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The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson
RRP: $19.48$12.56From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to... -
A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays by Phillip Lopate 9781681377780
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377780Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre by Harry R. McCarthy
RRP: $146.25$132.09Boy 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 Complete Poems by William Empson
RRP: $39.00$27.87Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. Praised in his lifetime by the likes of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman, his reputation contines to be high. His poems take a wide range of themes... -
Plays: v. 1: "Ajax", "Electra", "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Sophocles
RRP: $48.65$45.61Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $13.63$10.00'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they?... -
Poems by Sextus Propertius 9781784106515
$25.99The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Recommended Translation. Asked to name the great Latin love poets, today's reader is likely to offer Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace. Propertius, a successor of the first and influential peer to the others, has not... -
Orwell: The Life by D. J. Taylor
RRP: $29.23$21.35Orwell 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... -
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroeger
RRP: $35.08$24.45Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein; but have you heard of Margaret Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier? Have you read the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term... -
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
RRP: $21.43$14.27A 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... -
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women by Leigh Gilmore
RRP: $48.75$38.20The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained response to women's accounts of sexual violence from doubting all of them to believing some of them. What... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 9780393643947
$25.99This Norton Critical Edition includes: Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text of Joyce's 1916 coming-of-age novel, accompanied by Gabler's introduction and textual notes.Preface and revised and expanded explanatory annotations by John Paul Riquelme.Other... -
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman 9781783784516
RRP: $19.48$13.07'The funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter' The Times She thought she was a lover of the great classics of Russian literature - until she... -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: $48.75$28.65At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was... -
Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library) by David Wilkinson 9780008293659
RRP: $68.25$44.89Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain's ecosystems to illustrate each point. ... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: $19.48$14.18Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the finest critic of his generation on the best poet of his... -
All's Well that Ends Well by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $17.53$15.58From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's ambiguous, bittersweet fairy tale. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of All's Well that Ends Well in... -
Sonnets And Narrative Poems by William Shakespeare
RRP: $29.25$21.37A 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... -
Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times by Dougald Hine 9781603587419
RRP: $39.00$26.03The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers-Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth-who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time. In a world in which the climate is being altered... -
Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages by Frances F. Beer
RRP: $38.98$33.09Original and thought-provoking study of three medieval women mystics based on writings and biographical material. `A wholly feminine voice within Catholicism-they express the inexpressible better than any amount of rational thinking about God.' THE... -
Leitrim Observed: A Biography of John McGahern by Aubrey Malone
$40.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750603Author Aubrey MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Aureus PublishingPublisher Aureus Publishing -
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin 9781804290460
RRP: $25.33$21.47The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar... -
The Experimentalists: The Life and Times of the British Experimental Writers of the 1960s by Dr Joseph Darlington 9781350244382
RRP: $44.83$39.21The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and interviews with the writers' colleagues, is brought... -
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: $24.38$22.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027762Author Vladimir NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Chaucer: Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd 9780099287483
RRP: $25.33$10.67Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him... -
Selected Poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins
RRP: $15.58$11.29Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling, from the religious ecstasy of `he Blessed Virgin' to the torments of his loneliness and... -
Haiku by David Cobb 9780714124018
RRP: $19.48$13.26Japanese Haiku has been a much-loved form of poetry for many centuries. Composed of 17 syllables, it can convey the essence of an emotion, a fleeting moment in nature, or a throwaway comment. This collection features 60 classic haiku by masters such as... -
The Pursuit of Signs by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $25.33$23.28To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers insights into our ways of consuming texts that are both... -
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch
RRP: $29.23$26.19From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric... -
Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: $31.18$22.64'It isn't likely that this collection of journal entries will pass the censors. If it can't be published, I hope my friends will circulate it among themselves. I'll leave Vietnam tomorrow...' Thus Thich Nhat Hanh begins his 11 May 1966 journal entry... -
Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics by S K Heninger 9781621386230
$64.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386230Author S K HeningerFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Guide to the Lakes by William Wordsworth 9780198848097
RRP: $19.48$14.22William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today, such as how the growing number of visitors, and the... -
Blake's 'Jerusalem' As Visionary Theatre: Entering the Divine Body by Susanne M. Sklar 9780199603145
$188.78Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.' Blake's avowed intention in constructing the work was to move readers from a solely rational way of being (called Ulro) to one that is highly... -
The Imaginary Jew by David Suchoff
RRP: $21.43$18.72The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about this new meaning is a storm of contradictions. In The Imaginary Jew, Alain Finkielkraut describes with passion and acuity his own passage through... -
Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books by Ian C. Ellis 9780399532382
RRP: $46.80$33.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399532382Author Ian C. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Life Of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 9781857151015
RRP: $39.00$29.82The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more. At the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the... -
Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State by Richard Seaford 9780198150367
RRP: $134.55$128.56This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis, combining anthropology, political and social history, and the close reading of central Greek texts, to account for two the most significant hallmarks in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy: the representation... -
Duncan Roots and Branches (Paper Only) by R DUNCAN 9780811200349
RRP: $15.58$13.32The poet has said of himself and his work: "I am not an experimentalist or an inventor, but a derivative poet, drawing my art from the resources given by a generation of masters--Stein, Williams, Pound; back of that by the generations of poets that have... -
History of Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History, Ivan the Terrible, The Russian Revolution and Cambridge Five by Captivating History 9781950922130
RRP: $38.94$27.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922130Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Old Man and the Sea SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469723
RRP: $11.68$8.58When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and...