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D. H. Lawrence: The Croydon Years by Helen Corke
RRP: $33.58$29.90Croydon, England, was the setting of the famous three-way friendship of D. H. Lawrence, Jessie Chambers, and Helen Corke, all of whom made literary records of their association, and all of whom appeared as characters in Lawrence novels. Perhaps the most... -
Works by Florus
RRP: $52.40$49.90A very short introduction to Roman history.Florus, born apparently in Africa, lived in Spain and in Rome during Hadrian's time. He wrote, in succinct rhetorical style, a summary of Roman history (especially wars) in two books in order to show the early... -
The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon by Prof. Harold Bloom 9781598536409
RRP: $73.50$46.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536409Author Harold BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm)... -
The Man Born to Be King – Wade Annotated Edition by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: $75.58$61.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514005330Author Dorothy L. SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 163mm *... -
Shakespeare: King Lear by Frank Kermode
RRP: $199.50$199.08This revised edition of the successful Casebook first published in 1969, has been brought up-to-date with the inclusion of more recent criticism, whilst retaining early comments and critiques. Contributors include A.C.Bradley, A.Wilson Knight, Enid... -
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian 9780195152647
RRP: $57.73$53.45As the popularity of William Bennett's Book of Virtues attests, parents are turning more and more to children's literature to help instill values in their kids. Now, in this elegantly written and passionate book, Vigen Guroian provides the perfect... -
Homer: Iliad I by Homer 9780198721864
RRP: $113.40$93.28Iliad I provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger volumes of Homer's work. It contains a full Introduction designed to highlight the most important features of the text. There are sections on the Iliad and its qualities, the Homeric... -
The Zizek Reader Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge) 9780631212010
RRP: $88.10$77.72The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most... -
The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester 9780195396195
RRP: $29.38$22.76In the summer of 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford, Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes, draped the folds of cloth low enough to expose her bare... -
A New Critical History of Old English Literature by Stanley B. Greenfield 9780814730881
RRP: $50.38$45.28Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years... -
Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific by Peter Hallward 9780719061264
RRP: $52.50$47.00We may yet find a precise use for the notoriously elusive category 'postcolonial', but only on the condition that we abandon its usual associations with plurality, fragmentation, particularity and resistance. This book argues that the category is best... -
Hitch Hiker's Guide by M. Simpson 9781904048466
$7.31Don't panic! Everything you need to know about cult author Douglas Adams and his most famous creation, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is in here. From its unlikely start as a BBC radio serial in 1978, Hitchhiker's Guide developed into five... -
The Art of Poetry: Cie: Songs of Ourselves by Neil Bowen 9781999737603
RRP: $37.78$30.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999737603Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt
RRP: $52.50$38.56In Don't Read Poetry, award winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. She dispels preconceptions about poetry, explains how poems... -
Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955 Mary Grover 9781802078589
RRP: $52.48$47.06An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication via the Liverpool University Press website.Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading... -
An Analysis of Karl Marx's Capital Macat Team 9781912127733
RRP: $13.65$13.21A critical analysis of Karl Marx's Capital, which is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are passionately debated to... -
The New Pastoral in Contemporary British Writing Deborah Lilley 9781032088006
RRP: $83.98$74.19This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to environmental crisis. It argues that the pastoral is emerging as a new critical framework in which to explore the understanding of people and place in this context. The... -
Rimbaud: The Cost of Genius by Neal Oxenhandler 9780814256749
$44.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256749Author Neal OxenhandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 272g -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism by Dr Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
$70.37As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges - from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an ideological decentering of the human, amongst many other things - the 'posthuman'... -
Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction by Ida Yoshinaga
RRP: $60.90$51.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543941Author Ida YoshinagaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
In the Catacombs: A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery by Chris McCabe 9781908058195
RRP: $27.28$19.28Opened in 1837 and inspired by the Pere Lachaise in Paris, West Norwood became known as the Millionaire's Cemetery. But within its opulent grounds there are twelve buried names whose currency is language: these are the dead poets of West Norwood. In the... -
Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination by Connal Parr 9780198847755
RRP: $74.53$68.15This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates. Anchored by the perspectives of ten writers - some of whom have been... -
Daniel Defoe: His Life by Paula R. Backscheider 9780801845123
$61.72Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe's... -
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price 9780691159546
$52.50How 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... -
Menander: v. 2 by Menander
RRP: $52.40$49.90The master of New Comedy.Menander (?344/3-292/1 BC) of Athens, the leading playwright of the New Comedy, wrote more than 100 plays. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost. Then, at the... -
The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World: Questions and Perspectives by Christopher Schliephake
RRP: $35.70$30.91What can a study of antiquity contribute to the interdisciplinary paradigm of the environmental humanities? And how does this recent paradigm influence the way we perceive human-'nature' interactions in pre-modernity? By asking these and a number of... -
The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory by Andrew Ashfield 9780521395823
RRP: $56.68$47.88This collection of texts on the Sublime provides the historical context for the foundation and discussion of one of the most important aesthetic debates of the Enlightenment. The significance of the Sublime in the eighteenth century ranged across a... -
Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1 by Author S T Joshi 9781614980902
RRP: $52.50$46.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980902Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus Press -
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories by Mark Twain 9780520271500
RRP: $42.00$33.79This title includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902. It publishes, for the first time, the complete text of 'Villagers of 1840-3,' Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory. It features a biographical directory and... -
British Dramatists Graham Greene 9781853752285
RRP: $14.68$10.71Part of the "Writers' Britain" series, first published in the 1940s. This work offers Graham Greene's evaluation of British drama, from its roots in the Mystery and Miracle plays of the market carnival through Shakespeare and the Restoration to the 20th... -
Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry by Brooks Otis 9780806127828
$49.16In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary... -
Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy by Stanislaw Lem 9780156594431
RRP: $50.30$36.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156594431Author Stanislaw LemFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Harper VoyagerPublisher Harper Voyager -
Practicing New Historicism by Catherine Gallagher 9780226279350
RRP: $56.70$55.59For almost 20 years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In "Practicing New Historicism", two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and... -
Eclogues. Garden of the Hesperides by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
RRP: $62.90$50.46A renowned Renaissance poet's homage to Naples makes its debut in modern English translation.Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served... -
Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives by Angelika Neuwirth
RRP: $41.98$28.67Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives introduces the work of twenty-nine pivotal authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew. Organised around the central themes of memory, place and gender, each of which is discussed... -
Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto by Mark Polizzotti 9780262537025
$56.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537025Author Mark PolizzottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 13mm -
Pillar of Books by Bo Young Moon
RRP: $25.18$17.28This debut collection in English from Korean poet Moon Bo Young insists that you, as a reader, put down your expectations of what should be important or serious. While these poems are about god, death, love, and literature, they are also just as much... -
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Rey Chow 9780231151450
RRP: $46.20$36.46Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering... -
From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi by Amy Allen
RRP: $58.70$51.45The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious... -
Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927 by Daniel Albright
RRP: $55.65$51.70How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great...