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Chuang Tzu by David Hinton
RRP: £14.99£8.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018 by Seamus Deane
RRP: £20.00£16.83Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the... -
The Real Kenneth Grahame: The Tragedy Behind The Wind in the Willows by Galvin, Elisabeth 9781526748805
RRP: £20.00£14.29He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the... -
The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga by Margaret Clunies Ross 9780521735209
RRP: £20.99£17.94The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts... -
The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd by David Bevington 9780719043444
RRP: £10.99£7.90The "revenge" play became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. This example by Thomas Kyd, who was one of the originators of the genre, brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically... -
Stylistics: Text, Cognition and Corpora by Jane Lugea 9783031104213
RRP: £34.99£29.88This textbook introduces the reader to contemporary approaches to language analysis such as cognitive stylistics and corpus stylistics, reflecting recent shifts in research trends and offering students a practical way to access and understand these ... -
Selected Letters by Jane Austen
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important.' Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's time and social position, and Austen's letters have a freedom and familiarity that only intimate writing can... -
Left Out: The forgotten tradition of radical publishing for children in Britain 1910-1949 by Kimberley Reynolds
RRP: £56.00£55.29Left Out presents an alternative and corrective history of writing for children in the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1949 a number of British publishers, writers, and illustrators included children's literature in their efforts to... -
Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History by Francesca Romana Berno
RRP: £98.00£88.71In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate frugal nature of the Romans. Latin authors do not see it as... -
Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda 9780374529604
RRP: £25.00£17.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529604Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 1040Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction by Peter Kemp 9780300269628
RRP: £20.00£16.98The 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 Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization by Jasper Bernes 9780804796415
RRP: £99.00£85.74A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives. Over the last few decades, we have... -
J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond
RRP: £22.00£15.72A lavishly-illustrated study of Tolkien's paintings and drawings, set in the context of his writings. J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), renowned author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion was an artist in pictures as well as in... -
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
RRP: £9.99£7.11*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANSAmerica is at a crossroads.Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's... -
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £8.99£7.81The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose... -
Study Guide to Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw by Intelligent Education 9781645421580
RRP: £8.99£7.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645421580Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Archbishop William Temple: A Study in Servant Leadership by Stephen Spencer 9780334061670
RRP: £22.99£21.34Leadership is a growing preoccupation of the contemporary church, but for some of the most inspiring examples of good leadership we need to go back, not forwards. Archbishop William Temple is widely regarded as one of the most influential church leaders... -
Thomas Browne: Selected Writings by Kevin Killeen 9780198797654
RRP: £20.99£20.69This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition demonstrates the breadth of the... -
The Merchant of Venice by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: £8.99£8.72From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's bittersweet comedy of courtship and ethnic tension. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merchant of... -
De Rerum Natura: Bk.1 by Titus Lucretius Carus 9780862920760
£32.28This edition, first published by BCP in 1984, is designed - with its extensive annotation and vocabulary - to provide all the help required by the comparative beginner in Latin who is coming to Lucretius for the first time. At the same time the... -
Cold Mountain Poems: Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih by Han Shan
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806984Author Han ShanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Sardines and Oranges: Short Stories from North Africa by Latifa Baqa 9780954966614
RRP: £8.99£6.34This first volume of translated short stories from North Africa, is a timely publication for both the Africa 2005 cultural events and the Save Our Short Story campaign.Many of the 21 authors are major literary figures in their own countries and the Arab... -
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales by Stephen Fender
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776250Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Lakeland Fell Running for Mortals: 70 great runs by John Myatt 9781906095888
RRP: £24.99£20.28This book is aimed at parkrunners and club runners who run mainly on the roads but who would also like to run in the hills; roadrunners who want to head onto the fells but who are wary about taking the first step, maybe even a little intimidated by... -
The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist by Margaret C. Jones 9781350293953
RRP: £15.99£14.28In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated... -
The Good European: Arguments, Excursions and Disquisitions on the Theme of Europe by Iain Bamforth 9781857547658
RRP: £16.95£12.05Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be "good Europeans", avatars of the enlightened economic man of the... -
Tolkien, Europe, and Tradition: From Civilisation to the Dawn of Imagination by Armand Berger 9781914208973
RRP: £10.88£9.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914208973Author Armand BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Arktos Media Ltd.Publisher Arktos Media Ltd.Weight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino 9780141181349
RRP: £16.99£13.33Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Su Fielder 9780198419556
RRP: £9.99£9.59Easy 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,... -
The Kristeva Reader by Toril Moi
RRP: £21.95£19.32Julia Kristeva is one of Europe's most brilliant and original theorists, widely acclaimed for her work in such diverse areas as linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary and political theory. The Kristeva Reader is a fully-comprehensive, easily accessible... -
Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta by Mark Musa
RRP: £39.00£35.12"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet's own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary
RRP: £16.99£16.26Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently never... -
Exploring Translation Theories by Anthony Pym 9781032457512
RRP: £35.99£31.69Exploring Translation Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of the core contemporary paradigms of Western translation theory.This engaging overview covers the key theories of equivalence, solution types, purpose, scientific approaches, uncertainty,... -
The Art of Writing Fiction by Andrew Cowan 9781408248348
£27.38The Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid. Readers will master key aspects of fiction such as... -
Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy by Michael Neill 9780198184935
£116.66Death, like most experiences that we think of as natural, is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time and culture. Tragedy was one of the principal... -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton by Joe Moshenska 9781529364286
RRP: £25.00£16.78'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon... -
Borrowed Imagination: The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources by Samar Attar 9781498550468
RRP: £45.00£39.49Borrowed Imagination: The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources examines masterpieces of English Romantic poetry and shows the Arabic and Islamic sources that inspired Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Byron when... -
A Glossary of Literary Terms by Geoffrey Galt Harpham 9781285465067
£50.83First published over fifty years ago, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS remains an essential resource for all serious students of literature. Now fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship on recent and rapidly evolving critical theories, the new... -
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Elizabeth Ammons 9780393283785
RRP: £12.99£11.86This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by Elizabeth Ammons's preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.Twenty-two illustrations.A rich selection of historical documents on slavery and abolitionism... -
All Made Up by Janice Galloway 9781847083272
RRP: £9.99£6.70In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years. When she started secondary school, Galloway was still sharing a bed with her...