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Ivan Illich in Conversation David Cayley 9780887845246
RRP: £15.99£11.04For more than fifteen years, iconoclastic thinker Ivan Illich refused to be interviewed. Finally, in 1988, CBC's David Cayley persuaded Illich to record a conversation. This first interview led to additional sessoins that continued until 1992 and are now... -
The Masnavi, Book Five by Jalal al-Din Rumi 9780192857071
RRP: £9.99£7.32'If something else can capture your attention Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion - Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.' This is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of... -
An Essay on Man, The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems by Alexander Pope 9781420970524
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420970524Author Alexander PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
A.S. Byatt's "Possession" by Catherine Burgass 9780826452481
£17.13This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of... -
The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens 9780199686667
RRP: £9.99£7.32'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?' At the height of his career, around the time he... -
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 9780393971675
£24.60Thucydides' military and diplomatic acumen, his understanding of human psychology, and his narrative skill have shaped the writing of history for over two thousand years. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides supplementary selections from Xenophon,... -
Orientalist Poetics: The Islamic Middle East in Nineteenth-Century English and French Poetry Emily A. Haddad 9780754603047
RRP: £130.00£112.11Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century in both England and France with particular attention to poetry and poetics. It convincingly demonstrates orientalism's centrality to the evolution of poetry... -
He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art by Christian Wiman
RRP: £16.00£9.36What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death... -
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 9780811200684
RRP: £8.99£7.08Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford
RRP: £16.99£15.13From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and... -
The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780520292864
RRP: £12.99£10.41In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the... -
Collected Plays: Volume 2: The Lion and the Jewel; Kongi's Harvest; The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Madmen and Specialists by Wole Soyinka
RRP: £20.99£20.87`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through... -
Shakespeare's Originality by John Kerrigan 9780198793755
RRP: £37.49£32.16How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the dramatist worked with his sources: plays, poems, chronicles... -
Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature by Abigail Williams 9780691170688
RRP: £30.00£24.06How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation-and how this still shapes the way we readReading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about:... -
Poetry Please!: More Poetry Please by BBC Radio 4
RRP: £5.99£4.56A selection of poems from the successful Radio 4 series, including Auden, Betjeman, Hopkins and MacNeice, with an introduction by Charles Causley.A compilation of classic poems from the beloved Radio 4 series.Book InformationISBN 9780460878241Author BBC... -
Arthur Rimbaud Selected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud 9781857157086
RRP: £10.99£7.99Burnt-out at twenty-three, Rimbaud has become a model for the poet as wayward genius. Nevertheless, he wrote a substantial amount of lyric and dramatic verse in his few years of activity. This volume contains all his mature output, together with several... -
Dead as Doornails: A Memoir by Anthony Cronin
RRP: £10.00£9.17Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism by Walter Kalaidjian
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical... -
Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever by Mem Fox 9780156035101
RRP: £16.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156035101Author Mem FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
Oxford Student Texts: Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 9780198325994
£11.76One of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions... -
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish Tom McCarthy 9781681370866
RRP: £15.99£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370866Author Tom McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays Phillip Lopate 9781681377780
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377780Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays Evelyn Gajowski 9781138377875
RRP: £49.99£43.50The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist... -
Tacitus, Annals IV: A Selection Dr Robert Cromarty (Wellington College, UK) 9781350060302
RRP: £16.99£15.46This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Tacitus' Annals IV, sections 1-4 (... non adversus habebatur), 7-12, and 39-41, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 52-54, 57-60,... -
Memoirs Of Montparnasse John Glassco 9781590171844
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171844Author John GlasscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Quarter by Naguib Mahfouz 9780863563751
RRP: £10.99£7.61Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money... -
Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare's Working People by Stephen Unwin 9781789146615
RRP: £25.00£14.91Shows how Shakespeare portrayed working people with insight, compassion and purpose.Book InformationISBN 9781789146615Author Stephen UnwinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion Books -
The Sea Cloak Nayrouz Qarmout 9781905583782
RRP: £10.99£9.18The Sea Cloak is a collection of 11 stories by the author, journalist, and campaigner, Nayrouz Qarmout. Drawing from her own experiences growing up in a Syrian refugee camp, as well as her current life in Gaza, these stories stitch together a patchwork... -
Beowulf: Facing Page Translation by R. M. Liuzza
RRP: £20.95£19.63R.M. Liuzza's translation of Beowulf, first published by Broadview in 1999, has been widely praised for its accuracy and beauty. The facing-page translation is accompanied in this edition by genealogical charts, historical summaries, and a glossary of... -
Devotion by Patti Smith
RRP: £13.99£12.25The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve... -
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
RRP: £19.00£18.50"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely... -
Ghostbusters: The Official Cookbook by Jenn Fujikawa 9781803363097
RRP: £24.99£11.95From big city bites to small town tastes, feed your interdimensional demon inside with a smorgasbord of paranormal-inspired recipes with the first-ever official Ghostbusters cookbook! Who you gonna call... to eat?! Featuring more than 50 recipes... -
Aristotle De Arte Poetica by Rudolf Kassel 9780198145646
£50.41Aristotle De Arte PoeticaBook InformationISBN 9780198145646Author Rudolf KasselFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 195mm * 128mm * 11mm -
Physiologus: A Medieval Book of Nature Lore by Michael J. Curley
RRP: £23.00£22.13One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, "Physiologus" contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching... -
Hanes Cymry: Lleiafrifoedd Ethnig a'r Gwareiddiad Cymraeg by Simon Brooks 9781786836427
RRP: £19.99£15.23Mae'r gyfrol arloesol hon yn cyflawni dwy amcan. Yn gyntaf - ac am y tro cyntaf - mae'n cynnwys hanes lleiafrifoedd ethnig oddi mewn i'r diwylliant Cymraeg, a hynny o ddyddiau Macsen Wledig hyd heddiw. Yn ail, mae'n dehongli amlethnigrwydd o safbwynt... -
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce by Derek Attridge
RRP: £26.99£22.80This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on... -
Tentacles Longer Than Night - Horror of Philosophy vol. 3 Eugene Thacker 9781782798897
RRP: £10.99£9.61Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for... -
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946 by Gertrude Stein 9780231063098
RRP: £45.00£36.32This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects,... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by James Raven 9780198702986
RRP: £36.99£27.33In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative... -
Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome by Julian Lovelock 9780718894368
RRP: £23.50£17.84In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories for children. The result was Swallows and Amazons and eleven more wonderful books followed, spanning in...