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The Noble Liar: How and why the BBC distorts the news to promote a liberal agenda by Robin Aitken 9781785906008
RRP: $19.48$14.18To some, it is the voice of the nation, yet to others it has never been clearer that the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it reporting fairly on the world. Many have been scandalised by its pessimism on Brexit and its one-sided... -
The History of Wales in Twelve Poems by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786837660
RRP: $17.53$13.40Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives the general reader a sense of the view to be seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods... -
Culture and Society: 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
RRP: $25.33$17.73Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature - from George Eliot to George Orwell - Williams provides... -
Complete Poetry by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $13.63$10.00`Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!' A powerful poem of universal guilt and a... -
The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer by Tomas Tranströmer 9781556596858
RRP: $56.53$37.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596858Author Tomas TranstroemerFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
Why Surrealism Matters by Mark Polizzotti 9780300257090
RRP: $33.13$28.49An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate "Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its flaws and contradictions, hoping to recuperate... -
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by Professor John Guillory
RRP: $46.80$44.91A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of literary study are especially profound. No scholar has... -
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $21.43$14.43By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACEWhat is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood... -
Virgil, Aeneid II: A Selection by Dominic Jones
RRP: $33.13$29.68This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid Book 2, lines 40-249 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Book 2, lines 268-317, 370-558, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary,... -
Spanish Short Stories by Jean Franco
RRP: $21.43$15.15Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camilo Jose Cela have been chosen for their readability and literary merit. Seven are from... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 by Thomas Keymer 9780521007573
RRP: $50.68$42.88This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They... -
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 by Seamus Heaney 9780571210916
RRP: $39.00$26.25Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is... -
W. G. Sebald by Uwe Schutte 9780746312995
RRP: $44.83$40.40W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his unique prose books made him one of the most celebrated... -
Theaetetus by Plato 9780674991378
RRP: $48.65$45.61An epistemological diptych.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that... -
Poems And Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857157352
RRP: $19.48$13.86A few magical poems by Coleridge remain among the most celebrated works in the language: KUBLA KHAN, CHRISTABEL and - above all -THE ANCIENT MARINER. All are included in this volume, together with many other superb but lesser-known poems and a selected... -
Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his work by Ian Nathan
RRP: $54.60$37.42This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, successful and intriguing auteurs, Christopher Nolan.'What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea... -
Cummoangetaff!: The Adventures of Big Aggie MacDonald, the Glasgow Tramcar Clippie by Allan Morrison
$10.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903238318Author Allan MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Vital SparkPublisher Neil Wilson Publishing -
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $19.48$14.16C.S. Lewis's dazzling allegory about heaven and hell - and the chasm fixed between them - is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, as he takes issue with the ideas in William Blake's 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'. In a dream, the... -
The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture by Zara Dinnen 9780231184298
RRP: $48.75$38.20Contemporary culture is haunted by its media. Yet in their ubiquity, digital media have become increasingly banal, making it harder for us to register their novelty or the scope of the social changes they have wrought. What do we learn about our media... -
Idylls by Theocritus
RRP: $17.53$12.89'Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.' The Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse (first half... -
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
RRP: $25.33$17.73A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return... -
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 9780393972856
$24.90In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews,... -
Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry by Khaled Furani
RRP: $105.30$92.02Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his... -
Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy: York Notes Advanced by Thomas Hardy
RRP: $15.58$11.99Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780199540419
RRP: $23.38$16.44The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the... -
The Prophets by Abraham Joshua Heschel 9780060936990
RRP: $38.98$29.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060936990Author Abraham J. HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore by W. B. Yeats
RRP: $21.43$15.70A classic collection of Irish fairy tales and lore by Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and poet W. B. Yeats Originally published as two separate volumes in 1800s, this premier collection of Irish stories edited and compiled W. B. Yeats is the perfect... -
The Theaetetus of Plato by Plato
RRP: $37.03$30.56M. J. Levett's elegant translation of Plato's Theaetetus, first published in 1928, is here revised by Myles Burnyeat to reflect contemporary standards of accuracy while retaining the style, imagery, and idiomatic speech for which the Levett translation... -
Wild Swimming France: 750 most beautiful rivers, lakes, waterfalls & natural pools by Daniel Start 9781910636244
RRP: $37.03$27.32The 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,... -
The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form by Terry Eagleton 9780300274295
RRP: $33.13$28.49A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describing the intricate inner life of its characters, or widening... -
The Lost Girls Of Paris by Pam Jenoff 9781848457423
RRP: $19.48$11.35'A gripping tale' MY WEEKLY'Thrilling' WOMAN'A truly gripping read of mystery, love and heroism' FROST MAGAZINE The Lost Girls of Paris is an emotional story of friendship and betrayal during the second world war, inspired by... -
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Darryl Jones 9780198835226
RRP: $11.68$8.70'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!' The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of... -
The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 by John Carey
RRP: $21.43$14.27Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw,... -
Shakespeare and Meisner: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers by Aileen Gonsalves 9781350118393
RRP: $31.18$27.85This practical handbook is invaluable for anyone performing, teaching, studying or simply wanting a new way to enjoy Shakespeare. It provides an outline of Meisner's work and legacy, a discussion of that legacy in the light of the enduring global... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more by M. L. West
RRP: $17.53$12.58The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in... -
Sherlock Holmes by Nick Utechin 9781910821244
RRP: $19.48$13.26Ever since Arthur Conan Doyle created the pipe-smoking, deer-stalkered character, Sherlock Holmes, he has become a part of popular culture for generations, and here every aspect of the legendary detective is investigated. Brief, accessible and... -
Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide by Barry Forshaw 9780857303356
RRP: $48.65$31.88Are you a lover of crime fiction looking for new discoveries or hoping to rediscover old favourites? Then look no further. There are few contemporary crime fiction guides that cover everything from the golden age to current bestselling writers from... -
Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading by Robert Christgau
RRP: $52.63$40.64In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic-his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to... -
Enron by Lucy Prebble
RRP: $21.43$18.84The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did. One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the... -
Don Juan by Lord Byron
RRP: $33.13$23.95Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where...