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The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: £24.99£23.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565950Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressDimensions(mm) 228mm * 170mm * 30mm -
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £11.99£8.66A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to... -
Fairy Tale by Andrew Teverson 9780415616065
RRP: £22.99£20.16This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It: explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of... -
Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition by Ovid 9780253033598
£8.43Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before-sensuous,... -
Dracula by Bram Stoker 9780393679205
£22.44This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel, published by Archibald Constable in London in 1897 and chosen by the editors in order to give readers-insofar as such a thing is possible-a more historically authentic reading... -
28 Portuguese poets: A bilingual anthology by Richard Zenith
RRP: £13.00£9.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251003Author Richard ZenithFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 420g -
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780393979084
£12.97This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskell's 1850... -
Hamlet: Globe to Globe: 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play Dominic Dromgoole 9781782116929
RRP: £12.99£8.80NEW 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... -
Queer Gothic by George Haggerty
RRP: £18.99£16.72Discovering gothic fictionDiscovering gothic fiction's role in the development of sexualityReviews"An important book... Haggerty leads the way in redirecting our gaze towards where there is an absence of love between men rather than the suspicion of sex... -
Chloe Marr by A. A. Milne 9781788424578
RRP: £9.99£6.96Chloe 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 Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the College de France (1978-1979 and 1979-1980) by Roland Barthes
RRP: £30.00£23.69Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a... -
Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends: A Gift Edition of 73 Enchanting Chinese Folk Stories and Fairy Tales by Frederick H. Martens
RRP: £12.99£10.40Fearless heroes, feisty princesses, sly magicians, terrifying dragons, talking foxes and miniature dogs. They all feature in this enthralling compendium of Chinese fairy tales and legends, along with an array of equally colourful characters and... -
The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody by Alfred Corn
RRP: £21.00£10.43Apologies 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 -
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £9.99£6.84First 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... -
Critical Studies: The Great Gatsby by Kathleen Parkinson
RRP: £7.99£5.98Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of... -
Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text by Kristin Linklater
RRP: £16.99£12.66A practical approach to breaking through the barriers of restraint and incomprehension when faced with Shakespeare. Taking many of the techniques explored in her international bestseller Freeing The Natural Voice, in this companion volume Kristin... -
Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: £9.99£6.90This 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... -
An Analysis of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man Ruth Jackson 9781912127290
RRP: £6.50£6.29C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy - and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality... -
Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914 by Angelique Richardson
RRP: £14.99£11.11"A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing by David Morley
RRP: £26.99£22.80This 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... -
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation Emily Van Duyne 9781324006978
RRP: £22.00£18.41Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination—the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne—a superfan and... -
Bosie: The Tragic Life of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray
RRP: £12.99£8.83WITH A NEW FOREWORD AND REVISED INTRODUCTION'A superb biography ... full of compassion, perception' Roger Lewis, The Times 'I love this book. Douglas Murray is a genius' Rupert EverettLord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of... -
Mr Pim by A.A. Milne 9781788424516
RRP: £9.99£7.34Gentle chaos sets in when the absent-minded Mr Pim calls in to see George Marden, bearing some innocent news... George is a fine upstanding citizen and a stickler for doing the right thing. He has a devoted wife, Olivia, and is guardian to his... -
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: £27.99£24.54These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in... -
Jews and Words by Amos Oz
RRP: £10.99£9.61A celebrated novelist and an acclaimed historian of ideas, father and daughter, unravel the chain of words at the core of Jewish life, history, and culture Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: £25.00£19.59In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to... -
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 9789358562149
RRP: £13.95£10.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358562149Author Benjamin FranklinFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Fingerprint! PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Beka Lamb Zee Edgell 9781398340473
£13.98There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society... -
Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan F. S. Post 9780198851417
RRP: £8.99£6.65Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the 90 or so published poems that are at... -
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 9780192847447
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.' Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno by Robert M. Durling
RRP: £15.99£15.36This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and... -
A Companion to Romanticism Duncan Wu (St Catherine's College, Oxford) 9780631218777
RRP: £40.95£37.17The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.About the AuthorDuncan Wu is Professor of English... -
Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
RRP: £12.99£8.80BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Wonderfully idiosyncratic, coolly heartfelt and memorable' William Boyd'One of the great writers of early 20th Century Russia' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A remarkable memoir . . . both potent and endearing' Erica Wagner, New... -
Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel
RRP: £9.99£7.32In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: £11.99£11.53"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew... -
Virgil Opera by Sir Roger Mynors 9780198146537
£19.51The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the front of each page. There are... -
An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton
RRP: £9.99£7.32James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and... -
English Literature in Context by Paul Poplawski
RRP: £25.99£24.21This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a... -
The Real Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Creator of Sherlock Holmes by Andrew Norman 9781399042055
RRP: £20.00£14.51In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at the height of his success as a qualified doctor, keen sportsman, writer of historical novels, champion of the oppressed and, most notably, the creator of that honourable, fearless, and eminently sensible... -
Pulcinella: Or Entertainment for Children Giorgio Agamben 9780857425409
RRP: £22.00£18.84The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying--from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of the distant past that inflect the culture around us today. With Pulcinella, Agamben is back with yet...