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A Guide to Hellenistic Literature Kathryn Gutzwiller (University of Cincinatti) 9780631233220
RRP: $75.50$67.01This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period. A guide to the literature of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battle of Actium in 31 BCProvides overviews of the... -
Dylan Thomas: A New Life by Andrew Lycett
RRP: $31.48$21.11The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n' roll' lifestyle as his artistic workDylan Thomas was a romantic and controversial figure; a poet who lived to excess and died young. An inventive genius with a gift for... -
How to Write Essays and Dissertations: A Guide for English Literature Students by Alan Durant 9780582784550
RRP: $77.68$75.05The first book that literature students should read, this guide reveals the distinct set of skills, conventions and methods of essay and dissertation writing.Taking students through the various stages of writing, from planning to final submission, it... -
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
RRP: $18.88$13.06A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Measure for Measure by Annie Fox 9780198419549
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,... -
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia) by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: $23.08$16.78Philip Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his `Old' Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke. The book, which he called 'a trifle, and that triflingly handled', reflects their youthful vitality. The `Old'... -
Elegies: With parallel Latin text by Albius Tibullus
RRP: $20.98$15.37'Delia, when flames engulf my bier you'll weep for me, and then you'll mix your kisses with sad tears.' Tibullus (?55-18 BC) was one of a group of poets known as the Latin elegists, whose number included Ovid and Propertius. Living in the age of... -
The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-earth, Book 3) by Christopher Tolkien
RRP: $23.08$16.32The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth, gives us a priviledged insight into the creation of the... -
The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $39.88$29.02The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a... -
World Literature in Theory David Damrosch (Columbia University) 9781118407691
RRP: $77.60$69.64World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today. Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world... -
One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses" by Colm Toibin
RRP: $79.70$71.78Ulysses is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Commemorating the 1922 publication of this modernist masterwork, One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses" tells the story of the writing, revising, printing, and censorship of... -
Artful by Ali Smith
RRP: $23.08$16.78A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful and audacious' Independent Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja 9781913505462
RRP: $25.20$17.16Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offences at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event marking the fifth anniversary of a prison education... -
Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas Emily Gowers 9780691193144
RRP: $79.80$72.66The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and cultureAn unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend of the emperor Augustus: Maecenas was one of the... -
Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy
RRP: $23.08$16.78Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two hundred poems includes such familiar pieces as "During Wind and Rain,"... -
Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 by James Fenton
RRP: $27.28$18.48Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the dramatic and... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Stephen Greenblatt 9781324072805
$110.21From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that demonstrate the relevance of literature to contemporary students and trace... -
Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick
RRP: $41.98$37.40In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods,... -
Seamus Heaney's Regions by Richard Rankin Russell 9780268040369
RRP: $94.50$83.12Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded,... -
The Bright Side of Life by Emile Zola
RRP: $20.98$13.88'Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.' Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her... -
Virgil Aeneid XII: A Selection Dr James Burbidge (Head of Classics, Tonbridge School, UK) 9781350059214
RRP: $35.68$32.47This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Aeneid Book XII, lines 1-106, 614-727, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Aeneid Book XII, lines 728-952, giving full Latin text,... -
The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: $29.38$19.78"It is to the Greeks that we turn when we are sick of the vagueness, of the confusion, of our own age."-Virginia WoolfDiscover a new passion for a very old language, a language that can express what can't be said in any other, and thrillingly relevant to... -
The Art of Drama, Volume 6: Othello: A critical guide for GCSE & A-level students by Johanna Harrison-Oram 9781913577872
RRP: $27.28$24.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913577872Author Johanna Harrison-OramFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
History of Rome, Volume XI: Books 38-40 by Livy
RRP: $52.40$49.90Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17.Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the ... -
Tales of the Elders of Ireland by Ann Dooley
RRP: $23.08$16.78"'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide... -
The Winter's Tale: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436356
RRP: $20.98$19.03One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that... -
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
RRP: $27.28$19.61Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit... -
Woh Jo Chaand Tha Sare Aasman (A Tribute to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi) by Ashar Najmi 9788195049653
RRP: $102.90$66.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195049653Author Ashar NajmiFormat HardbackPage Count 706Imprint Esbaat PublicationsPublisher Esbaat PublicationsWeight(grams) 1039g -
Gin Austen: 50 Cocktails to Celebrate the Novels of Jane Austen Colleen Mullaney 9781454933120
RRP: $31.48$21.11It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of this good book must be in want of a drink.Winner of the Gourmand Award in the Gin category (US). In six enduring novels, Jane Austen captured the fancies and foibles of Regency... -
Wonderworks: Literary invention and the science of stories by Angus Fletcher
RRP: $23.08$15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750234Author Angus FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
The 14th Tale by Inua Ellams
$22.321988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player. 1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum. 1995: was chased through jungle growth by a crazed, frustrated French teacher called... -
The Givenness Of Things by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: $20.98$12.92A profound essay collection from the beloved author of Gilead, Houskeeping and Lila, including Marilynne Robinson's conversation with President Barack Obama. 'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human'... -
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop
RRP: $23.08$16.78'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday TelegraphWhat should I do with my life? What if my love is not returned? Why do bad things happen? The answers... -
Jazz Poems by Kevin Young
RRP: $25.20$18.23Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry, and this anthology offers a treasury of poems as varied and vital as the music that inspired them.From the Harlem Renaissance to the Beat Movement, from... -
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
RRP: $35.68$26.19'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics-an aesthetic war zone where... -
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand 9780007126880
RRP: $31.48$20.92Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,... -
On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
RRP: $20.98$15.37`Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind Not by the sun's rays, nor the bright shafts of day, Must be dispersed, as is most necessary, But by the face of nature and her laws.' Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines... -
Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: $27.28$15.39'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the... -
Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
RRP: $52.50$32.57A complete volume of the writer's poetry and songs includes previously unpublished pieces, draws on extensive scholarship and Burn's own letters, and offers supplemental information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary... -
Omeros by Derek Walcott
RRP: $37.78$25.62A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African...