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The Later Christian Fathers: A Selection from the Writings of the Fathers from St Cyril of Jerusalem to St Leo the Great by Henry Bettenson
£30.73The century and a quarter following the Council of Nicaea (AD325) has been called the 'Golden Age of Patristic Literature'. It is this period that Henry Bettenson covers in this companion volume to The Early Christian Fathers, selecting from the writings... -
Isaac Rosenberg: 21st-Century Oxford Authors by Vivien Noakes
£23.16This volume, part of the the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series, presents all of the surviving writings of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918): poetry, plays, prose works, and letters. The book also provides a commentary giving details of the composition and... -
Oxford Student Texts: An Ideal Husband by Jackie Moore 9780198374817
£11.76Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.Book InformationISBN... -
On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £16.00£9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105725Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism by Jonathan Dollimore 9780719043529
RRP: £19.99£15.23The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces... -
Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson 9780143126065
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126065Author Paul JohnsonPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Wanderer's Havamal by Jackson Crawford 9781624668425
RRP: £27.99£22.59The Wanderer's Havamal features Jackson Crawford's complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Havamal, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing original Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius... -
The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski 9780226294032
RRP: £21.00£17.76Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of... -
Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: £26.99£23.72Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current... -
What Is to Be Done? by N.G. Chernyshevskii
RRP: £23.99£21.24No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the... -
From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi by Amy Allen
RRP: £27.95£24.50The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious... -
How Literary Worlds Are Shaped: A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination by Bo Pettersson 9783110611076
RRP: £23.50£20.94Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it... -
Wasps and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes by Aristophanes 9780198900221
RRP: £8.99£6.45'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama... -
The Apple Cart, Too True to Be Good, On the Rocks, and Millionairess by George Bernard Shaw 9780198809944
RRP: £10.99£7.77The four dramas in this volume are some of George Bernard Shaw's most interesting plays. They stretch from 1929 to 1935 and coincide with the Great Depression, the intensification of the crisis of democracy that began after the war, and the rise of... -
The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa by Vladimir Jabotinsky
RRP: £20.99£18.37"The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years... -
Bukowski, a Life: The Centennial Edition by Neeli Cherkovski
RRP: £13.99£9.66The life of Charles Bukowski-laureate of lowlife Los Angeles-a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator. Neeli Cherkovski began a deep friendship with Bukowski in the... -
John Clare: Selected Poetry and Prose by John Clare
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book presents Clare's poetry exactly as he wrote it, and includes selections from his `mad' poems as well as his earlier descriptions of birds, animals and village life.Reviews`This is a good looking book, nicely presented in a clear readable type,... -
Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939 by Daphne Patai 9780807844144
RRP: £49.95£46.08Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals reintroduces the work of writers and activists whose texts, and often whose very lives, were passionately engaged in the major political issues of their times but who have been displaced from both the historical and the... -
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion by Jeffrey Barbeau
RRP: £23.99£20.37The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion provides the first scholarly survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life during the British Romantic period (1780s-1832). Part I, 'Historical Developments,'... -
Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel by Michael Prince 9780521021432
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote... -
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea di Robilant
RRP: £9.99£5.31National Geographic Traveller's the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first time to Venice and there, at a duck shoot in the... -
Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192862426
RRP: £6.99£5.26'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?' Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has... -
Priestley'S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture by John Baxendale 9780719072871
RRP: £19.99£14.52Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century... -
Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Two sophists on the history of sophistry.Flavius Philostratus, known as "the Elder" or "the Athenian," was born to a distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second century, and died around the middle of the third. A sophist who... -
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
RRP: £16.99£12.28'It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and... -
The Book by Mary Ruefle 9781950268849
RRP: £17.99£12.30Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of... -
Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human by Boria Sax
RRP: £22.00£15.62Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations - deserts, deep woods, remote islands, glaciers, ocean depths, mountain peaks, caves, swamps, heavenly bodies and alternate universes. Legends tell us that imaginary... -
Outlines of Pyrrhonism: v. 1 by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama by Kenneth McLeish 9780413720306
RRP: £18.99£15.77A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world The Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides a comprehensive author-by-author... -
Bodas De Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780719007644
RRP: £9.99£7.23"This excellent edition is most welcome. A select bibliography, a brief vocabulary, several footnotes to explain points of difficulty, fourteen long endnotes... and even the music of the songs, make the edition an extremely valuable and interesting... -
The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World: A Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire by Charles Häberl 9781837642595
RRP: £29.99£27.38The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran are adherents of the last surviving Gnostic tradition from the period of Late Antiquity, and the Book of Kings is the capstone to one of their most sacred scriptures. A universal history in four parts, it concisely outlines... -
Studying Early Printed Books, 1450-1800: A Practical Guide by Sarah Werner 9781119049968
RRP: £18.95£16.85A comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mechanics... -
Milton Place by Elisabeth De Waal 9781910263211
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263211Author Elisabeth De WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm)... -
Winter: A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children by Jennifer Aulie 9780946206490
£10.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206490Author Jennifer AulieFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones Press -
Anarchist Seeds Beneath The Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward by David Goodway
RRP: £22.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862218Author David GoodwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 621g -
Rereading East Germany: The Literature and Film of the GDR by Karen Leeder
RRP: £30.99£22.85This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £25.00£22.19A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
Spacecraft by Timothy Morton
RRP: £9.99£7.67Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do... -
Things I Learned on the 6.28: A Guide to Daily Reading by Stig Abell
RRP: £10.99£7.40For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western... -
Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield by Apostolos N. Athanassakis
RRP: £24.00£21.18This best-selling translation of Hesiod's the Theogony, the Works and Days, and the Shield has been updated into the most indispensable edition yet for students of Greek mythology and literature.Next to the works of Homer, Hesiod's poems are foundational...