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The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare by John Barrell 9780521181327
RRP: £39.99£33.26It is generally agreed that in the early eighteenth century people began to be interested in landscape as something to have a 'taste' for; that they saw landscape through the eyes of the great painters, and that later pictures, poetry and landscape... -
The Atlas of Middle Earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad 9780618126996
£16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618126996Author Karen Wynn FonstadFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 497g -
The Magic of Terry Pratchett Marc Burrows 9781399000499
RRP: £14.99£11.11The Magic Of Terry Pratchett is the first full biography of Sir Terry Pratchett ever written. Sir Terry was Britain's best-selling living author, and before his death in 2015 had sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide. Best known for the... -
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll 9780571242535
RRP: £16.99£11.58Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's... -
These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales by B. L. Coombes 9780708315637
RRP: £10.99£8.52"These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales", was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born... -
Fiction in the Quantum Universe by Susan Strehle 9780807843659
£40.15In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert... -
Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 1: The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean by Fitz Hugh Ludlow 9780996639439
RRP: £32.00£24.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996639439Author Fitz Hugh LudlowFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £9.99£6.84From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia. Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker... -
Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974 by Gonda Van Steen 9780198718321
£98.82This volume offers a critique of cultural and intellectual life in Greece during the dictatorship of 1967-1974, discussing how Greek playwrights, directors, and actors reconceived the role of culture in a state of crisis and engaged with questions of... -
South and West: From A Notebook by Joan Didion
RRP: £8.99£6.12From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks - writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. ... -
Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England John Lyly: An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition by Leah Scragg 9780719064593
RRP: £25.00£22.19John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, created a literary sensation in their own age, and had a profound influence on Elizabethan prose. This modern-spelling edition of the two works, the first for nearly a century, is... -
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter 9780571160808
RRP: £10.99£7.54Teddy, a philosophy professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his father, uncle and two brothers at his old London home, after years of estrangement. In the intense conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of their... -
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman 9780807055540
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055540Author Jess ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
A Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan
RRP: £13.99£10.01Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural... -
Conversations with Edna O'Brien by Alice Hughes Kersnowski 9781496820150
£28.51Who's afraid of Edna O'Brien? asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O'Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be intimidated by her. An acclaimed and... -
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
£12.37This Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition text of the novel-the one that had James's final authority-newly and fully annotated by Jonathan Warren.A full introduction, compositional history and textual notes by Jonathan Warren.Revised... -
Writing the Field Recording: Sound, Word, Environment by Stephen Benson
RRP: £28.99£27.12The 11 essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recording as the point of departure for an investigation of the sounded field in music and its relationship to literature and writing.Book InformationISBN 9781474454803Author... -
Moralia: v. 1 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.76Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
Medieval Women's Writing by Diane Watt
RRP: £16.99£15.46Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women... -
Best of Myles: A Selection from Cruskeen Lawn: Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9780007247189
RRP: £12.99£8.71Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life. With shameless irony and... -
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand 9780452281547
RRP: £24.00£14.42In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the... -
Wild Swimming France: 750 most beautiful rivers, lakes, waterfalls & natural pools by Daniel Start 9781910636244
RRP: £18.99£14.22The best-selling Wild Swimming series returns to France for an expanded guide to best places to cool off this summer, including new coverage of Central and Northern France. Over 750 locations, including 300 new locations in Normandy, Ile, Champagne,... -
Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about Walking by Kerri Andrews 9781789147872
RRP: £15.99£11.79The follow-up to the bestselling Wanderers, Kerri Andrews' Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from the eighteenth century to the present day, and across poetry, letters, diaries, novels and more, this anthology... -
Keats's Odes: A Lover' Discourse by Anahid Nersessian 9781804290347
RRP: £12.99£11.01"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over-like this world, and some of the people in it."In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them-"Ode to a... -
The Asylum Dance by John Burnside 9780224090056
RRP: £13.00£9.35Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This is territory that Burnside has made his own: a domestic... -
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius 9780393930719
£13.73The Consolation of Philosophy occupies a central place in the history of Western thought. Its author, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (ca. 476-526 c.e.), was a Roman philosopher, scholar, and statesman who wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while in... -
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies by Dewey W. Hall 9781498518031
RRP: £46.00£40.35Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and... -
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
RRP: £14.99£10.95Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself... -
The Connell Short Guide To Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot by Sophie Ratcliffe 9781907776786
RRP: £5.99£4.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776786Author Sophie RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £12.99£9.34A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Death of a Salesman by Su Fielder 9780198399025
RRP: £9.99£9.84Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
Renaissance Women Poets by Aemilia Lanyer
RRP: £12.99£9.34Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, 'Sweet Nosegay' (1573) and 'The Copy of a Letter' (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with popular and vernacular sources, and reflect the growing literary... -
English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology by David Bevington 9780393976557
£48.28Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here-by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others-reveal why these playwrights' achievements, like Shakespeare's, deserve reading, teaching, and performing afresh... -
The Inferno by Dante 9781853267871
RRP: £4.99£3.61Translated by H.F. Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile... -
Persuasion: A Norton Critical Edition Jane Austen 9780393911534
£11.60This revised Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition text (dated 1818, but likely issued in late 1817). The editor has spelled out ampersands and made superscript letters lowercased. The novel, which is accompanied by revised and expanded... -
Destiny: The Official Cookbook by Victoria Rosenthal 9781789095432
RRP: £26.99£19.94Explore recipes inspired by Bungie's hit franchise and collected from Guardians across the solar system in Destiny: The Official Cookbook. Based on Bungie's acclaimed video game series Destiny, this official cookbook is filled with recipes inspired by... -
The Village in the Jungle Leonard Woolf 9780907871293
RRP: £12.99£8.83This classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was first published in 1913 and is written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, husband of Virginia Woolf. It reads as if Thomas Hardy had been born among the heat, scent, sensuality and... -
Reading and Rebellion: An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children 1900-1960 by Kimberley Reynolds 9780198806189
RRP: £28.99£21.28Kim Reynolds, Jane Rosen, and Michael Rosen present a new anthology of radical writings for children from the first half of the twentieth century. In the years 1900 to 1960, large sections of the British population embraced a spectrum of left-wing... -
The Art of Writing English Literature Essays: for A-level & Beyond by Neil Bowen 9780993077821
RRP: £22.99£19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077821Author Michael Bowen, Neil MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia Press -
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling 9780140447408
RRP: £12.99£9.34The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world...