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The Odyssey by Homer 9780140268867
RRP: $33.13$25.99Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin... -
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey 9780300232226
RRP: $31.18$27.73A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."-Sebastian... -
The Emergence Of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald by Lynne Sharon Schwartz 9781583229156
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583229156Author Lynne Sharon SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 171g -
Shakespeare's Hamlet by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776601Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Shakespeare Box Set by William Shakespeare
RRP: $23.38$19.81For fans of the Bard is a deluxe box set of our three classic Shakespeare mini books: William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays in One Sitting, Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts, and Love Sonnets of Shakespeare. With this collection,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race by Ayanna Thompson 9781108710565
RRP: $44.83$38.14The 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: $17.53$11.86Percy 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... -
The Complete Poems of John Donne by Robin Robbins 9781408231241
RRP: $74.08$73.48The Poems of John Donne is one volume paperback edition of the poems of John Donne (1572-1631) based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne's output is tremendously varied in style and form and... -
The Art of Writing Fiction by Andrew Cowan 9781138593695
RRP: $50.68$44.13An elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan's The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with emerging writers at the University of East Anglia.As... -
The Trial Of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford
RRP: $11.68$8.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970979Author Sybille BedfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 108g -
Poems by William Wordsworth
RRP: $23.40$16.46In the long history of English literature William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is the writer who achieved the most dramatic transformations of the poetic scene almost singlehanded. A leading figure among the Romantic generation which included Coleridge and... -
The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition by John Callow 9781350387126
RRP: $25.33$19.87"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An... -
Semites: Race, Religion, Literature by Gil Anidjar 9780804756952
RRP: $37.03$22.74This 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,... -
Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction by Quentin Skinner
RRP: $17.53$12.58Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin... -
Romeo & Juliet by Richard Durant 9780702308499
RRP: $11.68$7.90Board: AQA Examination: English Language & Literature Specification: GCSE 9-1 Set Text covered: Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare Type: Essay Planner This book answers the question 'What do great answers look... -
The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 3 T. S. Eliot 9780571295524
RRP: $97.50$64.53T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's 'Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected... -
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
RRP: $19.48$13.07WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs I have ever read' - Vivian Gornick, author of... -
Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: $40.93$35.82Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of... -
Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain by Rachel Bromwich 9781783163052
RRP: $48.73$38.61Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This revised edition shows the author's continued mastery of the subject, including a new preface by Morfydd Owen, and will be essential... -
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
RRP: $25.33$16.54Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. In this paperback of the landmark biography,... -
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: $54.60$42.51Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit... -
The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 2 T. S. Eliot 9780571295500
RRP: $97.50$64.53T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's 'Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected... -
Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic by Sophus Helle
RRP: $23.38$21.35A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace "Sophus Helle's new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read."-Nina... -
Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! by Lingo Mastery 9781951949464
RRP: $25.16$17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951949464Author Lingo MasteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Lingo MasteryPublisher Lingo MasteryWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden
RRP: $25.33$16.69Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the... -
Parzival and Titurel by Wolfram von Eschenbach 9780199539208
RRP: $23.38$16.44Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. Written in the first decade of the thirteenth century, Parzival is the greatest... -
Time to Be in Earnest by P. D. James 9780571203963
RRP: $21.43$14.27P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life... -
Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry by David Hinton
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807424Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Oxford Literature Companions: Twelfth Night by Peter Buckroyd 9780198419532
RRP: $19.48$18.70Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918 by Joseph Loconte
RRP: $29.23$21.35Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis.The First World War laid waste to a continent and brought about the end of innocence-and the end of... -
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne
RRP: $37.03$21.35'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April... -
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
RRP: $21.43$14.27'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else... -
Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature Professor Colby Gordon 9780226835006
RRP: $42.90$41.38A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds. In this striking contribution to trans history, Colby Gordon challenges the prevailing assumption that trans life is a byproduct of recent medical... -
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg 9780674241411
RRP: $33.05$27.01A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to... -
In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today by Aleks Sierz 9780571200498
RRP: $29.23$19.11The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomethings whose debuts startled critics and audiences with their heady mix of sex, violence and street-poetry... -
Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
RRP: $48.65$45.61Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign... -
Oxford Student Texts: Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
$22.93One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.Making A Level texts... -
Notes on Blood Meridian: Revised and Expanded Edition by John Sepich
RRP: $38.98$34.20Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850,... -
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales by Georgia Henley 9780192856470
RRP: $37.03$34.92Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the... -
Outer Space: 100 Poems by Midge Goldberg
RRP: $25.33$21.47Poets and astronomers often ask the same questions. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Throughout human history, poetry has provided stories about what people observe in the sky. Stars, planets, comets, the moon, and space...