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Living and Dying with Proust by Christopher Prendergast
RRP: $33.13$22.58A 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: $19.48$13.86From 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: $17.53$12.58James 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: $37.03$28.47Apologies 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 *... -
Grettir's Saga by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $21.43$15.15'You will be made an outlaw, forced always to live in the wilds and to live alone.' A sweeping epic of the Viking Age, Grettir's Saga follows the life of the outlaw Grettir the Strong as he battles against sorcery, bad luck, and the vengefulness of... -
De Re Rustica: v. 3: Bks.X-XII by Columella
RRP: $48.65$45.61A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military ... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $25.33$16.69The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a... -
Satires and Epistles by Horace
RRP: $19.48$14.22'What's the harm in using humour to put across what is true?' Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding... -
Selwyn's Law of Employment by Astra Emir 9780192858795
RRP: $95.53$89.49Established and reliable, Selwyn's Law of Employment continues its legacy as a complete reference guide for students of employment law. Astra Emir has maintained Norman Selwyn's practical approach to the subject, wherein each topic's broad scope is... -
The Fall at Home: New and Collected Aphorisms by Don Paterson
RRP: $21.43$13.88Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings... -
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 9780140436624
RRP: $48.75$36.31In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed... -
Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females by Serinity Young
RRP: $58.48$43.47From the asparas of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women-some with wings, others with clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses-reveal both fascination with and ambivalence about female power and... -
A/AS Level English Literature A for AQA Student Book by Russell Carey
$59.85A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 A Level English qualifications. Approved by AQA, this print Student Book is suitable for all abilities, providing stretch opportunities for the more able and additional scaffolding... -
The Merry Wives of Windsor: The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192873576
RRP: $13.63$10.00'Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King's English.' The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play named entirely after female characters and his only comedy set in England. These features underscore some of its most... -
Dickens and the Bible: 'What Providence Meant' by Jennifer Gribble 9780367653965
RRP: $77.98$68.37At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, ‘what providence meant’ was the most keenly contested of questions. This book takes up the controversial subject of Dickens and religion, and offers... -
The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America by Kevern Verney
RRP: $31.18$28.22Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American... -
Paris: A Literary Anthology by Zachary Seager 9781035023615
RRP: $19.48$13.40Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and artists.Countless author and poets have found home on the streets of Paris. In Paris: A Literary Anthology,... -
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex by Ruth Evans 9780719043031
RRP: $38.98$34.75Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not... -
Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry and the Culture of Gender by Jacqueline Labbe 9780719083211
RRP: $38.98$34.34This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender. -- .Book InformationISBN 9780719083211Author Jacqueline LabbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint... -
Last Kiss by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$43.47Last Kiss brings together some of the most interesting and idiosyncratic of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writings from throughout his career. Included in this volume are Fitzgerald's Thoughtbook, a revealing adolescent diary; an amusing self-interview, written... -
What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature by Pheng Cheah
RRP: $46.78$41.42In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of... -
Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: $23.40$16.46An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets.Book InformationISBN 9781857157000Author Percy ShelleyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's LibraryPublisher... -
AQA A Level Drama Play Guide: Antigone by Annie Fox 9781913963163
RRP: $33.13$30.50This 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... -
Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to MLM's Emilia by Laura Kressly
RRP: $68.23$60.16This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative... -
X-Men by Stan Lee 9780143135760
RRP: $81.90$58.13Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesThe seeds of a pop-cultural phenomenon were sown with the launch of the first X-Men comic in 1963, at the... -
Oxford Student Texts: John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi by Jackie Moore 9780198325741
$22.93Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to... -
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman 9780198861386
RRP: $17.53$12.58'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.' One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature,... -
Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes
RRP: $25.33$16.69Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out of Oxford for a lack of funds, he rose to celebrity: author of the Dictionary, a friend to the king, companion... -
Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England by Pamela Allen Brown
RRP: $60.45$53.35In a study that explodes the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Pamela Allen Brown shows that jest books, plays, and ballads represented women as laugh-getters and sought out the laughter of ordinary women. Disputing... -
The Complete Euripides Volume I Trojan Women and Other Plays by Peter Burian
RRP: $24.36$17.55Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go... -
Cathay: A Critical Edition by Ezra Pound 9780823288687
RRP: $54.58$42.20Finalist, Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915) is a masterpiece both of modernism and of world literature. The muscular precision of images that mark Pound's translations helped establish a modern style for American literature,... -
Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century by Philip Rawlings 9780415755559
RRP: $97.48$84.83Criminal biographies enjoyed enormous popularity in the Eighteenth Century: today they offer us some fascinating perspectives on the period. Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices is the first book to reproduce a number of these biographies in full.Not only... -
I'M Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
RRP: $25.33$19.48With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi has become a go-to source for smart takes on pop culture. I'm Judging You is her debut book of humorous essays that dissects our cultural obsessions and... -
Martin Buber's I and Thou by Simon Ravenscroft
RRP: $12.68$11.91Martin Buber's I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an 'I' towards an 'It', where the self stands apart from objects as items of experience or use. The other is with the attitude of an 'I' towards a... -
The Connell Guide To Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by David Schwaltyk 9781907776557
RRP: $17.53$14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776557Author David SchwaltykFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Ulysses by James Joyce 9780192855107
RRP: $19.48$14.64'- What is your nation if I may ask, says the citizen. - Ireland, says Bloom. I was born here. Ireland.' Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering... -
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann
RRP: $25.33$17.73Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate... -
all of it by Alistair McDowall 9781350168169
$25.31Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta Ta BBBBBBBBBB Face Faces Smile Smiling Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Bbbbbbbbb A short play for one performer about all of it. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court in February 2020, performed... -
Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author by Laura Seymour
RRP: $12.68$11.91Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text... -
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: $48.73$44.42Apologies 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