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Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
RRP: €9.51€7.60'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-si`ecle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the... -
The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: €65.45€51.54Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. The Italian text here is in the edition of Giorgio... -
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D. T. Max 9781847084958
RRP: €11.89€7.97David Foster Wallace is to contemporary literature what Kurt Cobain is to music. He died young enough for his promise and his achievements to solidify into a legend. For many, he became someone worth reading, revering, following. How had a teen tennis... -
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: €20.22€14.61Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.Chatwin himself was different things to different people: a journalist, a photographer, an art... -
Justin's Jokes by Justin Fletcher
RRP: €8.32€5.76What 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... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: €38.07€33.71This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her... -
Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction by Jenny Hartley 9780198714996
RRP: €10.70€7.68Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or... -
Poetic Form: An Introduction by Michael D. Hurley 9780521774994
RRP: €30.93€24.92Michael 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... -
Royal Greenwich: From the Plantagenets to the Windsors by Pieter van der Merwe 9781906367756
RRP: €23.80€16.73Discover the rich royal history of the area where Henry VIII built his first tournament ground, Elizabeth I took daily walks in the Park and Charles II raced early royal yachts against his brother. In 2012, to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond... -
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth: The Definitive Guide to the World of J.R.R. Tolkien by Robert Foster
RRP: €119.00€80.93First 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... -
English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 by Kathryn James
RRP: €35.70€31.48An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding early modern English manuscripts This engaging book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory,... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: €17.84€13.51An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in... -
One True Sentence: Writers & Readers in Pursuit of Hemingway's Art by Mark Cirino
RRP: €23.79€16.14A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula... -
Vintage Mencken by H. L. Mencken
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679728955Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: €29.69€27.83Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honor Lucan praised him in a... -
Simon: The Genius in my Basement by Alexander Masters
RRP: €14.27€10.71From 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... -
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad by Emily Thomas 9780198835400
RRP: €17.84€16.01"This is the finest kind of travel: not just across continents, but through time, space and our infinite minds. The journey is the joy, and Emily Thomas a terrific guide." - Mike Parker How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the... -
Harbors and High Seas: Map Book and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian by Dean King 9780805066142
€20.78A new edition of the classic companion to Patrick O'Brian's seafaring novels, updated to include the final novel in the series. This indispensable guide to navigating the well-loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated, with new chapters devoted to the... -
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah 9780571345342
RRP: €10.70€7.24Prize-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... -
Forgiveness: An Alternative Account by Matthew Ichihashi Potts
€23.80A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world "Broad in its philosophical sweep and fine in its literary analysis, this work redefines forgiveness as the modest yet heroic ability to hold pain and... -
Marcel Proust: A Life by Edmund White 9780143114987
RRP: €28.56€18.99Apologies 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 Transferred Life of George Eliot by Philip Davis
RRP: €34.50€25.23Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as 'the feeling of entering the confessional in which she sees and hears all the secrets of human psychology--that roar which lies on the other side of silence'. This new biography of... -
Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A Literary Biography by Peter Martin 9780521619820
RRP: €45.21€37.26Edmond 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... -
Seven Famous Greek Plays by W. & O'Neill Oates 9780394701257
RRP: €17.85€13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394701257Author Whitney J. OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 184mm *... -
Herta Muller by Brigid Haines 9780199654642
€133.96This 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... -
Homer's "Iliad": a Commentary on Three Translations by Peter Jones 9781853996573
RRP: €27.36€26.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853996573Author Peter JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)... -
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: €10.70€8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776243Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
RRP: €11.89€8.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451669411Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan by George Steiner
RRP: €15.46€13.64With 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: €23.79€18.14This 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... -
Russian Poets by Peter Washington 9781841597805
RRP: €13.08€9.25Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill
€39.51Broken 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... -
Consciousness And The Novel by David Lodge
RRP: €15.46€10.82'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' ObserverHow does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200... -
Shakespeare His Life and Works by Alan Riding
RRP: €29.75€21.10Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works.Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. Some 400 years after they were... -
This is the Canon: Decolonise Your Bookshelves in 50 Books by Kadija Sesay George
RRP: €20.22€13.73'A vital and timely introduction to some of the best books I've ever read. Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature'Nikesh Shukla'The ultimate introduction to post-colonial literature for those who want to understand the classics and the... -
Virgil Opera by Sir Roger Mynors 9780198146537
€23.22The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the front of each page. There are... -
The Loop 3: The Arc by Ben Oliver 9781912626571
RRP: €10.70€7.65The 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.'... -
Doctor Faustus, A- and B- Texts 1604: Christopher Marlowe by David Bevington
RRP: €15.46€11.00This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and... -
Sallust's Bellum Catilinae by J. T. Ramsey
RRP: €38.66€31.95In 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: €33.31€28.88Despite 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...