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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
RRP: €23.79€19.41This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays... -
Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond by Kathryn Harkup 9781472982254
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Witty and well researched.' THE TIMES 'A scientific dose of reality.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A fun and comprehensive exploration.' LINDA McROBBIE 'Endlessly fascinating.' LIBRARY JOURNAL The science behind James Bond's exploits - armaments, tactics,... -
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008628765
RRP: €35.70€22.81The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord... -
I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear by Sean Delear
RRP: €19.03€11.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901832Author Sean DelearFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 9780199591961
RRP: €17.84€13.72Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He... -
Nature Poems: Treasured classics and new favourites (National Trust) by Deborah Alma
RRP: €11.89€7.76More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated book Seven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains. This carefully chosen... -
The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella by S. Y. Agnon
RRP: €22.60€19.90S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in... -
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 23 and 24: Invention of the Barbarian and Greek Art by Athina Mitropoulos
RRP: €19.03€17.58This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 23 and 24 from the 'Culture and the Arts' Component Group: Invention of the Barbarian by Alastair... -
Thomas Wyatt by Sir Thomas Wyatt
RRP: €10.70€7.24In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: €11.89€8.46'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the... -
Selected Poems by Charles Tomlinson
RRP: €15.46€10.82In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a vernacular American speech and direct observation of the... -
Best-Loved Poems by Neil Philip
RRP: €15.46€10.23This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine... -
Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of Absence by Jonathan Sawday 9780192845641
RRP: €41.65€39.31Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally. The book argues that print culture in the... -
Selected Poems by Deceased Bertolt Brecht 9780156806466
RRP: €23.80€16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156806466Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 140mm... -
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson by Jeremy Noel-Tod
RRP: €15.46€10.82'A wonderful book - an invigorating revelation ... An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form's astonishing range' Kate Kellaway, Observer'A superb anthology . . . it is hard to know how it... -
Treatise on the Whole-World: by Edouard Glissant by Celia Britton
RRP: €27.36€24.66This exciting, challenging book covers a wide range of subject matter, but all linked together through the key ideas of diversity and 'Relation'. It sees our modern world, shaped by immigration and the aftermath of colonization, as a multiplicity of... -
Two Concepts of Allegory: A Study of Shakespeare's the Tempest and the Logic of Allegorical Expression by A. D. Nuttall 9780300118742
€21.54The fundamental subject of A. D. Nuttall's bold and daring first book, " Two Concepts of Allegory," is a particular habit of thought--the practice of thinking about universals as though they were concrete things. His study takes the form of an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy by P. E. Easterling 9780521423519
RRP: €41.64€30.76As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture... -
Echoes of Memory by John O'Donohue 9781848270749
RRP: €10.70€7.68In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John O'Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings. Inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Celtic tradition and the rugged, majestic landscape of his birth, the west of... -
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Diane J. Rayor
RRP: €15.46€14.02Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems and fragments,... -
Bedside Companion for Book Lovers: An Anthology of Literary Delights for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
RRP: €27.31€17.35A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year. Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The... -
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney by Neil Corcoran
RRP: €15.46€10.19Seamus Heaney's poetic career has been one of constant development and expansion, and his place among the world's greatest literary figures is universally acknowledged. When it first appeared in 1986, Neil Corcoran's A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney... -
The Lesser Declamations: v. 2 by Quintilian
RRP: €29.69€27.83Mock trial-Roman style.The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century AD and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from "the school of Quintilian." The collection-here made available for the first... -
W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
RRP: €15.46€10.19W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us 'to be more... -
52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life by Ruth Padel
RRP: €15.46€10.82Ever wondered about how to really interpret poetry? Puzzled about metre, rhyming and stanzas? Presented in language thoroughly accessible for all, poet and writer Ruth Padel demystifies poetic style, structure and meaning in this comprehensive anthology... -
The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim 9781760761608
RRP: €29.75€20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Australian Book Designer Awards 2023 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781760761608Author Michael LimFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Thames and Hudson... -
Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: €29.74€26.57The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and... -
"Hamlet": The Texts of 1603 and 1623 by William Shakespeare
RRP: €15.46€15.09This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. As a companion to the Second Quarto volume, it will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual... -
The Voynich Manuscript by Raymond Clemens
RRP: €47.60€41.88The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle"For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript, has been published, featuring essays exploring what is known about the book... -
Read with Oxford: Stage 5: Comic Books: Superhero Bunny League by Jamie Smart 9780192769756
RRP: €8.32€6.10Two hilarious comic strip stories for children who are beginning to read independently. They might be a bit different from your average superheroes - but can the Superhero Bunny League work together to save the day? Comic strip stories offer... -
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert
RRP: €20.22€19.83"A feminist classic."-Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review"A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."-Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued... -
Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix
RRP: €29.75€18.89SEE the amazing vintage book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, knife-wielding killer crabs! READ the shocking plots involving devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! LEARN the stories of long-forgotten creators as... -
The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle
RRP: €23.79€17.75This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's extraordinary essay of... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9780393640106
€15.86This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The Second Quarto text, edited by Robert S. Miola and accompanied by his footnotes, headnotes, and introductory materials. * Eighteen illustrations from 1604 to 2008, three of them new to the Second Edition. * The... -
The Dark Enlightenment - Imperium Press by Nick Land 9781922602688
RRP: €29.74€21.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922602688Author Nick LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 7mm -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
RRP: €11.89€8.46An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern... -
Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €4.75€3.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486401461Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 55gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus by Carolyn Dewald
RRP: €36.88€32.33Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century... -
Winter Evening Tales by James Hogg 9780748620869
RRP: €23.79€20.02Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical... -
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
RRP: €11.89€8.46Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these...