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Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State by Richard Seaford 9780198150367
RRP: $89.01$85.05This 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... -
History of Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History, Ivan the Terrible, The Russian Revolution and Cambridge Five by Captivating History 9781950922130
RRP: $25.76$18.52Apologies 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 *... -
Letters on England by Francois Voltaire
RRP: $16.76$12.05Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French... -
My Favourite London Devils: A Gazetteer of Encounters with Local Scribes, Elective Shamen & Unsponsored Keepers of the Sacred Flame by Dave McKean 9781910691175
RRP: $12.90$9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910691175Author Dave McKeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tangerine PressPublisher Tangerine Press -
Epistulae Morales: v. 1: Letters I-LXV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $32.19$29.97Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service... -
Rules for the Dance: Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver 9780395850862
$14.14Apologies 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 -
A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon
RRP: $61.91$53.93A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film... -
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland 9781847946409
RRP: $61.86$41.06As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it's a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand to do precisely that. In the course of over 500... -
Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel: Complete and Unabridged by Luo Guanzhong
RRP: $38.70$31.33"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... -
Report from the Interior by Paul Auster
RRP: $14.18$9.73'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .' Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally best-selling novelist Paul Auster now remembers the... -
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140440447
RRP: $16.76$12.05The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesuscompletes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.About the AuthorEuripides,... -
Middle English Literature by Roger Dalrymple 9780631232902
RRP: $54.12$47.74"Middle English" is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. This title brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. It introduces readers to different critical... -
A Study Guide for Edward Bond's "Saved" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387446
RRP: $12.84$11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375387446Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy 9781907903632
RRP: $16.76$14.41Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life,... -
Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages by Stephen Knight
RRP: $21.92$19.36Merlin, 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: $16.76$12.05Written 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... -
William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth 9780571328789
RRP: $16.76$11.35In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Shakespeare's Money: How much did he make and what did this mean? by Robert Bearman 9780198822240
RRP: $26.43$26.30There 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... -
Letting Stories Breathe by Arthur W. Frank
RRP: $27.09$26.20Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us - they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can be. Though stories can connect individuals, they also can... -
The Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9780674676220
RRP: $147.00$121.08Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in... -
Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth by Craig Bernthal 9781621380535
$23.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380535Author Craig BernthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Angelico Press/Second SpringPublisher Angelico Press/Second SpringWeight(grams)... -
Sartre and Fiction by Gary Cox 9780826423184
$37.86This clear and accessible introduction offers detailed coverage of, and invaluable guidance on, Sartre's fictional writings."Sartre and Fiction" offers a clear and accessible introduction to the extensive fictional writings of Jean-Paul Sartre... -
The Orwell Tour: Travels through the life and work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis
RRP: $25.80$17.36A 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... -
The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa 2nd Edition by Ama Ata Aidoo
$16.31These two witty and perceptive social dramas are sympathetic and honest explorations of the conflicts between the individualism of westernised culture and the social traditions of Africa. Both plays have been performed throughout the world. About the... -
The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
RRP: $14.18$10.15The 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... -
George MacDonald by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $12.89$9.37An 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... -
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
RRP: $12.89$9.44What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood's glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally,... -
In Dialogue with Dickens: The Mind of the Heart by Rosemarie Bodenheimer 9780192886743
RRP: $38.70$33.48Written 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,... -
Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology Francis O'Gorman 9780631234364
RRP: $45.09$41.37Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert... -
Selected Poetry by Thomas Hardy
RRP: $12.89$9.44Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) remains one of the best loved of the great English poets. Hardy thought of himself as a poet all his life, although his poetic career only flowered after he had retired from novel-writing in his mid-fifties. Over the next... -
You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 9781571315403
RRP: $15.47$10.62Finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in TranslationTranslated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet... -
The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain by Bécquer Seguín 9780674260108
RRP: $48.96$39.36“The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain’s most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the osmotic links between political journalism and... -
Proust and Signs by Gilles Deleuze 9780826442789
RRP: $30.95$30.70Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In Proust and Signs, Deleuze explores the work of art... -
Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic by Christopher Prendergast 9780691155203
RRP: $61.92$48.88Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in... -
Descendant of the Crane by Joan He 9781789094046
RRP: $11.60$7.25In this shimmering Chinese-inspired fantasy, debut author Joan He introduces a determined and vulnerable young heroine struggling to do right in a world brimming with deception. Tyrants cut out hearts. Rulers sacrifice their own. Princess Hesina... -
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857151886
RRP: $20.63$15.21An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, and his passions for... -
I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker 9780571297740
RRP: $16.76$11.35Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight?Who wouldn't? Keep dreaming, imbecile. In the meantime, if you'd like to read something that alternates between laugh-out-loud-funny and apocalyptically angry, keep holding this book. Steal... -
Selected Speeches by Demosthenes
RRP: $16.76$12.05'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was intimately involved in the political events of his day. As well as... -
Georgics by Virgil
RRP: $12.89$9.44'A countryman cleaves earth with his crooked plough. Such is the labour of his life. So he sustains his native land ...' Virgil's affectionate poem of the land does not admit brief excerpts, any more than the labour of the farmer can easily be... -
Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind by Travis Langley 9781454917366
RRP: $16.76$11.39From its very first frame, the Star Wars series created a compelling universe, with complex characters and engaging storytelling. In advance of the highly anticipated new movie, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, this essay collection offers a...