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Torn from the Nest by Clorinda Matto de Turner 9780195110067
RRP: $41.98$28.01Clorinda Matto de Turner was one of the major literary figures of nineteenth-century Peru. Her first novel, Aves Sin Nido (Torn from the Nest) was a landmark work in the indigenismo genre which depicts the lives of contemporary Indians in the rural... -
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures by Mayako Murai 9780814345368
RRP: $73.40$70.60Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context... -
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 9781913097011
RRP: $23.08$15.83In 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,... -
Rhetorical Treatises: De Oratore: v. 4: Book III, De Fato by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.90The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.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,... -
The Book of Lieh-Tzu: A Classic of the Tao by A. C. Graham
RRP: $63.00$48.91-- Burton WatsonIt is a gem of a work following on the Chuang Tzu, in a somewhat darker tone, yet punctuated with a most extraordinary humor. The modernity of this text... is astonishing...[A.C. Graham] is one of the most distinguished Sinologists... -
Theurgy: Theory and Practice: The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine by P. D. Newman 9781644118368
RRP: $54.60$34.50Connects the magical practice of theurgy to the time of Homer. First defined by the second century Chaldean Oracles, theurgy is an ancient magic practice whereby practitioners divinized the soul and achieved mystical union with a deity, the Demiurge, or... -
Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking by Jens Andersen
RRP: $57.75$48.91A powerful biography of the internationally renowned writer who created one of the most enduring characters in children's literature, Pippi Longstocking"[An] Insightful, elegantly written biography of the beloved author of the Pippi Longstocking tales, a... -
The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I by Jayne Elisabeth Archer 9780199673759
RRP: $111.30$110.02More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern... -
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks
RRP: $62.90$50.46A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.About the AuthorPeter Brooks is... -
The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin
RRP: $48.28$41.08Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover... -
Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff 9781912766802
RRP: $29.38$19.95Blue Remembered Hills is Rosemary Sutcliff's memoir of her childhood, youth and her first love affairs. It's a classic of perfect writing about her close and not always easy relationship with her bipolar mother, life in the naval dockyards where her... -
Aeschylus: Agamemnon by Aeschylus 9780521010757
RRP: $23.63$21.34Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including0 suggestions for discussion and analysis... -
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 9780520390478
RRP: $44.10$34.92Newly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian American literature.Dictee is the best-known work of... -
Close Reading: The Basics David Greenham 9781138562226
RRP: $41.98$37.72Close reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies. This book is the ideal guide to the practice, providing a methodology that can be used for poetry, novels, drama, and beyond... -
The Grain Of The Voice by Roland Barthes
RRP: $33.58$24.38In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to philosophers, linguists, novelists, poets, painters and film-makers who have... -
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 9780521280419
RRP: $83.98$70.69D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love - 'the beginning of a new world', as he called it - suffered in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women... -
Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales Marie-Louise Von Franz 9781894574013
RRP: $33.60$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894574013Author Marie-Louise Von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Inner City BooksPublisher Inner City Books -
Agatha Christie's England by Caroline Crampton 9781838216733
RRP: $25.20$19.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838216733Author Caroline CramptonPage Count 1Imprint Herb Lester Associates LtdPublisher Herb Lester Associates LtdDimensions(mm) 208mm * 145mm * 5mm -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780198736479
RRP: $18.88$13.97'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a... -
Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths Helen Morales 9781472273642
RRP: $27.28$18.54A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyonce.The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways... -
The Question of the Aesthetic by George Levine 9780192844859
RRP: $182.70$165.71This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the... -
Selected Poems and Prose by Edward Thomas
RRP: $23.08$16.78The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or... -
She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies by Oliver Goldsmith 9780199553884
RRP: $23.08$16.78The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the... -
AQA A Level Drama Play Guide: Antigone Annie Fox 9781913963163
RRP: $35.68$33.35This Play Guide is specifically written for A Level students who are studying Antigone as part of the AQA A Level Drama & Theatre specification. It provides structured support for Component 1: Section A - Drama and theatre. / This book is divided into... -
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: $48.28$32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143039532Author Dorothy ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital by Evan Watkins 9780823264230
RRP: $39.88$35.11In recent years, a number of books in the field of literacy research have addressed the experiences of literacy users or the multiple processes of learning literacy skills in a rapidly changing technological environment. In contrast to these studies,... -
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
RRP: $23.08$16.78Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring... -
The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: $52.50$39.10The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation. From the acclaimed author of 'The Lost', a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear... -
Design and Truth in Autobiography Roy Pascal 9781138942011
RRP: $69.28$61.72Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of the answers to... -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: $27.28$19.61'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began... -
Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology by Northrop Frye 9780156297301
RRP: $44.00$31.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156297301Author Northrop FryeFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 158mm * 17mm -
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: $52.50$35.34From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. ... -
Modernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
RRP: $18.88$13.97Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our... -
The Cambridge Companion to William Blake by Morris Eaves
RRP: $56.68$47.88Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising... -
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 by David Norbrook
RRP: $42.00$31.31The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great... -
Twelve Miles From a Lemon: Selected Writings and Sayings of Sydney Smith by Alan Hankinson 9780718829513
$101.33There are those who say that the Reverend Sydney Smith ought to be made a saint of the Church of England. There are those who say that he jested away his chances of a mitre. There are those who simply read him and laugh. Sydney Smith was not only a... -
Hand in Hand with Love: An Anthology of Queer Classic Poetry by Simon Avery
RRP: $23.08$15.14Hand in Hand with Love is a celebration of queer voices throughout the ages. Spanning from Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this luminous anthology champions and redefines the spectrum of queer poetry.Part of... -
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780241968772
RRP: $20.98$15.37In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this... -
Plays: v. 1: "Ajax", "Electra", "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Sophocles
RRP: $52.40$49.90Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology... -
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
RRP: $27.28$19.61'I was blown away by Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS.' Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsWHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and...