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Selected Poems by Charlotte Smith 9781857547252
RRP: £7.95£5.67After years of literary neglect, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) is now being recognized as a major poet and modern figure whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience. This selection provides an ideal introduction to the... -
The Historical Novel by Jerome de Groot 9780415426626
RRP: £19.99£17.69The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible... -
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver 9780199568369
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Ring of Words describes the powerful and unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of the English language in his fictional works and his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Tolkien's earliest employment was as an assistant... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781586173975
RRP: £7.95£5.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586173975Author Joseph PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary 9780713688764
RRP: £9.99£9.61The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently... -
From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe by E. Jane Burns 9780268022327
RRP: £29.99£26.50The Middle Ages provides a particularly rich trove of hybrid creatures, semi-human beings, and composite bodies: we need only consider manuscript pages and stone capitals in Romanesque churches to picture the myriad figures incorporating both human and... -
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton 9780393314427
RRP: £25.00£20.72His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien regime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of... -
On the Shelf: Revisiting Abandoned Scripts by Julianne Todd 9781910868256
RRP: £19.99£17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910868256Author Julianne ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Thebes PublishingPublisher Thebes PublishingWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom 9780062048318
RRP: £15.99£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062048318Author Marilyn YalomFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: With parallel French Text by Collectif
RRP: £11.99£8.43'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and... -
Hopkins: A Literary Biography by Norman White 9780198183501
£43.65`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life/Among strangers': so begins one of the darkest and most overtly autobiographical of Hopkins's poems, written in Ireland a few years before his death. In this major new biography, more deeply researched, fully... -
Odes and Epodes by Horace
RRP: £24.95£23.39Monumental verse.The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes... -
Assassin's Creed: The Definitive Visual History by Ubisoft Entertainment 9781783298822
RRP: £40.00£32.06This stunning book explores the rich mythology of Assassin's Creed, featuring the art and history of the series from the first groundbreaking game through the graphic novels to the DLCs. Highlighting the lush and vibrant art that has become a hallmark of... -
George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety: Nudging Towards God by Ceri Sullivan 9780198906810
RRP: £70.00£63.74Contemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of similar circumstances, where there is reliable, substantial, and relevant information about the situation, and where they will get... -
Poems in the Porch: The Radio Poems of John Betjeman by Kevin J. Gardner 9781441142184
£14.42The book represent a genuine and important discovery in the canon of Betjeman's poems, often considered closed with the publication of the "Complete Poems". Between 1953-57, John Betjeman read a series of poems on "The Faith in the West" program airing... -
Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad by Owen Knowles 9780198604211
RRP: £24.49£23.44'Scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous'. This is how the TLS recently described the Oxford Reader's Companion Series. In September 2000, the book which pioneered the series, The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens came out in paperback. Now the Oxford... -
Division Street by Helen Mort
RRP: £12.00£8.44*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE AND COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013*'A stone is lobbed in '84, hangs like a star over Orgreave. Welcome to Sheffield. Border-land,our town of miracles...' - 'Scab'From the... -
In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought by Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781509540297
RRP: £17.99£16.04This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the... -
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams 9780300240252
RRP: £18.99£16.18A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and... -
The House of Being by Natasha Trethewey 9780300265927
RRP: £12.99£11.46An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey “Searching and intimate, this impresses.”—Publishers Weekly In a shotgun house in... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199592562
£37.80The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett,... -
Brave New World SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469457
RRP: £5.99£4.40When 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 Jacqueline Rose Reader by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: £23.99£21.24Jacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide ranging, with books on Zionism, feminism, Sylvia Plath, children's fiction, and... -
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature by Karen Coats
£30.67From Maria Edgeworth, Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll to Sherman Alexie, Sharon Flake, and Gene Luen Yang, this is a comprehensive introduction to studying the infinitely varied worlds of literature for children and young adults. Exploring a diverse... -
John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought by Gordon Campbell
RRP: £16.99£13.34This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The... -
The Diary of Anne Clifford 1616-1619: A Critical Edition by Katherine O. Acheson 9780367149130
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1995, this book contains a full version of The Diary of Anne Clifford, alongisde an introduction and textual notes. Anne Clifford left one of the most extensive autobiographical records of the seventeenth century and, it was first... -
Meditations on Quixote by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393001259
RRP: £17.00£13.92First published in 1914, Meditations on Quixote was Ortega's first book. It has immensely grown in value with time, and since the 1930's, when Ortega himself began to refer back to it in his later writings, it has become more and more important among... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: £25.00£19.59In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to... -
Selected Letters by John Keats 9780199555734
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?' Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development and sout-making. They represent one of the most... -
The Impact Of Akira by Remi Lopez
RRP: £22.90£15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782377842803Author Remi LopezFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Third EditionsPublisher Third Editions -
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel 9780691037660
RRP: £45.00£35.32Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness... -
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush 9780520280489
RRP: £27.00£21.46Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life... -
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff
£47.92The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism offers a comprehensive guide to the literature and thought of the Romantic period, and an overview of the latest research on this topic. Written by a team of international experts, the Handbook analyses all... -
A Shakespeare Motley: An Illustrated Assortment by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
RRP: £12.95£9.07A Shakespearean Motley is a delightful cabinet of Shakespearean curiosities, arranged in a straightforward alphabetical order, that will inform, enthuse, intrigue and amuse anyone who would like to know more about the richly varied and versatile life and... -
Virgil: Aeneid Book XII by Virgil
RRP: £26.99£23.44Book XII brings Virgil's Aeneid to a close, as the long-delayed single combat between Aeneas and Turnus ends with Turnus' death - a finale that many readers find more unsettling than triumphant. In this, the first detailed single-volume commentary on the... -
The Short Stories of George Mackay Brown by Linden Bicket 9781906841225
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841225Author Linden BicketFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Bacchae: WITH Iphigenia at Aulis AND Rhesus by Euripidies
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Ustinov Still at Large by Peter Ustinov 9780879759674
RRP: £17.99£13.64"I wish to cause no pain, except where it is deserved." -- Peter Ustinov The legendary Peter Ustinov was one of the world's most versatile and talented contributors to the arts. Ustinov's talents were widely demonstrated both in print and on... -
Klaeber's Beowulf by R. D. Fulk
RRP: £41.00£37.33Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have... -
Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work by Ian Nathan
RRP: £28.00£19.19Guillermo del Toro is a complete and intimate study of the life and work of one of modern cinema's most truly unique directors, whose distinct aesthetic and imagination are unmatched in contemporary film. Widely regarded as one of the most imaginative...