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The Art of Poetry: AQA Love & Relationships by Kathrine Mortimore 9780995467132
RRP: $37.78$31.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467132Author Kathrine MortimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 231g -
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi
RRP: $23.08$18.08'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich... -
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $46.20$33.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451208637Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 227mm *... -
Early Fiction in England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer by Laura Ashe
RRP: $27.28$19.61A 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,... -
Heimskringla: Volume I by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521949
RRP: $25.20$20.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521949Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
The Durrell Log: A chronology of the life and times of Lawrence Durrell by Brewster Chamberlin
RRP: $32.55$31.08Apologies 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 Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators by Michael Rothberg
RRP: $44.08$39.19When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control... -
Selected Poems by Sharon Olds
RRP: $31.50$23.02Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This rich selection - made by... -
The Taming of the Shrew: Critical Essays Dana Aspinall 9780415874342
RRP: $92.38$80.72This 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: $25.18$24.49Exam 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. ... -
"I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms
RRP: $52.48$51.53In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), one of the founders of Russia's "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the... -
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux 9780393254730
RRP: $46.18$38.96Soon after its publication on 30 September 1868, Little Women became an enormous international bestseller. When Anne Boyd Rioux read it in her twenties, it had a powerful effect on her and through teaching it, she has seen its effect on many others. In... -
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200417
RRP: $18.88$14.72The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of... -
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction by Derek Attridge 9780521423694
RRP: $92.38$69.85This 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... -
Richard III by Eric Rasmussen
$15.33From 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... -
Adua by Igiaba Scego
RRP: $18.88$13.97Once a young girl in Somalia who wanted to be in films and escape the domineering grasp of her father, Adua is now an "Old Lira," a woman who immigrated to Italy during the first wave in the 1970's. With the end of the Somalian civil war, Adua begins to... -
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato 9780140455496
RRP: $20.98$15.37'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these four dialogues,... -
When the Fund Stops: The untold story behind the downfall of Neil Woodford, Britain's most successful fund manager by David Ricketts 9780857198655
RRP: $31.48$21.48Neil Woodford was the UK's most celebrated fund manager. Savers who invested GBP1,000 with him in 1988 saw their money increase to GBP25,000 over 25 years. At the peak of his career he was managing GBP33 billion for hundreds of thousands of investors. ... -
Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $42.00$28.27Beckett'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... -
Chaucer: Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd 9780099287483
RRP: $27.28$11.87Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him... -
Cicero: Philippics I-II by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $58.78$50.97This edition is the first since J. D. Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text of and a commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of the most polished orations in the Ciceronian corpus. These speeches, which were composed less than six... -
Literary Analysis: The Basics Celena Kusch 9780415747103
RRP: $41.98$37.15Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons,... -
Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry by Douglas Dunn
RRP: $35.68$24.32During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic 'No' to... -
The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky 9781503635494
RRP: $23.08$18.63An incisive demonstration of how Orwell's body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War. Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell,... -
Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era's Dark Angel by Lionel Johnson
$38.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222627Author Lionel JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement by Sarah RudeWalker 9780820363967
$60.65In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics-in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence,... -
Politics: v. 21 by Aristotle
RRP: $52.40$49.90The natural state of mankind.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Triggered Literature: Cancellation, Stealth Censorship and Cultural Warfare by John Sutherland 9781785908170
RRP: $39.88$29.46Amid the flames of the culture wars, politicians have taken up arms over controls on literary culture, spurred on in part by universities 'triggering' canonical texts. Jonathan Swift's 'Battle of the Books' has flared up again. But is 'triggering' utter... -
Yeats's Poetic Codes by Nicholas Grene
RRP: $61.93$57.02Nicholas Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry. Where previous studies have sought to decode his work, expounding its symbolic meanings by references to... -
A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition by Scott C. Lucas
$48.83Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and Stuart England, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives A Mirror for Magistrates captivated readers and led numerous poets and playwrights to create their own Mirror-inspired works on... -
Huon of Bordeaux by Catherine M Jones 9781599104010
RRP: $42.00$37.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599104010Author Catherine M JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Love and Sex in D. H. Lawrence by David Ellis
RRP: $57.65$51.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954712Author David EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
National 4 & 5 English, Second Edition Jane Cooper 9781510426955
$53.78Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst teaching: August 2017First exams: Summer 2018Introduce, develop, test and reinforce the skills required for success in National 4 & 5 English.Fully updated in accordance with the revised N5... -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $57.73$42.59By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of... -
Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King by Francis Young
RRP: $33.58$26.57What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The search for the final resting place of King Edmund has led to this site, beneath which Francis Young argues... -
Herbert Poems by George Herbert
RRP: $20.98$15.37Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to "pattern poems," the shape of which reveal their subjects. Such technical agility never seems ostentatious, however, for precision of language and expression... -
Oxford Literature Companions: The Great Gatsby by Garrett O'Doherty 9780198398967
$22.76Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
Romantic Poetry and Prose by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780195016154
$108.53This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats,... -
Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia: Voices from a Settler Community in Argentina by Geraldine Lublin 9781783169672
RRP: $52.48$40.11This literary investigation of identity construction in twentieth-century Welsh Patagonia breaks new ground by looking at the Welsh community in Chubut not as a quaint anomaly, but in its context as an integral part of Argentina. Its focus is on... -
Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Watz 9781526167156
RRP: $31.48$29.06Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the...