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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... -
The Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes by Diane J. Rayor 9780520282117
RRP: $27.09$21.45The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. Well before the advent of writing in Greece, they were performed by traveling bards at religious events,... -
Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" by Aristotle
RRP: $45.15$43.74For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric... -
Oxford Student Texts: The Merchant's Tale by Steven Croft 9780198355380
$15.17Oxford 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... -
brainwaves by Ziggy Alberts 9780648705710
RRP: $18.05$13.52Apologies 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 -
Narrative: Telling the Story by Amy Jones 9781907155475
RRP: $8.97$6.27What is the best way to tell a story? In first-person peripheral, or third-person focalised? Unfolding in the present, or as events in the past? Where is the camera? What is the lens? Where is the action? In this concise little book, educator Amy Jones... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: $21.92$15.45With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the... -
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9780393964523
$17.04Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorized editions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is faithful to Defoe's original edition. Annotations assist the reader with obscure words and idioms, biblical references, and... -
Dartmoor Tin Mining: History and Heritage by Bruce Boulton 9780857101327
RRP: $12.89$10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857101327Author Bruce BoultonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint PiXZ BooksPublisher PiXZ Books -
Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity Carl Phelpstead 9780708323915
RRP: $25.79$19.96Tolkien and Wales is the first book to offer a detailed examination of the influence of Wales on Tolkien's fiction and scholarly work, including some relatively neglected texts.About the AuthorDr Phelpstead is a Reader in English literature at Cardiff... -
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva 9780231214575
RRP: $25.80$20.50In 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... -
The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman by Penelope Shuttle 9780714534053
RRP: $12.89$10.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714534053Author Penelope ShuttleFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
Poems by William Butler Yeats 9781857157116
RRP: $15.48$11.20A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from... -
What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History by Tom Mole 9780691202921
RRP: $38.70$30.52This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy... -
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'on the Concept of History' by Michael Lowy 9781784786410
$18.87Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an "unclassifiable" philosopher. His essay "On the Concept of History"... -
Wastocene: Stories from the Global Dump by Marco Armiero
RRP: $21.93$18.99Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in... -
Homer Vol. I. Iliad (Books I-XII) by D. B. Monro 9780198145288
RRP: $27.08$27.01Homer Vol. I. Iliad (Books I-XII)ReviewsExcellent standard text. * Jeanne G. Kurtz, University of New Hampshire *Book InformationISBN 9780198145288Author D. B. MonroFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University... -
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris 9780316301183
RRP: $58.05$43.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316301183Author David SedarisFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Why I Write by George Orwell 9781913724290
RRP: $6.45$5.92George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
King Lear Eric Rasmussen 9780230576148
RRP: $11.60$10.60From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's bleakest and most profound tragedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of King Lear in performance, takes... -
Dublin: A Writer's City by Christopher Morash
RRP: $25.80$18.03The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an... -
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan
$25.80A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war... -
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton
RRP: $12.89$11.69"The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite discarded" With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna, the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the family servant who has crossed her once too often... -
An Analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations Michael O' Sullivan 9781912127689
RRP: $8.39$8.11Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy. The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of a... -
The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture by Robyn Faith Walsh 9781108793131
RRP: $24.50$22.23Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities. Whether described as documenting intra-group 'oral traditions' or preserving the collective perspectives of... -
The Wood is Sweet by John Clare 9780953899555
$10.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953899555Author John ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint John Clare SocietyPublisher John Clare Society -
Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection from Count Dracula to Vampirella by Christopher Frayling 9780500296776
RRP: $19.34$12.26A comprehensive anthology of vampires in literature, from Dracula to Twilight. Christopher Frayling has spent 50 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of mass culture - the vampire. Vampyres is a comprehensive... -
Eliot: After The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
RRP: $32.25$23.25The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney by Peter Sabor
RRP: $34.82$29.41Frances Burney (1752-1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. Her first novel Evelina was a publishing sensation; her follow-up novels Cecilia and Camilla were regarded as among the best fiction of the time and were much... -
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $11.60$8.58This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the... -
Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: $10.31$7.60Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is random - making it ideal for dipping into - and drawn from a number... -
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto by Dawid Sierakowiak 9780195122855
RRP: $23.85$19.18"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us."... -
The Poetry of Derek Mahon by Hugh Haughton
$56.88Derek Mahon is one of the leading poets of his time, both in Ireland and beyond, famously offering a perspective that is displaced from as much as grounded in his native country. From prodigious beginnings to prolific maturity, he has been, through thick... -
The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul 9780956284075
RRP: $12.90$9.03Bess and Halland live in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. When Halland is found murdered in the main square the police encounter only riddles. For Bess bereavement marks the start of a journey that leads her to a reassessment of first... -
Fifty Forgotten Books by R. B. Russell
RRP: $16.76$11.84Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... -
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge
RRP: $12.89$9.44As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She's written more than fifty novels - romances, detective stories and contemporary works of... -
Lakeland Fell Running for Mortals: 70 great runs by John Myatt 9781906095888
RRP: $32.24$26.57This book is aimed at parkrunners and club runners who run mainly on the roads but who would also like to run in the hills; roadrunners who want to head onto the fells but who are wary about taking the first step, maybe even a little intimidated by... -
Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre by Harry R. McCarthy
RRP: $96.75$87.38Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching... -
The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind by Jason M. Baxter
RRP: $23.21$19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514001646Author Jason M. BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *... -
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
RRP: $14.18$9.73A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Excellent.' New Statesman'Outstanding.' Irish Times'Enthralling.' Guardian'Shapiro at his best.' Daily Telegraph From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of...