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The Lore And Language Of Schoolchil by Iona Opie
RRP: €24.99€17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322691Author Iona OpieFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm)... -
The Histories: v. V by Polybius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images by W. J. T. Mitchell
RRP: €30.94€26.30Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even... -
Who Will Do What by When?: How to Improve Performance, Accountability and Trust with Integrity by Tom Hanson 9780972419444
RRP: €12.60€11.02Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion by Chariton 9780140449259
RRP: €15.46€10.82In this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells... -
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
RRP: €13.08€9.97With an introduction by comedian and novelist David BaddielA novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now... -
Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats by Paul Magrs 9780008605377
RRP: €15.46€9.90A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy). 'I love them, they are so nice and selfish' - L.M... -
The Dyer's Hand by W. H. Auden
RRP: €23.80€17.01In the early 1950s Auden began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with newly-written notes and aphorisms. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and The... -
Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
RRP: €27.37€19.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Book Award 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780385722148Author Marjorie GarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 1008Imprint Random House USA... -
Mod Lib Playwrights At Work by John Lahr 9780679640219
RRP: €22.02€20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679640219Author Paris ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 496gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval
RRP: €17.84€13.03Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection... -
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
RRP: €49.97€43.73Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In... -
Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo by Plato
RRP: €29.69€27.83The fundamental tetralogy on Socrates' final days.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family circa... -
Our Hymns, Our Heritage: A Student Guide to Songs of the Church by David Leeman 9780802429292
RRP: €26.17€23.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802429292Author David LeemanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Moody PublishersPublisher Moody Publishers -
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe 9780199537396
RRP: €9.51€6.89In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: €17.84€11.66Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature. The magazine has spoken with most of the world's... -
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780198848110
RRP: €11.89€8.46The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from indulged only child to disillusioned war veteran, This... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: €53.55€43.22An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through... -
Babette's Feast by Julian Baggini
RRP: €15.46€11.65On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes - and mouths - of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in favour of... -
Mirabai by Robert Bly
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063873Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 140mm * 8mm -
The Comedy of Errors by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: €10.70€9.51From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's anarchic comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Comedy of Errors in performance, takes a... -
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin 9780571131204
RRP: €15.46€10.19The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a... -
Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience: Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grunbein by Hannah V. Eldridge 9780192859211
RRP: €102.34€92.83This volume contributes to the fields of lyric poetry and poetics (especially poetic form), aesthetics, and German literature by intervening in debates on the social functions, cognitive and emotional effects, and the value of poetry. It builds on, and... -
A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon
RRP: €57.11€49.75A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film... -
The Ultimate Discworld Companion by Terry Pratchett
RRP: €29.75€19.97The absolute, comprehensive, from Tiffany Aching to Jack Zweiblumen guide to all things Discworld, fully illustrated by Paul Kidby.The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the back of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell... -
How to Write Essays and Dissertations: A Guide for English Literature Students by Alan Durant 9780582784550
RRP: €44.02€42.53The first book that literature students should read, this guide reveals the distinct set of skills, conventions and methods of essay and dissertation writing.Taking students through the various stages of writing, from planning to final submission, it... -
The Horse Lover's Joke Book: Over 400 Gems of Horse-related Humour by Suzan St.Maur 9781872119397
RRP: €7.08€4.80Canadian born Suzan St Maur has lived in the UK since childhood. After an early career start in journalism on a local newspaper, she transferred her allegiances to advertising and later became a highly successful scriptwriter in business television and... -
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
RRP: €15.46€10.82'I was blown away by Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS.' Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsWHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and... -
Love's Labour's Lost by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: €10.70€9.51From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's dazzling comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Love's Labour's Lost in performance, takes a... -
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner 9780691160092
RRP: €41.65€34.20A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of... -
A Companion to Chaucer by Peter Brown
RRP: €51.11€45.18Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.About the AuthorPeter Brown is Senior Lecturer in... -
Milton: Paradise Lost by John Milton 9781405832786
€46.34First published in 1968, Alastair Fowler's annotated edition of Paradise Lost is acknowledged as the most authoritative guide to this major work. It is the only recent edition of Paradise Lost to be based on the text of the first (1667) edition, now... -
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation by George Steiner 9780192880932
RRP: €19.03€13.82`Translation has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found a scholar who is a match for the task.' Sunday Times First published in 1975, After Babel constituted the first systematic investigation of the theory and processes... -
Oxford Student Texts: The Merchant's Tale by Steven Croft 9780198355380
€13.99Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on The Merchant's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.Student... -
A Companion to the Gawain-Poet by Derek Brewer 9780859915298
RRP: €35.69€26.39The 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... -
brainwaves by Ziggy Alberts 9780648705710
RRP: €16.65€12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648705710Author Ziggy AlbertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Commonfolk PublishingPublisher Commonfolk Publishing -
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle by Hugh MacDiarmid
RRP: €15.46€10.19Kenneth Buthlay's edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid's complex and often opaque use of language. The drunk man... -
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva 9780231214575
RRP: €23.80€18.91In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the... -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 9780099285045
RRP: €11.89€8.46Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties.'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'Hemingway's memories of... -
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis by Katherine McKittrick
RRP: €27.36€23.81The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations...