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Five in One by Louise Gluck
RRP: $24.45$17.23The themes of the previous volume of poetry define the tasks of the next for Louise Gluck. This collection shows the poet in this evolution. It includes: Firstborn (1968); The House on Marshland (1975); Descending Figure (1980); The Triumph of Achilles... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780393617085
$17.20This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript. Spelling and punctuation have been modernised for student readers.An illuminating introduction... -
Naming a Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Writing in Darkness by K. Melchor Quick Hall
RRP: $51.59$45.58By writing Black feminist texts into the international relations (IR) canon and naming a common Black feminist praxis, this text charts a path toward a Transnational Black Feminist (TBF) Framework in IR, and outlines why a TBF Framework is a much needed... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante
RRP: $16.76$12.05Inferno is the first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery. This Penguin Classics edition is translated and edited with an... -
Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $15.47$13.43A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic... -
Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society by Gerald Graff 9781566630979
$17.35Since its first publication more than fifteen years ago, Literature Against Itself has achieved wide recognition as the first major critique of post-1960s cultural radicalism-and still, one of the best. In it, Gerald Graff argues that the reigning... -
Ovid Fasti: A Selection by Dr Robert Cromarty
RRP: $16.76$15.54This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid, Fasti 2.533-616, 687-852, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in... -
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion by Hilary Davidson
RRP: $38.70$33.35A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen's life and writings This lively book reveals the clothing and fashion of the world depicted in Jane... -
Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology Michael O'Neill (Durham University) 9780631213178
RRP: $48.96$43.89Easily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley,... -
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War by James Shapiro 9780571372768
RRP: $25.80$17.88From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall.1935. As part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's progressive New... -
Poems: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436875
RRP: $12.89$12.20In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The appearance in 1594 of the darkly reflective and richly descriptive Rape of Lucrece confirmed his fame as 'Sweet... -
Pro Caelio by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $32.19$30.44Three postconsular speeches.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of ... -
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
RRP: $16.76$12.05Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the collection broke away from traditional poetic form... -
Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $19.29$12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433615Author P. G. WodehouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
An Analysis of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone Elizabeth Morrow 9781912127726
RRP: $8.39$8.11American 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... -
Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780192849649
RRP: $11.60$8.58Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has... -
The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
RRP: $32.24$28.84The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the... -
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol, UK) 9781408254011
RRP: $25.79$25.40What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how?Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, this beautifully written book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an... -
Fahrenheit 451 SparkNotes Literature Guide SparkNotes 9781411469532
RRP: $7.73$5.39When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by La Marr Jurelle Bruce
RRP: $30.95$27.30"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived... -
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything by Claire Harman
RRP: $24.50$17.56** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**** A Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2023 **'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L... -
Metaphysical Poetry by Colin Burrow
RRP: $14.18$10.31A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin... -
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Prof Christy Williams 9780814343838
RRP: $42.51$41.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814343838Author Prof Christy WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University... -
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
RRP: $11.60$8.58Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory,... -
Absorption and Theatricality: On Ghost Trio by Conor Carville 9781009001175
RRP: $21.93$18.99Samuel Beckett's 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It is also the play that most clearly demonstrates Beckett's imaginative and aesthetic engagement with the visual arts and the history of painting in... -
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $14.18$10.31'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from Alice's influence on the Beat poet Jack Kerouac to... -
The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District by Elias Lonnrot
RRP: $38.64$31.00The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Francis Magoun has used prose, printed line for... -
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
RRP: $16.76$11.35Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end up wanting to keep' RACHEL JOYCEThis is a medical... -
The Art of Discworld by Paul Kidby
RRP: $24.50$17.56A sumptuous illustrated journey through Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD; a companion volume to THE LAST HEROIn THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett takes us on a guided tour of the Discworld, courtesy of his favourite Discworld artist, Paul Kidby. Following... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race by Ayanna Thompson 9781108710565
RRP: $29.66$25.23The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in... -
Percy Bysshe Shelley by Emily Berry
RRP: $11.60$8.10Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language... -
Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his work by Ian Nathan
RRP: $36.12$25.12This 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... -
The Apostolic Fathers: v. 1 by Bart D. Ehrman 9780674996076
RRP: $32.19$30.44Enduring and influential early Christian texts.The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Some of them were accorded almost Scriptural authority... -
Corinne: or Italy by Madame De Stael
RRP: $14.18$9.30`Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.' Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in... -
Semites: Race, Religion, Literature by Gil Anidjar 9780804756952
RRP: $24.50$15.04This collection of essays explores the now mostly extinct notion of "Semites." Invented in the nineteenth century and essential to the making of modern conceptions of religion and race, the strange unity of Jew and Arab under one term,... -
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $16.76$11.35'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.' James Wolcott in his... -
The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz 9780465093557
$29.01In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award... -
GIRL: Essays on Black womanhood by Kenya Hunt
RRP: $12.89$7.75'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto and... -
Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd
RRP: $21.92$16.09Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary,... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780140449747
RRP: $12.89$9.38Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. This new translation is accompanied by an...