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A Study Guide for Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375398473
RRP: $12.84$11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375398473Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 9780393931716
$26.01The Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1623 First Folio text, the only authoritative edition of the play. The editor has modernized spelling but preserves, for the most part, the original lineation and characteristically heavy punctuation. The text... -
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus 9781416596165
RRP: $24.51$15.93A 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... -
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $21.92$17.61Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of... -
King Lear: A-level set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics) by William Shakespeare
$4.27Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, Eduqas, Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: AS and A level English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015; September 2019Next exams: 2024 This edition of King Lear is perfect for A-level... -
James Joyce and Trieste by Peter Hartshorn 9780313302527
$107.38Much attention has been given to Joyce's life in Dublin and Paris, but his productive years in Trieste have not received the same attention. In a thoroughly documented account, Hartshorn presents a clear, accessible study of Joyce's love/hate... -
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David M. Halperin 9780195111279
RRP: $29.01$19.66`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: $9.02$6.20'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... -
Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid by Antonia Syson 9780814254509
$42.39Apologies 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
$145.73The 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 Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
RRP: $16.76$14.78The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 * A Kirkus... -
Marvel: Avengers Campus: The Official Cookbook by Marc Sumerak 9781803361635
RRP: $32.24$16.19Take 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... -
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: $36.12$28.12Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit... -
Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them by Emily Dickinson
RRP: $47.67$40.71Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's... -
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
RRP: $14.18$12.78'There's more than one way to skin a theatrical cat; and McDonagh's chosen weapons are laughter and gore...Pushing theatre to its limits, McDonagh is making a serious point...a work as subversive as those Synge and O'Casey plays that sparked Dublin riots... -
The Gifts by Liz Hyder
RRP: $19.34$13.20'Fierce and touching' Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne'Haunting, thrilling, wonderful. I loved it' Stacey Halls'Your next obsession. . . Unique and captivating' Cosmopolitan Discover the extraordinary, luminous novel that everyone is... -
Seneca Epistulae Vol. II by Leighton Reynolds 9780198146490
$39.13Seneca Epistulae Vol. IIBook InformationISBN 9780198146490Author Leighton ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 128mm * 18mm -
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $14.18$10.31Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and... -
The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language by Janet Martin Soskice 9780198269502
RRP: $34.82$24.72Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? If Christ is 'the second Adam' and the one on whom all Christian life must be patterned,... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9780393644029
$16.80This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1818 first edition text of the novel, introduced and annotated by J. Paul Hunter.Three maps and eight illustrations.A wealth of source and contextual materials, thematically arranged to promote classroom... -
The Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
RRP: $16.76$11.35Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' to the strange surrealism of 'The Nose', from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in 'The Overcoat' to those of the delusional clerk in 'The Diary of a Madman' -... -
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney 9780571342532
RRP: $24.50$17.84'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 Charlotte Moore 9781780726267
RRP: $14.18$9.82"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..... -
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe by Lesley Sharpe
RRP: $33.53$28.37The 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... -
The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist by John Mullan
RRP: $14.18$10.31'This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book ... It doesn't go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens' Howard Jacobson ___________________ Discover the tricks of a literary master in this essential guide to... -
The Force of Poetry by Christopher Ricks 9780198183266
RRP: $68.37$54.19Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as `the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. Though published indepenently over many years, each of the essays in this collection of his... -
In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz by Amy Scholder 9780802136718
RRP: $16.76$12.85Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called "an acute observer of the unmapped region surrounding his heart and one of the best writers... -
An Analysis of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish Meghan Kallman 9781912127511
RRP: $8.39$8.11Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative thinkers - and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book now ranks among the most influential academic works ever... -
The Booklovers' Guide To Wine: A Celebration of the History, the Mysteries and the Literary Pleasures of Drinking Wine by Patrick Alexander 9781633536067
RRP: $19.34$15.04Great 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 &... -
How to Begin Studying English Literature by Nicholas Marsh 9781137508775
$32.83How 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... -
The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court by Jayne Elisabeth Archer 9780719090097
RRP: $32.25$28.63This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey
RRP: $16.76$12.05Accessing the huge selection of critical theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary is an invaluable introduction to the theories and theorists in the field and will prove an authoritative resource for all students.About the... -
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly 9781785781889
RRP: $14.18$9.73'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 on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard 9781908058812
RRP: $12.89$9.29Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021 Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by... -
The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah by Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i 9781479855445
RRP: $18.05$16.43The 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,... -
Cyclops by Euripides
RRP: $32.19$30.65Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland
RRP: $14.18$10.31'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod... -
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller
RRP: $14.18$9.62A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all... -
Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader by Nigel Wood 9780582784543
$78.17'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' David LodgeThis anthology uses extracts from the works of the... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE Judith Affleck (King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) 9781474265485
RRP: $24.50$22.14This is the OCR endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2018 to 2024. The texts covered are: Homer Odyssey 6:48-159 Iliad 3:1-112 Odyssey 7:184-297 Herodotus Histories 1.30-4, 86-7 and 6.125...