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William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth 9780571328789
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 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... -
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon
RRP: £10.99£7.40'As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book.' - Pandora SykesA conversation-changing look at the social, familial, neurological, and... -
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes
RRP: £20.00£15.89If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot... -
Tacitus Histories I: A Selection by Benedict Gravell
£19.16This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Histories Book I sections 4 (finis Neronis ...) to 7, 12-14, 17-23 and 26, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Histories Book I sections... -
Gender and the Politics of History by Pilar Zazueta
RRP: £6.50£6.11Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories... -
The Story Smuggler by Georgi Gospodinov
RRP: £14.00£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631205Author Georgi GospodinovFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
Poetry: The Basics by Jeffrey Wainwright
RRP: £19.99£17.69Now in its third edition Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the world of poetry. Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Carol Ann Duffy, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how... -
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel
RRP: £12.99£9.37For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them. ... -
Balzac by Graham Robb 9780330320153
£20.00Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect... -
French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times by Collectif
RRP: £12.00£8.44From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition. Here are today's... -
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by L. D. Reynolds
RRP: £41.99£39.48One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to... -
Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581 by Jessica Winston
RRP: £29.49£27.15Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyric poetry, dramatic tragedy, satire, and masque. But how... -
Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction by Susan Meyer 9780801482557
RRP: £31.00£27.36The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte,... -
The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis
RRP: £9.99£6.99When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most concentrated and richly faceted poems.' It can be seen... -
Playwriting For Dummies by Angelo Parra 9781118017227
RRP: £18.99£13.15The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and... -
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £10.99£7.40From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings... -
The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Malcolm Andrew 9780859897914
RRP: £29.99£27.78For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. Now, with the changing needs of today's student... -
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
RRP: £14.99£10.95Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself... -
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140440447
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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,... -
Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: Essays on the Novels, the Film and the Stage Productions by Steven Barfield 9780786440306
RRP: £21.99£17.97Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials stands as a landmark in fantasy literature. Comprised of the novels The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, the award-winning epic trilogy has been adapted for radio, stage, and film in both... -
Writing Greek: An Introduction to Writing in the Language of Classical Athens by Stephen P. Anderson
£26.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853997174Author Stephen AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533... -
Permanent Midnight: A Memoir by Jerry Stahl
RRP: £15.99£11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976082200Author Jerry StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint ProcessPublisher ProcessWeight(grams) 446g -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume III: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: £24.95£23.39A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
A Vertical Art: On Poetry by Simon Armitage 9780691233109
RRP: £17.99£15.10From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend... -
The Strength of Poetry by James Fenton 9780199261390
£35.24Why should a poet feel the need to be original? What is the relationship between genius and apprenticeship? James Fenton examines some of the most intriguing questions behind the making of the art - issues of creativity and the 'earning' of success, of... -
Characteristics of Negro Expression by Mercedes Aguirre
RRP: £6.50£6.11A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro Expression: A crushing evaluation of the many racial prejudices of 1930s America, including a common presumption that African... -
Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell 9781604698220
RRP: £18.99£14.92"A visual treat as well as a literary one...for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson." -The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen... -
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780198835325
RRP: £9.99£7.11'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life... -
Pencil by Carol Beggy 9781501392245
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it,... -
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl
RRP: £20.00£16.43As the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. But if a novel gave usAmazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and... -
Dante: The Poetics of Conversion by John Freccero 9780674192263
£36.02John Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment that it is. Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the... -
Swedish Gothic: Dark Forces, Creatures and the Wilderness by Yvonne Leffler 9781839980336
RRP: £20.99£20.14The book explores the Gothic tradition in Swedish literature. It aims to give an overview of the development of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today and to highlight the characteristic features of the Swedish tradition of Gothic in relation... -
Charles Dickens: A Literary Life by Grahame Smith 9780333557198
£30.34This study of Dickens's career as a professional writer uses a range of material to describe and analyze the ways in which his work can be seen as a form of literary production. It thus offers a challenge to traditional accounts which stress the private... -
Richard II by Eric Rasmussen
£9.53From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's tragic history of a ruler losing his grip on power. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Richard II in... -
Why Read Four Quartets? by Tom Brous 9781532635687
RRP: £15.00£11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532635687Author Tom BrousFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
The Rover by Aphra Behn 9781408152119
RRP: £9.99£8.82Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to courtesans - take the initiative. Featuring multiple plot lines, which deal with the adventures of a group... -
A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, Foreword by David C Greetham by Jerome J. McGann 9780813914183
£18.57This work initiated a major shift in literary theory and method when it was first published in 1983. Starting from a critical inquiry into certain specialised issues in the practice of editing, "A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism" gradually... -
Dystopia: A Natural History by Gregory Claeys 9780198820475
RRP: £31.99£23.84Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous... -
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums by Jillian M. Hess 9780192896070
RRP: £22.49£22.37Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept...