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Great Literary Friendships by Janet Phillips
RRP: $21.92$17.42Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns' poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's adventures on the Mississippi, fictional friends have... -
Meditations on Quixote by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393001259
RRP: $21.93$18.40First 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... -
Haunted by Christ by Richard Harries
RRP: $14.18$10.31W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Elizabeth Jennings, C. S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Stevie Smith . . . These are some of the great poets and novelists whose struggles with faith find expression in their works, and who demonstrate the... -
Story and Structure: A Complete Guide by Leon Conrad 9781906069254
RRP: $38.64$24.68Story and Structure tells the untold story of how story works. Using just six primary symbols, author Leon Conrad outlines eighteen story structures and shows how they all optimally solve the problems which give rise to them. The book also demonstrates... -
Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval
RRP: $19.34$14.13Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection... -
Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach 9780691165844
RRP: $28.38$24.03This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which... -
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism by David Duff
$61.82The 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... -
Virgil: Aeneid Book XII by Virgil
RRP: $34.82$30.24Book 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... -
Timaeus Critias Cleitophon Menexenus Epistles: v. 9 by Plato
RRP: $32.19$30.65On the creation of the world, and the destruction of Atlantis.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else... -
Laches by Plato
RRP: $32.19$30.65On virtue in education and argumentation.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is... -
De Inventione; De Optimo Genere Oratorum; Topica by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $32.19$30.65Three rhetorical treatises.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, ... -
Volpone and Other Plays by Ben Jonson
RRP: $16.76$12.05The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances... -
Critical Essays – Volume 1, 1944–1948 by Georges Bataille
RRP: $29.66$25.45This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path... -
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia by Carolyne Larrington 9781316501290
RRP: $33.53$28.88This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society... -
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
RRP: $20.63$14.98Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs--but people do need help iand encouragemnt to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading... -
The Impact Of Akira by Remi Lopez
RRP: $29.54$20.29Apologies 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 -
Conversations with James Baldwin by Fred L. Standley 9780878053896
RRP: $38.64$33.95This collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him... -
Catullus: A Selection of Poems Dr John Godwin (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350060227
RRP: $21.92$19.94This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Catullus' poems 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 40, 70, 76, 85, 88, 89, 91 and 107, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of poems 1, 34, 62 and 64 lines... -
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 9780393093322
$31.37Study of the genesis of the novel is facilitated by the reproduction of Dickens' working plans and, for the first time, by some thousands of meticulous textual notes. "Backgrounds" offers all of Dickens' correspondence about Bleak House as well as... -
Shakespeare'S Moral Compass by Neema Parvini
RRP: $30.95$25.58This ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a question that has eluded critics for centuries: what is Shakespeare's moral vision?Book InformationISBN... -
The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart by Noel Carroll
RRP: $56.75$49.59Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student... -
Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis by Alicia Mireles Professor Christoff 9780691193106
RRP: $45.15$36.06The first comprehensive look at how Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis shaped each otherNovel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory. Placing the writing of figures... -
A Companion to Malory by Elizabeth Archibald 9780859915205
RRP: $32.24$21.98Malory's Morte Darthur - text, history and reception - expertly appraised by international scholars. This collection of original essays by an international group of distinguished medievalists provides a comprehensive introduction to the great work of... -
Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology by Richard Buxton 9780521338653
RRP: $51.59$42.91This is a study of Greek mythology in relation to its original contexts. Part one deals with the contexts in which myths were narrated: the home, public festivals, the lesche. Part two, the heart of the book, examines the relation between the realities... -
Aeneid: Book 6 by Virgil 9780198721284
RRP: $42.56$39.01This text of the sixth book of the Aeneid includes a detailed commentary.ReviewsThroughout, Austin's characteristic sensitivity and refined judgement combine with careful scholarship to present a balanced, sound commentary on this most difficult and... -
And: Phenomenology of the End by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: $21.92$15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351702Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Greek Tragedy by H. D. F. Kitto 9780415610193
RRP: $24.50$21.76Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge... -
The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition by John Scattergood 9781846319488
RRP: $49.67$47.27John Scattergood's 'The Complete English Poems of John Skelton', originally published in 1983 and long out of print, was the leading academic edition with comprehensive notes. Students are currently limited to searching for Skelton's poems in anthologies... -
Don't Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises by Pierre Hadot
RRP: $25.80$21.90The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot's final work, now available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini. In his final book, renowned philosopher Pierre Hadot explores Goethe's relationship with ancient spiritual... -
The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction by John Phillips
RRP: $11.60$8.58Were it not for the Marquis de Sade's explicit use of language and complete disregard for the artificially constructed taboos of a religious morality he despised, the novelty and profundity of his thought, and above all, its fundamental modernity, would... -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: $19.34$14.13Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This stimulating selection of criticism reveals him as a worshipper... -
An Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective Sulaiman Hakemy 9781912128938
RRP: $8.39$8.11South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang used his 2003 work Kicking Away The Ladder to challenge the central orthodoxies of development economics, using his creative thinking skills to shine new light on an old topic. Creative thinkers are often... -
Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism by James Simpson
RRP: $38.64$31.00How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western liberalism?The English Reformation began as an evangelical movement driven by an unyielding belief in predestination, intolerance,... -
Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts by Jerram Barrs
RRP: $18.05$14.00Art is all around us, but few people truly understand it. Barrs helps readers evaluate and define great art through an investigation of the work of Lewis, Tolkien, Rowling, Shakespeare, and Austen."Echoes of Eden is the most accessible, readable, and yet... -
The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' from Humboldt to Thomas Mann by W. H. Bruford 9780521129008
RRP: $50.30$42.91In a lecture in 1923, Thomas Mann said that the ordinary middle-class German had never considered culture to include an interest in politics, and still did not do so. The idea of the true freedom which comes to the man who lives as much as possible in... -
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $32.25$21.92Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies AssociationThe Poems of T. S. Eliot is the... -
Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
RRP: $18.05$17.16Brian Attebery's "strategy of fantasy" include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the reader's strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with the text. Drawing on a number of current literary... -
A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present by Rey Chow
RRP: $28.38$22.39Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability-such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive... -
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by James Baldwin
RRP: $16.76$11.39Apologies 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 -
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes
RRP: $25.80$20.81If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot...