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Contemporary Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Eaglestone
RRP: €10.70€7.87Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging... -
Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage 9780714510439
RRP: €20.17€16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714510439Author John CageFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno by Robert M. Durling
RRP: €19.03€14.64This 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... -
Homeric Vocabularies: Greek and English Word-Lists for the Study of Homer by Edgar Johnson Goodspeed 9780806108285
RRP: €22.55€20.21An essential step in learning and using any language is the acquisition of a working vocabulary. Many methods have been devised to help with this acquisition, all of them stressing the fundamental importance of mastering the words most frequently used... -
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse by John Hollander
RRP: €13.08€11.15In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this revised edition, J... -
Pro Archia by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.83Defense of a poet, and five speeches from after exile.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 Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: €23.80€18.94A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war... -
Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
RRP: €15.46€10.19BBC 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... -
God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane
RRP: €14.15€11.98'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... -
A Life Of Walter Scott: The Laird of Abbotsford by A. N. Wilson
RRP: €20.22€14.61'I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times,' wrote Byron. '...grand work. Scotch Fielding, as well as great English poet - wonderful man! I long to get drunk with him.' A. N. Wilson's subtle, entertaining and frequently provocative... -
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: €27.36€18.53Apologies 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 -
The Witches of St Osyth by Marion Gibson
RRP: €35.70€30.88An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early... -
The Zizek Reader by Edmund Wright 9780631212010
RRP: €49.92€43.71The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most... -
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition by Erich Auerbach
RRP: €26.18€21.13More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia... -
Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
RRP: €13.08€9.97A deep dive into the science behind the creative ways Shakespeare killed off his characters. William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear -... -
Children's Picturebooks Second Edition: The Art of Visual Storytelling by Martin Salisbury
RRP: €35.69€23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786275738Author Martin SalisburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing -
A History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals by Brandon, Ed 9781399008730
RRP: €20.22€14.61From the Middle-Ages onwards, London's notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city's mad' locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Der Besuch der alten Dame by Rene Koglbauer
€13.13Get to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions. The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and examiners and provide comprehensive coverage of... -
Asimov's Foundation and Philosophy by Joshua Heter 9781637700303
RRP: €21.41€14.64Isaac Asimov's Foundation is the most influential science-fiction epic of all time. Published as a series of books and short stories from the 1940s to the 1980s, the series has impacted most subsequent science fiction, and influenced sciences like... -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
RRP: €13.08€10.85This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: €10.70€9.67This fresh edition of Shakespeare's much-loved Sonnets, developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company, features a Foreword by the actor/director, Fiona Shaw. Its easily accessible layout and elegant design make it the ideal gift for any special... -
A Place in the Country by W. G. Sebald
RRP: €13.08€9.25A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyWhen W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him... -
De Inventione; De Optimo Genere Oratorum; Topica by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.83Three rhetorical treatises.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, ... -
The Pleasures of Exile by Mr George Lamming
RRP: €34.50€26.53'Migration in the 50s and 60s was formative for a whole generation of Caribbean writers, artists and intellectuals who, as Lamming himself says, became 'West Indian' in London. The Pleasures of Exile is simply the most poignant, eloquent, insightful and... -
Prose Unseens for A-Level Latin: A Guide through Roman History by Mathew Owen
RRP: €17.84€16.11This volume is designed to accompany the OCR A-Level specification in Latin (first teaching September 2016), with practice unseen passages from Livy, the set prose for Paper 1, together with passages from a selection of other writers to support Paper 2,... -
Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
RRP: €13.08€8.81Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy... -
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €13.08€9.25The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire TomalinWinner of the Whitbread First Book PrizeWitty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She... -
Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius by Adrastos Omissi
RRP: €39.26€35.68Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike ... -
The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable by Kevin Killeen 9781503635852
RRP: €30.93€24.80Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense... -
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
RRP: €19.03€13.82Virginia 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... -
Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization by Michael Rothberg
RRP: €28.55€25.28Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the... -
Breathe by Joyce Carol Oates
RRP: €10.70€7.16'America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker 'A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief' Mail on Sunday A novel of love and loss from the bestselling and prizewinning author of Blonde. ... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch
RRP: €26.18€20.66From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization... -
The Life of Henry Fielding: A Critical Biography by Ronald Paulson 9780631191469
€115.57For Henry Fielding, 'storytelling', whether in the form of a play, essay or novel, was a means of transmuting the dross of his own experiences.In this important new critical biography, Ronald Paulson brilliantly demonstrates how Fielding's life and... -
Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein 9781501762321
RRP: €30.93€26.76Winner of the Matei Calinescu Prize In Unfinished Spirit, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein brings to light the extraordinary archive of Muriel Rukeyser's (1913-1980) unpublished and incomplete literary works, revealing the ways in which misogyny influences the... -
Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love by Jillian Keenan 9780062378729
RRP: €11.89€7.90A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking When it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her-until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's... -
Living and Dying with Proust by Christopher Prendergast
RRP: €20.22€13.78A LIFETIME'S READING OF PROUST'S MASTERPIECE "A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity."-Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster "Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast."-Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize One of the... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: €11.89€8.46From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that... -
James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction by Colin MacCabe
RRP: €10.70€7.68James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is of perennial interest. His great... -
Du Fu: A Life in Poetry by Du Fu 9780375711602
RRP: €22.60€17.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711602Author Du FuFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...