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The Old Man and the Sea SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469723
RRP: €7.13€5.24When 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... -
Brave New World: York Notes Advanced by Aldous Huxley
RRP: €9.51€7.32York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York... -
Rules for the Dance: Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver 9780395850862
€14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395850862Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 560g -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
RRP: €20.22€15.09'Suddently, at about one o'clock in the morning, there was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the door. 'They've come for Osip', I said'.In 1933 the poet Osip Mandelstam- friend to Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova- wrote a spirited satire denouncing... -
Be More Jane: Bring out Your Inner Austen to Meet Life's Challenges by Sophie Andrews
RRP: €9.51€7.07Follow the wise words of one of the world's best-loved authors to lead a happier life. Are you more Marianne than Elinor, Lydia rather than Lizzy? Be More Jane will teach you to address life with more sense and less prejudice, taking useful lessons... -
CliffsComplete Shakespeare's Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9780764585685
€16.73One of the most famous dramas of all time, Hamlet is the story of a young prince torn between his dual roles of ruler and son, between introspective moral questioning and swift action. The play is filled with action and provocative inquiry... -
The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith 9781851245987
RRP: €35.70€26.97In late November 1623, Edward Blount finally took delivery to his bookshop at the sign of the Black Bear near St Paul's a book that had been long in the making. Master William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies was the first collected... -
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
RRP: €15.46€13.64The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 * A Kirkus... -
Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages by Stephen Knight
RRP: €20.22€17.59Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early Welsh... -
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories by Hermann Palsson
RRP: €15.46€10.82Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into... -
A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman by David S. Reynolds 9780195120820
RRP: €36.88€32.02Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore... -
The Sourcebook of Magic Second Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to NLP Change Patterns by L. Michael Hall 9781904424253
RRP: €23.80€18.85In the newly revised version of The Sourcebook of Magic you will discover afresh the basic 77 NLP patterns for transformational magic. What's new? A change from merely describing the patterns to presenting the key questions that allow you to guide a... -
The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
RRP: €13.08€8.71The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists.In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of... -
Shakespeare's Money: How much did he make and what did this mean? by Robert Bearman 9780198822240
RRP: €24.38€24.26There is no doubting Shakespeare's literary genius, immortalised in his published work. However, statements along these lines are frequently followed by laments of how little is known about this life. This is true if we wish to know about Shakespeare's... -
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art by Michael Gill
RRP: €41.65€33.01An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in... -
Under Storm's Wing by Helen Thomas 9781857543612
RRP: €23.80€16.72This 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,... -
The Orwell Tour: Travels through the life and work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis
RRP: €23.80€16.02A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived... -
French Literature: A Very Short Introduction by John D. Lyons
RRP: €10.70€7.68The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations. The first... -
Children's Literature by Carrie Hintz
RRP: €23.79€21.05Children's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has... -
Arthur Ransome on the Broads by Roger Wardale
RRP: €19.03€12.91In Arthur Ransome on the Broads Roger Wardale tells the inside story of the two classic children's novels, Coot Club and The Big Six, that stemmed from the eight holidays that Ransome and his wife spent cruising in hired craft on the Norfolk Broads in... -
George MacDonald by C. S. Lewis
RRP: €11.89€8.64An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. He influenced... -
A User's Guide to Melancholy by Mary Ann Lund 9781108838849
RRP: €29.74€24.15A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and afflicting diseases of the Renaissance. Burton's Anatomy... -
Jews and Words by Amos Oz
RRP: €13.08€11.15A celebrated novelist and an acclaimed historian of ideas, father and daughter, unravel the chain of words at the core of Jewish life, history, and culture Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger... -
The Commercial Determinants of Health by Nason Maani 9780197578742
RRP: €121.98€117.85An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us-by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the... -
Our Secret Territory: The Essence of Storytelling by Laura Simms
RRP: €23.79€15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591811725Author Laura SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 320g -
In Dialogue with Dickens: The Mind of the Heart by Rosemarie Bodenheimer 9780192886743
RRP: €35.70€30.88Written in the form of a back-and-forth dialogue between the two authors, this book is about the relationship between feeling and thinking in Dickens's novels. It presents Dickens as a psychological thinker, whose generative thought may be conscious,... -
American Protest Literature by Zoe Trodd
RRP: €33.26€26.83"I like a little rebellion now and then"-so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an... -
The Gifts by Liz Hyder
RRP: €17.84€11.88'Fierce and touching' Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne'Haunting, thrilling, wonderful. I loved it' Stacey Halls'Your next obsession. . . Unique and captivating' Cosmopolitan Discover the extraordinary, luminous novel that everyone is... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg
RRP: €28.55€24.80This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing... -
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen
RRP: €29.75€21.80In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating... -
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
RRP: €27.36€26.04Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being... -
Narrative Environments and Experience Design: Space as a Medium of Communication by Tricia Austin
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial... -
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom 9780007557233
RRP: €13.08€9.25This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This is a book... -
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
RRP: €11.89€8.68'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with... -
Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings by Henry James 9781598534719
RRP: €42.83€27.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534719Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 722g -
Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel: Complete and Unabridged by Luo Guanzhong
RRP: €35.70€28.91"Three Kingdoms" tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in Chinese history became a subject of intense and continuing... -
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
RRP: €15.46€10.82One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic... -
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 9780486818504
€15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486818504Author Edgar Allan PoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture by Catherine Belsey 9780631168140
RRP: €46.35€40.70In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction - including poetry, drama and film - is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in... -
George Eliot's Middlemarch by Josie Billington
RRP: €10.70€8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776076Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD