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Every Changing Shape by Elizabeth Jennings
RRP: $25.80$18.41This collection studies writers and mystics, past and present, and considers from a Christian poet's perspective how religious or mystical experience informs the imagination. The text provides readings of Elizabeth Jennings's chosen authors and offers... -
Well-Kept Secrets: The Story of William Wordsworth Andrew Wordsworth 9781843681946
RRP: $32.19$21.93Written by his collateral descendant, sculptor Andrew Wordsworth, this insightful biography studies Wordsworth's poetry to understand more fully this deeply private and often enigmatic personality, and it observes the artist's life to better grasp the... -
De Rerum Natura: Bk.1 by Titus Lucretius Carus 9780862920760
$41.64This 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... -
The Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork Joseph Campbell 9781608681662
RRP: $25.79$17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681662Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean by Nick Nesbitt 9780813947099
$38.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947099Author Nick NesbittFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Same Words, Different Worlds: Is Roman Catholicism Faithful to the Gospel? by Leonardo De Chirico 9781789743609
RRP: $20.63$15.21Do Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics share a common orthodoxy, as promoted by initiatives such as Evangelicals and Catholics Together? Or do the profound differences between Evangelical and Catholic theology and how they view the doctrines of... -
The Maya: Lost Civilizations by Megan E. O'Neil 9781789145502
RRP: $23.22$17.49This book reveals how the ancient Maya - and their buildings, ideas, objects and identities - have been perceived, portrayed and exploited over 500 years in the Americas, Europe and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes... -
The Dream Of The Earth Thomas Berry 9781619025325
RRP: $20.63$14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025325Author Thomas BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Last of the Light: About Twilight by Peter Davidson 9781780238272
RRP: $20.58$15.18This ambitious account of the arts of the evening, now available in paperback, deftly combines prose-poetry, memoir, philosophy and art history. Intertwining personal, cultural and artistic histories, it is a richly rewarding book written in a unique... -
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner 9780691160092
RRP: $45.15$37.35A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of... -
Barnhill: A Novel by Norman Bissell
RRP: $11.60$8.77George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven by a passionate desire to undermine the enemies of democracy and make plain the dangers of dictatorship,... -
William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill
RRP: $37.40$26.68In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this... -
The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series by Robert Jordan 9780765314611
RRP: $51.59$33.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765314611Author Robert JordanFormat HardbackPage Count 816Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 173mm * 64mm -
Well-Kept Ruins by Helene Cixous
RRP: $20.63$18.10A genre-defying book from one of France's most well-known philosopher-writers. In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabruck. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westphalia was signed, bringing the Thirty Years' War and... -
Time and Narrative: v. 1 by D. Pellauer
RRP: $25.80$25.03Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the... -
The Spanish Tragedy (Revels Student Edition): Thomas Kyd Stephen Bevington 9780719043444
RRP: $14.18$10.47The "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... -
The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir by A. M. Homes 9781847080110
RRP: $14.18$9.73On the day that A. M. Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a... -
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Josie Billington
RRP: $11.60$8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776571Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Journal Katherine Mansfield 9781903155592
RRP: $21.93$20.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155592Author Katherine MansfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 140mm *... -
Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy by Michael Neill 9780198184935
$150.49Death, 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... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $16.76$11.35The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a... -
Borrowed Imagination: The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources by Samar Attar 9781498550468
RRP: $58.05$50.94Borrowed 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... -
George Orwell and Russia Masha Karp (Independent Researcher, UK) 9781788317122
RRP: $28.37$23.72For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp – Russian Features Editor at... -
Bess of Hardwick's Letters: Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture by Alison Wiggins
RRP: $56.75$49.59Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527-1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison... -
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
RRP: $16.76$11.24Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. In this paperback of the landmark biography,... -
To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
RRP: $19.34$15.67To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herve Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death,... -
Thrasymachus by C.W.E. Peckett 9780862921392
$37.86This is one of the classic course books for those beginning ancient Greek. Designed to give students a working knowledge of the Greek languages in order to examine the ancient texts with confidence and enjoyment, the text includes some of the more... -
Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravada Buddhism Reimagined by Steven Collins
RRP: $38.70$30.04This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravada Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act. Steven Collins argues that Buddhist philosophy... -
A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by B. C. Southam 9780571170821
RRP: $16.76$11.35This is the sixth, revised and enlarged edition of this well established Guide. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's Selected Poems by identifying and explaining the wide and often baffling range of quotations, allusions and references: literary,... -
Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780385031141
RRP: $16.76$12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385031141Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: $19.35$16.83Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens evoke... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dracula by Roger Luckhurst
RRP: $25.79$20.85Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its... -
Folklore: The Basics Simon J. Bronner 9781138774957
RRP: $25.79$23.17Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka by Carolin Duttlinger
RRP: $25.79$17.20Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a... -
Autobiography of a slave - Autobiografia de un Esclavo by Juan Francisco Manzano 9780814325384
RRP: $34.77$33.48This sombre biography of an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's slave society, is presented in both Spanish and English. There is an introduction which sets the text in its historical and... -
Rape, Race, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 by Sandra Gunning 9780195099904
$86.74In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this... -
Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology by Nancy Perloff
RRP: $38.70$27.03Concrete Poetry : A 21st century Anthology presents a selective yet wide-ranging anthology of concrete poetry edited by curator Nancy Perloff and dedicated to singling out the most distinctive and significant works of this influential, interdisciplinary... -
Creative Criticism: An Anthology and Guide by Stephen Benson
RRP: $37.40$30.65This is the first anthology and guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing. 'We murder to dissect' writes Wordsworth. It's a sentiment shared by many lovers of literature and art, as well as by artists and writers themselves. Too often... -
The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey
RRP: $12.89$8.90The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and... -
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
RRP: $16.76$11.35Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'.Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the...