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Twelfth Night by Eric Rasmussen 9780230243842
€9.62From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great comedy of love, folly and mistaken identity. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Twelfth Night in... -
Poems by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781853994975
€36.09Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome's most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he belonged to a group of young poets who embraced Hellenistic... -
The Adventures of Margery Allingham by Julia Jones 9781899262014
RRP: €17.84€15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899262014Author Julia JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Golden Duck (UK) LtdPublisher Golden Duck (UK) Ltd -
More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell
RRP: €13.08€8.81Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country. The response to the book from booksellers all over the world has been one of heartfelt agreement: it would... -
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch
RRP: €20.81€15.48Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context,... -
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey by Mark Vernon 9781621387480
RRP: €23.80€22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387480Author Mark VernonFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 9781399614085
RRP: €9.51€6.66'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a... -
Homer: Iliad Book I by Seth L. Schein
RRP: €23.79€20.96Book 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,... -
Hooked: Art and Attachment by Rita Felski
RRP: €24.99€24.17How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeling... -
Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England: Indelible Characters by D. Coleman 9780230535831
RRP: €53.54€53.51This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern... -
The Little Book of Shakespeare by DK
RRP: €11.89€8.46The Little Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes, now in a handy compact size.This bold book covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You... -
Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito by Plato
RRP: €9.51€6.89These new translations present Plato's remarkable dramatization of the momentous events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 399 BC, on charges of irreligion and corrupting the young. The Euthyphro, Defence of Socrates, and Crito form a dramatic and... -
Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams
RRP: €58.30€53.51This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyses previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by... -
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg 9781846042072
RRP: €19.03€13.82Wild Mind is for everyone who writes or wants to write. Natalie Goldberg teaches a Zen-like method that will take you straight to the source of creative power, to the mind that is 'raw, full of energy, alive and hungry'. These pages are packed with wise,... -
The Pilgrim's Progress: An Illustrated Christian Classic by John Bunyan 9781400216512
RRP: €17.84€13.51The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers across the centuries to persevere in their faith. For longstanding fans of Bunyan's tale, or for those encountering it for the first time, this illustrated edition offers new beauty and insight with striking... -
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies by Erik Davis
RRP: €27.37€18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222870Author Erik DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God by Frank Turek 9781641583510
RRP: €17.84€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641583510Author Frank TurekFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NavPress Publishing GroupPublisher NavPress Publishing Group -
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen by Edward Copeland 9780521746502
RRP: €36.88€23.79Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Companion offers clear, accessible... -
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai by Shunryu Suzuki
RRP: €27.37€21.54When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel by Deirdre David 9780521646192
RRP: €32.12€27.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tolstoy Together: Reading War and Peace with Yiyun Li by Yiyun Li
RRP: €19.03€13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2020 (United States) and Whiting Literary Magazine Prize 2018 and Whiting Award 2006... -
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857151886
RRP: €19.03€13.82An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, and his passions for... -
Goblin Market: An Illustrated Poem by Christina Rossetti
RRP: €15.46€9.73The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of Lizzie and Laura, who are tempted by the fruit sold by the goblin merchants. In this fully illustrated and beautiful volume, illustrator Georgie McAusland brings the words... -
Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords by Patricia Parker 9781512825558
RRP: €30.93€24.80What does the keyword "continence" in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the "quince" with weddings that is crucial for A Midsummer Night's Dream? How... -
The Maya: Lost Civilizations by Megan E. O'Neil 9781789145502
RRP: €21.42€15.90This book reveals how the ancient Maya - and their buildings, ideas, objects and identities - have been perceived, portrayed and exploited over 500 years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes... -
More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art by Georgina Kleege
RRP: €42.23€36.30In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were tasked with making their facilities and collections more accessible to people with disabilities. Although blind... -
The Tree by John Fowles
RRP: €17.85€13.04John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed and best-selling... -
In Search Of Authority by Stephen Bonnycastle 9781551117676
RRP: €51.11€45.59In Search of Authority is the most engaging introduction to literary theory available today.This is the third edition of a book that has been widely used to introduce undergraduates to the field of literary theory. Its distinctive quality is the way in... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama by A. R. Braunmuller 9780521821155
RRP: €113.05€80.50This second edition of the Companion offers students up-to-date factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580-1642. Three wide-ranging chapters on... -
Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film by Seymour Benjamin Chatman
RRP: €29.74€25.79"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story-whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his... -
Renaissance Theories of Vision by Charles H. Carman
RRP: €64.25€55.78How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical... -
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie 9780374529215
RRP: €14.27€11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529215Author Paul ElieFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 612g -
Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams 9781350200142
RRP: €15.46€14.11Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always... -
Said And Done by Roger McGough
RRP: €13.08€9.25Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, and something of a national institution. His name is ubiquitous with matter-of-fact Scouse humour, easy-going charm, and perfect observations of the idiosyncrasies of everyday life, whether you know him... -
Pro Eto: That'S What by Vladimir Mayakovsky
RRP: €13.08€9.09Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man (he often employed the rough talk of the streets and revolutionary rhetoric in his poetry) as to other poets (his... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative by H. Porter Abbott 9781108823357
RRP: €29.74€25.92What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction,... -
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: €11.89€8.46Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the... -
The Life of Christina of Markyate by Samuel Fanous
RRP: €10.70€7.68'I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.' This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Determined to devote her life to God and to remain a... -
Bakhtin and his Others: (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism by Liisa Steinby 9781783083312
RRP: €29.75€28.30'Bakhtin and his Others' aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin's ideas on... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett by Dirk van Hulle
RRP: €28.55€24.24In the past decade, there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in Samuel Beckett's works. The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett offers an accessible and engrossing introduction to a key set of issues animating the field of Beckett...