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Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection from Count Dracula to Vampirella by Christopher Frayling 9780500296776
RRP: £14.99£9.26A comprehensive anthology of vampires in literature, from Dracula to Twilight. Christopher Frayling has spent 50 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of mass culture - the vampire. Vampyres is a comprehensive... -
Politics Among Nations by Ramon Pacheco Pardo
RRP: £6.50£6.11Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau's watertight reasoning skills.The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes... -
The Vikings by Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide
RRP: £15.95£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401896Author Saebjorg Walaker NordeideFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays by Peter Corbin 9780719019531
RRP: £15.99£14.47For Jacobean society, witchcraft was a potent and very real force, an area of sharp controversy in which King James I himself participated and a phenomenon that attracted many dramatists and writers. The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of... -
The Empty Shield: A Decision by Giacomo Donis
RRP: £12.99£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477920Author Giacomo DonisFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 501gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires by Lucy Bland 9780745619835
RRP: £18.99£16.87Sexology in Culture examines the impact of key writings by sexologists on English-speaking culture from the 1880s to the early 1940s. How influential a field was sexology during this period, and how much power did sexologists wield? What was the impact... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys by Elaine Savory
RRP: £19.99£17.13Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial... -
Rage by Simon Stephens
RRP: £11.99£11.95Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as 31 high-energy scenes, each one is based on a series of photos by Joel Goodman which captured the excitement and the mayhem of New Year's Eve... -
Key Concepts in Victorian Studies by William Hughes
RRP: £14.99£12.55Provides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian period Surveys not merely the reign of Queen Victoria but its antecedents in the long nineteenth century Includes illustrations derived wholly from... -
Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £18.95£15.37Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else-the play of mourning. Howard... -
The Economics of the Stock Market by Andrew Smithers 9780192847096
RRP: £34.99£32.01The current consensus economic model, the neoclassical synthesis, depends on aprioristic assumptions that are shown to be invalid when tested against the data and fails to include finance. Economic policy based on this consensus has led to the financial... -
On Reading by Marcel Proust 9781843916161
RRP: £12.95£8.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843916161Author Marcel ProustFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 195mm *... -
Reading Middle English Literature by Thorlac Turville-Petre 9780631231721
RRP: £30.95£27.45This introduction provides the guidance that modern readers need to come to an informed appreciation of the writings of medieval England. An introduction to English literature written in the four centuries following the Norman Conquest. Written by the... -
Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England John Lyly: An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition by Leah Scragg 9780719064593
RRP: £25.00£22.19John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, created a literary sensation in their own age, and had a profound influence on Elizabethan prose. This modern-spelling edition of the two works, the first for nearly a century, is... -
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling
RRP: £9.99£7.11BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books'Witty, spirited, richly crowded... -
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II by Joanna Lumley
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrated seventy years as Queen and Head of... -
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing 9780006548256
RRP: £13.99£10.95The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994. Doris Lessing's... -
Critical Theory: The Key Concepts by Dino Franco Felluga
RRP: £29.99£26.64Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 300 widely-used terms, categories and ideas drawing upon well-established approaches like new historicism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and narratology as well as many new critical theories of... -
Night Philosophy by Fanny Howe 9781916425026
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425026Author Fanny HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Professor Tom Bishop
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776182Author Tom BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Ayn Rand for Beginners by Andrew Bernstein
RRP: £12.99£9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389379Author Andrew BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Robert Browning: Selected Poems by John Woolford 9781405841139
RRP: £35.99£35.82Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was one of the defining figures of the Victorian age. Famous in his lifetime for his elopement and marriage to Elizabeth Barratt, his critical reputation grew steadily in the years following her early death. Browning's... -
Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text by Derek Pearsall 9780859897846
RRP: £17.59£16.55William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great issues and debates of the day and acts as a commentary... -
A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays by Thomas Heywood
RRP: £12.99£9.09Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of... -
The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity by Catherine Malabou
RRP: £9.99£8.95In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of serious trauma, or sometimes for no reason at all, a... -
Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery 9780192856234
RRP: £23.49£19.97An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy. One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the... -
The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns 9780226401225
£37.37In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas-commercial, intellectual, political, and individual."A compelling exposition of how... -
Look! We Have Come Through!: Living With D. H. Lawrence by Lara Feigel 9781408877555
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Her intensity and intimacy are engaging' Blake Morrison, Guardian 'A lovely, urgent, serious book' Tessa Hadley 'Refreshing and unexpected' Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving literary criticism, biography and memoir, Look! We Have... -
Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £16.99£14.13Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the... -
Meaning of Contemporary Realism by Georg Lukacs 9780850362503
RRP: £14.95£11.39With a new introduction by Dr Gary Day, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK An argument for literary realism as opposed to modernism, contrasting Mann and Kafka. The book also argues for socialist as opposed to critical realism in literature.Book... -
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £6.99£5.13WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798. It is the story of a... -
The Mammoth Book of Tasteless Jokes by E. Henry Thripshaw
RRP: £12.99£8.60The ultimate collection of tasteless and sick jokes that just shouldn't be told. More than 3,000 off-colour jokes, covering every taboo from sex and death to race and disability, this book leaves no stone unturned in its search for the most dubious... -
A World of Difference: An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents by Lynda Prescott
RRP: £16.99£11.08An essential anthology of fifteen short stories which provides students with an international selection of works by acclaimed modern writers: from Nobel Laureates (Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul), to masters of the short story (Raymond Carver, Mavis... -
Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far by Stephen Briggs
RRP: £10.99£7.78The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space.It is also a global publishing phenomenon with sales... -
William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill
RRP: £28.99£20.68In 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... -
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow 9780007445318
RRP: £11.99£7.86An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the... -
Antony and Cleopatra by Eric Rasmussen
£8.72From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's immortal love story. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Antony and Cleopatra in performance, takes a... -
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
RRP: £9.99£7.11Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God's beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as... -
Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385920Author Anthony BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 197mm... -
Desire: A Memoir by Jonathan Dollimore 9781786615008
RRP: £14.99£11.53Desire: A Memoir is a hybrid of autobiography, meditation, and philosophy that explores the existential sources of his writing. Effortlessly blending the tragic and comic, Dollimore's unique voice relates a life haunted and torn by loss, and the at once...