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The Oxford Book of Letters by Frank Kermode 9780192804907
RRP: £26.99£22.37Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into their lives, and it is partly the guilty pleasure we take in such literary eavesdropping that makes this volume so compelling. More than 300... -
Pocket Book of W.B. Yeats by Tony Potter 9780717173259
RRP: £6.99£5.30William Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems as timeless and delicately crafted as The Lake Isle of Innisfree and for his unrequited love of Maud Gonne,... -
Villette by Charlotte Bronte 9780199536658
RRP: £8.99£6.65'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.' George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in... -
Children's Picturebooks Second Edition: The Art of Visual Storytelling by Martin Salisbury
RRP: £29.99£20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786275738Author Martin SalisburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing -
Deceived With Kindness Angelica Garnett 9780712662666
RRP: £9.99£7.32Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself, naturally enough, the daughter of Vanessa's husband Clive. Her... -
A User's Guide to Melancholy by Mary Ann Lund 9781108838849
RRP: £24.99£20.61A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and afflicting diseases of the Renaissance. Burton's Anatomy... -
Eileen: The Making of George Orwell Sylvia Topp 9781800180260
RRP: £9.99£6.63This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century,... -
The American Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary History by Robert P. Green 9780719070136
RRP: £19.99£18.10The American Civil Rights Movement: A documentary history collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and... -
Alexandre Dumas by F. W. J. Hemmings 9781448205271
£15.23The last of Alexandre Dumas's many mistresses, the American actress Adah Menken, called him "the king of romance." She was not thinking only of his immensely popular novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo - everything about Dumas was... -
100 Children's Books: that inspire our world by Colin Salter
RRP: £22.00£15.80An amazing guide to some of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over. In 100 Children's Books That... -
The Annotated Collected Poems Edward Thomas 9781852247461
RRP: £15.00£10.45Edward Thomas wrote a lifetime's poetry in two years. Already a dedicated prose writer and influential critic, he became a poet only in December 1914, at the age of 36. In April 1917 he was killed at Arras. Often viewed as a 'war poet', he wrote nothing... -
Class War: A Literary History by Mark Steven
RRP: £18.99£15.89A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark... -
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays by Jenny Diski
RRP: £10.99£7.99Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism 'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times 'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise' Emilia Clarke ... -
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: £9.99£6.90The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and... -
Judeo-Persian Writings: A Manifestation of Intellectual and Literary Life Nahid Pirnazar 9781032145761
RRP: £49.99£43.84Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic script and translations in English. Judeo-Persian writings not only reflect the twenty-seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they... -
Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Early Writings by Christine Alexander
RRP: £12.99£9.34'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories,... -
Ulysses by Hugh Kenner
RRP: £27.50£24.50With characteristic flair, Kenner explores the ways Joyce teaches us to read his novel as Joyce taught himself to write it: moving from the simple to the complex, from the familiar to the strange and new, from the norms of the nineteenth-century novel to... -
The Lost Girls Of Paris by Pam Jenoff 9781848457423
RRP: £9.99£6.01'A gripping tale' MY WEEKLY'Thrilling' WOMAN'A truly gripping read of mystery, love and heroism' FROST MAGAZINE The Lost Girls of Paris is an emotional story of friendship and betrayal during the second world war, inspired by... -
The Secret by Sean Kelly 9781596874442
£34.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596874442Author Sean KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Milk and Cookies PressPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 566g -
Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide by Tory Young 9780521690140
RRP: £22.99£19.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gender Swapped Greek Myths by Karrie Fransman
RRP: £20.00£14.55'Thought-provoking and charmingly rendered.' GuardianImagine a world where seductive male sirens lure brave heroines to their death, where Icara and her mother fly too close to the sun, and where beautiful men are forced to wed underworld queens...For... -
Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network by Caroline Levine 9780691173436
RRP: £17.99£14.60Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today--how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of... -
Life Lessons from Literature by Joseph Piercy 9781789295528
RRP: £12.99£8.96Life Lessons from Literature is a must for all bibliophiles, providing a concise and highly accessible bucket list of must-read books that teaches us so many fundamental truths and broadens our minds.'I read a book one day and my whole life was changed' ... -
Hope is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 9781423650980
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423650980Author Emily DickinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: £12.99£9.34**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH AWARD** D. H. Lawrence is no longer censored, but he... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £26.95£22.14"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... -
Julius Caesar SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 38 SparkNotes 9781411469594
RRP: £5.99£4.56When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780198835325
RRP: £9.99£7.32'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life... -
Walking With Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles by Gary Hayden
RRP: £8.99£6.65"If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright." So said Danish writer Soren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: to walk from John O'Groats to Land's End. But it wasn't all... -
Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction by Jenny Hartley 9780198714996
RRP: £8.99£6.65Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or... -
The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy by Steven Frye 9781107644809
RRP: £22.99£18.41Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably... -
Ecocriticism Greg Garrard 9781032004020
RRP: £19.99£17.96Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The... -
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Michael J. Davey
RRP: £19.99£17.69No book is more central to the study of nineteenth-century American literature than Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or The Whale. First published it 1851, it still speaks powerfully to readers today. Combining reprinted documents with clear introductions... -
Selected Poems: William Cowper by William Cowper 9781857547122
RRP: £9.99£7.20In this selection, which includes short poems and extracts from the longer ones, there is ample evidence of the quality of Cowper's faith and of his eye and ear for nature. Indicative of how his life was sustained by writing, these poems reveal his... -
The Art of Poetry Volume 3: volume 3 by Neal Bowen 9780993077883
RRP: £7.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077883Author Neal BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia Press -
The Merry Wives of Windsor by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: £8.99£8.22From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's enduringly popular comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merry Wives of Windsor in... -
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.99'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The TimesMost of what we say about books is really... -
Sophocles: v.2: "Antigone", "Women of Trachis", "Philocetes", "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles
RRP: £24.95£23.76Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from... -
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 9780393954081
£12.37It also incorporates revisions that Hardy made in his "study copy" of the novel and in his marked printer's copy and page proofs for the Harper and Brothers "sixpenny edition" of 1901, whenever these revisions could be confidently judged to represent... -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £8.99£6.65The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural...