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Histories: Bk.I-II by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £10.99£7.77Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A. S. Byatt brings... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Original-Spelling Text by Paul Hammond 9780198728016
£32.00This book is at once an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a guide to how to read these exquisite and complex poems. It is designed both for readers new to the poems and for those who are familiar with the Sonnets but are ready to engage with them... -
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living by Declan Kiberd
RRP: £12.99£8.56In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary... -
The Great Gatsby (Norton Critical Editions) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £10.99£9.37This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.A full introduction, a note on the text and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including Fitzgerald's... -
Bad Girls in School by Gwyneth Harold
£13.78There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society... -
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays by Jenny Diski
RRP: £10.99£7.77Finalist 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 ... -
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99£7.11Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say... -
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves
RRP: £14.99£10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210550Author Robert GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Cambridge Companion to Zola by Brian Nelson 9780521543767
RRP: £25.99£21.99Emile Zola is a towering literary figure of the nineteenth century. His main literary achievement was his twenty-volume novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870-93). In this series he combines a novelist's skills with those of the investigative journalist... -
Selected Poems by John Keats 9781857157062
RRP: £12.00£8.44Keats 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... -
The Fall of the Roman Republic: Roman History, Books 36-40 by Cassius Dio 9780198822882
RRP: £10.99£7.77'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking place almost every day and the elections could not be held.' Books 36-40 of the Roman History by Cassius Dio (born ca. 163 CE), covers 69-50 BCE, the last... -
Global Literature and the Environment Matthew Whittle 9780367373689
RRP: £34.99£30.85Global Literature and the Environment analyses literatures from across the world that connect readers to the localized impacts of the climate and ecological emergencies. The book contextualizes ecological breakdown within the history of... -
English Literature in Context by Paul Poplawski
RRP: £25.99£24.21This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a... -
Keats's Poetry and Prose by John Keats 9780393924916
£18.13For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9780393977516
£11.42The text is that of the 1813 Second Edition (the origins of which can be traced back to 1795). The text is fully annotated and is accompanied by a map of nineteenth-century England. "Contexts" explores the personal and social issues that loom large in... -
Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn
RRP: £9.99£9.59An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art,... -
Jean-Paul Sartre by Christine Daigle 9780415435659
RRP: £19.99£17.69A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre's thought in context, and considers a number... -
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £30.00£21.35Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries. What does it mean to be English? This dazzling book... -
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 9781913097011
RRP: £10.99£7.32In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein, John Ruskin to Joan Didion - the book explores style,... -
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner -... -
The Figure of the Singer by Daniel Karlin 9780199213986
£79.24Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had been severed? Daniel Karlin explores the origin and meaning of the 'figure of the singer', tracing its roots in classical... -
A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life by Orange Hippo!
RRP: £5.99£4.40The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recognise. For bibliophiles, they'll enjoy recognising their... -
The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England by Talia Schaffer 9780813919379
£30.71Every non-canonical male aesthete in Victorian England once competed with what Talia Schaffer calls the female aesthetes, whose critical and popular success made them formidable contemporaries. Not only did these women make significant contributions to... -
Old Truths and New Cliches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
RRP: £20.00£15.89From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Cliches collects nineteen essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic... -
The Moral Resonance of Arab Media - Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen by Flagg Miller 9780932885326
RRP: £24.95£20.29In a groundbreaking study of contemporary Arab political poetry, Flagg Miller provides a wide range of insights into the ways that modern media aesthetics are shaped by language and culture. Investigating a vibrant audio-recording industry in southern... -
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber
RRP: £12.99£7.77'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders' Financial Times'Like a child after the Pied Piper... -
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit by Emily Zobel Marshall 9781783481101
RRP: £35.00£32.49Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge by Tim Fulford
RRP: £22.99£19.56This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in... -
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780719014505
RRP: £14.99£11.12Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the... -
The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-earth, Book 3) by Christopher Tolkien
RRP: £10.99£7.77The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth, gives us a priviledged insight into the creation of the... -
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 9780199536450
RRP: £6.99£5.13The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli'... -
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood 9780747598718
RRP: £9.99£7.11In 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... -
Baden Powell s Fighting Police The SAC: The Boer War unit that inspired the Scouts by Ross, Hamish 9781399083621
RRP: £25.00£17.62This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry. Thanks to his flair for organisation, Baden-Powell is asked to create a... -
Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee
£15.70In Africa a child wanders too far into the Knysa Forest and never returns. Nine years later, two government officials think they have found the child living on the other side of the forest. They take him from stricken Fiela, who has brought him up, and... -
How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time by Carolyn Dinshaw
RRP: £21.99£19.19How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony... -
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry by Wes Davis
RRP: £33.95£28.41Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. Collected here is a comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and... -
Mysticism After Modernity by Don Cupitt 9780631207641
RRP: £41.95£37.57In Mysticism After Modernity, Don Cupitt argues that the extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested upon a mistake - the belief that there can be meaningful experience prior to language.About the AuthorDon Cuppitt was, for over 25 years, dean... -
Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PerM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen 9781555974565
RRP: £14.99£11.43Recyclopedia shows the extraordinary development of Harryette Mullen's career in her books Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T and Muse & Drudge, all originally published in the 1990s and now made available again to new readers. These prose poems and lyrics bring us... -
I Promise To Be Good by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970159Author Arthur RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)...