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A Companion to the Gawain-Poet by Derek Brewer 9780859915298
RRP: $62.98$46.58The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics include theories of authorship; the historical and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature: (1000bce-900ce) by Wiebke Denecke
$103.15This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of... -
The Orphic Voice by Elizabeth Sewell
RRP: $37.78$27.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376011Author Elizabeth SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Reverse Engineering by Tom Conaghan 9781739830106
RRP: $20.98$15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739830106Author Jon McGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scratch BooksPublisher Scratch BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm -
The Bestseller Code by Matthew Jockers
RRP: $23.08$16.78'If you're someone who dreams of penning a bestseller, read this book' The Week'What if the success of E.L.James and Dan Brown was not so random? What if there were an algorithm that could pick out the bestseller DNA concealed within these books before... -
Pity Transformed by David Konstan 9780715629048
$84.21"Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in... -
The Shadow of Perseus: A compelling feminist retelling of the myth of Perseus told from the perspectives of the women who knew him best by Claire Heywood 9781529333732
RRP: $20.98$15.04'A page-turning retelling . . . so interesting and thought-provoking' JENNIFER SAINT'A fresh and original take on the myth of Perseus . . . I was gripped by the human drama at the novel's heart' ELODIE HARPER*****Perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint,... -
William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction by Stanley Wells
RRP: $18.88$13.97In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education,... -
The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65 by Delia Jarrett-Macauley
RRP: $41.98$30.49This is an original, full length biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster. Una Marson is recognised today as the first major woman poet of the Caribbean and... -
The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye
RRP: $25.18$22.97Addressed to educators and general readers-the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life-this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the... -
Culture: A new world history by Martin Puchner
RRP: $52.50$35.26'A writer of genius' - William DalrympleCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to... -
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $33.58$23.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632062260Author Ilan StavansFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
Orwell: The Life by D. J. Taylor
RRP: $31.48$23.00Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and language yet, despite this iconic status, the man who... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780143106296
RRP: $31.48$23.33Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's twin works The Iliad and The Odyssey have sold more than a million copies and become classics in their own right. With this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles introduces Virgil's Aeneid to a... -
George Eliot's Middlemarch by Josie Billington
RRP: $18.88$16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776076Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Western Lit Survival Kit: How to Read the Classics Without Fear by Sandra Newman 9780141044521
RRP: $20.98$15.37There they sit, the great tomes of classical literature, taunting you with their length and difficulty, as you ask: which books are the most important and why - and what's actually any good? Why does most writing about the classics have words like... -
Two People by A.A. Milne 9781788424530
RRP: $20.98$15.41How well can you ever know another person? Happily married, Reginald and Sylvia seem to lead a perfect, and perfectly quiet, life. They have more than enough money and their own country house. But when success overtakes them, and allure of London life... -
An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Simon Taylor 9781912128419
RRP: $13.65$13.21Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As such, the two analyses make possible some interesting... -
The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty by Helen Hackett
RRP: $52.50$43.93The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for us today-although their answers were often startlingly... -
It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer by A.A. Milne 9780715655047
RRP: $20.98$15.41In his classic autobiography A. A. Milne, with his characteristic self-deprecating humour, recalls a blissfully happy childhood in the company of his brothers, and writes with touching affection about the father he adored. From Westminster School he... -
The Complete Poems of John Donne Robin Robbins 9781408231241
RRP: $79.78$79.72The Poems of John Donne is one volume paperback edition of the poems of John Donne (1572-1631) based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne's output is tremendously varied in style and form and... -
The Narnia Code: C S Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens: C S Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens by Michael Ward 9781842277225
RRP: $27.28$23.12The Narnia books are mysterious. Millions of people have been captivated by them, but are left with unanswered questions. Why are there seven books? Are they biblical allegories? If so, why do four of them seem to have no biblical basis? ... -
Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime Agatha Christie 9781474619448
RRP: $20.98$14.70Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself,... -
Lecture by Mary Cappello
RRP: $25.18$17.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492426Author Mary CappelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
An Introduction to Modern Literary Arabic by David Cowan 9780521092401
RRP: $90.28$79.32The lessons are clear, in non-technical language, and have generous examples, with plenty of exercises for translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic. This is the manual that students interested in Arabic as a living and expanding... -
Monsters by Niklas Radstrom
$25.98"""None of this should ever have happened. Somebody should have given us a different life."" Two ten year olds are brought in for questioning. A third boy has gone missing. The investigator is gentle. The boys begin to talk. 1993. A play about the... -
Look! We Have Come Through!: Living With D. H. Lawrence by Lara Feigel 9781408877555
RRP: $23.08$15.39'Her intensity and intimacy are engaging' Blake Morrison, Guardian 'A lovely, urgent, serious book' Tessa Hadley 'Refreshing and unexpected' Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving literary criticism, biography and memoir, Look! We Have... -
Transcendentalism: A Reader by Joel Myerson 9780195122138
RRP: $142.80$110.38The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism... -
Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: How the 'Terrible Lizard' Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon by Richard Fallon
RRP: $157.50$142.25When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries-including Brontosaurus and Triceratops-proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all... -
Summary and Analysis of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders: Based on the Book by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry by Worth Books 9781504046725
RRP: $18.88$8.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046725Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
Selected Poems: 1947-1995 by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $27.28$19.61Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes lesser known and later works which go beyond his... -
Classical Love Poetry Jonathan Williams 9780714122809
RRP: $20.98$14.70From the darkly erotic poetry of Sappho to the bawdy advice of Ovid, love is a ubiquitous theme in Classical poetry. This newly revised edition collects the best short poems and extracts from the Classical tradition, by authors including Virgil, Homer,... -
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross 9780226005508
RRP: $31.50$31.23The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture... -
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
RRP: $20.98$18.90Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is Christy Brown's own story. He... -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
RRP: $20.98$15.37'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of... -
Summary and Analysis of the Handmaid's Tale: Based on the Book by Margaret Atwood by Worth Books 9781504046602
RRP: $18.88$10.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046602Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai 9780674024090
RRP: $54.50$44.02Envy, irritation, paranoia-in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group by Victoria Rosner
RRP: $50.38$41.98Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new... -
Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop by Anne Stevenson
RRP: $27.28$20.92Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in 1998, "Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop" is a highly illuminating reader's guide written by another leading poet, which makes... -
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser by Andrew Hadfield 9780521645706
RRP: $69.28$59.60The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important...