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Critical Essays – Volume 1, 1944–1948 by Georges Bataille
RRP: €27.36€23.48This 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... -
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery 9781914198045
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198045Author Grace LaveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia by Carolyne Larrington 9781316501290
RRP: €30.93€26.64This 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... -
Adaptation and Appropriation by Julie Sanders
RRP: €28.55€24.98From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. In this... -
Medea by Mike Bartlett 9781408183915
RRP: €14.27€14.22If there's a God, which at the moment I DOUBT, I want you to curse him. If there's any justice, I want them - both of them - in a car crash. Her husband's gone and her future isn't bright. Imprisoned in her marital home, Medea can't work, can't sleep... -
Nothing Personal: An Essay by James Baldwin
RRP: €23.80€14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006429Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 133mm * 13mm -
Clive Barker's Dark Worlds by Phil and Sarah Stokes
RRP: €41.65€31.90A deep dive into the creative world and personal archive of the master of horror Clive Barker, from Hellraiser and Candyman to today"I've seen the future of horror . . . and his name is Clive Barker." In the mid-1980s, Stephen King inducted a young... -
The Grapes of Wrath SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469556
RRP: €7.13€5.24When 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... -
Troilus And Cressida: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780143131755
RRP: €10.70€7.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131755Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Dream of the Earth: Preface by Terry Tempest Williams & Foreword by Brian Swimme by Thomas Berry
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025325Author Thomas BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Hugo Award (Related Book) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780593135730Author Abraham RiesmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology by Richard Buxton 9780521338653
RRP: €47.59€39.58This 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: €39.26€35.99This 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... -
A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: €5.95€5.26Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian... -
Introducing the Medieval Fox by Paul Wackers 9781786839886
RRP: €15.46€11.54This book is an entertaining, informative and enchanting introduction to its subject - just as those medieval banes of the farmyard, the Fox and the Vixen, were enchanting in escapades from fables and funny tales, from beastly epic poems and bestiaries,... -
A Point of View by Clive James
RRP: €13.08€9.44From the fierce and funny Clive James, this is Britain in the twenty-first century - from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, and from Britain's Got Talent to contemporary art.Between 2007 and 2009, Clive James wrote and presented A Point of View for BBC... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: €17.84€12.14A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are... -
Daughters of Sparta: A tale of secrets, betrayal and revenge from mythology's most vilified women by Claire Heywood 9781529349931
RRP: €20.22€13.73Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed.'Required reading for fans of Circe . . . a remarkable, thrilling debut' - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue'Fluent and persuasive. I admire the... -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: €17.84€13.03Before 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... -
Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution by Ian Duncan
RRP: €41.65€33.01A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption... -
Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts by Jerram Barrs
RRP: €16.65€12.91Art 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: €46.40€39.58In 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 Weird Tale by S. T. Joshi 9780809531226
RRP: €20.22€17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809531226Author S. T. JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 455g -
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses by T. S. Eliot
RRP: €29.75€20.22Times 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... -
A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present by Rey Chow
RRP: €26.18€20.66Leadership, 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... -
Ivan Illich in Conversation by David Cayley
RRP: €19.03€13.14For 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 Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo 9780061791031
RRP: €11.89€7.90With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury... -
Marcel Proust: A Biography by George D. Painter
RRP: €22.60€16.67'No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... -
An Essay on Man, The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems by Alexander Pope 9781420970524
€12.46Apologies 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 *... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
Queering the Gothic by Hughes William 9780719086434
RRP: €23.79€20.96Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth century and the present, the contributors explore... -
A.S. Byatt's "Possession" by Catherine Burgass 9780826452481
€20.38This 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... -
Restoration Literature: An Anthology by Paul Hammond 9780199555192
RRP: €14.27€10.28When our great monarch into exile went, Wit and religion suffered banishment... At length the Muses stand restored again To that great charge which Nature did ordain. In these lines Dryden represents the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 as the... -
Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others by Angela Brintlinger 9781350242142
RRP: €15.46€13.80For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, yes, even crime and punishment; readers across the globe have found in Russian writing a substantial measure of... -
Orientalist Poetics: The Islamic Middle East in Nineteenth-Century English and French Poetry by Professor Emily A Haddad
RRP: €154.70€133.41Orientalist 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... -
Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy 9780300095289
RRP: €35.70€29.57A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry This selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), edited by David... -
The Makars: The Poems of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas by Jackie Tasioulas
RRP: €29.75€20.22The poetry of the Makars marked an extraordinary flowering of Scottish culture and the Scots language in the 15th and early 16th centuries. This magnificent anthology, introduced, edited and annotated by J.A. Tasioulas, makes available for the modern... -
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: €24.98€24.84`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... -
Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems by Jorie Graham 9781857542257
RRP: €21.41€15.15Jorie Graham's poetry insists that "the visible world" exists: but what is its existence? Beyond the subjective, the lyric, she ventures with philosophical rigour into an area "saturated with phenomena", in Helen Vendler's phrase, a place of shifting... -
Arthur Rimbaud Selected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud 9781857157086
RRP: €13.08€9.25Burnt-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...