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Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park by Naomi Mandel
RRP: £31.99£28.60This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho" (1991), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005). Taking as its starting-point "American Psycho"'s seismic impact... -
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones
RRP: £16.99£11.67Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ AnthologyWinner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle AwardsA Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of... -
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore by Michael Dylan Foster 9780520271029
RRP: £25.00£21.19Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to... -
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
RRP: £9.99£7.32"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words." - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades,... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio by Robert M. Durling 9780195087451
RRP: £15.99£13.23The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet... -
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection by Richard Lansdown
RRP: £16.99£12.68Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful... -
Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Susan Ratcliffe
RRP: £12.99£9.34This updated edition is the perfect gift for every occasion. From Shakespeare and Mark Twain to Albert Einstein and Kate Moss, this dictionary features 4,000 of the best and most popular quotations of past and present. Packed with quotable quotes on over... -
The Heroine's Journey Workbook: A Map for Every Woman's Quest Maureen Murdock 9781611808315
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808315Author Maureen MurdockFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything by Claire Harman 9781529918342
RRP: £10.99£7.99** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and... -
The Battles of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: £16.99£12.47The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's works are punctuated by dramatic and explosive battles. Men versus Orcs, Elves versus Sauron, Goblins versus Dwarves - the history of Middle-earth has seen some of the greatest characters pitted against each other... -
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780393957495
£15.23Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus's important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament,... -
Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: £9.99£7.15Collected Stories brings together many of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's spellbinding short stories, each brimming with a blend of the surreal, the magical, and the everyday that Nobel-Prize-winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez is known... -
Media Semiotics: An Introduction by Jonathan Bignell
RRP: £14.99£11.30Media semiotics is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies. Using examples such as Big Brother and Billy Elliot, Jonathan Bignell steps easily from basic concepts to more complex theories, while devoting chapters to... -
Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: £12.99£9.34The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between... -
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition by Erich Auerbach
RRP: £22.00£17.76More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia... -
We the Parasites by A. V. Marraccini 9781915812186
RRP: £12.99£9.34In her debut book, A. V. Marraccini explores how we inhabit works of art, and how our sense of longing informs and changes our relationship to them. Intertwining fig wasps, Updike, Genet, Twombly, Rilke, jewel heists, and a vividly rendered panoply of... -
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis 9780571297214
RRP: £25.00£16.77** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.'A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph'A work of art' Times... -
Treatise on the Whole-World: by Edouard Glissant Celia Britton 9781789621310
RRP: £22.99£21.04This exciting, challenging book covers a wide range of subject matter, but all linked together through the key ideas of diversity and 'Relation'. It sees our modern world, shaped by immigration and the aftermath of colonization, as a multiplicity of... -
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 9780321105073
RRP: £24.68£22.16From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Jane Austen'sPride and Prejudice , edited by Claudia Johnson and Susan Wolfson, offers the text of the first edition and is extensively annotated in several contexts, from Austen's views, to cultural issues, to... -
Speaking the Speech: An Actor's Guide to Shakespeare by Giles Block
RRP: £14.99£11.53Why does Shakespeare write in the way he does? And how can actors and directors get the most out of his incomparable plays? In Speaking the Speech, Giles Block - 'Master of the Words' at Shakespeare's Globe - sets out to answer these two simple... -
Gothic Fred Botting 9780415831727
RRP: £22.99£20.16This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on 'Contemporary Gothic', an expanded section on American Gothic and more discussion... -
Oxford Student Texts: John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi by Jackie Moore 9780198325741
£11.76Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to... -
An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £7.99£5.98Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also... -
The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs by Timothy Freke
RRP: £9.99£8.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585426928Author Timothy FrekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 16mm -
Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma by Gabriele Schwab 9780231152570
RRP: £28.00£21.80From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab... -
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda 9781784878207
RRP: £10.99£7.99This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924... -
The Major Works by Robert Browning
RRP: £13.99£10.41This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning's poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career to... -
Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue 9780300105933
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology David Fairer (University of Leeds) 9781118824757
RRP: £33.95£31.21Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation. Balanced to... -
Maus Now by Art Spiegelman
RRP: £20.00£14.29A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
RRP: £6.99£5.30'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they?... -
Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good: A Study Guide by Max Stafford-Clark
RRP: £10.99£8.15Page to Stage series - highly accessible guides to the world's best-known plays, written by established theatre professionals to show how the plays come to life on the stage. 'Modern classic' was the fitting accolade bestowed on Timberlake... -
Harold Pinter by Michael Billington
RRP: £16.99£11.76Michael Billington brings up to date The Life and Work of Harold Pinter with an additional chapter and plate section covering the years 1996-2006. During the past ten years Harold Pinter has written a new play, three film scripts, sheaves of poems,... -
Odyssey: v.2 by Homer
RRP: £24.95£24.84The hero's journey home from war.Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn. Homer's classic... -
The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum by Christopher S. Mackay
RRP: £34.99£29.60The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486-7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to... -
Outline of American Literature, An Paper by Peter B. High
£39.61A survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of the United States from Colonial times to the1980s. Book InformationISBN 9780582745025Author Peter HighFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LongmanPublisher Pearson Education Limited -
Major Works by Jonathan Swift
RRP: £12.99£9.34This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career - prose, poetry, and letters... -
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka 9780805212679
RRP: £19.00£11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212679Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm *... -
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert L. Dreyfus 9780710806550
£53.90First Published in 1984. This book was born out of a disagreement among friends. Paul Rabinow, attending a seminar given in 1979 by Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle which concerned, among other things, Michel Foucault, objected to the characterization of... -
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: A Biography by Frances Spalding
RRP: £39.49£29.64This book is about a shared journey made by John and Myfanwy Piper who early on settled down in a small hamlet on the edge of the Chilterns, whence they proceeded to produce work which placed them centre stage in the cultural landscape of the twentieth...