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Strindberg Plays: v.1: "The Father", "Miss Julie", "Ghost Sonata" by August Strindberg 9780413521606
€23.79This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de... -
Byron's Poetry and Prose by Lord George Gordon Byron
€19.73"Criticism" is chronologically keyed to Byron's poetry and reprints both classic and recent examinations of Byron's writing and life, including assessments by Anne Barton, Donald H. Reiman, Jane Stabler, Jerome J. McGann, Susan J. Wolfson, and James... -
How the Heather Looks: a joyous journey to the British sources of children's books by Joan Bodger 9781922634702
€14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922634702Author Joan BodgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Living Book PressPublisher Living Book PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World by Timothy Morton 9780521471350
RRP: €107.10€96.90This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern,... -
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: €10.70€7.16Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry 'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar 'This little book is ruminative, humane, and... -
Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood 9780226349527
RRP: €32.13€31.98Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone... -
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: €9.51€6.89Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction... -
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon
RRP: €15.46€10.19Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother... -
New Light on Tony Harrison by Edith Hall 9780197266519
RRP: €53.55€53.53New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors include practising poets, playwrights, specialists in Classics, Theatre, Translation Studies, English and... -
Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure That the Italians of the South Became Southerners by Pino Aprile 9781599540313
RRP: €16.96€13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540313Author Pino AprileFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents by Dennis Walder
RRP: €51.75€49.10This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage... -
William Empson: The Critical Achievement by Christopher Norris 9780521118866
RRP: €45.21€37.26William Empson (1906-84) was one of the twentieth century's most distinctive critical voices, and left a profound mark upon Anglo-American literary culture. Published in 1993, this book was the first full study of Empson's literary criticism in its... -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves 9780241951415
RRP: €19.03€4.18'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is... -
Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women by Harriet Walter
RRP: €15.46€11.02'A part we have played is like a person we once met, grew to know, became intimately enmeshed with and finally moved away from. Some of these characters remain friends, others are like ex-lovers with whom we no longer have anything in common. All of them... -
Olga Moves House by Michael Bond 9780192787491
RRP: €8.32€5.76A new edition of the fifth book in Michael Bond's classic series about the unstoppable and much-loved guinea-pig, Olga da Polga. From the author of Paddington Bear, Michael Bond's little guinea-pig with a big imagination has been charming readers for... -
A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba by Atef Alshaer 9780863569906
RRP: €20.22€13.73A Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pay testament to one of the most pivotal events in... -
Interpretation Of Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz
RRP: €24.99€16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877735267Author Marie-Louise von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
RRP: €23.80€18.91A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zurau aphorisms, after the... -
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea by Anthony Grafton
€33.42When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and... -
The Wheel of Fire by G. Wilson Knight 9780415253956
RRP: €17.84€16.16Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, this is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar, G... -
Burned and Broken: A gripping detective mystery you won't be able to put down by Mark Hardie
RRP: €9.51€3.46A gripping mystery about a woman trying to find out the truth behind the death of her best friend and introducing a brilliant detective duo - perfect for fans of Peter James, Angela Marsons and James Oswald. A DEAD GIRLA vulnerable young woman, fresh... -
Understand Greek Mythology by Steve Eddy
RRP: €15.46€10.23Ancient Greek myths shaped and were shaped by one of the most important culture in the history of the world. Even today, stories such as Oedipus, Narcissus, Odysseus and the Golden Fleece reverberate through our popular culture.This is the ideal... -
Lost Time: Lectures On Proust In A Soviet Prison Camp by Eric Karpeles
RRP: €14.27€10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372587Author Eric KarpelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780691202433
RRP: €19.03€15.36How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Taken for... -
Shakespeare'S Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern 'Fated Sky' by Sophie Chiari 9781474442534
RRP: €33.31€26.91This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena.Book... -
Studying English Literature by Dr. Ashley Chantler
€36.09This is a new textbook designed to help new undergraduates adopt a degree-level approach to the study of English literature in their first or foundation year. "Studying English Literature" offers a link between pre-degree study and undergraduate study by... -
The Sin of Abbe Mouret by Emile Zola 9780198736639
RRP: €11.89€8.46'I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.' The Sin of AbbA (c) Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of... -
Fantastic Four by Stan Lee 9780143135821
RRP: €49.98€35.47Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesThroughout the 1960s, the Fantastic Four was both the flagship title and the creative laboratory of the... -
The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel
RRP: €39.21€32.89This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how... -
The <i>Beowulf</i> Manuscript: Complete Texts and <i>The Fight at Finnsburg</i> by R. D. Fulk
RRP: €35.64€28.16Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.But this volume offers something unique. For... -
Mr Pim by A.A. Milne 9781788424516
RRP: €11.89€8.48Gentle 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... -
Theory Of The Great Game: Writings from 'Le Grand Jeu' by Dennis Duncan 9781900565677
RRP: €20.22€17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565677Author Dennis DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 428g -
KJV, Life in the Spirit Study Bible, Bonded Leather, Burgundy, Indexed, Red Letter Edition: Formerly Full Life Study by Thomas Nelson 9780310927570
RRP: €53.55€37.14Discover 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... -
John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
RRP: €19.03€15.86An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his works This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly... -
Selected Speeches by Demosthenes
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was intimately involved in the political events of his day. As well as... -
Sybil: or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli 9780198759898
RRP: €14.27€10.28Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply... -
Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by T. Hardy
RRP: €89.24€66.32Thomas Hardy's first love was always poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was fifty-eight years old, having already established his reputation with fourteen novels and over forty short stories, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published... -
The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner by Philip M. Weinstein 9780521421676
RRP: €36.88€31.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226732862
RRP: €28.56€27.41For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The... -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster
RRP: €21.41€17.11A 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...