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James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by James Baldwin
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612194004Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 134g -
Ehud's Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution by James Holstun 9781859844076
RRP: $56.53$48.48In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution, and its first anti-capitalist revolutions, in a stirring project of Marxist history from below."A work brimming with... -
The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354454
RRP: $27.28$21.65In 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;... -
Weird Realism; Lovecraft and Philosophy by Graham Harman 9781780992525
RRP: $29.23$25.41As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative... -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne 9780007372379
RRP: $5.83$5.54HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays by Michael Hattaway 9780521775397
RRP: $52.63$44.46Shakespeare'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... -
Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer
RRP: $38.98$34.34In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination. First published in... -
Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba
RRP: $56.53$48.93Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates... -
Journal by Katherine Mansfield 9781903155592
RRP: $31.20$29.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155592Author Katherine MansfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 140mm *... -
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $25.33$16.69'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.' James Wolcott in his... -
Shakespearean Tragedy by Professor Kiernan Ryan 9781472586988
RRP: $38.98$38.82This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right through to his... -
Rumi: A New Translation by Farrukh Dhondy 9789350290828
$32.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789350290828Author Farrukh DhondyFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 180mm... -
Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow by Gunnar Decker
RRP: $66.20$55.40A 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,... -
Martha Lloyd's Household Book: The Original Manuscript from Jane Austen's Kitchen by Julienne Gehrer
RRP: $58.50$46.14This 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... -
The Matter of Language – Abstraction and Poetry by Benjamin Noys 9781803090740
RRP: $40.93$39.57A 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... -
Christianity in Scottish Literature by John Pazdziora 9781908980373
RRP: $38.90$29.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980373Author John PazdzioraFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Cymbeline: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $17.53$12.58This is the first full-scale edition of Cymbeline for 37 years. During that time, there has been considerable interest in Shakespeare's late work in the theatre, and several notable productions have demonstrated the powerful impact of Cymbeline. Based... -
How the Just So Stories Were Made: The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children by John Batchelor
RRP: $38.98$20.24A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling's world-famous children's classic"In this concise and remarkable book . . . Batchelor guides us expertly . . . drawing on multiple sources and making intriguing... -
Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture by Leslie Howsam
RRP: $46.78$40.64Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus... -
Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas
RRP: $19.48$13.07In 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... -
Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader by Rosalind Minsky 9780415092210
RRP: $85.78$74.96What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? In Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader Rosalind Minsky answers these questions and... -
Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature by Viv Groskop
RRP: $35.08$22.41A lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop... -
Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa
$24.65Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author's use of 'rotten English' - a mixture of Nigerian pidgin... -
Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization by Stephanie DeGooyer
RRP: $56.55$50.86An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of... -
Asia in Western Fiction by Robin W. Winks 9780824812935
RRP: $40.85$38.90Offering insights into racial and cultural stereotyping and popular notions of imperialism, Asia in Western Fiction traces how Asia and Asians have been depicted in novels and other works of Western fiction, with an emphasis on works available in English... -
The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon by Prof. Harold Bloom 9781598536409
RRP: $68.25$43.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536409Author Harold BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm)... -
Clouds / Wasps / Peace by Aristophanes
RRP: $48.65$45.61The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and... -
Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker by McKenzie Wark 9781478014683
RRP: $35.08$31.01It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark adds a... -
The Connell Short Guide To Toni Morrison's Beloved by Theo Tait 9781911187059
RRP: $11.68$9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187059Author Tessa RoynonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by Andrew James Hartley
RRP: $17.53$14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187394Author Andrew James HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9780674022225
RRP: $36.95$29.97Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the... -
The European Folktale: Form and Nature by Max Luthi
RRP: $27.28$24.55"Niles' excellent translation should bring Luthi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." -Library JournalLuthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important... -
Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health by Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston 9780192889492
RRP: $171.60$155.61Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960. Combining perspectives from Irish Studies, Modernist Studies,... -
Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland 9781857545418
RRP: $33.05$23.50A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it... -
South African Gothic: Anxiety and Creative Dissent in the Post-apartheid Imagination and Beyond by Rebecca Duncan 9781786832467
RRP: $136.50$110.31The 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... -
The Bataille Reader by Fred Botting 9780631199595
RRP: $79.85$69.99Since the publication in France of his Oeuvres Completes in the mid-1970s, the breadth of Bataille's writing and influence has become increasingly apparent across the disciplines in, for example, the fields of literature, art, art history, philosophy,... -
Be Your Own Heroine: Life Lessons from Literature by Sophie Andrews
RRP: $15.58$11.58Learn about life from heroines of every era. Having brought you the wisdom of Austen in Be More Jane, eager reader Sophie Andrews joins forces with her sister Charlotte and turns her attention to what can be learned from the heroines of other stories... -
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard 9780060919887
RRP: $31.18$17.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060919887Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Against the Grain: Selected Essays by Terry Eagleton 9780860918417
RRP: $31.18$27.67These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences.Eagleton's combative... -
Antigone by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $27.28$24.59Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so...