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The Grail Legend by Emma Jung
RRP: $63.00$50.53The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the... -
El Publico by Lorca 9788437606729
$19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437606729Author LorcaFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Catedra, S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra, S.A. -
Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction by Peter Kemp 9780300269628
RRP: $42.00$35.66The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form... -
The Illusions of Postmodernism Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631203230
RRP: $62.90$56.32In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought... -
Reading for Form by Susan J. Wolfson 9780295986487
RRP: $52.48$45.51Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open... -
Tetrabiblos: Or Quadripartite by Ptolemy
RRP: $52.40$49.90Classic astrology.The Tetrabiblos of the famous astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus (ca. AD 100-178) of Egypt consists of four books, the title given in some manuscripts meaning "Mathematical Treatise in Four Books," in others "The Prognostics... -
The Tree by John Fowles
RRP: $31.50$23.37John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed and best-selling... -
John Keats: Poetry, Life and Landscapes by Suzie Grogan 9781526739377
RRP: $41.98$30.45_We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author_.' (John Keats to J.H. Reynolds, Teignmouth May 1818) John Keats is one of Britain's best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at... -
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art by Michael Gill
RRP: $73.50$58.70An 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... -
Police Procedural by George N. Dove 9780879721886
RRP: $46.10$31.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879721886Author George N. DoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of Wisconsin Press -
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy 9781555977597
RRP: $31.48$23.25In his first book of nonfiction, Benjamin Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive. In fifteen essays on the craft of fiction, Percy looks to disparate sources to discover how contemporary writers engage issues... -
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures by Simon Armitage
RRP: $35.68$24.32'[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never strayed into pretentiousness or self-importance' Oxford Culture ReviewA Vertical Art gathers the expansive and... -
Reading Walter de la Mare by Walter de la Mare
RRP: $31.48$21.13Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. This volume presents a new selection of de la Mare's... -
Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid 9780252082504
RRP: $35.68$31.65The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and... -
Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts by Robert B Pippin
RRP: $56.70$55.59Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic objects that cannot be properly understood unless we... -
Basho: The Complete Haiku by Matsuo Basho
RRP: $52.50$35.76Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese... -
Just Go Down To the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel by James Campbell
RRP: $31.48$21.13'A memoir which is also a work of art' - Allan Massie, The Scotsman The story begins with Campbell, aged 14, in a police cell in Glasgow. He's been charged with stealing books - five Mickey Spillane novels and a copy of Peyton Place. At 15, he became... -
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter by Angela Topping 9781906075255
RRP: $20.98$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075255Author Angela ToppingFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Seven Ages by Louise Gluck
RRP: $20.90$15.08Louise Gluck has long practised poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortals. To read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphoses into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal,... -
Time Travel by James Gleick
RRP: $27.28$18.29AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our... -
On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume II by Timothy Hickson 9780473591335
$23.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473591335Author Timothy HicksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Tim HicksonPublisher Tim HicksonWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature M.C. Howatson (St. Anne's College, Oxford) 9780199548552
RRP: $36.73$26.48The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales,... -
Selected Poems of Du Fu by Du Fu 9780231128292
RRP: $46.20$36.46Du Fu (712-777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant... -
Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism Eugene Thacker 9781912248193
RRP: $31.48$21.11The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker's new book traces the... -
Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 by Jane Roberts 9781781382660
RRP: $69.30$63.82The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a sense of changes in scripts across time is through visual... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781451694727
RRP: $20.98$14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451694727Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB English A: Literature Course Book by Brent Whitted
RRP: $102.88$97.21Developed in cooperation with the IB, this student-friendly, concept-based Course Book has been comprehensively updated to support all aspects of the new English A: Literature syllabus, for first teaching in September 2019. With in-depth coverage of the... -
Poems: The Centenary Edition by Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: $31.48$23.33This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and... -
The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden by Stan Smith 9780521536479
RRP: $56.68$47.88This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning... -
Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man by Michael Pitts 9781793636621
RRP: $63.00$55.59Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man traces efforts within American feminist utopias to imagine healthier conceptions of manhood. As this analysis illuminates, feminist works envisioning the improved society and its... -
Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Bernhard Bischoff
RRP: $56.68$47.88This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: $31.48$23.33The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to the Give a Book charity In this delightful... -
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson 9780674971806
RRP: $67.10$52.86A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed... -
Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others by Angela Brintlinger 9781350242142
RRP: $27.28$24.89For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of... -
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi 9781595340412
RRP: $37.78$26.23This book tells us how maps help us to understand where we are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain our realities. "Maps of the Imagination" explores how writers and cartographers use many... -
Byron in Context by Clara Tuite
RRP: $50.38$47.99George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824), was one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic period, as well as a peer, politician and global celebrity, famed not only for his verse, but for his controversial lifestyle and involvement in the... -
Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time by Daniel Mulhall 9781848408814
RRP: $33.58$24.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848408814Author Daniel MulhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 373gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: $20.98$13.88Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius Rhodes 9780140440850
RRP: $27.28$20.58Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is the only full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece. It describes the thrilling adventures of the Argonauts on their voyage to Colchis to plead with king Aeetes for the... -
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
RRP: $27.28$19.61From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would...