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Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia by Francis O'Gorman
RRP: £20.00£15.32Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future. Francis O'Gorman shows how... -
The Manhattan Project by Laszlo Krasznahorkai 9781909631236
RRP: £32.00£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631236Author Laszlo KrasznahorkaiFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel by Peter Bondanella 9780521669627
RRP: £25.99£21.99The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the... -
101 Things to Do With a Banana by B.A. Nana
RRP: £7.99£5.99A bunch of truly ap-peeling things to do with this fruit basket staple. If you've ever had a surplus of bananas and way too much time on your hands, you'll know that this playful yellow hero is much more versatile... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture by Dwight F. Reynolds 9780521725330
RRP: £26.99£20.39Dwight F. Reynolds brings together a collection of essays by leading international scholars to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of modern Arab culture, from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The chapters survey key issues... -
Cinema and Modernism by David Trotter
RRP: £19.75£17.50This study revolutionises our understanding of both literary modernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recent scholarship in English and film studies to demonstrate how central cinema as a recording medium was to Joyce, Eliot and Woolf, and... -
Shakespeare's Universality: Here's Fine Revolution by Kiernan Ryan
RRP: £18.99£18.05Through close readings of a wide range of plays and poems, Kiernan Ryan's compelling polemic sets out to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare's timeless universality from reactionary and radical critics alike. Its argument is driven throughout by the belief... -
The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol by Roger Sherman Loomis 9780691020754
RRP: £35.00£31.73The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms: the settings have ranged from Britain to the Punjab to the Temple of Zeus at... -
Literature for a Changing Planet by Martin Puchner
RRP: £15.99£11.66Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for... -
An Introduction to Narratology by Monika Fludernik 9780415450300
RRP: £35.99£31.69An 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... -
100 Things Batman Fans Should Know & do Before They Die by Joseph McCabe
RRP: £13.95£12.08Most Batman fans have enjoyed the Dark Knight in comics or on the big screen and are eagerly anticipating the release of the new Justice League movie. But only real fans know the other characters who have donned the cowl in place of Bruce Wayne, or know... -
History of My Life: Volumes 11 and 12 by Giacomo Casanova
£43.43The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of his imprisonment in Buen Retiro, his trip to Madrid and his affair with Dona Ignacia, his journey to Barcelona and his detention in the Tower, his encounter with... -
Brave New Words: The Power of Writing Now by Susheila Nasta 9781912408207
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Benson Medal Award - Royal Society of Literature 2019 and Honorary Fellow - Royal Society of Literature 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781912408207Author Susheila... -
Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings: v. 2 by Valerius Maximus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Exemplary wisdom from ancient Rome.Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (AD 14-37). The collection was admired in antiquity and has recently been attracting renewed scholarly attention. Yet... -
The Library: v. 2 by Apollodorus
RRP: £24.95£24.54Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary... -
The Cedars of Beckenham by Peter Longley 9781528965200
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528965200Author Peter LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Cheerfulness - A Literary and Cultural History by Timothy Hampton
RRP: £25.00£18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130604Author Timothy HamptonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 158mm * 23mm -
Readings of the Platform Sutra by Morten Schlutter
RRP: £28.00£21.80The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638-713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the... -
Rhythm: Form and Dispossession by Vincent Barletta
RRP: £24.00£23.03More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human existence. It's the pulse of the body, a power that orders... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War by Vincent Sherry
RRP: £32.99£28.43The Great War of 1914-1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume... -
Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry by Bernard O'Donoghue
RRP: £49.99£47.84This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on... -
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Ivan Morris 9780231073370
RRP: £28.00£20.61The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9781906230555
RRP: £7.99£5.54One dark night, Hamlet sees a ghost. It is his dead father, who claims he was murdered by Claudius, the new king. But did Hamlet really see a ghost, or did he just imagine it? And if he did see a ghost, was it telling him the truth? Hamlet plans to... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1960s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Steve Nicholson
£30.16Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a... -
Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible 2022: North American Edition by Jim Murray 9781838320744
RRP: £17.95£12.64Thanks to industry guru Jim Murray and his internationally acclaimed annual Whiskey Bible, the Japanese are now running out of their own single malt and people have fought in Toronto liquor stores to grab the last bottle of his World Whisky of the Year... -
Math, Symbol, and Culture by Clifford Geertz 9780393094091
RRP: £20.00£16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393094091Author Clifford GeertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Shakespeare's Stagecraft by John L. Styan 9780521094351
RRP: £42.99£36.72For many years, critics and students of Shakespeare have tended to stress that his plays are poetic structures embodying 'themes', and these structures have been analysed in great detail. Professor Styan advocates another approach. The plays were written... -
Fifty Poems of Hafiz by Arthur J. Arberry 9780521101509
RRP: £25.99£22.85Hafiz, the greatest lyric poet of Persia, was first introduced to English readers in the translation by Sir William Jones in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The present selection (fifty poems, with their English poetical versions by fourteen... -
Mythical and Fabulous Creatures: A Source Book and Research Guide by Malcolm South 9780313243387
£72.57This serious, scholarly treatment of 20 imaginary beings, from dragon and phoenix to giants and fairies, discusses the origin of each as an idea, its symbolism and lore, and its appearances in art, literature, or film. . . . Extensive bibliographies... -
The Sacred Wood by T.S. Eliot 9781513279695
RRP: £4.99£4.04The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) is a collection of essays by T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot is primarily recognized as one of the twentieth century's leading English poets, he was also a prolific and highly influential literary critic... -
Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages 1337-1485 by John Julius Norwich 9780743200318
RRP: £20.99£20.58Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743200318Author NorwichFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 410gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 25mm -
Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism by Naomi Wynter-Vincent
RRP: £31.99£28.33Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process, and creative writing.There is now renewed interest in... -
Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism by Richard Dellamora 9780807842676
RRP: £49.95£45.55Beginning with Tennyson's In Memoriam and continuing by way of Hopkins and Swinburne to the novels of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy, Richard Dellamora draws on journals, letters, censored texts, and pornography to examine the cultural construction of... -
Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary by Christopher Ehret
RRP: £70.00£55.30This work provides the first truly comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic (proto-Afrasian). It rigorously applies, throughout, the established canon and techniques of the historical-comparative method. It also fully incorporates... -
Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters by Charles Darwin 9781107158863
RRP: £32.99£28.43Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of hitherto unpublished letters between members of Darwin's family and their friends that throw light on the... -
Creating Character: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction by Helena Ifill 9781526171818
RRP: £20.00£17.84This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the... -
Studying the Novel by Professor Jeremy Hawthorn
£22.01Consistently praised for its readability and scholarship, Studying the Novel is the ideal undergraduate companion to the study of the novel and shorter fiction. Revised throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the... -
Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: £37.99£33.38Brexit is a political, economic and administrative event: and it is a cultural one, too. In Brexit and Literature, Robert Eaglestone brings together a diverse range of literary scholars, writers and poets to respond to this aspect of Brexit. The... -
Melincourt by Thomas Love Peacock
£90.28Melincourt (1817), Thomas Love Peacock's only three-volume novel, is also his most comprehensive work. In it, he explores a broad range of controversies: the dangers of 'paper money'; British consumers' complicity in slavery; the inequities of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli by John M. Najemy
RRP: £25.99£21.99Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading...