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Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach
RRP: $42.90$34.63This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the... -
The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Tolkien's World by Antony Cummins 9781786787781
RRP: $58.50$39.78The One Ring contains the entire epic and famously labyrinthine history of Middle Earth, taken from J.R.R. Tolkien's books (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, as well as all the lesser known volumes), broken down into easy-to-absorb... -
The Poems of John Keats: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by John Strachan 9780415234788
RRP: $38.98$34.50This sourcebook offers the ideal introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon.The sourcebook is arranged in four sections: Contexts, Interpretations, Key Poems and... -
British Transport Police: A definitive history of the early years and subsequent development by Malcolm Clegg 9781399095471
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas 9781781258682
RRP: $25.33$17.73Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of... -
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
RRP: $33.15$21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307388681Author Gore VidalFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
The Art of Poetry: OCR Conflict by Johanna Harrison 9780995467170
RRP: $35.08$28.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467170Author Johanna HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780801491856
RRP: $46.78$41.42This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals at... -
Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination by Michael McGillen 9781501772825
RRP: $50.68$43.86Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of time-beyond those of historicism and... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Sources and Analogues by Elisabeth Brewer
RRP: $38.98$34.34This anthology of medieval writing provides a context for a deeper understanding of the Gawain-poet's originality and skill. The intertextuality of this brilliant poem can be more fully understood through Elisabeth Brewer's presentation of modern... -
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 by Doris Lessing 9780006388890
RRP: $23.38$17.55The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Walking in the Shade' begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young son and the manuscript of her first novel... -
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre by Josie Billington
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776175Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Poetry of George Herbert by Helen Vendler 9780674864641
$107.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674864641Author Helen VendlerFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 617g -
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
RRP: $44.85$27.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525655497Author Kerry HowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth by Joseph Campbell
RRP: $44.85$29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608683246Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 by Eamon Duffy
RRP: $43.88$37.73Personal prayer books and the jottings in their margins tell us about their owners and about life in late medieval and Reformation England In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the Book of Hours, unquestionably the... -
Great Expectations SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469563
RRP: $11.68$8.58When 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... -
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Hayden White 9781421415604
RRP: $51.68$46.20Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of... -
The Essential Paradise Lost by John Carey
RRP: $33.13$22.58After 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... -
Infinite Conversation by Maurice Blanchot 9780816619702
RRP: $54.58$47.85In this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Western thought and have influenced virtually all the themes that inflect the contemporary literary and... -
Five in One by Louise Gluck
RRP: $36.95$26.05The themes of the previous volume of poetry define the tasks of the next for Louise Gluck. This collection shows the poet in this evolution. It includes: Firstborn (1968); The House on Marshland (1975); Descending Figure (1980); The Triumph of Achilles... -
The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing by David Morley 9780521145367
RRP: $50.68$42.69Creative 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 Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780198856702
RRP: $17.53$12.58Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While the outcry... -
I Saw Ramallah by Muraid Barghauthai
RRP: $33.15$24.57Apologies 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 *... -
An English Summer by Chanel Irvine 9781914314223
RRP: $58.50$38.61Apologies 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 -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull 9780008414115
RRP: $37.03$26.54The 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... -
Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond by Natalie N. May
$26.36The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series, this volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond, held at the Oriental Institute April 8-9, 2011. The purpose of the... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: $39.00$31.77A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a... -
A Short History of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Terri Ochiagha
RRP: $25.33$22.95The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it has sold more than... -
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
RRP: $27.30$18.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452260092Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Random House... -
Criticism: Ideas in Profile by Catherine Belsey 9781781254509
RRP: $19.48$13.86Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics At the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics,... -
Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers by Sarah Iles Johnston
RRP: $58.50$38.63An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."-Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series"Move over, Edith Hamilton! Sarah Iles Johnston has... -
American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings by Lawrence Buell
RRP: $33.13$24.69Apologies 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)... -
Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern by Gerald L. Bruns 9780300063035
$45.73In 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... -
White Leaping Flame / Caoir Gheal Leumraich: Sorley Maclean: Collected Poems by Sorley MacLean
RRP: $39.00$27.03This collected editon of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of poetry, poetry previously published in various magazines, literary journals and anthologies, and poetry which has never been published before... -
Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait by Jerzy Ficowski 9780393325478
RRP: $36.08$30.83Sixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experiencing a renaissance in part occasioned by this biography by the renowned Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski. Widely regarded as... -
Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather by Gao Xingjian 9780007170395
RRP: $17.53$13.40From 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... -
The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam by Robert G. Hoyland 9781786941473
RRP: $53.53$47.78This book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya'qubi (d. ca. 910), 'Ali al-Mas'udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim... -
Homer Vol. I. Iliad (Books I-XII) by D. B. Monro 9780198145288
RRP: $40.93$40.83Homer Vol. I. Iliad (Books I-XII)ReviewsExcellent standard text. * Jeanne G. Kurtz, University of New Hampshire *Book InformationISBN 9780198145288Author D. B. MonroFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University... -
Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor by William P. Brown 9780664225025
RRP: $64.35$47.95William 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...