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Poems by Li Po
RRP: £12.99£9.34Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime... -
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai 9780674088122
RRP: £20.95£17.54The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory... -
The Fabliaux by Nathaniel E. Dubin 9780871403575
RRP: £23.99£20.82Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic... -
Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia by Alexander Bogdanov
RRP: £15.99£15.02"[A] surprisingly moving story." -The New Yorker"Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it." -Slavic Review"Bogdanov's... -
Division Street by Helen Mort
RRP: £12.00£8.68*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE AND COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013*'A stone is lobbed in '84, hangs like a star over Orgreave. Welcome to Sheffield. Border-land,our town of miracles...' - 'Scab'From the... -
The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal by Professor Josiah Blackmore
RRP: £28.00£23.27An expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal. In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary creativity in early modern Portugal during the most active,... -
Memoirs by Kingsley Amis
RRP: £16.99£12.28Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels... -
Flower, Song, Dance: Mayan and Aztec Poetry by Dr David Bowles 9780985255282
RRP: £18.95£15.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985255282Author Dr David BowlesFormat PaperbackImprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English by Edwin Morgan 9781857545883
RRP: £8.95£6.52This reprint of Morgan's popular and well-respected 1952 modern English translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic captures a taut expression of the poem's themes of danger, voyaging, displacement, loyalty, and loss. Morgan provides a fluid, modern voice from... -
The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
RRP: £56.00£41.72The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest... -
Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
RRP: £9.99£7.32WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFYAnna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully... -
Zhu Xi: Basic Teachings by Daniel Gardner
RRP: £25.00£19.59Zhu Xi (1130-1200) was the preeminent Confucian thinker of the Song dynasty (960-1279). His teachings profoundly influenced China, where for centuries after his death they formed the basis of the country's educational system. In Korea, Japan, and Vietnam... -
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99£6.90One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce - in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES.'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so... -
The Histories: No. 1 by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.76Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was... -
An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man Ian Jackson 9781912127917
RRP: £6.50£6.29Francis Fukuyama's controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama's work, the... -
The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 4 T. S. Eliot 9780571295548
RRP: £50.00£33.09T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's 'Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected... -
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview by Toni Morrison 9781612198736
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198736Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Burned and Broken: A gripping detective mystery you won't be able to put down by Mark Hardie
RRP: £7.99£3.05A gripping mystery about a woman trying to find out the truth behind the death of her best friend and introducing a brilliant detective duo - perfect for fans of Peter James, Angela Marsons and James Oswald. A DEAD GIRLA vulnerable young woman, fresh... -
A Study Guide for Yarin Martel's Life of Pi by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375398534
RRP: £9.95£9.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375398534Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 73g -
We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter
RRP: £39.99£28.29The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go... -
Hamlet: Language and Writing by Dympna Callaghan
£20.31This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the... -
The Gods Will Have Blood: (Les Dieux Ont Soif) by Anatole France
RRP: £9.99£7.32It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin, a revolutionary young artist appointed... -
Women in Antiquity: New Assessments by Richard Hawley
RRP: £45.99£40.13The study of gender in classical antiquity has undergone rapid and wide-ranging development in the past. The contributors reassess the role of women in diverse contexts and areas, such as archaic and classical Greek literature and cult, Roman imperial... -
The Connell Short Guide To Ian McEwan's Atonement by Theo Tait
RRP: £5.99£4.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776922Author Theo TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Nicola J. Watson 9780198883548
RRP: £20.00£17.15The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 2: Letters LXVI-XCII by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.76Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£7.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451669411Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Poetry For Dummies by The Poetry Center
RRP: £18.99£13.34Demystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetrySometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as "the best words in the best order." St. Augustine called it "the Devil's wine." For Shelley,... -
A Year With Rumi: Daily Readings by Coleman Barks 9780060845971
RRP: £28.99£17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060845971Author Coleman BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 484gDimensions(mm) 194mm *... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: £12.99£9.34Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily... -
Beginning and End of the Snow: followed by Where the Arrow Falls by Yves Bonnefoy 9781611484588
RRP: £30.00£26.68Yves Bonnefoy's book of poems, Beginning and End of the Snow followed by Where the Arrow Falls, combines two meditations in which the poet's thoughts and a landscape reflect each other. In the first, the wintry New England landscape he encountered while... -
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes Ferdinand Mount 9780747596479
RRP: £12.99£9.34Cold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue. A tender, moving and witty portrait of Ferdinand Mount's family and his early... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £25.00£12.27A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the... -
A Kent Christmas: A New Selection by Fran Doel 9780752448923
RRP: £9.99£7.77Explore the rich heritage of Christmas past in Kent with this varied collection of carols and customs, stories, folklore and reminiscences. With extracts from a diverse range of sources, including novels, journals and diaries, this delightful anthology... -
Twenty Love Poems: And A Song Of Despair by Pablo Neruda
RRP: £8.99£6.65A sensual, tender collection to be cherished by lovers new and oldPablo Neruda was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. This, his third collection, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion... -
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Andrew Bennett 9781032285849
RRP: £18.99£17.13What is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and... -
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick by George Cotkin 9780199855759
RRP: £28.49£17.13Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can... -
The Complete English Poems John Milton 9781857150971
RRP: £14.99£11.51This 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... -
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes 9780143137733
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137733Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
X-Men by Stan Lee 9780143135777
RRP: £25.00£17.95Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesThe seeds of a pop-cultural phenomenon were sown with the launch of the first X-Men comic in 1963, at the...