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Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends: A Gift Edition of 73 Enchanting Chinese Folk Stories and Fairy Tales by Frederick H. Martens
RRP: £12.99£10.21Fearless heroes, feisty princesses, sly magicians, terrifying dragons, talking foxes and miniature dogs. They all feature in this enthralling compendium of Chinese fairy tales and legends, along with an array of equally colourful characters and... -
The Art of Drama, Volume 5: Romeo and Juliet by Briony Fronst 9781913577025
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913577025Author Johanna HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 178gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £12.99£9.09A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden 9780571234370
RRP: £12.99£8.56Another 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... -
Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems by Julia Nemirovskaya 9781739772277
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772277Author Julia NemirovskayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £16.99£12.65These letters from the poet and mystic Rainer Maria Rilke to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet have inspired millions of readers since they were first published in English in 1934. The first and most popular translator of this work was Mary... -
Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader by Terry Eagleton 9780631185819
RRP: £45.95£40.51Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading... -
Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts by Emmanouil Kalkanis
RRP: £6.50£6.11Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts is considered a key work in art history. Its ideas have provoked widespread debate, and although it was first published more than sixty years ago, it continues to feature regularly on numerous university... -
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm 9781783788361
RRP: £16.99£11.27For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here, Malcolm turns her gimlet eye on her own life,... -
Flight of Fantasy: New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945 by Neil H. Donahue 9781571810014
RRP: £107.00£86.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Norse Hamlet by Francois De Belleforest 9780615878911
RRP: £7.75£6.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615878911Author Francois De BelleforestFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Hythloday PressPublisher Hythloday PressWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm)... -
Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood by Gwen Raverat
RRP: £10.99£7.32This new edition celebrates the 65th anniversary of the publication of Period Piece, which has never been out of print. Period Piece is the classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, written by Charles Darwin's granddaughter. It evokes a time when long... -
Artful by Ali Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.77A 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... -
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings by Antonin Artaud 9780520064430
RRP: £30.00£23.69A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on... -
A Commentary on Horace: Odes: Book II by R. G. M. Nisbet 9780198147718
RRP: £38.99£28.50The first three books of Horace's Odes were issued together, apparently in the latter part of 23 BC. The second book, however, has a coherence of its own in terms of subject matter, tone of voice, and arrangement. In particular there is a predominance of... -
Can the Subaltern Speak? by Graham Riach
RRP: £6.50£6.11A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) is that they have no platform to express their concerns and no voice to... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century by Margaret J. M. Ezell 9780198183112
£68.08The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
The Complete Odes by Pindar
RRP: £11.99£8.43'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races,... -
This Distracted Globe: Attending to Distraction in Shakespeare's Theatre by Jennifer J. Edwards 9781108969901
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element attends to attention drawn away. That the Globe is a 'distracted' space is a sentiment common to both Hamlet's original audience and attendees at the reconstructed theatre on London's Bankside. But what role does distraction play in this... -
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson
RRP: £13.99£9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859624Author Maureen JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening... -
Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
RRP: £19.99£18.80Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek... -
Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: £24.95£24.54"The classic of all Europe." -T. S. EliotVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life... -
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
RRP: £9.99£8.76Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is Christy Brown's own story. He... -
Aristotle Ars Rhetorica by Aristotle 9780198145578
£30.33Aristotle Ars RhetoricaBook InformationISBN 9780198145578Author Sir David RossFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 131mm * 19mm -
Rumi Poems by Peter Washington
RRP: £12.00£8.44It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world by a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before Chaucer was even born has been achieved with extraordinary speed... -
Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
RRP: £17.99£12.95Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these... -
Hamlet by David Wilkins
RRP: £8.99£7.99From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated play. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Hamlet in performance, takes a detailed look... -
The Battles of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: £16.99£12.28The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's works are punctuated by dramatic and explosive battles. Men versus Orcs, Elves versus Sauron, Goblins versus Dwarves - the history of Middle-earth has seen some of the greatest characters pitted against each other... -
The Complete Poems Of Sappho by Willis Barnstone
RRP: £16.99£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306130Author Willis BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
T. S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks 9780571170357
RRP: £10.99£7.32Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how far this makes Eliot suspect is what Ricks sets out to discover.About the AuthorChristopher Ricks is... -
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad 9780195146431
RRP: £17.99£12.79February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American... -
The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence by Anne Fernihough
RRP: £32.99£28.38The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars. They offer a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These... -
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
RRP: £12.99£8.56Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... -
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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... -
The Maias by Eca de Queiroz 9781910213445
RRP: £17.99£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize 2008 and The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781910213445Author Eca de QueirozFormat... -
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia 9780856359910
RRP: £9.95£6.97This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.About the AuthorLEONARDO SCIASCIA (1921-1989) was Sicilian by birth and vocation. Sicily is the fierce locality that focuses his work and, in... -
Philip Larkin: Selected Letters by Philip Larkin 9780571170487
RRP: £30.00£21.35The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work.The Selected Letters will change this, throwing light on a more complex, and in many... -
Textual Events: Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece by Felix Budelmann 9780198805823
£105.00Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has...