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Peter Churchill: The forgotten novels of a British secret agent by Andrea Cominini
RRP: €11.89€10.84After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated over the summer of 1944, Andrea Cominini found that his brother, Peter, had also been an SOE agent operating in France during WWII. Peter carried... -
Rare Birds of North America by Steve N. G. Howell 9780691117966
RRP: €38.08€30.65Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing by Hugh Stevens 9780521716574
RRP: €30.93€26.17In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This Companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by... -
Novel Sensations: Modernist Fiction and the Problem of Qualia by Jon Day
RRP: €24.98€22.91Concentrating on the work of four major modernist authors Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett this book examines the close links between modernist literature and the philosophy of mind. By historicising the qualia debate and... -
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 by Michael McKeon
RRP: €37.49€34.07The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, ... -
An Introduction to Narratology by Monika Fludernik 9780415450300
RRP: €42.83€37.71An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines: the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Jean-Michel Rabate
RRP: €27.36€23.28This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabate takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how... -
Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought by Erich Heller 9780156261005
RRP: €22.60€17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156261005Author Erich HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Quixote: The Novel and the World by Ilan Stavans 9780393353426
RRP: €15.46€13.642015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha-an ageless masterpiece that is unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into "a knight in skirts". Freud... -
The Unconscious by Anthony Easthope
RRP: €30.93€26.93The unconscious is a term which is central to the understanding of psychoanalysis, and, indeed everyday life. In this introductory guide, Antony Easthope provides a witty and accessible overview of the subject showing the reality of the unconscious with... -
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini 9780198800170
RRP: €42.23€42.21This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words... -
The Black Woman by Toni Cade Bambara 9780743476973
€15.52A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this... -
Silences by Tillie Olsen 9781558614406
€19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614406Author Tillie OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question by Nick Hubble 9781474444392
RRP: €28.55€26.00This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.Book InformationISBN 9781474444392Author Nick HubbleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher... -
The Penguin Shakespeare Dictionary by Sandra Clark 9780140514216
€19.16This text contains a comprehensive A-Z list of all Shakespeare's plays, all of the characters in those plays, as well as persons and places mentioned in the plays; the principal actors, acting companies, and theatres of the time; other playwrights,... -
On Camus by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €9.51€8.35A window onto one of the most consequential friendships in philosophical history, that of Sartre and Camus-and on its end. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of... -
Shakespeare, Sex, and Love by Stanley Wells 9780199578597
RRP: €23.79€17.87How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual... -
Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity by Kathy Alexis Psomiades
RRP: €77.35€69.69Marriage is the novel's traditional subject matter. But what happens to the novel when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional material? Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity shows how the... -
Beowulf: A New Translation by Meghan Purvis
RRP: €10.70€7.54PBS Recommended Translation for Spring 2013The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is brought to life by American poet Meghan Purvis in a vigorous contemporary translation. Written across a range of poetic forms and voices, this rendering captures the thrust... -
Further Voices in Vergil's Aeneid by R. O. A. M. Lyne 9780198140924
RRP: €91.63€70.52The Aeneid can strike one as a relatively conventional epic. It may seem an objective heroic tale of Rome's beginnings, unshocking in tone and substance, indeed (and more particularly) patriotic and inspiring. Vergil designed it so that it might read in... -
The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present by Timothy Unwin 9780521499149
RRP: €30.93€26.17This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction,... -
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price 9780691159546
RRP: €29.75€23.31How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Horror by Stephen Shapiro
RRP: €27.36€24.38Opening up the warm body of American Horror - through literature, film, TV, music, video games, and a host of other mediums - this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the gruesome histories and shocking forms of American life... -
Aldhelm: The Poetic Works by Aldhelm
RRP: €30.93€29.55Translations from the Latin of the ingenious works of Aldelm, first English man of letters. Introduction, bibliography and notes to the texts included. Aldhelm was the first Latin poet of Europe who was not a native speaker of Latin. The ingenuity and... -
A Guide to Old English by Bruce Mitchell 9780631226369
RRP: €49.92€44.18The sixth edition of this popular introduction to Old English language and literature retains the general structure and style of previous editions, but has been updated and includes two new texts: Wulf and Eadwacer and Judith. A new edition of the most... -
Against Deconstruction by John M. Ellis 9780691014845
RRP: €41.65€33.01"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program... -
The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake by A. D. Nutall 9780199213160
€65.80The Trinity of orthodox Christianity is harmonious. The Trinity for Blake is, conspicuously, not a happy family: the Father and the Son do not get on. It might be thought that so cumbersome a notion is inconceivable before the rise of Romanticism but the... -
Aristotle's Metaphysics 1-3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force by Martin Heidegger
RRP: €33.31€28.73Martin Heidegger's reading of Aristotle was one of the pivotal influences in the development of his philosophy. First published in German in 1981 as volume 33 of Heidegger's Collected Works, this book translates a lecture course he presented at the... -
The Road Goes Ever On: A Christian Journey Through The Lord of the Rings by Trese Gloriod 9780997067514
RRP: €15.48€11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997067514Author Trese GloriodFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint A. K. FraileyPublisher A. K. FraileyWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s by Aleks Sierz
€35.89British theatre of the 1990s witnessed an explosion of new talent and presented a new sensibility that sent shockwaves through audiences and critics. What produced this change, the context from which the work emerged, the main playwrights and plays, and... -
Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction by David Roberts 9781107617971
RRP: €23.79€20.38Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received and printed. Structured... -
Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Interventions by Charles Bernstein
RRP: €27.37€26.33Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing that... -
The Pancake that Ran Away by Loek Koopmans 9781782501763
RRP: €11.89€8.46Three old ladies are looking forward to eating the delicious fat pancake they've just made. But the pancake has other ideas! It jumps out of the pan, rolls out the door and into the woods as fast as it can go, calling, "You can't catch me!" All... -
Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science by Robert Crawford 9780199258123
RRP: €82.11€61.36A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing... -
The Idiot by F. M. Dostoevsky
RRP: €22.61€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702242Author Fyodor DostoevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
H. P. Lovecraft: An Introduction to His Life and Writings by Arthur S Koki 9781614983910
RRP: €29.75€25.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Book to Come by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: €28.55€24.80During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, limpid form of essay writing, and his essays, in form and... -
William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems by William Cowper 9780582087279
RRP: €64.25€61.36Having previously suffered neglect as a result of Pope's dominance of the period, William Cowper (1731-1800) has now become a far more important figure in eighteenth-century literature. Following the successful format of the series, Professor Sambrook's... -
The Essential Odyssey by Homer
RRP: €14.27€11.63This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's... -
Jane Austen's Style: Narrative Economy and the Novel's Growth by Anne Toner 9781108439404
RRP: €28.55€24.24Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring that economy stylistically and structurally, this book traces Austen's keen interest in narrative form. Anne...