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Writing Home by Alan Bennett
RRP: £16.99£11.58Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights... -
The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney 9780571175376
RRP: £16.99£11.58These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to... -
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell 9781844087686
RRP: £12.99£8.83Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail its relation to the extravagant, scandalous, and... -
Northland Stories by Jack London 9780140189964
£11.20Like the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as they conftont the merciless frozen expanses of the north. Yet London breaks free of stereotypical figures... -
Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics by Charles Martindale
£42.24This book argues for a new attention to the importance of beauty and the aesthetic in our response to poetry. Charles Martindale explores ways in which Kant's aesthetic theory, as set out in the Critique of Judgement, remains of fundamental importance... -
Hut/Hytte by Lesley Riddoch 9781913025632
RRP: £9.99£7.48Victorian visitors had shooting lodges - Scots had trips doon the watter. Norwegian citizens had hytte - Scots had Butlins. Why have the inhabitants of one of Europe's prime tourist destinations been elbowed off the land and exiled from nature for so... -
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99£7.32Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say... -
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc 9781552453957
RRP: £12.99£8.87A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022)Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty?If every... -
The Changeling: Thomas Middleton & William Rowley N. Bawcutt 9780719044816
RRP: £14.99£11.30Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recent critical works. A key Renaissance text.About the AuthorN.W. Bawcutt, formerly Reader in English... -
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster 9780141441696
RRP: £9.99£7.21E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction... -
On Sparta by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.34Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and... -
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Reni Eddo-Lodge
RRP: £13.99£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995716223Author Reni Eddo-LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Silver PressPublisher Silver Press -
The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
£13.93This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including-new to the Third Edition-The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale. * Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill 9780198713180
RRP: £33.99£31.09Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have... -
The New Joyce Studies by Catherine Flynn 9781009235679
RRP: £75.00£68.14The New Joyce Studies indicates the variety and energy of research on James Joyce since the year 2000. Essays examine Joyce's works and their reception in the light of a larger set of concerns: a diverse international terrain of scholarly modes and... -
Collected Poems: Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas 9780753810668
RRP: £9.99£7.00The definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of poems: 18 POEMS, TWENTY-FIVE POEMS, THE MAP OF LOVE, DEATHS AND ENTRANCES and IN COUNTRY SLEEP.Dylan Thomas wrote passionately about life in all its moods and moments: from the first... -
Introduction to Old English by Peter S. Baker 9780470659847
RRP: £30.95£27.45Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one... -
This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 9780747546016
RRP: £14.99£11.11The author of "The Barracks Thief" and "Hunters in the Snow" recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the... -
Selected Poetry by Alexander Pope
RRP: £6.99£5.30Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, Pope devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of 21... -
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh 9781804291344
RRP: £17.99£15.54Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what... -
Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence by Katherine Parr
RRP: £44.00£43.27To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512-48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr... -
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard 9780060919887
RRP: £15.99£9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060919887Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
RRP: £16.99£12.27With 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 Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock
RRP: £16.99£11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808308Author Maureen MurdockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock 9781107031869
£106.87Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of his novels to appear for more than half a century... -
Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works by Jonathan Swift
£29.38Swift's parodies are among his most fascinating works, but perhaps require most explication for the modern reader. Valerie Rumbold brings a new depth and detail to the editing of Swift's Bickerstaff papers, 'Polite Conversation', 'Directions to Servants'... -
The Tain by Ciaran Carson
RRP: £9.99£7.76The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, Queen and King of Connacht, and their... -
The Monsters and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £10.99£7.46Complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings. The seven 'essays' by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this new paperback... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy by Alexander Leggatt 9780521779425
RRP: £25.99£21.99First published in 2001, this is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety... -
Come Close by Sappho
RRP: £3.00£2.63'Yes, we did many things, then - allBeautiful ...'Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and... -
Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen by Professor Susanna Morton Braund 9780521036429
RRP: £30.99£28.28Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only recently, as a variety of disciplines start to devote... -
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £9.99£6.90In the bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom showed us how Shakespeare shaped human consciousness, and addressed the question of authorship in Hamlet. In Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, America's most celebrated critic turns his... -
Don Juan and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: £11.99£7.81Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli`re composed and performed his comedies, scarcely a decade... -
An African Elegy by Ben Okri
RRP: £12.99£9.34Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road. Okri's dreams are made on the stuff of Africa's colossal economic and... -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £12.99£11.17Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions... -
Greek for Beginners by L.A. Wilding
£20.22Wilding's Greek for Beginners has long been recognised as one of the very best introductions to the Ancient Greek language, covering all points of grammar and syntax with exercises and readings. Making the Greek language immediately accessible and... -
X-ray Dr. Nicole Lobdell 9781501386701
RRP: £9.99£7.89Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. X-rays are powerful. Moving through objects undetected, revealing the body as a tryptic of skin, tissue, and bone. X-rays gave rise to a... -
Harold Pinter Plays 1: The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination by Harold Pinter
RRP: £18.99£12.83This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday PartyStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a... -
Masques of Difference: Four Court Masques by Ben Jonson by Kristen McDermott
RRP: £10.99£9.99Masques of difference presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson for the court of James I. These masques reflect both the confidence and the anxieties of the English aristocracy at a time when notions... -
Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War Catherine Reilly 9781844082254
RRP: £9.99£7.00Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart' wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new generation of the bitter sufferings of women as well as men...