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The Instant of My Death /<I>Demeure</I>: Fiction and Testimony by Maurice Blanchot 9780804733267
RRP: £16.99£13.70This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to... -
Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present by John Gatta 9780195165067
RRP: £45.99£31.79In this book, John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for 'natural revelation' has been pursued through successive phases... -
Daughters of Sparta: A tale of secrets, betrayal and revenge from mythology's most vilified women by Claire Heywood
RRP: £9.99£5.64Two 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 AvenueFor millennia, two women have been blamed... -
Summary and Analysis of Thinking, Fast and Slow: Based on the Book by Daniel Kahneman by Worth Books 9781504046756
RRP: £8.99£6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046756Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
Cold Mountain Poems: Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih by Han Shan
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806984Author Han ShanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Brown Bear Goes to the Museum by Jane Foster 9781787418325 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£3.81There's so much to discover together in the museum! Follow Brown Bear and his friends as they explore all of the different rooms - from the transport section to the art gallery. With vibrant artwork and charming animal characters, this new picture... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268201715
RRP: £24.99£20.02In March 1917, Book 3 the forces of revolutionary disintegration spread out from Petrograd all the way to the front lines of World War I, presaging Russia’s collapse. One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner... -
George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance by Bernard Semmel 9780195086577
RRP: £79.00£57.67In this stimulating history of the ideas behind George Eliot's novels, Bernard Semmel explores George Eliot's use of the plot of inheritance in her novels. Through detailed analyses of Eliot's novels and a study of the intellectual currents of the time,... -
Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East by Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
RRP: £28.49£26.67From its origins as a minor nomadic tribe to its status as a major world empire, the rise of the Parthian state in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. In their early history, the Parthians benefitted from strong leadership, a flexible and... -
Trauma Lucy Bond (University of Westminster, UK) 9780415540421
RRP: £19.99£17.69Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late... -
The Selected Poems by A. R. Ammons 9780393303964
RRP: £15.00£12.63To the "visions of clarity and terror" in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work... -
Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty by Nathan K. Hensley 9780198792451
£110.05In Forms of Empire, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed writers to expand the capacities of literary form. The Victorian era is often imagined as an "age of equipoise," but the period between 1837... -
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide by Patricia Waugh 9780199258369
£47.31Edited by Patricia Waugh, this comprehensive guide to literary theory and criticism includes 39 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding international team of academics. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key... -
The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus by A. J. Woodman 9780521697484
RRP: £30.99£25.85Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new,... -
Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity by Janine Barchas
RRP: £25.00£22.38In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen's novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and... -
Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context by Jacques Jouanna 9780691172071
RRP: £55.00£43.25Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays,... -
Beckett and Nothing: Trying to Understand Beckett by Daniela Caselli 9780719087844
RRP: £19.99£17.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £19.95£16.36"And I? May I say nothing, my lord?" With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of... -
Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Book - I. English Text; II. Commentary by Hilda Ellis Davidson 9780859915021
RRP: £39.99£27.07Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Studying Poetry by Stephen Matterson 9780340985151
£28.38Studying Poetry is a fun, concise and helpful guide to understanding poetry which is divided into three parts, form and meaning, critical approaches and interpreting poetry, all of which help to illuminate the beauty and validity of poetry using a wide... -
Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises, from Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period by Eleanor Dickey 9780195312935
RRP: £35.49£23.80Ancient Greek Scholarship is the only introduction to this important and fast-growing field, with information on all aspects of using and reading ancient scholarship. Includes discussions of all major works, explanation of grammarians' Greek, over 200... -
Contemporary Gothic by Catherine Spooner
RRP: £12.95£9.31Gothic images pervade contemporary culture, from popular interior decorating programmes to news stories of vampire-obsessed killers. Darkness and unease have never been more fashionable, as the media repeatedly proclaims that Gothic is back', heralding... -
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm 9780300143102
RRP: £11.99£10.41Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B. Toklas"Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. Toklas's legendary... -
Thomas Browne: Selected Writings by Kevin Killeen 9780198797654
RRP: £20.99£20.69This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition demonstrates the breadth of the... -
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity by Prue Shaw 9781631490064
RRP: £15.99£13.74Keenly aware that thousands of books have been written about The Divine Comedy, Prue Shaw-one of the world's foremost Dante authorities-is convinced that an accessible, non-scholarly work that explicated Dante is needed. Just as Dante becomes a poet with... -
The Globe in Print: The Book of the Play in the Age of Shakespeare Stephen Orgel 9780198920540
RRP: £18.99£17.91How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some editorial process to make it available to readers. The book of the play is not the play on the stage;... -
The Burns Supper Companion by Nancy Marshall
RRP: £7.99£5.64In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns' death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns Cottage in Alloway to celebrate his extraordinary life and to give thanks for his friendship. Over the years the informal theme from... -
The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £12.99£9.34From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the biography of Ronald Knox - priest, classicist, prolific writer and one of the outstanding men of letters of his time. The... -
Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen by Potter
RRP: £25.00£21.19This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words. Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the... -
Commentary on the Dream of Scipio by Macrobius
RRP: £30.00£23.29'Book InformationISBN 9780231096287Author MacrobiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World: A Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire Charles Haberl (Professor of Religion and African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures) 9781837642595
RRP: £29.99£27.59The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran are adherents of the last surviving Gnostic tradition from the period of Late Antiquity, and the Book of Kings is the capstone to one of their most sacred scriptures. A universal history in four parts, it concisely outlines... -
The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz by Hafiz 9780140196238
RRP: £11.99£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140196238Author HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm)... -
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All by Gregory Bassham 9780812695458
RRP: £21.99£16.66"The Lord of the Rings" is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in... -
You can't get blood out of a turnip by Ilia Warner 9781905299065
RRP: £9.95£8.38Whether fashionable or unfashionable, which of us don't use proverbs all the time? They are an indispensable vehicle of popular wisdom and a lively contributor to educated speech. Proverbs are forever evolving. This gathering of Italian proverbs is... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
RRP: £20.00£14.51Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Wixson 9780198850090
RRP: £8.99£6.65George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a... -
Four Greek Plays by Kenneth McLeish 9781853995835
£26.63These translations of "Oedipus the King", "Antigone", "Acharnians" and "Peace", are here reissued in paperback. They are written to be accessible for use in schools and for performance, and contain no Greek text.Author's works include "Roman Comedy"Book... -
I Am: The Answers to Life's Biggest Questions by Marcus Nodder 9781789741773
RRP: £6.99£5.65Bold claims. Answers which many are searching for today. This is Jesus in his own words, using metaphors and pictures which are concrete, simple and profound. Meaning: what is the meaning of life? I am the bread of life. Enlightenment: where can I... -
Rome's Mediterranean Empire: Books 41-45 and the Periochae by Livy
RRP: £13.99£10.41'I will do as the Senate decrees.' These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and... -
The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: £32.00£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd