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Plot: The Art of Story by Amy Jones
RRP: $11.68$8.01Why do some books grab you from the very first line?What did Aristotle have to say about the art of telling stories?Is there a secret structure to stories known by all the best writers? In this neat pocket book, English lecturer Amy Jones describes the... -
Metamorphosis by Ovid
RRP: $19.48$13.86Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously... -
Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" by Tracy Hargreaves 9780826453204
$35.28This work is part of the Continuum Contemporaries series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist, a full-length... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour 9780008353254
RRP: $48.75$32.82'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... -
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Gideon Nisbet
RRP: $23.38$16.44Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net - Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up... -
Oxford Literature Companions: The Handmaid's Tale by Annie Fox 9780198419525
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,... -
The Major Works by Alfred Tennyson
RRP: $21.43$15.15This 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 Tennyson's poetry and prose - juvenilia as well as his best-known poems,... -
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Simon Palfrey
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies 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 -
The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
RRP: $25.33$17.73Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society's changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.Our collective notion of the city and country is... -
Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements by Julietta Singh
RRP: $38.98$34.20Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a... -
Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism by Catherine Nicholson
RRP: $58.50$45.42The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter... -
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf 9780008658458
RRP: $5.83$4.50HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,... -
Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester 9780099478720
RRP: $25.33$17.73If you love Georgette Heyer, 'the queen of Regency romance', this is a must-read: the definitive guide to the sparkling world of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels, which are currently being reissued.A bestselling novelist since 1921, Georgette Heyer is... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin 9780674019812
RRP: $56.45$45.44Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant... -
Shakespeare's Restless World: An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. Shakespeare's Restless World uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age... -
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
RRP: $21.43$15.15The 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... -
Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition by Ovid 9780253033598
RRP: $15.58$14.70Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before-sensuous,... -
The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters by Gustav Heldt 9780231163897
RRP: $48.75$38.20Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $52.55$42.53"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to... -
The Complete English Poems by John Milton 9781857150971
RRP: $29.23$22.13This volume presents a complete text of all Milton's verse. Coleridge linked Milton and Shakespeare as the greatest of English poets, and even in our time Milton continues to exert a powerful influence, both on the writing of poetry and on critical... -
The Otter Book by Jo Byrne 9781802580822
RRP: $19.48$13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802580822Author Jo ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 150mm * 20mm -
A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut 9780747586050
RRP: $21.43$15.15This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over the last five years in the form of a loose memoir, "A Man without a Country" is an... -
Merrily's Border: The Mysterious World of Merrily Watkins - History & Folklore, People & Places by Phil Rickman
RRP: $31.18$26.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839300Author Phil RickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Anti - Woke: Selected Essays by Brendan O'Neill by Brendan O'Neill 9781925826265
RRP: $31.20$24.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925826265Author Brendan O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty... -
Poetics: WITH On the Sublime AND On Style by Aristotle
RRP: $48.65$45.61Classic criticism.This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature.Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen... -
Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: $38.98$34.50Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we 'do' English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics and the subject itself.In his lucid and engaging style, Robert... -
The Wanderer's Havamal by Jackson Crawford
RRP: $29.23$25.94The Wanderer's Havamal features Jackson Crawford's complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Havamal, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing original Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius... -
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman 9780199553921
RRP: $19.48$13.86The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a... -
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend by Alan Lupack 9780199215096
RRP: $29.23$22.48The 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... -
How To Read Joyce by Derek Attridge 9781862079120
RRP: $17.53$12.77James Joyce is known as a 'difficult' writer, even if he is no longer thought of as a 'dirty' one. Yet many readers - and not just in colleges and universities - have discovered his books to be funny, moving, illuminating and packed with memorable... -
Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib 9780231182072
RRP: $42.90$33.85This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib's poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting... -
Yeats Now: Echoing into Life by Joseph M. Hassett 9781843517788
RRP: $25.35$21.49W. B. Yeats believed that a poet's life should be an experiment in living. His poems fashion into memorable words the sometimes puzzling emotions that hover over important life events. Yeats's remarkable work can clarify our own thinking about similar... -
Tennyson: A Selected Edition by Christopher Ricks 9781405832823
RRP: $77.98$77.10This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson's poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson. The collection contains in full all four of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare by Emma Smith 9780521671880
RRP: $38.98$29.70This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts;... -
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell
RRP: $54.60$42.51Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once... -
A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic by Roy T. Cook
RRP: $175.50$143.68This dictionary introduces undergraduate and post-graduate students in philosophy, mathematics, and computer science to the main problems and positions in philosophical logic. Coverage includes not only key figures, positions, terminology, and debates... -
Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Sabina Knight 9780195392067
RRP: $17.53$12.58Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of... -
Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives by Kaye Mitchell
RRP: $52.63$45.71A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and The Night Watch, her writing has played compellingly with... -
Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction by Victoria Coulson 9781474480505
RRP: $40.93$33.52This book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender. Focusing on the relationship between Bowen's work and the... -
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
RRP: $21.43$14.27No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: 'I, too, dislike it,' wrote Marianne Moore. 'Many more people agree they hate poetry,' Ben Lerner writes, 'than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely...