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The Complete Euripides: Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195388770
RRP: $26.23$19.40Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond... -
Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis 9780747599043
RRP: $23.08$16.78'I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who has died and is now writing'. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. While the grave may have... -
Northanger Abbey: York Notes for AS & A2 by Glennis Byron
RRP: $16.78$13.34THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy... -
The Complete Poems by William Empson
RRP: $42.00$30.01Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. Praised in his lifetime by the likes of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and John Betjeman, his reputation contines to be high. His poems take a wide range of themes... -
Oedipus the King Sophocles 9780713686760
RRP: $18.88$17.26Since it was first performed in Athens in the 420s BC, Oedipus the King has been widely regarded as Sophocles' greatest tragedy and one of the foundation stones of western drama. Taken as a model by Aristotle in his Poetics, it became a yardstick for... -
The Art of Love by Ovid 9780099518822
RRP: $14.68$11.13The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly useful and entertaining. Between these covers you'll find all you need... -
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen
RRP: $52.50$38.47In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating... -
The Mother of the Bront s: When Maria Met Patrick by Sharon Wright 9781526757609
RRP: $27.28$19.61At long last, the untold story of the mysterious Mrs Bront . They were from different lands, different classes, different worlds almost. The chances of Cornish gentlewoman Maria Branwell even meeting the poor Irish curate Patrick Bront in Regency... -
John Ruskin: Selected Prose by Richard Lansdown 9780192868022
RRP: $39.88$38.45This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and... -
Narrative Paul Cobley 9780415834445
RRP: $41.98$37.15Human beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book argues, even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a... -
Playwriting: The Structure of Action by Sam Smiley 9780300107241
RRP: $47.25$45.53A classic guide to dramatic writing now revised and expanded for a new generation of playwrights and screenwriters This practical guide provides the principles of dramatic writing. Playwrights and screenwriters will discover these essential principles... -
The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons
RRP: $27.28$19.61'What had happened to the lost manuscripts, what train of chances took Rolfe to his death in Venice? The Quest continued'One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar, eccentric novel that he cannot forget and, captivated by this unknown... -
The Secret Sharer and Other Stories by Joseph Conrad 9780393936339
$32.82The stories in this Norton Critical Edition maintain the connection and sequencing that Joseph Conrad saw among them. They are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a note on the texts and a preface. Also included are documents related to Conrad's... -
One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting in by Kate Kennedy 9781250285126
RRP: $52.48$34.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250285126Author Kate KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
The Connell Guide To Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by David Schwaltyk 9781907776557
RRP: $18.88$16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776557Author David SchwaltykFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole 9781783964581
RRP: $31.48$21.48`Probably the most compulsive text ever penned about what it means to handle and possess a book' - Christopher de Hamel, author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts; `A real treasure trove for book lovers' - Alexander McCall Smith; We love books. We... -
Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation by Gerard Genette
RRP: $62.98$51.58Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's... -
The Illustrated World of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: $63.00$43.47The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's works have inspired artists for generations and have given rise to myriad interpretations of the rich and magical worlds he created.The Illustrated World of Tolkien gathers together artworks and essays from expert... -
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection by Judith Butler 9780804728126
RRP: $50.38$43.85As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: $130.20$103.36This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only book that he regarded as an autobiography, A Certain... -
The Cambridge Companion to Cicero by Catherine Steel 9780521729802
RRP: $65.08$54.29Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government... -
Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192866363
RRP: $14.68$11.13'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life' This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and... -
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Hayden V. White 9780801841156
RRP: $50.40$48.36Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption-in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the... -
Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion by Chariton 9780140449259
RRP: $27.28$19.61In this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells... -
In His Own Write & A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon
RRP: $31.48$23.33This title includes an introduction by Sir Paul McCartney. First published in 1964 and 1965, "In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works" are a brilliantly inventive and offbeat collection of John Lennon's stories, drawings and poems.A riotous... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9781914602146
RRP: $42.00$30.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602146Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing -
Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1918 by Volker Weidermann
RRP: $27.28$18.48At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. ... -
Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers by Sarah Iles Johnston
RRP: $63.00$42.84An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."-Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series"Move over, Edith Hamilton! Sarah Iles Johnston has... -
William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth 9780571226788
RRP: $18.88$13.19In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the selectors offer a passionate and accessible introduction to... -
The Bruce by John Barbour
RRP: $52.50$35.68This is a full translation of the Scottish epic "The Bruce". The poem is regarded as one of the key sources for the life of Robert the Bruce. It contains detailed notes explaining and simplifying the narrative, as well as contemporary accounts. The book... -
The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction by Jacqueline Rose 9780812214352
$51.26Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a preface, written for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their... -
The Gothic and Theory: An Edinburgh Companion by Jerrold E. Hogle 9781474427784
RRP: $58.78$48.24This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.Book InformationISBN 9781474427784Author Jerrold E. HogleFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations by Diane Purkiss
RRP: $88.18$77.18'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets... -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $35.68$26.63'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like nobody else ever had' Jonathan Franzen'[He was] first... -
Antigones by George Steiner
$73.48The Antigone myth in Western literature, art and thought.Book InformationISBN 9780192819345Author George SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *... -
Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess
RRP: $20.98$14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385920Author Anthony BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 197mm... -
More Posthuman Glossary by Professor Rosi Braidotti
RRP: $46.18$39.12The notion of the posthuman continues to both intrigue and confuse, not least because of the huge number of ideas, theories and figures associated with this term. More Posthuman Glossary provides a way in to the dizzying array of posthuman concepts,... -
The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition by C. S. Lewis 9781107659438
RRP: $48.28$40.19The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering... -
The Seasons of Life: A Companion for the Poetic Journey by Hermann Hesse
RRP: $35.68$24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175061Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism by Alison Gibbons
$101.39Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of...