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The Interpretation of Dreams by Artemidorus
RRP: $15.47$11.17'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source' Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interpretation, and the only dream-book to have survived... -
Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
RRP: $10.31$7.71In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some... -
A Very Expensive Poison by Lucy Prebble
$15.65A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering... -
A Fan's Notes by The Estate Of Frederick Exley
RRP: $16.76$12.05'Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a goddam football game! You won't always get the girl! Life is rejection and pain and loss...'A Fan's Notes - the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure. Our narrator is the ultimate unreconstructed... -
Globe Education Shorter Shakespeare: Macbeth Globe Education 9781471896675
$16.60Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: KS3Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2018Get straight to the heart of Shakespeare's Macbeth; students' confidence and understanding develop faster as they explore the plot, themes... -
Rilke, a Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus by Daniel Polikoff 9781888602524
$46.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888602524Author Daniel PolikoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 1g -
Kafka's Other Trial by Elias Canetti
RRP: $12.89$9.44In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen in love. Broken and bereft, Kafka - at the height of his... -
Mazaltob: A Novel by Blanche Bendahan 9781684582051
RRP: $30.96$24.88A first-ever English translation of a compelling work by a forerunner of modern Sephardi feminist literature. Raised in the Judería or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco, at the turn of the 20th-century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself... -
Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation by Jeff Dolven 9780226517117
RRP: $30.96$29.71Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism especially now, when an age of interpretation asks us to look right through it. And yet style does so much tacit work, telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What place does it have among our... -
The Secret Life of Puppets by Victoria Nelson
RRP: $37.35$30.52In one of those rare books that allows us to see the world not as we've never seen it before, but as we see it daily without knowing, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the supernatural still holds for a secular mainstream culture... -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719
RRP: $12.89$4.72From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Arthur Ransome on the Broads by Roger Wardale
RRP: $20.63$14.22In Arthur Ransome on the Broads Roger Wardale tells the inside story of the two classic children's novels, Coot Club and The Big Six, that stemmed from the eight holidays that Ransome and his wife spent cruising in hired craft on the Norfolk Broads in... -
Paradoxes and Problems by John Donne 9780198127536
$89.73A scholarly edition of works by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatusBook InformationISBN 9780198127536Author John DonneFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint... -
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
RRP: $54.17$47.41Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In... -
Shakespeare's Wordplay by Professor M. M. Mahood
RRP: $49.01$43.06`Professor Mahood's book has established itself as a classic in the field, not so much because of the ingenuity with which she reads Shakespeare's quibbles, but because her elucidation of pun and wordplay is intelligently related both to textual readings... -
Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell 9781604698220
RRP: $24.50$23.56"A visual treat as well as a literary one...for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson." -The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen... -
Shakespeare in Bloomsbury by Marjorie Garber 9780300267563
RRP: $32.25$26.19The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group "A spirited dance of minds."-Chris Vognar, Boston Globe For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and... -
Dinarchus, Hyperides, and Lycurgus by Ian Worthington 9780292791435
RRP: $25.79$22.63This is the fifth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline... -
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780007590070
RRP: $96.75$64.04The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold,... -
The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
RRP: $14.18$9.73In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the essay 'The Red Notebook' itself, Auster reflects upon his own work, on the need to break down the boundary... -
Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro
RRP: $36.12$28.12First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to... -
Medusa: In the Mirror of Time David Leeming 9781780230955
RRP: $25.80$18.72Medusa, literally, petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal culture she was a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed; for Dante she was the erotic power that could destroy men; Freud saw in her hair a... -
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Philip Womack 9780861541218
RRP: $12.89$7.29'Immensely informative, wrapped in an engagingly casual tone, complemented by more than a dash of the bizarre. You'd be barking to miss it.' Professor Michael Scott Can you tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus? In this unique introduction, Philip... -
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 9780393972856
$16.47In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews,... -
Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou 9781844086153
RRP: $14.18$9.82A collection of poetry witnessing celebrations both private and public, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry has stirred our souls,... -
Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes 9780571174263
RRP: $25.80$17.36Ted Hughes has written a series of pieces on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath; and on his deep-rooted concern over education, the environment and the arts.About the AuthorTed Hughes (1930-1998)... -
Boyhood: Scenes from provincial life by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $14.18$10.31In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both... -
Scientologist!: William S. Burroughs and the 'weird Cult' by David S. Wills 9780956952523
RRP: $15.47$9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956952523Author David S. WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Beatdom BooksPublisher Beatdom Books -
A Fine Brush On Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen by Richard Jenkyns
$20.82What is it about Jane Austen's writing that brings such pleasure? There are good, even great novelists who are not good storytellers, and there are highly gifted storytellers who write thoroughly bad books. Jane Austen was both a very good storyteller... -
Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature by Dick Higgins 9780887064142
$41.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887064142Author Dick HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 Philip Gourevitch 9781847670335
RRP: $19.34$12.98A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are... -
Robert Herrick by Stephen Romer
RRP: $7.73$5.65In 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... -
Romeo and Juliet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare by Nick Newlin
RRP: $10.31$8.54Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too... -
Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists by Donald E. Hall 9780333655771
RRP: $116.09$115.93Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid... -
Dickens's Class Consciousness: A Marginal View by P. Morris 9780333487082
RRP: $116.09$115.93Dickens's social concern has always been recognized as important to his fiction, but this is the first study to focus specifically upon the representation of class consciousness in his novels. Dr Morris's detailed research on influential Victorian... -
Vincent's Trees: Paintings and Drawings by Van Gogh by Ralph Skea
RRP: $19.34$12.96Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) felt a profound empathy with the natural environment, and considered the spiritual essence of trees to be comparable with that of human figures. Vincent's Trees traces Van Gogh's development as a painter of trees in the... -
The Nicomachean Ethics: Vol 19 by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19$30.65Antiquity's most influential account of life's Supreme Good.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347);... -
100 Books that Changed the World Scott Christianson 9781849948678
RRP: $25.80$18.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction by Simone Caroti 9780786494477
RRP: $39.93$23.18This book presents a history of Iain M. Banks' Culture series from its inception in the mid-1970s to the last novel, The Hydrogen Sonata, which was published less than a year before Banks' death. Included in this history are Banks' origins as a writer,... -
Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Eric Lott 9780195320558
RRP: $36.75$22.72For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the...