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Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David M. Halperin 9780195111279
RRP: €26.76€18.14`My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation,' Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died of AIDS in... -
The Tempest: The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192865878
RRP: €8.32€7.26'How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in't!' Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: €14.27€13.63"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... -
Ariel's Gift by Erica Wagner
RRP: €13.08€8.71Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last century. When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and... -
Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid by Antonia Syson 9780814254509
€39.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254509Author Antonia SysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 372g -
Vergil's Green Thoughts: Plants, Humans, and the Divine by Rebecca Armstrong 9780199236688
€134.43The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid abound with plants, yet much Vergilian criticism underestimates their significance beyond attractive background detail or the occasional symbolic set-piece. This volume joins the growing field of nature-centred studies... -
The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 by David Norbrook
RRP: €23.80€22.11The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great... -
Marvel: Avengers Campus: The Official Cookbook by Marc Sumerak 9781803361635
RRP: €29.74€14.93Take home the incredible cuisine of Avengers Campus, and prepare a meal fit for a super hero with this fun cookbook! Cassie and Scott Lang (better known as Ant-Man) sought to use the shrinking and growing technology of Pym Particles to solve global... -
Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy 9781907903632
RRP: €15.46€13.10Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life,... -
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter 9781555975081
RRP: €21.42€13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975081Author Charles BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 161mm... -
Seneca Epistulae Vol. II by Leighton Reynolds 9780198146490
€36.09Seneca Epistulae Vol. IIBook InformationISBN 9780198146490Author Leighton ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 128mm * 18mm -
Before I Go by Catherine Cookson
RRP: €10.70€7.29Known for the wit of her writing, Catherine Cookson was the UK's most widely read novelist during her lifetime. When her Estate discovered this never-before-published memoir in the attic of her home, it was an astonishing find. Before I Go is the... -
Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
RRP: €23.80€8.15'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE Letters to Gil is... -
Interventions 2020 by Michel Houellebecq 9781509549955
RRP: €23.80€16.80The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity's masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When... -
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney 9780571342532
RRP: €22.60€16.46'A huge book, an immense book. Such adventure and variety, such industry, such subjugation of self.' Michael Hofmann, TLSHeaney not only translated classic works of Latin and Old English but also poems from a great number of ancient and modern European... -
The Magic Hour: 100 Poems from the Tuesday Afternoon Poetry Club by Charlotte Moore 9781780726267
RRP: €13.08€8.81"The perfect desert island book." Adam Nicolson"Reading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other lives. It makes a gift of unfamiliar words, and refreshes parts of the mind that other art forms cannot reach..... -
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" by Kate Maurer 9780764586736
€6.59This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and "tames" the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespeare intended for the general public rather than for... -
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
RRP: €15.46€10.82Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully... -
Collected Poems and Other Verse by Stephane Mallarme
RRP: €14.27€10.28'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many... -
Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, An Unofficial Biography by Matthew Dennison 9781788549448
RRP: €13.08€8.47Book of the Week on Radio 4, and in the Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week 'Riveting, and immaculately written' Sunday Telegraph 'A superb psychological study of a literary genius' Business Post 'A rounded picture... and gets to... -
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will by William Shakespeare
RRP: €11.89€9.72The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
King Lear (Collins Classroom Classics) by William Shakespeare
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!' Epic and tragic in its scope, King Lear explores a king's demise into madness and insanity when he... -
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake 9780520256378
€37.56Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold Bloom, his definitive statement on Blake's greatness.About... -
Groupthink by Christopher Booker 9781472959058
RRP: €23.80€18.14In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor... -
Literary Yarns: Rochet Patterns Inspired By Classic Books by Cindy Wang
RRP: €16.65€11.19What s the perfect gift for your friend who loves literature? How about an adorable crocheted Moby Dick? Or a delightfully miniature Elizabeth Bennet? Or an elegant and fuzzy Jay Gatsby? Whether you need some holiday decor (Ebenezer Scrooge!) or want to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe by Lesley Sharpe
RRP: €30.93€26.17The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a challenging yet accessible survey of this versatile figure, not only one of the world's greatest writers but also a theatre director and art critic, a natural scientist and state administrator. The volume... -
Nothing but Fun in Noisy Village by Oxford Editor 9780192776303
RRP: €8.32€5.76Lisa lives in a tiny place called Noisy Village with all her friends, and with so many children living there, it's a very noisy place indeed! Join the children on their adventures as they explore the great outdoors and get up to mischief. In this... -
Adlestrop Revisited: An Anthology Inspired by Edward Thomas's Poem by Anne Harvey
RRP: €15.46€11.45Edward Thomas never left the train that stopped briefly at a Cotswold station, Adlestrop, just before World War I, but what he saw resulted in one of the best known and loved English poems, Adlestrop. Generations of literary pilgrims have visited the... -
Romeo and Juliet by Eric Rasmussen
€9.53From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of the most famous of all love stories. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Romeo and Juliet in performance, takes a... -
A River Runs Through it and Other Stories by Norman Maclean 9780226500607
RRP: €33.32€27.05From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, A... -
The Booklovers' Guide To Wine: A Celebration of the History, the Mysteries and the Literary Pleasures of Drinking Wine by Patrick Alexander 9781633536067
RRP: €17.84€13.88Great Wines and Great Writers are a Wonderful Blend"Guides to the wide world of wine are many but this is the first book on the market to pair books with wine by an author who is a preeminent expert on both." -Thriftbooks.com#1 Best Seller in Wine &... -
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan
RRP: €15.46€14.22A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary... -
How to Begin Studying English Literature by Nicholas Marsh 9781137508775
€30.29How to Begin Studying English Literature has established itself as one of the most successful and popular introductory student guides in the field. This fourth edition has been fully revised and expanded throughout, and now includes more examples and... -
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus 9781416596165
RRP: €22.61€13.74A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of... -
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice by Douglas Mao
RRP: €35.70€27.72A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, Inventions of Nemesis offers a striking new take on... -
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly 9781785781889
RRP: €13.08€8.71'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, GuardianAlmost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't... -
Notes From Underground by Stephen Duncombe
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064848Author Stephen DuncombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah by Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i 9781479855445
RRP: €16.65€14.97The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought,... -
Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz 9781894574013
RRP: €19.04€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894574013Author Marie-Louise Von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Inner City BooksPublisher Inner City Books -
Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora by Stuart Hall
RRP: €53.55€48.18Volumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall's Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s,...