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The Hebrew Bible as Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Tod Linafelt
RRP: €10.70€7.68The Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, contains some of the finest literature that we have. This biblical literature has a place not only in the synagogue or the church but also among the classics of world literature. The stories of Jacob and... -
Time Travel by James Gleick
RRP: €15.46€10.09AN 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
€13.16Apologies 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 Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin
RRP: €22.60€13.10"The Arabian Nights" has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriential literature, have a clear idea of when the... -
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by M. C. Howatson 9780199548552
RRP: €20.81€15.01The 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,... -
Richard III by Eric Rasmussen
€8.44From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a definitive, fresh new look at Shakespeare's most compelling villain. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Richard III in performance, takes a... -
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 9780393961881
€15.86The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England. "Backgrounds" encourages comparison of 1665 documents... -
The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire" by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: €33.31€28.73Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers-among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international... -
Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9780571328758
RRP: €15.46€10.19A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt,... -
A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading: An Anthology of Literary Texts by Richard Jacobs 9780415234689
RRP: €44.02€39.19A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading brings literature to life by combining a rich selection of literary texts with original and lively commentary. Unlike so many introductions to literary studies, it vividly demonstrates how criticism and theory can... -
Scottish Literature: An Introduction by Alan Riach
RRP: €29.75€21.23What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the... -
Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB English A: Literature Course Book by Brent Whitted
RRP: €58.30€55.09Developed 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... -
Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Jem Bloomfield 9781915412300
RRP: €23.74€17.34A superbly rich and engrossing exploration of C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Paths in the Snow traces the literary allusions and echoes to be found in this beloved novel, drawing the reader deeper into the magic and meaning of Narnia. ... -
The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden by Stan Smith 9780521536479
RRP: €32.12€27.13This 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... -
Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €14.27€12.08A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic... -
Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Rilke 9780679642329
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642329Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)... -
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
RRP: €14.27€9.87In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a... -
Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man by Michael Pitts 9781793636621
RRP: €35.70€31.75Alternative 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: €32.12€27.13This 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... -
You can't get blood out of a turnip by Ilia Warner 9781905299065
RRP: €11.84€9.70Whether fashionable or unfashionable, which of us don't use proverbs all the time? They are an indispensable vehicle of popular wisdom and a lively contributor to educated speech. Proverbs are forever evolving. This gathering of Italian proverbs is... -
Julius Caesar by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: €10.70€9.51From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's drama of the conflict between one man's ambition and the good of the state. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical... -
Medusa: In the Mirror of Time by David Leeming
RRP: €23.80€17.01Medusa, literally, petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal culture she was a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed; for Dante she was the erotic power that could destroy men; Freud saw in her hair a... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €23.80€19.39From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was... -
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by Michael Gorra
RRP: €17.84€14.34Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the... -
The Very Salt Of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Sufferage by Jane Aaron
RRP: €10.70€7.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206907Author Jane AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 352g -
The Triumph of Religion by Jacques Lacan 9780745659893
RRP: €47.60€41.73"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was... -
Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer by Laura Ashe
RRP: €15.46€10.82A brilliant new anthology that shows how fiction was reinvented in the twelfth century after an absence of hundreds of years. Essential for all students of medieval literature, Early Fiction in England includes extracts by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace,... -
The Durrell Log: A chronology of the life and times of Lawrence Durrell by Brewster Chamberlin
RRP: €18.45€17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912788040Author Brewster ChamberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Colenso BooksPublisher Colenso BooksWeight(grams) 149g -
The Taming of the Shrew: Critical Essays by Dana Aspinall 9780415874342
RRP: €52.35€45.74This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most... -
GCSE Set Text Student Guides - AQA GCSE (9-1) English Literature and Language - A Christmas Carol by Mike Gould
RRP: €14.27€13.88Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Language, GCSE 9-1 English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 Develop your students' skills in English Literature and English Language as you study A Christmas Carol. ... -
Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition by Gertrude Stein 9780872866355
RRP: €9.51€6.55This is the best and most authoritative edition of Tender Buttons, a major fixture in the modernist canon, featuring facsimiles of Stein's corrections, in her own handwriting. Our edition comes out on the centennial of its original publication, and... -
The Second Sex by Rachele Dini
RRP: €7.74€7.27Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century,... -
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction by Derek Attridge 9780521423694
RRP: €52.35€39.58This is the first introduction to rhythm and meter that begins where students are: as speakers of English familiar with the rhythms of ordinary spoken language, and of popular verse such as nursery rhymes, song and rap. Poetic Rhythm builds on this... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is... -
Sewer by Jessica Leigh Hester
RRP: €11.89€9.13Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What can underground pipes tell us about human eating habits and the spread or containment of disease, such as COVID-19? Why are sewers spitting... -
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff 9780226660608
RRP: €32.13€31.50Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously... -
Haunted by Christ by Richard Harries
RRP: €13.08€9.25W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Elizabeth Jennings, C. S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Stevie Smith . . . These are some of the great poets and novelists whose struggles with faith find expression in their works, and who demonstrate the... -
Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett
RRP: €23.80€16.02Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and... -
Corman / Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964 by Chris Alexander
RRP: €27.36€18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316073Author Chris AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James by Clive James 9781447241041
RRP: €17.84€13.51Hilarious and trenchant, Reliable Essays collects the most memorable works of criticism and travel writing from well-loved author and broadcaster, Clive James. With an introduction by Julian Barnes.'[An] intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as...