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Pindar: v. 1 by Pindar
RRP: €29.69€27.83The preeminent lyric poet of ancient Greece.Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's laurels." The esteem of the... -
Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life by Oren Izenberg 9780691148663
RRP: €41.65€33.01"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to understand the divisions that organize... -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719
RRP: €11.89€4.18From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Moral Essays: v. 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: €29.69€27.83Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Classics To Read Aloud To Your Children by William F. Russell
RRP: €15.46€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517587157Author William F. RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Homer Vol. II. Iliad (Books XIII-XXIV) by D. B. Monro 9780198145295
€23.22Homer Vol. II. Iliad (Books XIII-XXIV)Book InformationISBN 9780198145295Author D. B. MonroFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 21mm -
A Study Guide for John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375398756
RRP: €11.84€10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375398756Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris: Shifting Perspectives by Maria C. Scott
RRP: €57.11€49.75Maria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire, as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 by Larry Scanlon 9780521602587
RRP: €32.12€27.13The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century... -
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer 9780393050943
RRP: €28.55€24.41Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age,... -
The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Francis Beaumont by Sheldon Zitner
RRP: €17.84€13.23This play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. A grocer, his wife and their two apprentices attending the theatre in holiday mood interrupt and finally replace a fatuous love comedy with... -
Smart Devices: 52 Poems from The Guardian 'Poem of the Week' by Carol Rumens 9781784107796
RRP: €17.84€12.82A year of hand-picked poems and commentaries from the Guardian's 'Poem of the Week' blog. Carol Rumens has been contributing 'Poem of the Week' to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: that's more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a... -
The Land Beyond The Forest: Facts, Figures, And Fancies From Transylvania by Emily Gerard 9789353361303
RRP: €22.61€20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353361303Author Emily GerardFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 21mm -
The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition by John Scattergood 9781846319488
RRP: €45.82€43.28John Scattergood's 'The Complete English Poems of John Skelton', originally published in 1983 and long out of print, was the leading academic edition with comprehensive notes. Students are currently limited to searching for Skelton's poems in anthologies... -
A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375396691
RRP: €11.84€10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375396691Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm)... -
Aristophanes: Fragments by Jeffrey Henderson
RRP: €29.69€27.83The master of Old Comedy.The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BC. But the Athenians knew much more of his... -
By the Book by Pamela Paul
€15.86Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela... -
Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700 by Dr Paul Salzman
RRP: €15.46€10.82In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of... -
Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare's plays? by John Hudson 9781445655246
RRP: €15.46€10.09Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII's reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord... -
In His Own Write & A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon
RRP: €17.84€13.03This 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... -
Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being by Brian Rotman
RRP: €23.79€20.87Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the... -
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness by Patrick Wright 9781913462581
RRP: €23.80€17.08Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent... -
Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic by Martin M. Winkler 9781405131834
RRP: €41.59€36.69This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different... -
Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works by Ann Thompson
RRP: €77.35€51.71This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by... -
The Scottish Novels: Kidnapped: Catriona: The Master of Ballantrae: Weir of Hermiston by Robert Stevenson
RRP: €19.04€13.52Kidnapped - Catriona - The Master of Ballantrae - Weir of HermistonThese four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country.Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned... -
Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment by William Brockliss
RRP: €28.50€22.78Responding to George Lakoff's and Mark Johnson's analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets' use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their audiences' understanding of abstract concepts. In... -
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch 9780805087253
RRP: €28.55€18.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805087253Author David DamroschFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Managing Scotland's Environment by Charles Warren
RRP: €46.41€43.79Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - land reform, the future of farming, public access, conservation of moorland and... -
Making Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Author-Publisher and His Support Network by Richard B. Sher 9781009271424
RRP: €20.23€17.52This Element throws new light on James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson by investigating its early publication history. Despite precarious psychological and financial circumstances and other limitations, Boswell was both author and publisher of the... -
Creativity: Theory, History, Practice by Rob Pope
RRP: €45.21€39.72Creativity: Theory, History, Practice offers important new perspectives on creativity in the light of contemporary critical theory and cultural history. Innovative in approach as well as argument, the book crosses disciplinary boundaries and builds new... -
Shakespeare Without a Life by Margreta de Grazia
RRP: €29.75€25.22A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry. For almost two... -
Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad Jonathan L. Ready 9780198920533
RRP: €29.75€27.69The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
RRP: €23.79€16.99'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
A Study Guide for George Orwell's 1984 by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375397728
RRP: €11.84€10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375397728Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
The Evolution of the Medieval World: Society, Government & Thought in Europe 312-1500 by David M. Nicholas 9780582092570
€97.20This ambitious and wide-ranging study of the European Middle Ages respects the complexity and richness of its subject; always accessible, it is never merely superficial or over-simplistic. Stressing the long-term factors of continuity, evolution and... -
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell by John Rodden 9780521675079
RRP: €30.93€26.17George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also... -
Love Songs: The Hidden History by Ted Gioia 9780199357574
RRP: €29.14€21.62The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions... -
Selected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay 9780856359590
RRP: €17.84€12.82A magnificent anthology of the finest works of Edna St. Vincent Millay, perhaps the premier American lyricist of the twentieth century. --This text refers to an alternate paperback edition.Book InformationISBN 9780856359590Author Edna St. Vincent... -
The Bronte Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz
RRP: €15.46€13.64The story of the Brontes is told through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on and inscribed at the parsonage in Haworth. From Charlotte's writing desk and the manuscripts it contained to the brass collar worn by Emily's dog, Keeper, each object opens... -
The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion by Melissa McCormick 9780691172682
RRP: €49.98€40.51An illustrated guide to one of the most enduring masterworks of world literatureWritten in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of prose and poetry that is widely considered the world's...