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Republic, Volume I: Books 1-5 by Plato
RRP: $32.19$30.65The Platonic ideal of government.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 ca. 427 BC. In early... -
Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings by Christina Hardyment
RRP: $32.25$25.50'Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who... -
Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland 9781857545418
RRP: $21.87$15.54A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it... -
Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography by Max Egremont
RRP: $19.34$14.58The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. He is one of the great figures of the First World War, and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer are still widely... -
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns 9780195324877
RRP: $32.88$25.71Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days... -
The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe 9780713677669
RRP: $12.89$11.69'Tell me worldlings, underneath the sun, If greater falsehood ever has been done' The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed... -
The Connell Guide To How to Read a Poem by Jolyon Connell 9781907776663
RRP: $9.02$6.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776663Author Jolyon ConnellFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Who Will Do What by When?: How to Improve Performance, Accountability and Trust with Integrity by Tom Hanson 9780972419444
RRP: $13.66$12.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
RRP: $14.18$10.31With 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: $16.76$11.04A 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: $25.80$17.36In 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... -
The Handbook to Literary Research by W. R. Owens 9780415485005
RRP: $49.01$43.06The Handbook to Literary Research is a practical guide for students embarking on postgraduate work in Literary Studies. It introduces and explains research techniques, methodologies and approaches to information resources, paying careful attention to the... -
Poetics: WITH On the Sublime AND On Style by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19$30.65Classic criticism.This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature.Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen... -
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $14.18$9.73'The term culture ... includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into... -
In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781509540297
RRP: $23.21$21.01This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $14.18$10.31Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' Alison LuriePursuing art and adventure across Europe,... -
French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times by Collectif
RRP: $15.48$11.02From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition. Here are today's... -
Virginia Woolf's Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk's House Caroline Zoob 9781909342132
RRP: $38.70$26.70Monk's House in Sussex is the former home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It was bought by them in 1919 as a country retreat, somewhere they came to read, write and work in the garden. From the overgrown land behind the house they created a brilliant... -
Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration Leonard S. Marcus 9781406357943
RRP: $38.70$27.48A fascinating, beautiful and definitive account of the life of esteemed artist Helen Oxenbury.Filled with insights that span Helen Oxenbury's life, from her early childhood through a unique career in children's books that began in 1964 and is still going... -
Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth Joseph Campbell 9781608683246
RRP: $29.67$19.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608683246Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus Brian Gibbons 9781408149492
RRP: $12.89$12.02This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Christopher Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus. The new introduction by Brian Gibbons explores the plays in the... -
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
RRP: $16.76$12.05There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful. Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt... -
Under Storm's Wing by Helen Thomas 9781857543612
RRP: $25.80$18.41This text collects: all that Helen Thomas wrote about the poet Edward Thomas; the volumes "As It Was" and "World Without End"; her letters to Edward; and separate memoirs of her meetings with W.H. Davies, D.H. Lawrence, Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Farjeon,... -
Sonnets And Narrative Poems by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.35$14.36A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece".About the AuthorWilliam Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, and was baptised on 26 April... -
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $16.76$12.05Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he... -
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm
RRP: $14.18$9.73In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St... -
The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland by Angela Youngman 9781526797155
RRP: $19.34$14.13Although the children's story Alice in Wonderland has been in print for over 150 years, the mysteries and rumours surrounding the story and its creator Lewis Carroll have continued to grow. The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first time anyone... -
Letters of Pliny: A Selection by Carl Hope
RRP: $16.76$15.54This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Pliny, Letters 1.9; 3.16; 4.2; 4.19; 8.8; 8.16; 8.17; 9.6, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the... -
Bukowski, a Life: The Centennial Edition by Neeli Cherkovski
RRP: $18.05$12.77The life of Charles Bukowski-laureate of lowlife Los Angeles-a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator. Neeli Cherkovski began a deep friendship with Bukowski in the... -
Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot by Gregory Jerome Hampton 9780739191453
RRP: $100.62$89.05Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature. It... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $32.25$28.63A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience: Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grunbein by Hannah V. Eldridge 9780192859211
RRP: $110.94$100.63This 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... -
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Toibin
RRP: $11.60$8.77Colm Toibin's Lady Gregory's Toothbrush is a beautiful insight into the life of outspoken Irishwoman, Augusta Gregory.A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner, yet retained an unprecedented independence of both... -
Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616 by Stephen Porter
RRP: $16.76$11.24Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that was growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to curb its expansion... -
The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Francis Beaumont by Sheldon Zitner
RRP: $19.34$14.34This play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. A grocer, his wife and their two apprentices attending the theatre in holiday mood interrupt and finally replace a fatuous love comedy with... -
On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $20.64$13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105725Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $14.18$9.73A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New... -
Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek and Hrolf Kraki and His Champions by Jackson Crawford
RRP: $21.92$18.51Inherited through the line of the berserker Angantyr and his war-loving daughter Hervor, the ever-lethal, shining sword Tyrfing and its changes of hands frame the uncanny story of The Saga of Hervor and Heidrek. A second heroic saga, Hrolf Kraki and His... -
Discourses: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Epictetus
RRP: $32.19$30.65From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled permanently... -
A Companion to Chaucer Peter Brown (University of Kent at Canterbury) 9780631235903
RRP: $55.41$48.98Designed 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...