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A Brief History of English Literature by John Peck
$50.53This new edition of an established text provides a succinct and up-to-date historical overview of the story of English literature. Focusing on how writing both reflects and challenges the periods in which it is produced, John Peck and Martin Coyle... -
Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome by Lindsay C. Watson
RRP: $52.48$46.47Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly... -
Modern British Drama on Screen by R. Barton Palmer 9781107001015
RRP: $189.00$172.35This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. Offering insights into the mutually profitable relationship between the newest performance medium and the most ancient... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
RRP: $27.28$19.61Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the finest critic of his generation on the best poet of his... -
An Analysis of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space Andreas Mebert 9781912128426
RRP: $13.65$13.21In Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne tackle the central problem facing all businesses: how to perform better than your competitors? Their solution involves taking a creative approach to the normal view of competition.In the normal... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Margaret Kean
RRP: $41.98$37.15John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate... -
Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine Translations by Red Pine
RRP: $33.58$23.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596452Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Peter Atkins 9780198813378
RRP: $35.68$25.79The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where... -
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
RRP: $16.78$12.56Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic,... -
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan 9780863564789
RRP: $31.48$21.11This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. heart-warming connections and moments of celebration sit alongside essays exploring... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780199537488
RRP: $23.08$16.78The supreme Roman epic and the greatest poem in Latin, the Aeneid has inspired many of the great European poets including Dante and Milton. The Trojan hero Aeneas, after surviving the sack of Troy, makes his way to the West, urged on by benevolent... -
Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England by Erica Fudge
RRP: $105.00$91.88Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous declaration of the automatism of animals. But as Erica Fudge relates in Brutal... -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson 9780198798743
RRP: $25.18$18.19In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands... -
Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $42.00$29.11In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote:... -
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet by Prof Jeff Jarvis
RRP: $42.00$32.68The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print... -
Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.96The statesman on statecraft.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius ... -
Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PerM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen 9781555974565
RRP: $31.48$24.23Recyclopedia 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... -
Starry Speculative Corpse - Horror of Philosophy vol. 2 Eugene Thacker 9781782798910
RRP: $23.08$20.18Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these... -
The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 by John Carey
RRP: $23.08$15.83Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw,... -
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $31.48$21.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806101Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Proud of Me by Sarah Haggar-Holt 9781474966245
RRP: $14.68$9.22An accessible child-centred story about self-acceptance and the importance of opening up to those closest to you. Becky and Josh are almost-twins, with two mums and the same anonymous donor dad. Josh can't wait until he's eighteen, the legal age when he... -
Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles by Julian Curry
RRP: $31.48$23.73Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. * Brian Cox on Titus Andronicus in Deborah Warner's visceral RSC production * Judi Dench on being directed by... -
Byron and the Poetics of Adversity by Jerome McGann
RRP: $41.98$35.97A long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken... -
Cicero and Rome by David Taylor 9781853995064
RRP: $41.98$39.73In "Cicero and Rome", David Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point for examination of the last years of the Roman Republic. He traces the often dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship of Sulla (82 BC) to Cicero's own death in the... -
Interventions 2020 by Michel Houellebecq 9781509549955
RRP: $42.00$30.47The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity's masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When... -
Homer: A Very Short Introduction by Barbara Graziosi
RRP: $18.88$13.97Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a... -
Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy: York Notes Advanced by Thomas Hardy
RRP: $16.78$13.34Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical... -
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye 9780691202563
RRP: $39.88$32.24A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye... -
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780198848110
RRP: $20.98$15.37The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from indulged only child to disillusioned war veteran, This... -
Henry VI, Part One: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $18.88$13.97The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
The Book Lover's Guide to London by Milne, Sarah 9781399001144
$29.82Many of the greatest names in literature have visited or made their home in the colourful and diverse metropolis of London. From Charles Dickens to George Orwell, Virginia Woolf to Bernadine Evaristo, London's writers have bought the city to life through... -
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
RRP: $31.48$21.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Hugo Award (Related Book) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780593135730Author Abraham RiesmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
A Handsel: New and Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead 9781846976513
RRP: $52.50$35.68Liz Lochhead is one of the country's leading poets. Her work has paved the way and inspired some of the most inspirational voices writing in Scotland today, including Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy. In A Handsel, the first... -
The Swann Way by Proust 9780198871521
RRP: $20.98$15.37'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to... -
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900 by Sally Ledger 9780198742791
$114.47In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of... -
The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $41.98$37.40In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint-each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words... -
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $73.50$50.04Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf (1999) was hailed as a masterpiece, alerting readers to his extraordinary ability to tune into other poets and languages and render their work fresh and alive in his own voice. In fact, as this volume attests, from... -
Death By Landscape Elvia Wilk 9781593767150
RRP: $33.58$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767150Author Elvia WilkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press -
Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 9780140390643
$25.81Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works-Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha-as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than... -
The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story by Martin Scofield
RRP: $48.28$41.08This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver...