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A Companion to the "Iliad": Based on the Translation by Richard Lattimore by Malcolm M. Willcock 9780226898551
RRP: $39.90$38.85Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Iliad.Book InformationISBN 9780226898551Author Malcolm M... -
Henry IV, Part I by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $18.88$17.26From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's tragi-comedy of youth and age, introducing the immortal Sir John Falstaff. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical... -
Livy, History of Rome I: A Selection John Storey (Head of Classics, Downside School, UK) 9781350060388
RRP: $27.28$25.31This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Livy's History of Rome, Book I, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for chapters 53-54, 56 (haec agenti ...)-60, with a detailed... -
Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England by Eleanor Parker 9781350383401
RRP: $27.28$21.08"Outstanding." - The Sunday Times "Beautifully written." The Times "Superbly adroit." The Spectator "Excellent." BBC History Magazine The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England - so what... -
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians by Kenneth E. Bailey
RRP: $37.78$28.04The result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians. Bailey examines this canonical letter through the lenses of Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and... -
Rossetti Poems Christina Rossetti 9781857157024
RRP: $25.20$18.23An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics' 128pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The... -
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman 9781982182632
RRP: $42.00$27.01**Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biography**This celebration of the woman who took us to the heights of a secluded attic and the depths of our own dark psyches reveals an intimate portrait of the famously private V.C. Andrews-featuring... -
Nikolai Gogol by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: $20.98$15.37Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of... -
Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: $52.40$51.64"The classic of all Europe." -T. S. EliotVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9780521532471
RRP: $20.98$17.64The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
Goodbye Tsugumi Banana Yoshimoto 9780571212842
RRP: $20.98$14.49An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside, Goodbye Tsugumi is an enchanting novel from one of Japan's finest writers.Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her an international sensation. Now she returns with a magical,... -
The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer by Tomas Tranströmer 9781556596858
RRP: $60.88$40.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596858Author Tomas TranstroemerFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart
RRP: $44.08$39.19Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated... -
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont 9781788738910
RRP: $39.88$29.38There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles,... -
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend by Alan Lupack 9780199215096
RRP: $31.48$23.00The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, and symbols. It offers a comprehensive survey of the legends in all of their manifestations, from... -
La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas
RRP: $18.88$12.62La Dame aux Camelias still has the power to cast the spell that has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's marvellously beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant heroine lives on in revivals of the stage version, in film and television adaptations, and... -
Oxford Readings in Greek Religion by Richard F. Buxton 9780198721901
$118.21The study of ancient Greek religion has been excitingly renewed in the last thirty years. Key areas of interest have been: the relationship between religion and politics; new and unexpected perspectives opened up by archaeological finds; the symbiosis... -
Le Loop: How to Cycle the Tour de France by Ceri Stone 9781801501156
RRP: $27.28$19.61Le Loop: How to Cycle the Tour de France is the incredible tale of how one man took on the world's toughest bike race. Ceri Stone is an ordinary guy. He wanted to do something extraordinary just once in his life. This book is the exhilarating story of... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Su Fielder 9780198419556
RRP: $20.98$20.66Easy 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,... -
Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Cowie 9780333660133
RRP: $96.60$96.52Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis examines the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts of cinema's pleasures for men and women, Elizabeth Cowie draws on the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and... -
A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays by Thomas Heywood
RRP: $27.28$19.61Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of... -
Andrew Young: Priest, Poet and Naturalist: A Reassessment by Richard Ormrod 9780718895136
RRP: $52.50$51.79Andrew Young was one of the most original, inventive and paradoxical poets of the twentieth-century. C.S. Lewis called him, 'A modern Marvell and a modern marvel', and Philip Larkin remarked that, 'His works are in no danger of being forgotten'. Regarded... -
The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850: A Norton Critical Edition by William Wordsworth
$33.98There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and... -
Oxford Literature Companions: The Handmaid's Tale by Annie Fox 9780198419525
RRP: $20.98$20.66Easy 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,... -
Victorian Literature by Beth Palmer 9781408204818
RRP: $23.08$17.79An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of mourning; novelistic genres, including social problem novels and sensation fiction; and the literature of... -
The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World's Greatest Detective by Andrew Lycett 9780711281677
RRP: $52.50$34.40Questing was Sherlock Holmes’s business. He famously adopted the latest forensic techniques, channelled the Victorian passion for enquiry, kept abreast of the key scientific breakthroughs of his age, and conducted his investigations in an enigmatic and... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Como agua para chocolate: study guide for AS/A Level Spanish set text by Margaret Bond 9780198418375
$23.16Get to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions. The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and examiners and provide comprehensive coverage of... -
Ebb and Flo and the Greedy Gulls by Jane Simmons 9781802580693
RRP: $16.78$12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802580693Author Jane SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 10mm -
John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations by John Donne 9780520239289
RRP: $63.00$48.91The glory of John Donne's prose at its best is very different from that of his verse, but is equal to it; and there can be no question that his best prose is in his sermons. His sense of form and arrangement, his psychological insight, his differences of... -
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond by Andrew Nash 9781009010474
RRP: $62.98$59.64The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a range... -
Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh by Kathryn Aalto 9781604695991
RRP: $31.50$19.26Loved Goodbye Christopher Robin? Learn more about the real place that inspired the beloved stories. Delve into the home of the world's most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature by Hugh Magennis
RRP: $48.28$41.08An approachable and stimulating introduction to Anglo-Saxon literature, this book provides indispensable guidance for students on this important and rewarding area of literary studies. The chapters are clearly organized by topic and significant attention... -
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroeger
RRP: $37.78$28.46Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein; but have you heard of Margaret Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier? Have you read the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term... -
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt 9781529114478
RRP: $23.08$16.78A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.'Beautiful' Colm Toibin'Rapturous' New York Times'Extraordinary' Observer'Stunning' Sunday TimesWhen Sean meets... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley 9780199555178
RRP: $18.88$13.97Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the... -
Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee
$32.97In Africa a child wanders too far into the Knysa Forest and never returns. Nine years later, two government officials think they have found the child living on the other side of the forest. They take him from stricken Fiela, who has brought him up, and... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siecle by Gail Marshall 9780521615617
RRP: $56.68$47.88Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siecle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous... -
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee 9781789099768
RRP: $18.88$13.50A twisty dark academia thriller about a centuries-old, ivy-covered boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past. Perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab, Leigh Bardugo, M.L. Rio and Donna Tartt. ... -
Sylvia Plath: A Critical Guide by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $27.28$18.48Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. Tim Kendall seeks to redress the balance in his detailed and... -
The Companion to 'Bleak House' by Susan Shatto 9781032051109
RRP: $67.18$59.93This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It provides authoritative background information about the topical issues of the novel that interested Dickens as a social critic and activist. It...