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The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America by Kevern Verney
RRP: £15.99£14.47Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American... -
The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction by Ahmed Al-Malik 9781905583720
RRP: £10.99£7.99Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning 'meeting place'. Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of... -
Isadora Moon and the Shooting Star by Harriet Muncaster 9780192773555
RRP: £9.99£6.90Isadora Moon is special because she's different. Her mum is a fairy and her dad is a vampire and she's a bit of both. Isadora is observing the night sky for a school project - her class is learning everything about space and she decides to look at the... -
Introduction to Spanish Poetry: A Dual-language Book by Eugenio Florit 9780486267128
RRP: £7.49£5.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486267128Author Eugenio FloritFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Woman without a Country by Eavan Boland
RRP: £9.95£7.18The poems in Eavan Boland's new collection seek out the delicate intersections between generation, identity, and the deep losses inflicted by history on those who can bear them least. Exploring questions of inheritance (from mother to daughter, from... -
William Blake's Poetry by Jonathan Roberts 9780826488602
RRP: £21.99£21.89"Reader's Guides" provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical... -
Structuralism John Sturrock (London Review of Books) 9780631232391
RRP: £37.95£33.62John Sturrock's classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associated with the thought of such key figures as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan and Althusser theory. ... -
Henry VI, Parts I, II and III by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: £8.99£8.95From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's epic retelling of the Wars of the Roses. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Henry VI in performance,... -
Egil's Saga Leifur Eiriksson 9780140447705
RRP: £9.99£7.32Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of... -
Rumi: Hidden Music by Maryam Mafi
RRP: £9.99£6.84A breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world's most loved mystical teachers and bestselling poets. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with paintings and Persian calligraphy, this is an ideal gift. ... -
From Agent to Spectator: Witnessing the Aftermath in Ancient Greek Epic and Tragedy by Emily Allen-Hornblower 9783110578188
RRP: £19.00£16.79This book looks at witnesses to suffering and death in ancient Greek epic (Homer's Iliad) and tragedy. Internal spectators abound in both genres, and have received due scholarly attention. The present monograph covers new ground by dealing with a... -
Literary Landscapes Paris by Sandrine Voillet
RRP: £20.00£13.34From Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature. The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of... -
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader by Bill Ashcroft
RRP: £39.99£36.06The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the... -
Selected Poems by John Burnside
RRP: £13.99£10.01Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His territory is the no-man's-land of threshold and margin, the... -
Merrily's Border: The Mysterious World of Merrily Watkins - History & Folklore, People & Places by Phil Rickman
RRP: £15.99£13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839300Author Phil RickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Haiku and Modernist Poetics by Dr Yoshinobu Hakutani 9780230616554
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics. This study shows that the most pervasive East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times... -
Euripides: 'Helen' by Euripides 9780521545419
RRP: £28.99£25.82This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife... -
R.S. Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M. Wynn Thomas 9780708326138
RRP: £19.99£15.63The study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an 'alternative' war poet, a conscience-stricken pacifist, a jealously... -
Goethe: A Very Short Introduction by Ritchie Robertson 9780199689255
RRP: £8.99£6.65In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our... -
Animal Farm by Richard Durant 9781407183992
RRP: £5.99£4.21Board: AQA Examination: English Language & Literature Specification: GCSE 9-1 Set Text covered: Animal Farm by George Orwell Type: Essay Planner This book answers the question 'What do great answers look like?' with... -
The Poems of Shelley: Volume Three: 1819 - 1820 Jack Donovan 9781032477640
RRP: £33.99£33.21Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the third volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all... -
Selected Dialogues by Lucian
RRP: £9.99£7.32'you'll find another man to harvest, Glycerion: let this one go' The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only in the Greek world,... -
Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
RRP: £20.00£7.05'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... -
Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology Through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-Earth by Austin M Freeman
RRP: £21.99£16.26Theology through mythology J. R. R. Tolkien was many things: English Catholic, father and husband, survivor of two world wars, Oxford professor, and author. But he was also a theologian. Tolkien's writings exhibit a coherent theology of God and his... -
The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Malcolm Andrew 9780859897914
RRP: £29.99£27.99For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. Now, with the changing needs of today's student... -
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm 9781783788378
RRP: £10.99£7.54For 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,... -
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
RRP: £12.99£8.71What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the... -
Short Stories in Chinese: New Penguin Parallel Text by John Balcom
RRP: £9.99£7.32Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary fiction from the world's most spoken language. These eight short stories, with parallel translations, offer students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without... -
Marx's Literary Style by Ludovico Silva
RRP: £14.99£14.13In Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a failure to understand his literary mode of expression. Through meticulous readings of key passages in Marx's... -
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor 9780674296084
RRP: £31.95£22.97A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation,... -
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... -
Xenophon: "Persian Expedition" by J. Antrich 9780906515112
RRP: £22.99£22.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Eric Rasmussen 9780230217898
£8.95From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of A Midsummer Night's Dream in performance, takes... -
Chaucer Here and Now by Marion Turner 9781851246151
RRP: £30.00£23.02The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection of essays you will find wartime Chaucer, postcolonial Chaucer, feminist Chaucer, misogynist Chaucer, radical Chaucer and... -
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Professor Akinari Ueda 9780231139137
RRP: £22.00£17.36First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination... -
The Book Lover's Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists by Alex Johnson 9780712354240
RRP: £19.99£13.55Enjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors' diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative twists and transformative moments in their favourite... -
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... -
Latin: An Intensive Course by Floyd L. Moreland
RRP: £35.00£28.14This is a comprehensive introduction to Latin forms and syntax, designed to train the student in reading ancient texts at an early stage.Reviews"[Teachers] more concerned with no-nonsense thoroughness will not be disappointed." * Classical News and Vews... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780140268867
RRP: £16.99£13.33Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, before the standard Penguin... -
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine by Nicholas Royle 9781526173638
RRP: £15.99£11.99In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves deeply into questions about the value of art, music...