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Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan and the American Avant-garde by Libbie Rifkin 9780299168445
RRP: £16.95£16.15How much did making it new have to do with making it? For the four outsider poets considered here, the connection was everything. Both a social history of literary ambition in America in the 1950s and 1960s and a collective literary biography, this is an... -
Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir 9780008464479
RRP: £9.99£6.84'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE Letters to Gil is... -
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin
RRP: £18.99£13.23Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while... -
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne 9780008322205
RRP: £25.00£17.43'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April... -
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £10.99£7.46SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times 'Spellbinding and intelligent' Financial Times ... -
The Art of Writing Fiction Andrew Cowan 9781138593695
RRP: £25.99£22.98An elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan's The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with emerging writers at the University of East Anglia.As... -
Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £8.99£6.28The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a poet selects and introduces another poet whom they have particularly admired. Ted Hughes's classic selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry provides the perfect... -
Harriet's Daughter (Caribbean Writers Series) by Marlene Nourbese Philip
RRP: £16.19£13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780435989248Author Marlene Nourbese PhilipFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Heinemann Educational BooksPublisher Heinemann Educational... -
Keats Selected Poems John Keats 9781857157062
RRP: £12.00£8.68Keats is celebrated as a writer in three forms: lyric verse, narrative verse and letters. All three are represented here in a volume which reprints all the famous odes, a selection os sonnets and other short poems, both versions of HYPERION, extentsive... -
An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author Laura Seymour 9781912453061
RRP: £6.50£6.29Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text... -
The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form by Terry Eagleton 9780300274295
RRP: £16.99£14.61A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describing the intricate inner life of its characters, or widening... -
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
RRP: £10.99£7.46From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award. When Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college they began a friendship that would define their... -
Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England by Andrea Walkden 9780271092973
RRP: £33.95£30.34Following the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649, the seventeenth century witnessed an explosion of print culture in England, including an unprecedented boom in biographical writing. Andrea Walkden offers a case-study examination of this... -
Winter Evening Tales by James Hogg 9780748620869
RRP: £19.99£17.08Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical... -
Read 'em and Weep: A Bedside Poker Companion by John Stravinsky 9780060559595
RRP: £13.95£10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060559595Author John StravinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 195g -
AS/A-level English Literature Workbook: Othello Steve Eddy 9781510434950
£10.23Exam board: AQA A, AQA B, Edexcel, CCEALevel: A-levelSubject: EnglishFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Check, reinforce and improve critical skills and textual understanding to give students the best chance... -
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
RRP: £9.99£7.32'A groundbreaking, earthquaking vision, a story and a manifesto, and a literary performance so energetic it almost demands to be read aloud' Guardian 'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?'When her... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel by J. A. Downie
RRP: £40.99£40.49Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the... -
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare ? by James Shapiro
RRP: £12.99£8.80For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been... -
The Owl and the Nightingale: Text and Translation Neil Cartlidge (Department of English Studies, Durham University (United Kingdom)) 9780859896900
RRP: £34.99£31.96The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplished of all medieval literary texts. By turns both gleefully trivial and allusively serious, it has been... -
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 9781421419954
RRP: £32.50£29.64Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy,... -
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Margaret Atwood 9780747598718
RRP: £9.99£7.32In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is... -
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094
RRP: £12.99£7.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Letters To Felice by Franz Kafka 9780749399481
RRP: £17.99£13.15Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer were written between 1912 and 1917, during which time they were twice engaged to be married. This complex relationship, which coincided with a period of great productivity for Kafka, gave him both hope and strength, but... -
An Analysis of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Alexander O'Connor 9781912128556
RRP: £6.50£6.29What makes good people capable of committing bad - even evil - acts? Few psychologists are as well-qualified to answer that question as Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor who was not only the author of the classic Stanford Prison Experiment - which... -
Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask by Paul Anthony Jones 9781783966646
RRP: £14.99£10.23A fascinating exploration of the nuts and bolts of human languageBook InformationISBN 9781783966646Author Paul Anthony JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Elliott & Thompson LimitedPublisher Elliott & Thompson LimitedWeight(grams) 138g -
Shakespeare and Machiavelli by John Roe
£89.88A detailed comparison of Machiavelli with Shakespeare, grounded in their common use of rhetoric. Although the question of Machiavellian influence on Shakespeare has been thoroughly debated, this book represents the first attempt to compare the two... -
The Astounding Illustrated History of Science Fiction by David Langford
RRP: £20.00£16.11A truly astonishing, illustrated history of Science fiction, covering fantasy, and horror, with forays into crime, mystery and the gothic. Using timelines, online links, illustrations, posters, movie stills, book covers, and more, this amazing new book... -
Shakespeare's King Lear by Valentine Cunningham
RRP: £8.99£7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776236Author Valentine CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum
RRP: £19.99£16.97In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and... -
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing by Arnold Weinstein 9780691254791
RRP: £17.99£14.60A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our livesWhy do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us... -
Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage 9780714510439
RRP: £16.95£14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714510439Author John CageFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements by Julietta Singh
RRP: £19.99£17.81Julietta 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... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden 9780571234370
RRP: £12.99£8.80Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the... -
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 by James Rovira 9781498553858
RRP: £36.00£31.81Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of... -
The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.34Taking 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... -
The Wellness Syndrome Carl Cederstroem (Stockholm University) 9780745655611
RRP: £15.99£14.62Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederstroem and Andre Spicer argue that the... -
The Harold Nicolson Diaries: 1907-1964 Harold Nicolson 9780753819975
RRP: £14.99£10.05One of the great 20th century political diaries'A tremendous read' SPECTATOR'One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on every page, as evident as the wit' EVENING STANDARDHarold Nicolson was one of the... -
Robert Burns by Robert Burns 9781841597768
RRP: £12.00£8.68The perfect gift for poetry lovers. A comprehensive collection of the Scottish Bard's songs and poems.The 19th-century scholar and educationalist J S Blackie summed up Burns's importance to Scotland and the Scots with the words:'When Scotland forgets... -
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: £41.95£34.26A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.Was there ever such a thing...