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Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition): An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley
RRP: $39.88$24.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982150341Author Walter MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Washington Square PressPublisher Washington Square PressWeight(grams)... -
Gallery of Clouds by Rachel Eisendrath
RRP: $37.78$25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375434Author Rachel EisendrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology by John L. Foster
RRP: $46.18$40.30Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts were still being recited around hearth fires in ancient Greece and Israel. Yet, because of its very antiquity and the... -
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda 9780691164120
RRP: $29.38$24.34A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle... -
Emmanuel Levinas by Sean Hand
RRP: $54.58$47.52Best known for his theories of ethics and responsibility, Emmanuel Levinas was one of the most profound and influential thinkers of the last century. In this clear, accessible guide, Sean Hand examines why Levinas is increasingly fundamental to the study... -
Richard Wright's Native Son: A Routledge Study Guide by Andrew Warnes
RRP: $77.68$68.31Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and... -
The Poem of Empedocles: A text and translation with a commentary by Brad Inwood 9780802083531
RRP: $79.80$69.87This revised edition of The Poem of Empedocles (1992) integrates substantial new material from a recently discovered papyrus and published by A. Martin and O. Primavesi. The papyrus contains evidence of over seventy lines or part lines of poetry, of... -
Old English Prose: Basic Readings Paul E. Szarmach 9781138883635
RRP: $79.78$71.48With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion. The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various... -
Mientras Los Hombres Mueren: Carmen Conde by Jean Andrews 9780719077524
RRP: $31.48$29.06Carmen Conde is a major figure in twentieth-century Spanish poetry. Though neglected up to now, Mientras los hombres mueren is the most important collection of war poetry to emerge from the Spanish Civil War. It was first published, in a limited edition,... -
Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death by Aim e Gasston 9781399527415
$209.20During Katherine Mansfield's life she experienced the effects of abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly in search of more favourable climates. The First World War... -
House Of Mirth Janet Beer 9780415350105
RRP: $79.78$70.10Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into... -
From Shadow To Light: The Life & Art of Mort Meskin Steven Brower 9781606993583
RRP: $83.98$56.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606993583Author Steven BrowerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1313g -
Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman by Angelique Richardson 9780198187011
RRP: $104.98$103.93The idea of eugenics - human selective breeding - originated in Victorian Britain in response to the urban poor. Darwin's evolutionary theory had laid the foundations for eugenics, replacing paradise with primordial slime. Man had not fallen from Grace,... -
Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii by Sebastian Budgen 9780822339410
RRP: $50.38$44.44Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world's leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume's editors explain that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx's thought explicitly political, who... -
The Plain Speaker: The Key Essays William Hazlitt 9780631210573
RRP: $86.00$75.96In this selection from the two-volume Plain Speaker, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address some of the most important critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose. Provides the only edition of... -
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee by Jean Armstrong
RRP: $48.28$47.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333398548Author Jean ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 135g -
In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of Alice Walker's Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet
RRP: $41.98$31.16Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to... -
King Lear Alexander Leggatt 9780719062254
RRP: $41.98$30.49This updated and expanded analysis of King Lear in performance includes new chapters on the television version of the Royal National Theatre production directed by Richard Eyre and starring Ian Holm; and on Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran'. Earlier chapters... -
Short Voyages to the Land of the People by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $46.18$40.93This book analyzes a range of texts that seek, in different ways, to represent "the people." Ranciere approaches these texts as travel narratives or ethnographies whose authors have traveled not to distant or exotic lands but across class lines. In this... -
The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth - Century Britain, Ireland,and America by Richard B. Sher
RRP: $79.80$79.15In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. "The Enlightenment and the Book" seeks to remedy the common misperception that such... -
My Wars are Laid Away in Books: The Early Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger 9780812966015
$39.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812966015Author Alfred HabeggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare by Victor Kiernan
RRP: $37.78$33.47'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".' Times Literary Supplement The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of... -
Hounded: My lifelong obsession with Sherlock Holmes And The Hound of The Baskervilles by Vince Stadon 9781787057906
$21.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787057906Author Vince StadonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Shakespeare and Textual Studies by Margaret Jane Kidnie
RRP: $65.08$48.83Shakespeare and Textual Studies gathers contributions from the leading specialists in the fields of manuscript and textual studies, book history, editing, and digital humanities to provide a comprehensive reassessment of how manuscript, print and digital... -
Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: $147.00$127.64Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman... -
Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England by Myra Seaman 9781526167187
RRP: $52.50$46.26Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book's pages -... -
The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel by Sarah Wasserman
RRP: $44.08$38.58A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature-and its relevance to the twenty-first century "Nothing ever really disappears from the internet" has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with... -
In Jail with Nazim Hikmet by Orhan Kemal 9780863564116
RRP: $23.08$21.78Bursa prison, mid-winter 1940. Two prisoners meet, both writers, both serving long sentences for allegedly inciting Turkish soldiers to mutiny. One is Turkey's most famous poet and communist, Nazim Hikmet; the other a young, aspiring poet, Orhan Kemal,... -
Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies by Marc Singer
RRP: $58.78$53.19A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on... -
The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing Alasdair Pettinger 9781032090788
RRP: $92.38$81.35Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves. The volume adopts a thematic approach, with each contributor... -
Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality by Valerie Rohy
$59.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438428642Author Valerie RohyFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Faithful Labourers: A Reception History of Paradise Lost, 1667-1970: Volume I: Style and Genre; Volume II: Interpretative Issues by John Leonard 9780198778684
$151.52Faithful Labourers surveys and evaluates existing criticism of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, tracing the major debates as they have unfolded over the past three centuries. Eleven chapters split over two volumes consider the key debates in Milton... -
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Light Novel): Volume 5 by Yu Okano
RRP: $23.08$20.22When Rentt Faina crosses paths with Nive Maris, he finds himself victim to a rain of Holy Fire! But rather than prove he's a vampire, it disproves it! Lorraine believes Rentt's divinity may have protected against the Holy Fire, and together they decide... -
Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719 by Steve Mentz 9780816691067
RRP: $50.38$44.44Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down... -
On Exile by Francesco Filelfo 9780674066366
RRP: $62.90$51.30Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation,... -
The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775 by Sophie Volpp
RRP: $63.00$57.52Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being... -
Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780192864635
RRP: $191.10$173.21Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends... -
The Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During
RRP: $84.00$70.54In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved,... -
The Trouble with Literature by Victoria Kahn 9780198808749
RRP: $55.63$47.02This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered... -
Comics and Graphic Novels by Julia Round
RRP: $48.28$42.23Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades...