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OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Component 11: The World of the Hero by Sally Knights
RRP: £14.99£14.54This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specifications for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers all three options for Component 11: World of the Hero (Homer's Iliad, Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's... -
The History of the Hobbit: One Volume Edition by John D. Rateliff
RRP: £35.00£24.69In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and... -
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
RRP: £9.99£7.27Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a work that is ever... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson 9780008490829
RRP: £10.99£7.25A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the... -
In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 24 by Patora Fuyuhara
RRP: £10.99£9.61Airships in the Sky with...Engineers?A group of curious Gollem engineers traveling in a great airship arrives in the Duchy of Brunhild. Their sudden appearance alone is puzzling enough, but what do these Seekers want with Yumina's white crown? Are there... -
The Complete Brecht Toolkit by Stephen Unwin
RRP: £12.99£9.26A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice. The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many,... -
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis 9780099422228
RRP: £14.99£10.95Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen,... -
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as... -
Timaeus Critias Cleitophon Menexenus Epistles: v. 9 by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.39On the creation of the world, and the destruction of Atlantis.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else... -
Moliere: A Theatrical Life by Virginia Scott 9780521012386
RRP: £33.99£28.38In this biography, first published in 2000, Virginia Scott locates Moliere's life and work in the social, literary and theatrical contexts of the period. She offers a narrative account of his life and an overview of his plays in the wider setting of the... -
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of our One and Only Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee by Joanna Lumley
RRP: £20.00£13.75'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 HousekeepingA sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II including... -
Science Fiction by Sherryl Vint
RRP: £14.99£11.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539999Author Sherryl VintFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£13.63Learn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Literature... -
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99£7.11'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington PostThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language... -
The Duchess of Malfi by Revd Prof. John Webster 9780393923254
£14.28This Norton Critical Edition of John Webster's 1612-13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Duchess of Malfi's themes of love, loyalty and betrayal... -
Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket 9780861542611
RRP: £10.99£7.12A brand-new book from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events - a cautionary tale about his own demise. For curious children and adults alike. 'Reading this little book feels like opening a window to let in air and light. It's... -
Outspoken: 50 Speeches by Incredible Women from Boudicca to Michelle Obama by Deborah Coughlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61History didn't listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out ...A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, comic speeches to help... -
Why We Love Middle-Earth by Shawn E. Marchese 9781684812097
RRP: £18.99£12.93For Fans of the Tales of Tolkien, Middle-earth, and More Learn about the man who wrote The Lord of the Rings in this Middle-earth treasury. Full of answers to common questions asked by readers to learn about Middle-earth and the fandom, this book about... -
Audition by Ryu Murakami
RRP: £10.99£7.77Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife, Ryoko. Now even his teenage son Shige has suggested he think about remarrying. So when his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan to hold fake film... -
Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition by Michael Andre-Driussi 9780964279506
RRP: £33.55£25.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964279506Author Michael Andre-DriussiFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Sirius FictionPublisher Sirius FictionWeight(grams) 798gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
How Novels Work by John Mullan
RRP: £9.49£6.78Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on... -
Classical Literary Criticism by D. A. Russell 9780199549818
RRP: £8.99£6.45This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. Based on the highly praised Ancient Literary... -
The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
RRP: £7.99£5.79The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists... -
The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: £9.99£7.11'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history... -
The Road to Middle-earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien created a new mythology by Tom Shippey
RRP: £10.99£7.89A detailed and fascinating journey to the roots of The Lord of the Rings, by award-winning Tolkien expert Professor Tom Shippey. The Road to Middle-Earth is a fascinating and accessible exploration of J.R.R.Tolkien's creativity and the sources... -
A Study Guide for the New Edexcel Igcse Anthology Non-Fiction for the English Language Exam: A Line-By-Line Analysis of the Non-Fiction Prose Extracts with Exam Tips for Success by Josephine Pearce 9781541126855
RRP: £10.99£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541126855Author Josephine PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Selected Works by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.77Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero... -
The Watkins Book of English Folktales by Neil Philip
RRP: £14.99£10.20This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art - when the audience believed in... -
The Black Jacobins by Nick Broten
RRP: £6.50£6.11Today we take it for granted that history is much more than the story of great men and the elites from which they spring. Other forms of history - the histories of gender, class, rebellion and nonconformity - add much-needed context and color to our... -
Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa by K. David Jackson 9780195391213
RRP: £92.00£81.03This book is an introduction to and interpretation of the world of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), one of the most fascinating and complex figures in European literary modernism and the avant-garde. Raised in South Africa and writing much of his literary... -
The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry by Christopher R. Miller 9780521123495
RRP: £37.99£31.31Lyric poetry has long been considered an art form of timelessness, but Romantic poets became fascinated by one time above all others: evening, the threshold between day and night. Christopher R. Miller investigates the cultural background of this... -
The Tain: From the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge by Louis Le Brocquy
RRP: £11.99£8.43The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their... -
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane by Hart Crane
RRP: £12.99£11.46This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and... -
The Green Fool by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: £12.99£9.09My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed. A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved... -
Jane Eyre: York Notes for AS & A2 by Karen Sayer
RRP: £7.99£7.02THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy... -
Poetics by Aristotle
RRP: £8.99£6.45'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our... -
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
RRP: £19.99£17.69One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of... -
Midsomer Murders on Location: A Guide to the Midsomer Counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire by Sabine Schreiner 9781901091373
RRP: £7.50£6.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091373Author Sabine SchreinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams)... -
Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
RRP: £15.00£10.96In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's... -
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood 9780349017167
RRP: £10.99£7.40A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror'Where power and feminist rage meet'...