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Charlotte Smith: Romanticism, Poetry and the Culture of Gender by Jacqueline Labbe 9780719083211
RRP: $25.79$22.72This 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
$28.75Last 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... -
Women in Greek Myth by Mary R. Lefkowitz 9780715635650
$35.35In the first edition of "Women in Greek Myth", published in 1986, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female characters in Greek mythology. Where some scholars saw the Amazons as the... -
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life by Karel Capek 9780262544504
RRP: $34.83$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544504Author Karel CapekFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: $15.48$11.20An 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... -
Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies by Rob Pope
RRP: $56.75$49.59This user-friendly yet challenging text provides a genuinely interactive strategy for successful textual intervention. Thoroughly dialogic in approach, it draws on a combination of discourse analysis, critical theory and creative writing.Reviews'Textual... -
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad by Emily Thomas
RRP: $16.76$12.05How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore the places where philosophy and travel intersect. Part philosophical ramble, part memoir, The Meaning of... -
The Door Margaret Atwood 9781844084951
RRP: $14.18$9.82By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject... -
From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play by Victor Turner 9780933826175
$24.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933826175Author Victor TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams) 171g -
Rumi's World: The Life and Work of the Great Sufi Poet by Annemarie Schimmel 9780877736110
RRP: $30.96$20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877736110Author Annemarie SchimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 353g -
X-Men by Stan Lee 9780143135760
RRP: $54.18$38.45Illustrated 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... -
The Pursuit of Signs by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $16.76$15.40To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers insights into our ways of consuming texts that are both... -
The World is a Wedding by Bernard Kops 9781905512331
$10.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512331Author Bernard KopsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Mystery of the Night Watchers by A.M. Howell 9781474991063
RRP: $10.31$7.10From the bestselling author of The Garden of Lost Secrets and The House of One Hundred Clocks, A.M. Howell, comes a gripping new adventure filled with buried secrets and dark lies, set against the evocative backdrop of the Edwardian era. MAY, 1910As the... -
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe 9780199537396
RRP: $10.31$7.71In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the... -
Poems And Prose by John Donne 9781857157222
RRP: $15.48$11.20The major seventeenth-century English poet between Shakespeare and Milton, Donne is chiefly celebrated as a love poet. But he was also the author of magnificent satires and epistles, and a series of religious poems including the Holy Sonnets. All these... -
Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination by Malcolm Guite
RRP: $54.17$47.78Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the... -
Homer: Iliad Book I by Seth L. Schein
RRP: $25.79$22.72Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding. It provides help with the morphology,... -
Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel: Complete and Unabridged by Luo Guanzhong 9780520224780
RRP: $38.70$31.33Three 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... -
The Geordie Bible by Andrew Elliott 9780946928064
$5.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946928064Author Andrew ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Butler PublishingPublisher Butler Publishing -
On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C. G. Jung's Lecture on Gerard de Nerval's Aurelia by C. G. Jung 9780691162478
RRP: $49.02$39.53In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zurich on the French Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurelia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent... -
Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes
RRP: $16.76$11.35Johnson, 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... -
A Study Guide for John Cheever's "Swimmer" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375389174
RRP: $12.84$11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375389174Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm)... -
Hamlet (Collins Classroom Classics) by William Shakespeare
RRP: $3.86$3.19HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.' Considered one of Shakespeare's most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as... -
Jane Austen's Table: Recipes Inspired by the Works of Jane Austen: Picnics, Feasts and Afternoon Teas by Robert Tuesley Anderson 9780753734704
RRP: $21.92$15.62From the picnic on Box Hill and the strawberry picking at Donwell Abbey in Emma, to supper at the Netherfield Ball and Mrs. Bennet's family dinners in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's novels are full of delicious food that you can recreate at home with... -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster
RRP: $23.21$20.33A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into... -
Alice's Adventures on the London Underground by Peter Lawrence 9781838463083
RRP: $16.76$15.65It's a cool July day. A young girl is tired of window-shopping in Oxford Street, when a white rabbit runs past her looking at his watch. "Oh dear! Oh dear! It's 3 o'clock already. I shall be too late!" Without thinking, she chases after the rabbit and... -
How to Do Things with Forms: The Oulipo and Its Inventions by Chris Andrews 9780228011637
RRP: $39.99$35.29The Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Literature) is a literary think tank that brings together writers and mathematicians. Since 1960, its worldwide influence has refreshed ways of making and thinking about literature... -
The Complete Euripides Volume I Trojan Women and Other Plays by Peter Burian
RRP: $16.11$11.92Based 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... -
Key Concepts in Crime Fiction by Heather Worthington 9780230551251
$41.64An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume explores the contemporary anxieties to which crime fiction responds, along with society's changing conceptions of crime and criminality... -
Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America by Merve Emre
RRP: $30.96$29.71Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's... -
Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century Philip Rawlings 9780415755559
RRP: $64.49$56.12Criminal 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... -
KJV, Life in the Spirit Study Bible, Bonded Leather, Burgundy, Indexed, Red Letter Edition: Formerly Full Life Study by Thomas Nelson 9780310927570
RRP: $58.05$40.26Discover the Biblical Foundations of living a spirit-led lifestyle. The KJV Life in the Spirit Study Bible will help guide you into a Christ-centered, righteous and Spirit-led lifestyle. In a culture that requires believers to depend strongly on God and... -
I'M Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
RRP: $16.76$13.12With 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... -
Lyra Graeca: v. 1 by D. A. Campbell
RRP: $32.19$30.65Precious snippets of ancient song.This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and... -
Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love": A Reader's Guide by Roger Clark 9780826414786
$23.70A critical examination of Ian McEwan and his novel, "Enduring Love", this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years. A team of... -
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate
RRP: $25.79$17.49"Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard." -Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the... -
So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism by Kenneth W. Warren 9780226873800
RRP: $29.67$28.55Using Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or what could represent and speak for the Negro in an age of limited political representation... -
Black and Blur by Fred Moten
RRP: $30.95$27.30"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of... -
Anatomy of Comics: Famous Originals of Narrative Art by Damien McDonald
RRP: $32.19$21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080281876Author Damien MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 720g