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Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience: Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grunbein by Hannah V. Eldridge 9780192859211
RRP: $180.60$163.82This 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: $18.88$14.28Colm 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: $27.28$18.29Everyday 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: $31.48$23.35This 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: $33.60$21.27Apologies 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: $23.08$15.83A 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: $35.68$30.14Inherited 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: $52.40$49.90From 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: $90.20$79.74Designed 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: $44.10$34.92The 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: $73.50$71.21For 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
$24.70Oxford 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: $29.38$22.01Apologies 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: $14.60$10.21What 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: $35.68$25.16With 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
$25.98Michael 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: $20.98$17.64Apologies 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: $41.98$32.49Tolkien 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: $42.00$33.37In 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: $20.98$17.75Apologies 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: $25.20$18.23A 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: $63.00$49.69This 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
$30.72Revolutionary 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: $35.70$30.91Humans 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: $44.08$43.97Homer 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: $94.50$71.59Apologies 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: $10.50$9.64George 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: $18.88$17.26From 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: $42.00$29.36The 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
$42.00A 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: $20.98$19.03"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: $13.65$13.21Many 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: $39.88$36.18Conventional 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
$17.39Apologies 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: $31.48$19.95A 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: $52.50$37.84The 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: $56.68$47.88Frances 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: $18.88$13.97This 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: $16.78$12.37Published 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: $38.83$31.23"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."...