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Deconstruction: Theory and Practice by Christopher Norris 9780415280105
RRP: £29.99£26.64Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The... -
The Message of Thessalonians: Preparing For The Coming King by John Stott 9781789742442
RRP: £10.99£7.99How do two brief letters to a church in first-century Macedonia speak to us today? John Stott demonstrates that Paul's letters to the Christians in Thessalonica offer three key messages to churches at the beginning of the twenty-first century: - a... -
Night Philosophy by Fanny Howe 9781916425026
RRP: £10.99£7.61Apologies 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 -
The Connell Short Guide To The Poetry of Christina Rossetti by Anne Barton 9781911187615
RRP: £5.99£4.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187615Author Anne BartonFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The History Boys GCSE Student Guide by Steve Nicholson
£12.77Premiered at the National Theatre and winner of both the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play, Alan Bennett's The History Boys confronts issues of education, sexuality, and peer pressure through a group of boys preparing for their Oxbridge exams. ... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch
RRP: £22.00£18.76From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization... -
Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams 9780330322201
RRP: £12.99£10.23This book will change your life. The Deeper Meaning of Liff is a specially updated edition of Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's humorous lexicon of things there should be words for. A beloved classic, The Deeper Meaning of Liff contains illustrations from... -
Lysias by S. C. Todd 9780292781665
RRP: £31.00£27.36This is the second volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Planned for publication over several years, the series will present all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical... -
Russian Poets Peter Washington 9781841597805
RRP: £10.99£7.99Ever 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... -
The Baton Rouge Interviews: with Edouard Glissant and Alexandre Leupin Kate M Cooper 9781789621303
RRP: £22.99£21.04This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant's thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences... -
The Trial Of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford
RRP: £5.99£4.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970979Author Sybille BedfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 108g -
The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe 9780393976397
£14.28Kempe's work is accompanied by an introduction, a map of medieval England, a Kempe lexicon, and explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminate The Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpts from The Constitutions of... -
The Awakening: And Other Stories by Kate Chopin
RRP: £8.99£6.65'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story,... -
Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays by Douglas M. MacDowell 9780198721581
£32.34BL Covers every play, with extensive quotations in English Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humour, but they are also highly topical, with many contemporary political allusions easily missed today. Douglas... -
Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett by Marta McDowell
RRP: £19.99£13.69"Affectionate and informative, Unearthing the Secret Garden is not unlike a garden itself, with its smooth lawns of prose and striking shows of illustration and photography." -The Wall Street JournalNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has... -
Isocrates II by Terry L. Papillon 9780292702462
RRP: £25.99£22.49This is the seventh volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline... -
An English Summer by Chanel Irvine 9781914314223
RRP: £30.00£20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314223Author Chanel IrvineFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press -
Demosthenes, Speeches 27-38 by Douglas M. MacDowell 9780292702547
RRP: £19.99£17.54This is the eighth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline... -
A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco
RRP: £27.99£24.14" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism" . . . draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide... -
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... -
Restoration Literature: An Anthology by Paul Hammond 9780199555192
RRP: £11.99£8.66When our great monarch into exile went, Wit and religion suffered banishment... At length the Muses stand restored again To that great charge which Nature did ordain. In these lines Dryden represents the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 as the... -
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination by Avery F. Gordon
RRP: £19.99£17.81"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. " -George Lipsitz "The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny."... -
Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas
RRP: £9.99£6.90In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Volpone: Revised Edition Ben Jonson 9781350007796
RRP: £9.99£9.06The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in the 21st. The full play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes which communicate the devastating comic energy of... -
Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC by Douglas E. Gerber
RRP: £24.95£23.76Noble verse.The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its subject matter consists of almost any topic, excluding only the scurrilous and obscene. In this completely new Loeb... -
English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 by Kathryn James
RRP: £30.00£26.45An 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,... -
Reading Middle English Literature Thorlac Turville-Petre (University of Nottingham) 9780631231721
RRP: £30.95£27.66This 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... -
I Have No Regrets – Diaries, 1955–1963 by Brigitte Reimann 9781803091808
RRP: £19.99£16.97Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann's collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany. With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts of the author's love affairs, daily life, writing, and... -
Leitrim Observed: A Biography of John McGahern by Aubrey Malone
£20.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750603Author Aubrey MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Aureus PublishingPublisher Aureus Publishing -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364286
RRP: £25.00£17.03'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon... -
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by Edward James 9780521728737
RRP: £24.99£19.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £35.49£25.85In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of... -
The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis
RRP: £9.99£7.20When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most concentrated and richly faceted poems.' It can be seen... -
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate 9780385423397
RRP: £25.00£17.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385423397Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed by Sherryl Vint
£25.22From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular... -
Constructing a Nervous System: Cultural Reckonings by Margo Jefferson
RRP: £16.99£12.47FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs... -
The Divine Comedy: I. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £18.49£13.97An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair... -
Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses by Dr Sam Slote 9780198912750
£40.06James Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its readers. This volume, with over 12,000 individual annotations (and more than double the word count of Ulysses itself), explains these references and... -
The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism by Manfred Frank
£29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791459485Author Manfred FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Dante's New Lives: Biography and Autobiography by Elisa Brilli 9781789147810
RRP: £30.00£21.29Numerous books have attempted to chronicle the life of Dante Alighieri, yet essential questions remain unanswered. How did this self-taught Florentine become the celebrated author of the Divine Comedy? Was his exile from Florence so extraordinary? How...