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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic by Deceased Bertolt Brecht 9780809005420
RRP: £12.99£9.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809005420Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 295g -
Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit: Essays on his Poetry and Thought by A. David Moody 9780521060967
RRP: £38.99£32.28T. S. Eliot's lifelong quest for a world of the spirit is the theme of this book by leading Eliot scholar A. David Moody. The first four essays in the collection map Eliot's spiritual geography: the American taproot of his poetry, his profound engagement... -
Paul Gilroy by Paul Williams
RRP: £19.99£17.69Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery,... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Twelfth Night by Peter Buckroyd 9780198419532
RRP: £9.99£9.84Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear by Sean Delear
RRP: £15.99£10.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901832Author Sean DelearFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane
RRP: £12.99£11.63This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and... -
Groupthink by Christopher Booker 9781472959058
RRP: £20.00£15.48In 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... -
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.80Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to... -
Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
RRP: £17.99£12.95Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these... -
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon
RRP: £12.99£8.80Boldly 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... -
Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond by Michele Roberts 9781844084081
£12.73Rebellion, revolution, experimental living, feminist communes, street theatre, radical magazines, love affairs - gay and straight - sex, drugs and rock and roll.Michele Roberts, one of Britain's most talented and highly acclaimed novelists, now considers... -
Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology by Xenophon 9780198856092
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Who would you say knows himself?' In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was... -
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 9780393933987
RRP: £27.00£23.48This Norton Critical Edition includes: Dennis Washburn's acclaimed and unabridged translation of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century literary masterpiece, widely considered the world's first novel.Editorial matter by Dennis Washburn.Fourteen background... -
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
RRP: £18.49£13.28Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture... -
German Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
RRP: £8.99£6.65German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Gunter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the... -
Imagined Communities by Jason Xidias
RRP: £6.50£6.29Benedict Anderson's 1983 masterpiece Imagined Communities is a ground-breaking analysis of the origins and meanings of "nations" and "nationalism". A book that helped reshape the field of nationalism studies, Imagined Communities also shows the critical... -
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson 9781786497918
RRP: £17.99£13.35A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. 'Superb' Daily Mail, 'Book of the Week''Brilliant' The Times, 'Book of the Week''[A] vivid, detailed account' Guardian, 'Book of the Week''Hugely enjoyable' Daily... -
I'm So Happy You're Here by Liz Climo
RRP: £10.99£7.90From internationally bestselling author Liz Climo comes I'm So Happy You're Here, a book to remind us to love ourselves. We all need a reminder that we're loved and we matter, and international bestselling author Liz Climo delivers that dose... -
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch
RRP: £17.49£13.21Based 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,... -
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington
RRP: £14.99£10.06State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of the Attlee years to the satire boom of the Sixties and... -
Shakespeare and Women by Phyllis Rackin 9780198186946
£29.71Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early modern England in which they originated to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged. In so... -
Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me Andy Martin (University of Cambridge) 9781509540853
RRP: £14.99£10.05It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end. On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor apartment in New York, Lee Child embarked on the twentieth book in his globally... -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192831422
RRP: £7.99£5.98The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers. - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy by Marina Hyde
RRP: £15.99£11.61These days, entertainers no longer just entertain: they advocate dubious 'religions', work for the United Nations, get face-time with heads of state and monopolise problems they are infinitely qualified to solve - problems like Africa, the Middle East,... -
Blind Ossian's Fingal: Fragments and Controversy by James Macpherson
RRP: £15.00£11.30Ossian is a collection of epic poems that bring out the figure of the hero, Fingal, which name comes from Scots Gaelic Fionnghall, meaning 'White Stranger'. The poems where originally written in Gaelic and translated by James MacPherson into English,... -
Abundance from the Desert: Classical Arabic Poetry by Raymond Farrin
£30.35Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500aEURO""1250 c.e., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a... -
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Gates 9780195136470
RRP: £18.49£15.53Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black... -
Crime Fiction by John Scaggs 9780415318242
RRP: £22.99£20.16Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs:presents a concise history of crime fiction -... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £24.95£23.76Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honor Lucan praised him in a... -
The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin
RRP: £18.99£11.17"The Arabian Nights" has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriential literature, have a clear idea of when the... -
The Winter's Tale: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.98The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. It concludes, moreover, with the most daring and moving... -
Miss Miles: A Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago by Mary Taylor 9780195064926
RRP: £18.49£15.64In Elizabeth Gaskell's seminal biography The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Gaskell makes extensive use of Charlotte's correspondence with her closest friend, known to readers of that work simply as 'Dear M.' 'M.' was later identified as Mary Taylor, whom... -
Aura: By Carlos Fuentes by Peter Standish 9780719081835
RRP: £12.99£11.78Since its publication in 1962, Carlos Fuentes' novel, Aura, remains not merely an object of academic interest but a continuous source of controversy in Mexico. It was the explosive combination of sex and religion that incensed the Ministro de Hacienda,... -
Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition by Walter Whitman
RRP: £22.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600763Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 714gDimensions(mm) 193mm *... -
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann
RRP: £12.99£9.34Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate... -
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
RRP: £25.00£16.53From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and PunishmentIn the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in... -
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber
RRP: £12.99£7.77'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders' Financial Times'Like a child after the Pied Piper... -
Outlaw History: The Portable L.A. Rollins by L a Rollins 9781943687275
RRP: £15.00£13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943687275Author L a RollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Underworld AmusementsPublisher Underworld AmusementsWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2021-2023 Simon Allcock (Head of Classics & Humanities, Wellington College, UK) 9781350060425
RRP: £29.99£27.46PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in the title, on the cover and inside this book are incorrect. An errata slip has been included. ----- ... -
My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force
RRP: £20.00£17.33The books that we choose to keep--let alone read--can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most-books that define their dreams and ambitions and...