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The Freud Reader by Peter Gay
RRP: $35.68$26.63Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of 20th century life. To understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his vivid writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. The Freud Reader is the first... -
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
RRP: $33.58$24.76Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf's extensive... -
God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane
RRP: $24.97$21.69'Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up, and new verses were born at the hazard of chance or inspiration, one word leading to another and each finding, in its... -
Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel: Imitation, Parody, Aftertext by Adam Abraham
RRP: $65.08$47.99How can we tell plagiarism from an allusion? How does imitation differ from parody? Where is the line between copyright infringement and homage? Questions of intellectual property have been vexed long before our own age of online piracy. In Victorian... -
Unprocessed 10th Anniversary Edition: Revitalize Your Health with Whole Foods Chef A.J. 9781570674082
RRP: $48.30$32.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570674082Author Chef A.J.Format PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Book Publishing Company -
Song of the Earth by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $27.28$19.95The most important critical work for decades' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times In the brilliantly engaging style that characterised The Genius of Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate has written a series of compelling pieces on the link between literature and the... -
Happiness Indeed: an Actor (TM)s Life by Denis Quilley
$58.84After fifty years of working in the theatre, TV and films (half a century of joy and fear, excitement and pain, frustration and fulfilment), Denis Quilley remembers his first job in rep with twenty-somethings Paul Scofield, Peter Brook and Stanley Baker;... -
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E a Tyler 9781250023551
RRP: $63.00$38.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250023551Author J E a TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 206mm... -
King John and Henry VIII by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $27.28$24.91From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most unusual and provocative histories. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of King John and Henry VIII in... -
Othello Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) 9780230576223
RRP: $18.88$17.26From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedy of love, jealousy and explosive racial politics. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview... -
The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them by Dr. Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
RRP: $39.88$27.76Two people are firefighters and do the same job. When one is asked what they do for a living, their response is met with: 'That's amazing, you are so brave!', while the other is asked: 'Isn't that dangerous? Aren't you scared? What about your kids?' Can... -
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict Andrew Pettegree 9781800814943
RRP: $27.28$20.35'Rich, authoritative, and highly readable ... [a] tour de force' David Kynaston Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the advent of modern... -
Before I Go by Catherine Cookson
RRP: $18.88$13.27Known for the wit of her writing, Catherine Cookson was the UK's most widely read novelist during her lifetime. When her Estate discovered this never-before-published memoir in the attic of her home, it was an astonishing find. Before I Go is the... -
Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes
RRP: $23.08$16.78Through past and present, the country and the city, Peter Fiennes takes a literary journey through the British Isles 'As enjoyable a guide to the relationship of writers to the landscape of Britain as one could hope to read: beautifully written,... -
The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters by Fergus Fleming
RRP: $35.68$26.06'Constantly entertaining ... So much here to amuse and inform' Observer 'These friendly, knockabout letters are a treat' Sunday Telegraph 'Irresistible' New York Times ________________________ Before the world-famous Bond films came the... -
Dubliners by James Joyce
$27.99Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter... -
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko by Donald Keene
RRP: $58.80$45.78Despite the turbulent times in which he lived, the Buddhist priest Kenko met the world with a measured eye. As Emperor Go-Daigo fended off a challenge from the usurping Hojo family, and Japan stood at the brink of a dark political era, Kenko held fast to... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Hamlet by Anna Beer 9780198399063
RRP: $20.98$20.66Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
The Literature of Love by Mary Ward 9780521729819
RRP: $18.38$17.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Poetry: The Basics Jeffrey Wainwright 9781138823365
RRP: $41.98$37.72Now in its third edition Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the world of poetry. Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Carol Ann Duffy, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how... -
York Notes Companions: Romantic Literature by John Gilroy 9781408204795
RRP: $23.08$17.79The literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This volume looks at first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley and explores their engagement with the turbulent history of... -
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht 9781350178533
$23.54This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following: * Contexts (Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; World War II and exile; sources; influential... -
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
RRP: $31.50$20.37Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh... -
Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness by Rebecca Shannonhouse 9780375755026
$32.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375755026Author Rebecca ShannonhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238g -
R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams: The Spiritual Imagination in Modern Welsh Poetry by M. Wynn Thomas
RRP: $52.48$39.48The great religious poetry of R. S. Thomas and the poetry of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is rooted in a remarkable late-twentieth-century tradition of spiritual poetry in Wales that includes figures as different as Saunders Lewis... -
Three Hundred Tang Poems by Peter Harris 9781841597829
RRP: $25.20$18.23These some three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)-an age in which poetry and the arts flourished-were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes... -
Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft: Recipes inspired by cosmic horror by Olivia Luna Eldritch
$36.77Immerse yourself in the black seas of infinity that is Lovecraft's World like never before with these diverse cuisines inspired by its places, characters and a pantheon of alien deities.The H.P. Lovecraft Cookbook is bursting with photos of many of the... -
In Writing by Adam Phillips
RRP: $23.08$16.78Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On KindnessA collection of literary essays like no other - exploring the deep connections between literature and psychoanalysis - from Britain's leading psychoanalyst.For Adam Phillips - as for... -
The Art of the Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $52.50$39.92A sumptuous full-colour art book containing the complete collection of almost 200 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings. As he wrote The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R... -
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Instructor Jonathan Gottschall 9780544002340
RRP: $33.58$24.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544002340Author Instructor Jonathan GottschallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly 9781837731046
RRP: $52.50$34.84Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again.Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John Forster 150 years ago. It's the version of events that... -
Shakespeare: The Basics by Sean McEvoy
RRP: $41.98$37.15Now in its third edition Shakespeare: The Basics is an insightful and informative introduction to the work of William Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare's plays including the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations, this... -
Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
RRP: $41.98$38.01Violence 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... -
An Analysis of Edward Said's Orientalism Riley Quinn 9781912127948
RRP: $13.65$13.21Edward Said's Orientalism is a masterclass in the art of interpretation wedded to close analysis. Interpretation is characterized by close attention to the meanings of terms, by clarifying, questioning definitions, and positing clear definitions... -
Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock
$191.10Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of these works to appear for more than half a century... -
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan
RRP: $27.28$19.61What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? What do the characters call each other, and why? And which important Austen characters never speak? In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922 by Ernest Hemingway 9780521897334
RRP: $52.50$42.29With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and actions of one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century in... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780393935622
$33.98This Norton Critical Edition includes: fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron; introductory materials, explanatory footnotes and three maps; biographical works by Filippo Villani and Ludovico Dolce,... -
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $31.48$23.33The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant... -
Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction by Kenneth Millard 9780748621743
RRP: $58.78$55.04This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel, or the Bildungsroman. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and...