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The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb Stanley Plumly 9780393353068
RRP: $27.28$24.07On 28 December 1817, Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he refers to in his diaries and autobiography as the "immortal dinner". He wanted to introduce his young friend John Keats to the great William Wordsworth and to celebrate his progress on his most... -
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin 9780816612284
RRP: $37.78$34.76This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky's studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle."Bakhtin's... -
Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World by Subcomandante Marcos
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639703Author Subcomandante Insurgente MarcosFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Victorian Christmas in Print by Tara Moore 9780230616547
RRP: $94.48$94.44Although people may not realize it, the modern Christmas book market carries on a Victorian legacy. An explosion of Christmas print matter reinvigorated and regularized the holiday during the mid-Victorian period, infusing Christmas with... -
Paul Ricoeur by Karl Simms
RRP: $54.58$47.52Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging thinkers to emerge in the twentieth century. He has developed a unique 'theory of reading' or hermeneutics, which extends far beyond the reading of literary works to build into a theory for the reading of... -
Classical Literature: A Concise History by Richard Rutherford
RRP: $69.20$61.66This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. Highlights what is important historically and of continuing interest and value in classical literature.An... -
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Gideon Nisbet
RRP: $25.18$18.19Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net - Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $42.00$34.71From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was... -
An Adventure by Vinay Patel 9781350102866
$33.33I'm not much now, I know, but I will be. So pick me Jyoti and I swear I will make us the greatest adventure you ever have. On a stormy night in 1954, a woman doomed to marry one of five men discovers the wildcard choice might just be the person she'd... -
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding by Rebecca R. Falkoff 9781501752803
RRP: $33.58$27.85In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding-once a paradigm of economic rationality-came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, because its diagnosis... -
The Avengers by Stan Lee
RRP: $52.50$37.70Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesStarting in 1961, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and their collaborators transformed the superhero genre with a series... -
Hooked: Art and Attachment by Rita Felski
RRP: $44.10$42.65How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeling... -
Midnight and Other Poems by Mourid Barghouti
RRP: $27.28$19.28Midnight and Other Poems is the first full-length poetry collection to be published in the UK by this remarkable Palestinian writer, previously known to English-language readers for his highly-acclaimed autobiography I Saw Ramallah (Bloomsbury, 2004)... -
Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog James Grissom 9781101972779
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101972779Author James GrissomFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to "The Divine Comedy" by Guy P. Raffa
RRP: $58.80$57.52Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until the publication in 2007 of Guy Raffa's "Guide to the Inferno", students... -
Kamasutra by Vatsyayana Mallanaga 9780199539161
RRP: $20.98$15.37'When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.' The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living - about finding a partner, maintaining power in a... -
Be Your Own Heroine: Life Lessons from Literature by Sophie Andrews
RRP: $16.78$12.87Learn about life from heroines of every era. Having brought you the wisdom of Austen in Be More Jane, eager reader Sophie Andrews joins forces with her sister Charlotte and turns her attention to what can be learned from the heroines of other stories... -
C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction by James Como
RRP: $18.88$13.97Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a... -
Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) by Ana
$65.33Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) focuses on a basic paradox: why is it that the so-called “Spanish economic miracle” —a purportedly secular, rational, and technocratic process— was fictionally portrayed... -
In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories by Robert Lyons Danly 9780393309133
RRP: $45.15$41.43Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolume diary. This book is made up of a critical... -
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
RRP: $72.43$54.92Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century. Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in... -
Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses by Sandra Woien
RRP: $35.68$24.51This is a collection of critical essays regarding the work of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, and author. Peterson began his career as a teacher at Harvard before receiving worldwide... -
The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays by William Hazlitt
RRP: $23.08$16.78William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and... -
Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism by Walter Benjamin
$36.62Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet it was through his study of the social and cultural... -
If Not Critical by Eric Griffiths
RRP: $78.73$78.54Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of... -
Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto
RRP: $39.88$33.18"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." -Cultivating Place In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural... -
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell
RRP: $33.58$28.08This is an affectionate and revealing book about uncovering the story behind this most uncommon trio - a man, a boy and his tiger. For ten years, "Calvin and Hobbes" was one of the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the... -
Seven Famous Greek Plays by W. & O'Neill Oates 9780394701257
RRP: $31.50$24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394701257Author Whitney J. OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 184mm *... -
Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction: Narratology and Detective Criticism by Alistair Rolls 9781032264936
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book's approach interweaves two core ideas: first, it explores the importance of... -
Blake Poems William Blake 9781857157109
RRP: $25.20$18.23Blake's explosive lyrical genius is here represented by the full text of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime. In addition there is a selection from the Prophetic Books in... -
Creativity: Theory, History, Practice by Rob Pope
RRP: $79.78$70.10Creativity: 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... -
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun 9780231195515
RRP: $63.00$48.91Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of... -
Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: $44.08$39.19Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park.We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating... -
The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study by Thad Logan 9780521631822
RRP: $189.00$171.00The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were frequently played out. In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, Logan uses an... -
Work and Prayer: Rule of St.Benedict for Lay People by Columba Cary-Elwes 9780860121961
$39.98Presents Father Columba's chapter-by-chapter commentary designed to help others share St Benedict's words and approach to living the Christian life. The book draws on the author's lifetime of living and teaching the Rule, of his mission experience and on... -
The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity by Linnie Blake 9780719075940
RRP: $41.98$30.49The wounds of nations: Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a... -
Life Itself Is an Art: The Life and Work of Erich Fromm by Rainer Funk
RRP: $48.28$42.90A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be less widely known is that Fromm was a social psychoanalyst whose... -
This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books Joan Anim-Addo 9781529414592
RRP: $35.68$24.59'A vital and timely introduction to some of the best books I've ever read. Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature'Nikesh Shukla'The ultimate introduction to post-colonial literature for those who want to understand the classics and the... -
The Connell Short Guide To John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men by Stephen Fender 9781911187066
RRP: $12.58$9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187066Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Shakespeare: Hamlet by Paul A. Cantor 9780521549370
RRP: $50.38$41.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.