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Palestine as Metaphor by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719425Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 9780393923209
£13.33Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, accompanied by the translator's note and Mark M. Anderson's... -
Out of Africa ; and, Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen 9780679724759
RRP: £18.00£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724759Author Isak DinesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Hesiod: The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780472081615
£18.05Epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian.About the AuthorRichmond Lattimore (1906-1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.ReviewsRichmond Lattimore is a fine translator of... -
Jim Henson and Philosophy: Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem by Timothy M. Dale 9781442246645
RRP: £14.99£11.53Jim Henson's creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the world's most recognizable cultural icons. From Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and their Muppet friends to the legendary Sesame Street and Children's Television Workshop,... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2021-2023 by Simon Allcock
RRP: £29.99£27.25PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in the title, on the cover and inside this book are incorrect. An errata slip has been included. ----- ... -
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter by Angela Topping 9781906075255
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075255Author Angela ToppingFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Letters to Atticus: v. 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources: Volume 1 by Timothy Gantz
RRP: £32.50£29.49Early Greek Myth is a much-needed handbook for scholars and others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic Greek myths-and the only one of its kind available in English. Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith 9780198819998
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have... -
Shakespeare's 100 Greatest Dramatic Images by Claire Saunders 9788895604015
RRP: £8.99£7.46This book's unique format makes it a versatile companion for a wide range of readers from the novice to the expert. The book is centered on 100 of Shakespeare's greatest dramatic images - at least one taken from each of his plays. They deal with the... -
So Brightly at the Last by Ian Shircore
RRP: £18.99£15.65Jimi Hendrix, Princess Diana and Syria's Asma Al-Assad rub shoulders with Auden, Eliot and Shelley - and with the Trouser Thief Clive met during ten long weeks locked up in a closed psychiatric ward - in this offbeat and affectionate poetic biography. ... -
Bookshops by Jorge Carrión 9780857054463
RRP: £10.99£7.40"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrion has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and... -
Lovecraft Annual No. 12 (2018) by S T Joshi 9781614982296
RRP: £15.00£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982296Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland by Elizabeth Boyle 9780367684297
RRP: £39.99£35.06History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland explores medieval Irish conceptions of salvation history, using Latin and vernacular sources from c. 700-c. 1200 CE which adapt biblical history for audiences both secular and ecclesiastical. This book examines... -
Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
RRP: £6.99£5.00American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune... -
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780393972825
£24.29This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type. "Comments by Contemporaries" includes short... -
Anne Bronte Reimagined: A View from the Twenty-first Century by Adelle Hay
RRP: £9.99£6.80Anne Bronte: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this remarkably talented and pioneering author been so overlooked? Anne's writing has often been compared harshly with that of Charlotte and Emily - as if... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780199669103
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
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... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Western Greek 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... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Helen Roche 9781912128976
RRP: £6.50£6.11A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder's linguistic precocity allows him to cite evidence... -
Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth by Craig Bernthal 9781621380535
£17.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380535Author Craig BernthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Angelico Press/Second SpringPublisher Angelico Press/Second SpringWeight(grams)... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner 9781787332973
RRP: £18.99£12.48*A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.Rachel Kushner is a writer celebrated for her 'chops, ambition, and killer instinct'... -
The Two Noble Kinsmen: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the central themes of this humourous and moving play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction to this new edition offers an illuminating account of Shakespeare's collaboration with his younger colleague... -
Poisonous Tales: A Forensic Examination of Poisons in Fiction by Hilary Hamnett
RRP: £24.00£20.12Dangerous, dark and difficult to detect, poisons have been a common character in literature from ancient times to the modern day. Their ability to perform deadly deeds at a distance is a common device for creating dramatic tension and playing on our real... -
Hamlet (Collins Classroom Classics) by William Shakespeare
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.' Considered one of Shakespeare's most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as... -
Cicero, Pro Cluentio: A Selection by Matthew Barr
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Pro Cluentio, sections 1-7 and 10-11, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 27-32 and 35-37, giving full Latin text,... -
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780446691291
RRP: £35.99£27.81In a celebration of the greatest creative writers of all time, a leading literary critic and author of The Book of J explores the mysteries of genius as expressed in one hundred of the most creative minds in history, including Socarates, Shakespeare,... -
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman 9781982182632
RRP: £20.00£12.86**Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biography**This celebration of the woman who took us to the heights of a secluded attic and the depths of our own dark psyches reveals an intimate portrait of the famously private V.C. Andrews-featuring... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford
RRP: £16.99£14.90From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and... -
The Claustrum: An investigation of claustrophobic phenomena by Donald Meltzer 9781912567270
RRP: £27.99£26.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912567270Author Donald MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Harris Meltzer TrustPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 324gDimensions(mm) 230mm... -
Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Belsey 9780198859963
RRP: £8.99£6.61Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world. Language, meaning, and culture are all reappraised, and with them assumptions about what... -
Would You Rather...: Over 200 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder by David Gomberg 9780452278516
RRP: £19.10£14.60The perfect gag gift that blends absurdity, wit, and pop culture in a collection of laugh-out-loud funny and irresistibly thought-provoking dilemmas.Within these pages are over 200 hilarious questions that ask readers to look deep inside themselves and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides by Polly Low
RRP: £29.99£26.34Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted... -
Stan Lee: A Life in Comics by Liel Leibovitz
RRP: £18.99£16.18From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he... -
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 9780521670784
RRP: £9.99£8.17The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner 9780192866646
RRP: £23.49£19.97Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a... -
Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos
RRP: £8.95£6.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992740962Author Yiannis RitsosFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 85g -
"Double Falsehood" by William Shakespeare 9781903436776
RRP: £17.99£16.05On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the TheatreRoyal, Drury Lane, London. The title page to the...