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York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature by John Gilroy 9781408204795
RRP: €13.08€9.82The literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This volume looks at first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley and explores their engagement with the turbulent history of... -
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €10.70€7.68Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to... -
The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature by Brian Nelson
RRP: €27.36€22.66In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas... -
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate 9780008167455
RRP: €13.08€8.63A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 'Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact' Financial Times ... -
Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo 9780582308459
€15.04Out of Africa with her degree and her all seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to makes sense of it all. What is she doing here? Why aren't the natives friendly? And what will she do... -
By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose by Simon Morley
RRP: €29.75€18.85A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination. 'Fascinating... I'll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.' Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with... -
Bowling Alone by Elizabeth Morrow
RRP: €7.74€7.27American political scientist Robert Putnam wasn't the first person to recognize that social capital - the relationships between people that allow communities to function well - is the grease that oils the wheels of society. But by publishing Bowling... -
Selected Poems by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: €15.46€10.82The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards... -
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition by Maria Tatar 9780691182995
RRP: €22.60€17.54Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new... -
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9780393655995
€13.19This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald.A map of Mrs. Dalloway's London.An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including diary entries and letters related to the... -
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 9781529920796
RRP: €13.08€9.25A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor.'A book that will stay with you for life'NATALIE HAYNES'The best book about multiple sclerosis'THE TIMESWe all have... -
The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry by Andrew Hodgson
RRP: €19.03€16.99At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the... -
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €13.08€8.47'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern... -
John Clare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €23.80€17.23'What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world' Seamus Heaney John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, Wordsworth or Shelley -... -
Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz 9781911284291
RRP: €14.27€9.87This novel by one of Turkey's most highly regarded writers tells the story of a granddaughter's reckoning with the suppressed and traumatic memories of her grandmother, who survived a genocidal massacre in the Dersim region of southeast Turkey in 1938... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9780140444421
RRP: €11.89€8.46Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through... -
Conversations with Goethe by Johann Peter Eckermann
RRP: €15.46€10.82A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years'The best German book there is' Nietzsche By the turn of the nineteenth century, the poet, novelist and thinker Johann... -
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet by Prof Jeff Jarvis
RRP: €23.80€18.23The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print... -
Leaves of Grass (Collins Classics) by Walt Whitman
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars... First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over... -
On Nostalgia by Berry
RRP: €13.08€10.64From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic... -
When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson 9780007431007
RRP: €13.08€8.63A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland - now James I of England - came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival political factions, he was determined not only to... -
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: €13.08€8.63* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings... -
The Imperative to Write: Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett by Jeff Fort 9780823254699
RRP: €64.26€56.16Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer's vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from... -
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: €33.31€29.20"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in... -
The Magic of MinaLima by Miraphora Mina
RRP: €47.60€36.14A full-colour illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year journey of acclaimed art and design studio, MinaLima, the creative genius behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film series. ... -
Dr Faustus: the A- and B- Texts (1604, 1616): A Parallel-Text Edition by David Bevington
RRP: €13.08€12.82Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David... -
Fantastic Four by Stan Lee 9780143135838
RRP: €29.75€22.47Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroeshroughout the 1960s, the Fantastic Four was both the flagship title and the creative laboratory of the Marvel... -
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 1: Books 1-4 by G. S. Kirk
RRP: €52.35€45.16This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of professor G. S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which covers the first four Books of Iliad. It consists of... -
A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum 9780197694909
RRP: €32.12€27.61A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman Republic In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and... -
Sherlock Holmes Escape Book, A: The Adventure of the Tower of London by Charles Phillips
RRP: €11.89€8.09A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Tower of London is a unique form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the riddles to escape the pages. The fourth title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The... -
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
RRP: €20.22€14.60With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.'One... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols by Alain Gheerbrant
RRP: €22.60€17.39This is a remarkable dictionary, exploring the vast and various symbols which abound in literature, religion, national identity and are found at the very heart of our dreams and sub-conscious. Compiled by an international team of experts, each entry is... -
Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket
RRP: €9.51€6.32A brand-new book from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events - a cautionary tale about his own demise. For curious children and adults alike. 'Reading this little book feels like opening a window to let in air and light. It's... -
Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris
RRP: €29.75€20.03'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet... -
The Republic and The Laws by Cicero
RRP: €9.51€6.89`However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just... -
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The art of Edvard Munch by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: €20.22€14.61In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch's painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist,... -
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
RRP: €14.27€9.44TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORIn this collection of essays, the author of Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna brings to us (out of one of history's... -
The Connell Short Guide To Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr 9781911187028
RRP: €7.13€6.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187028Author Kirsten Shepherd-BarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691234533
RRP: €15.46€10.86Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life-and how he might guide yours, tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie-Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title... -
Imagination: A Very Short Introduction by Prof Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei 9780198830023
RRP: €10.70€7.87Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human...