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Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: €29.75€20.03From 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. ... -
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691157009
RRP: €41.65€33.49Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and... -
The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch
RRP: €59.49€44.76The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature -... -
Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale by Andrew J. Rausch
RRP: €29.69€18.34Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience... -
A Sea of Words by Dean King
€18.03A new edition of the classic companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea loving novels, updated to include the final novel in the series. This comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and political... -
The Cambridge Companion to William Blake by Morris Eaves
RRP: €32.12€27.13Poet, 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... -
Hamlet SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469587
RRP: €7.13€5.24When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and... -
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod... -
Collected Poems: Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
RRP: €11.89€8.09The definitive edition of Dylan Thomas's five published volumes of poems: 18 POEMS, TWENTY-FIVE POEMS, THE MAP OF LOVE, DEATHS AND ENTRANCES and IN COUNTRY SLEEP.Dylan Thomas wrote passionately about life in all its moods and moments: from the first... -
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination by Avery F. Gordon
RRP: €23.79€20.87"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. " -George Lipsitz "The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny."... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2024–2026 by Sam Baddeley
RRP: €35.69€33.14This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2024-26 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for... -
The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot by Jason Harding
RRP: €28.55€23.79Drawing on the latest developments in scholarship and criticism, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot opens up fresh avenues of appreciation and inquiry to a global twenty-first century readership. Emphasizing major works and critical issues, this... -
Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch
RRP: €15.46€11.65"Alice Birch's new play is scored like a piece of music ... It is an extraordinary echoing text, full of pain and strange beauty. The three stories play out simultaneously on stage, the dialogue from one scene overlapping with the other two in a manner... -
Hamlet: Globe to Globe: 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play by Dominic Dromgoole
RRP: €15.46€10.19NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017Over two full years, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the Globe players toured all seven continents, and almost 200 countries, performing the Bard's most famous play. They... -
Chloe Marr by A. A. Milne 9781788424578
RRP: €11.89€8.03Chloe Marr is young, beautiful and so irresistible that countless people fall in love with her, and friends are hypnotized by her charm and warmth. Her origins are a mystery and, in London society, such mystique carries both allure and suspicion. But... -
The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody by Alfred Corn
RRP: €24.99€12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592812Author Alfred CornFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g -
How to Read a Poem: Based on the Billy Collins Poem "Introduction to Poetry" (Field Guide Series) by Barbara Crooker 9780989854221
RRP: €16.90€13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989854221Author Barbara CrookerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint T. S. Poetry PressPublisher T. S. Poetry PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cronk
RRP: €10.70€7.68Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and... -
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: €11.89€7.90First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic... -
Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance by Sarah Roche-Mahdi
€25.72This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies.The Roman de Silence,... -
Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: €11.89€7.97This Christmas, 'hand yourself over to be enchanted' (Guardian) by the English genius behind witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes.'Worth GBP9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber) ... It's exquisite and shivery, just like the stories within ... By... -
Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature by Angela Leighton
RRP: €40.40€33.09Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration... -
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank 9780691155999
RRP: €35.70€28.91Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing by David Morley
RRP: €32.12€27.13This pioneering book introduces students to the practice and art of creative writing and creative reading. It offers a fresh, distinctive and beautifully written synthesis of the discipline. David Morley discusses where creative writing comes from, the... -
Three Hundred Tang Poems by Peter Harris 9781841597829
RRP: €14.28€10.04These 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... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Complete Illustrated Edition by William, of Chartres 9781604336153
RRP: €19.03€13.39The First-Ever, Fully Illustrated Collector's Edition of William Shakespeare's Celebrated Sonnets!In celebration of the momentous 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets features... -
Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism by Gavin Alexander
RRP: €17.84€13.03Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip... -
The Harold Nicolson Diaries: 1919-1968 by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: €17.84€11.66One of the great 20th century political diaries'A tremendous read' SPECTATOR'One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on every page, as evident as the wit' EVENING STANDARDHarold Nicolson was one of the... -
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E a Tyler 9781250023551
RRP: €35.70€21.47Apologies 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... -
The Life Of Robert Burns by Catherine Carswell
RRP: €16.66€10.92First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest, Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard work on its subject.Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero - exposing the sexual... -
Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History by Cathy Caruth 9781421421650
RRP: €31.54€27.72In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century-both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it-we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple... -
How Dead Languages Work by Coulter H. George
RRP: €27.95€23.76What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This... -
Two People by A.A. Milne 9781788424530
RRP: €11.89€8.48How well can you ever know another person? Happily married, Reginald and Sylvia seem to lead a perfect, and perfectly quiet, life. They have more than enough money and their own country house. But when success overtakes them, and allure of London life... -
Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel: Complete and Unabridged by Luo Guanzhong 9780520224780
RRP: €35.70€28.91Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in Chinese history became a subject of intense and continuing interest... -
Uses of Literature by Rita Felski
RRP: €33.26€28.86Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we readOffers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for... -
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan
RRP: €15.46€10.82What 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... -
Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947 by Albert Camus
RRP: €35.70€27.72Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood... -
The Connell Short Guide To Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong by David Isaacs 9781907776908
RRP: €7.13€6.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776908Author David IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 by James Walter McFarlane
RRP: €20.22€14.61An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophyBook InformationISBN 9780140138320Author James McFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage... -
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
RRP: €15.46€10.82There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful. Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt...