.10Composed in the third century A.D., the Trojan Epic is the earliest surviving literary evidence for many of the traditions of the Trojan War passed down from ancient Greece. Also known as the Posthomerica, or "sequel to Homer," the Trojan... -
Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture by Theresa M. Kelley 9781421405179
£53.56Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. Botany sits at the intersection where romantic scientific and literary... -
Art of Poetry: An anthology of Pre C20th poems for KS3 by Neil Bowen
RRP: £6.05£5.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999737627Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Behrouz Boochani
RRP: £20.00£15.62Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating... -
The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen by Mark Valentine 9781614982456
RRP: £25.00£21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982456Author Mark ValentineFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 549g