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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry by Adonis 9780863565243
RRP: $12.89$9.03Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today. Victims of a Map presents some of their finest work in translation, alongside the original Arabic, including thirteen poems by Darwish never before published... -
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
RRP: $19.34$12.98Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief.With these pieces... -
The Sonnets: A Dual-Language Edition With Parallel Text by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $20.54$16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143106012Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende 9780007163106
RRP: $14.18$9.62The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the world's favourite writers - is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents' home in Chile. She left... -
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
RRP: $14.18$10.31The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all his life. This book is a distillation of that... -
W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
RRP: $16.76$11.35W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us 'to be more... -
The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up by James Rallison
RRP: $18.05$12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131809Author James RallisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis 9781780238982
$25.41Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic, highly sought-after commodity. Over the subsequent two centuries, tea's powerful psychoactive... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
RRP: $12.89$9.44A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics.For Gertrude Stein... -
Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader by Ken Hiltner
RRP: $51.59$45.74Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting... -
A Literature Of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing Elaine Showalter 9781844084968
RRP: $19.34$12.96When first published in 1982, A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the... -
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780719014505
RRP: $19.34$14.58Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the... -
Complete Poems and Translations by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $15.47$11.17This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and playwright.About the AuthorChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born in Canterbury the year of Shakespeare's birth. He wrote seven... -
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry
RRP: $16.76$12.05A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology' The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement' Daily Telegraph'An exhilarating feat, it takes its... -
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler
RRP: $16.76$12.05An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was... -
One True Sentence: Writers & Readers in Pursuit of Hemingway's Art by Mark Cirino
RRP: $25.79$17.49A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula... -
Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $21.92$15.84Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a... -
The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century by Desmond M. Clarke 9780199673513
$59.08Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society... -
The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism by Paul Hamilton 9780198831143
$53.01TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period... -
Indo-European Poetry and Myth by M. L. West 9780199558919
RRP: $92.88$72.39The Indo-Europeans, speakers of the prehistoric parent language from which most European and some Asiatic languages are descended, most probably lived on the Eurasian steppes some five or six thousand years ago. Martin West investigates their traditional... -
The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot by John Xiros Cooper 9780521547598
RRP: $25.79$22.10T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to... -
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Simon Palfrey
RRP: $11.60$8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776083Author Simon PalfreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature Susan Honeyman 9780415860888
RRP: $61.91$53.93In this book Honeyman looks at manifestations of youth agency (and representations of agency produced for youth) as depicted in fairy tales, childlore and folk literature, investigating the dynamic of ideological manipulation and independent resistance... -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Collector's Edition) by Thomas Gray
RRP: $21.92$17.42'The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day ...' Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' has been loved and admired throughout the centuries. First circulated to a select group of friends, it was rushed to official publication in 1751 in... -
Shakespeare and the Arts of Language by Russ McDonald 9780198711711
$38.33Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its... -
W. H. Auden: A Commentary by John Fuller
RRP: $32.25$21.92Now available for the first time in paperback, John Fuller's Commentary is a compendious yet condensed reference work dealing with all of Auden's writings. For every poem, play or libretto, Fuller encapsulates the publishing history, paraphrases... -
The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays: A Socio-linguistic Study by Jonathan Hope 9780521417372
RRP: $116.10$86.75This book introduces a method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late sixteenth- and early-seventeenth centuries, socio-historical linguistic evidence allows us to distinguish... -
The Annotated Emma by Jane Austen
RRP: $20.63$14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390776Author Jane AustenFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm... -
Wordsworth Poems William Wordsworth 9781857157185
RRP: $15.48$11.20In 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... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
RRP: $14.18$9.46'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An... -
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
RRP: $21.92$15.84A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an... -
Heroines Kate Zambreno 9781472159458
RRP: $19.34$12.77'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging... -
Georges Perecs Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces by Charles Forsdick 9781787354425
RRP: $32.25$28.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354425Author Charles ForsdickFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 530g -
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh 9781910463291
RRP: $11.60$8.24The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and engaging, and ultimately deeply emotional, The Perfect Stranger is the story of a soldier, a poet and a husband... -
Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, 1951-1970 by James K. Lyon 9780801883026
RRP: $68.37$61.24This work explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan, regarded by many as the most important European poet after 1945, and Martin Heidegger, perhaps the most influential figure in twentieth-century... -
Return To Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century by Craig Taylor
RRP: $12.89$8.90Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig Taylor returned to the village in Suffolk on which... -
Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems by Bruce Clarke 9780823228515
RRP: $39.99$35.57From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman Metamorphosis examines modern and postmodern stories of... -
Crowd and Rumour in Shakespeare Kai Wiegandt 9781138252578
RRP: $64.49$56.55In this study, the author offers new interpretations of Shakespeare's works in the context of two major contemporary notions of collectivity: the crowd and rumour. The plays illustrate that rumour and crowd are mutually dependent; they also betray a... -
Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $27.08$24.07A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the... -
Victorian Paper Art and Craft: Writers and Their Materials by Deborah Lutz 9780198858799
RRP: $48.36$44.14This book shows how authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and of reading, drawing, and handicraft) for inspiration and creative composition. In doing so, it reshapes the sensory history of working on and with paper. These...