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The Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: $27.28$19.61One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy... -
Justin's Jokes by Justin Fletcher
RRP: $14.68$10.54What do whales eat? Fish and ships.What did the sea say to the boat?Nothing, it just waved. Join children's favourite TV star Justin Fletcher for the most giggle-tastic jokes ever. They're fun for all the family!Warning! This book will make you laugh out... -
The Real Beatrix Potter by Nadia Cohen 9781526752758
RRP: $31.48$23.33The Real Beatrix Potter is a fascinating and revealing biography of one of the world's most cherished children's authors. Beatrix Potter's famous little white books have enchanted generations of young readers who adored the characters she created and of... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $52.40$49.90Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Poetic Form: An Introduction by Michael D. Hurley 9780521774994
RRP: $54.58$43.97Michael D. Hurley and Michael O'Neill offer a perceptive and illuminating look into poetic form, a topic that has come back into prominence in recent years. Building on this renewed interest in form, Hurley and O'Neill provide an accessible and... -
The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas by Jackie Tasioulas
RRP: $52.50$35.68The poetry of the Makars marked an extraordinary flowering of Scottish culture and the Scots language in the 15th and early 16th centuries. This magnificent anthology, introduced, edited and annotated by J.A. Tasioulas, makes available for the modern... -
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth: The Definitive Guide to the World of J.R.R. Tolkien by Robert Foster
RRP: $210.00$143.96First ever deluxe, slipcased edition of the peerless A-Z guide to the names, places and events in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, fully illustrated in colour throughout by acclaimed Tolkien artist, Ted Nasmith, and featuring an exclusive... -
Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film by Anat Pick 9780231147873
RRP: $58.80$45.78Simone Weil once wrote that "the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence," establishing a relationship between vulnerability, beauty, and existence transcending the separation of species. Her conception... -
Research Methods for English Studies by Gabriele Griffin
RRP: $60.88$49.90This title introduces students to a range of research methods deployed in the study of English. With a revised Introduction and with all chapters revised to bring them completely up-to date, this new edition remains the leading guide to research methods... -
Red by John Logan
$23.81"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New Yorker Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko... -
The Orwell Tour: Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis 9781785789649
RRP: $23.08$15.83Orwell roamed widely, living in London, Southwold, Henley, Wallington, Hayes and Jura. It's this rootless, restless man that writer Oliver Lewis pursues in his innovative and thorough book, The Orwell Tour. A travelogue exploring the life and work of... -
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia by Carol A. Breckenridge
RRP: $58.78$52.33In his extraordinarily influential book Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western knowledge about the Orient in the Post-Enlightenment period has been "a systematic discourse by which Europe was able to manage-even produce-the Orient politically,... -
Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History by Cathy Caruth 9781421421650
RRP: $55.65$49.69In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century-both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it-we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple... -
Simon: The Genius in my Basement by Alexander Masters
RRP: $25.18$19.40From the author of 'Stuart: A Life Backwards'; a warm and witty portrait of a harmless, eccentric, bona fide genius. Alexander Master's landlord, Simon, lives in the basement of their Cambridge house. Between teetering towers of outdated maps... -
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah 9780571345342
RRP: $18.88$13.19Prize-winning author Petina Gappah's tale of Dr Livingstone's epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is 'incredible' (Yaa Gyasi), 'powerful' (Jesmyn Ward), and 'beautiful' (Anthony Doerr).'A fine writer.' J.M. Coetzee 'Wonderful.' The Times... -
How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too much by Samantha Ellis
RRP: $23.08$16.78Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre?Petrova or Posy?Scarlett or Melanie?Lace or Valley of the Dolls?On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9780140444421
RRP: $20.98$15.37Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into depths of the earth. As he travels through... -
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante
RRP: $52.50$50.27The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations,... -
Marcel Proust: A Life by Edmund White 9780143114987
RRP: $50.40$34.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114987Author Edmund WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 124gDimensions(mm) 179mm *... -
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 9780812219692
RRP: $58.78$51.49Introducing a dramatic new chapter to American Indian literary history, this book brings to the public for the first time the complete writings of the first known American Indian literary writer, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (her English name) or... -
A History of English Literature by Michael Alexander
RRP: $71.38$64.45This comprehensive text traces the development of one of the world's richest literatures from the Old English period through to the present day, discussing a wide range of key authors without losing its clarity or verve. Building on the book's... -
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Professor Jonathan Kramnick 9780226830537
RRP: $33.60$33.12A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice-close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick offers a new and surprising account of... -
Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A Literary Biography by Peter Martin 9780521619820
RRP: $79.78$65.75Edmond Malone (1741-1812) was the greatest early editor of Shakespeare's works, the first historian of early English drama, the biographer of Shakespeare, Dryden and Reynolds, and a relentless exposer of literary fraud and forgery. His dedication to... -
A Reader's Guide to Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' by David R. Ellison 9780521720069
RRP: $48.28$39.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Herta Muller by Brigid Haines 9780199654642
$236.40This volume is a critical companion to the works of Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. Muller (1953-) is a Romanian-German novelist, essayist and producer of collages whose work has been compared with that of W.G. Sebald and... -
Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment by Judith P. Zinsser
RRP: $39.59$30.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112686Author Judith P. ZinsserFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Complete Illustrated Edition by William, of Chartres 9781604336153
RRP: $33.58$23.63The First-Ever, Fully Illustrated Collector's Edition of William Shakespeare's Celebrated Sonnets!In celebration of the momentous 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets features... -
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan George Steiner (Churchill College, Camridge) 9780811221856
RRP: $27.28$24.07With his hallmark discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great style. Steiner spans the entire history of Western philosophy as it entwines with... -
Economics for Lovers of Literature by Geraint Johnes 9783031264856
RRP: $41.98$32.26This book provides an engaging introduction to economics through a literary lens. Drawing on writers such as James Joyce, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell, each chapter is framed around a quote from a... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill
$69.72Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have... -
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd 9781909572065
RRP: $31.48$25.45The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual writer, and spy. Praise for the first hardback edition: Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the... -
Redeeming the Kamasutra by Wendy Doniger
RRP: $38.83$29.34The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet, it is all but ignored as a serious work in its... -
'Iaith Oleulawn': Geirfa Dafydd ap Gwilym by Dafydd R. Johnston 9781786835673
RRP: $52.48$39.48Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Loop 3: The Arc by Ben Oliver 9781912626571
RRP: $18.88$13.48The third and final book in the acclaimed THE LOOP trilogy - perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner ... 'A terrifying and sinister look into the future that will leave your jaw on the floor.'... -
Shipping Container by Craig Martin
RRP: $20.98$16.57Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop... -
Sallust's Bellum Catilinae by J. T. Ramsey
RRP: $68.23$56.39In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.E.) recounts the dramatic events of the year 63 B.C.E. when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, after two electoral defeats, made himself the leader of a... -
Martial: Select Epigrams by Martial
RRP: $58.78$50.97Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the... -
Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: $74.53$71.72In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has... -
The Life Of Robert Burns by Catherine Carswell
RRP: $29.40$19.80First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest, Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard work on its subject.Carswell deliberately shakes the image of Burns as a romantic hero - exposing the sexual... -
Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake by Leo Damrosch
RRP: $33.58$29.86In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers...