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Black Betty: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley
RRP: $23.21$14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743451789Author Walter MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 136mm * 25mm -
The Essential Paradise Lost by John Carey
RRP: $21.92$14.94After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit. Now it is little read. To bring readers back to Milton's masterpiece, John Carey has shortened it to a third of its... -
The Little Book of Shakespeare's Insults: Biting Barbs and Poisonous Put-Downs by Orange Hippo!
RRP: $9.02$8.01Away, you scullion, you rampallion, you fustilarian! Along with penning some of the most sublime passages in all of English Literature, Shakespeare was a master when it came to casting a wicked comeback or hurling a barbed insult. Whether it's Prospero... -
Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets by Kenneth Paul Kramer 9781561012855
RRP: $19.34$14.87This exploration of T. S. Eliot's last major poem, Four Quartets, examines the poem's potential to transform readers' faith journeys. Kramer shows that the power of Four Quartets is its ability to create a dynamic interaction between the poem and the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing by David Morley 9780521145367
RRP: $33.53$28.24Creative writing has become a highly professionalised academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programmes worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a... -
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo
RRP: $15.47$12.06Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called "one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living," was that rare phenomenon-a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's classic collection of lectures,... -
Clive Barker's Dark Worlds by Phil and Sarah Stokes
RRP: $45.15$34.71A deep dive into the creative world and personal archive of the master of horror Clive Barker, from Hellraiser and Candyman to today"I've seen the future of horror . . . and his name is Clive Barker." In the mid-1980s, Stephen King inducted a young... -
Martha Lloyd's Household Book: The Original Manuscript from Jane Austen's Kitchen by Julienne Gehrer
RRP: $38.70$30.99This is the first facsimile publication of 'Martha Lloyd's Household Book', the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austen's closest friend. Martha's notebook is reproduced in a colour facsimile section with complete transcription and detailed annotation... -
I Saw Ramallah by Muraid Barghauthai
RRP: $21.93$16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032662Author Mourid BarghoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Murder Trials by Cicero
RRP: $19.34$14.13Cicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull 9780008414115
RRP: $24.50$17.56The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us... -
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 9780393937527
$17.20The text of the novel is again based on Hardy's final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition. The Norton Critical Edition includes: expanded footnotes, further drawing out Hardy's web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in... -
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions by Stephen Frosh 9781137031273
RRP: $29.67$26.37This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure... -
But the Girl: ‘A wonderful new novel’ Brandon Taylor by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu 9781787333925
RRP: $21.92$17.16Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind'Impressive... Yu remakes the art of writing itself'GUARDIAN'A wonderful new novel for a metamodern world'BRANDON TAYLOR, author of The Late... -
American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings by Lawrence Buell
RRP: $21.92$16.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975093Author Lawrence BuellFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
The Comedies by Terence
RRP: $15.47$11.17'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.' Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic... -
'Love Me or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes by Graham Saunders 9780719059568
RRP: $25.79$23.35Blasted brought Sarah Kane to the theatre pages of the broadsheets, the front pages of the tabloids, and to the notice of the nation. Covers all Kane's major plays and productions, contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her... -
What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern by Jed Rasula
RRP: $45.15$30.68On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influenceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a... -
Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern by Gerald L. Bruns 9780300063035
$30.25In this wide-ranging meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald L. Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not merely a contemporary theory but an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that predate the beginning... -
Dante's Broken Hammer by Graham Harman
RRP: $11.60$8.24It is well known that Dante s poetic works interpret love as themoving force of the universe: as embodied in his muse Beatrice fromLa Vita Nuova onward, as well as the much holier persons inhabitingParadiso. Likewise, if love is the ultimate form of... -
A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound by Carroll F. Terrell
RRP: $45.15$37.07The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos. Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first time, the Companion brings together in conveniently numbered... -
Tragedies Volume 2 by William Shakespeare
RRP: $23.22$17.49The second volume of the Everyman Signet Shakespeare completes the survey of Shakespeare's tragic output with Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens and Coriolanus. The authoritatively edited texts of... -
Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $19.34$14.33In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her... -
Metamorphoses: Bk. 3 by Ovid 9780906515020
RRP: $29.66$29.48This simple, utilitarian edition offers sixth-form and undergraduate students an introduction to the enchanted, sometimes violent, often sad, often funny world of the "Metamorphoses." Book III is ideal in this respect, for it possesses a... -
Anne Bronte Reimagined: A View from the Twenty-first Century Adelle Hay 9781912235643
RRP: $12.89$9.03Anne Bronte: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this remarkably talented and pioneering author been so overlooked? Anne's writing has often been compared harshly with that of Charlotte and Emily - as if... -
Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather by Gao Xingjian 9780007170395
RRP: $11.60$9.13From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English. A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains, and... -
Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor by William P. Brown 9780664225025
RRP: $42.57$31.94William Brown introduces a new method of exegesis, particularly for biblical poetry, that attends to the metaphorical contours of the Psalms. His method as proposed and demonstrated in this book supplements traditional ways of interpreting the Psalms and... -
A Map of Love: Twelve Welsh poems of romance, desire and devotion by M. Wynn Thomas
RRP: $12.89$10.06A fascinating and exhilarating look at the many ways we love, and are loved. Following on from his bestselling The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, M. Wynn Thomas turns his attention in A Map of Love to poems from Wales and reflects on what they... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: $19.34$14.64An 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... -
The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354454
RRP: $18.05$14.60In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters;... -
A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life by Orange Hippo!
RRP: $7.73$5.88The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recognise. For bibliophiles, they'll enjoy recognising their... -
Republic, Volume II: Books 6-10 by Plato
RRP: $32.19$30.65The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family ca. 427 BC. In ... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays by Michael Hattaway 9780521775397
RRP: $34.82$29.41Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This 2002 volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It... -
Bernard Kops' East End by Bernard Kops 9781905512119
RRP: $12.89$10.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512119Author Bernard KopsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 9780435121464
$20.25Little Albert Kropp; Muller who still carries his schoolbooks; Leer, with an eye for the girls and Paul Baumer missed by his sick mother-these are four classmates who have volunteered for the German army in 1914, with youthful optimism. This is the... -
Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow by Gunnar Decker
RRP: $43.80$36.65A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers.Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread disillusionment with the forces of mass culture and consumerism,... -
The Iliad SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 35 SparkNotes 9781411469754
RRP: $7.73$5.88When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
The Matter of Language - Abstraction and Poetry Benjamin Noys 9781803090740
RRP: $27.08$26.17A critical intervention on the relationship between language and matter. If the twentieth century was the century in which language was at the center of thought, the twenty-first century has, so far, been the century of matter. The Matter of Language is... -
Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus 9780872208209
RRP: $23.21$19.52By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae--the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this volume enables readers to compare the two's... -
South African Gothic: Anxiety and Creative Dissent in the Post-apartheid Imagination and Beyond by Rebecca Duncan 9781786832467
RRP: $90.30$73.57The term 'Gothic' has rarely been brought to bear on contemporary South African fictions, appearing too fanciful for the often overtly political writing of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. As the first book-length exploration of Gothic impulses...