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Metamorphoses: Bks. 9-15 by Ovid
RRP: £24.95£24.54The poetry of change.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the... -
I Remember by Georges Perec
RRP: £9.99£6.75'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available for the first time in English, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered... -
Introduction to Attic Greek by Donald J. Mastronarde 9780520275713
RRP: £38.00£32.99Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features: full exposure to the grammar and morphology that... -
Historia Augusta: Volume II by David Magie
RRP: £24.95£23.39March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a ... -
Fasti by Ovid 9780140446906
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales... -
The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin by David S. Ferris 9780521797245
RRP: £28.99£24.42This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a... -
Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious by N. Katherine Hayles 9780226447889
RRP: £23.00£22.13N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible... -
Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney 9780571141517
RRP: £12.99£8.56The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself. Should it be governed? Should it be the... -
Leabhar na hAthghabhala: Poems of Repossession by Louis de Paor
RRP: £30.00£18.25This is the first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. It forms a sequel to Sean O Tuama and Thomas Kinsella's pioneering anthology, An Duanaire 1600-1900 / Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), but features... -
The Cambridge Companion to Bede by Scott DeGregorio 9780521730730
RRP: £25.99£21.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story) by Julian Barnes
RRP: £12.99£9.09In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness... -
The Pages by Hugo Hamilton 9780008451660
RRP: £14.99£9.70'A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley 'A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy Doyle 'A masterpiece' Sebastian Barry The new novel about the transformative power of art,... -
Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams
RRP: £24.99£20.29This is a revised, expanded and fully up-to-date critical introduction to Deleuze's most important work of philosophy. This is the first critical introduction to "Difference and Repetition" (first published in 1968): Gilles Deleuze's most important work... -
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe
RRP: £22.99£20.01In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and... -
Bram Stoker's "Dracula": A Reader's Guide by William Hughes 9780826495372
RRP: £21.99£21.89This is a concise, readable and comprehensive introduction to Bram Stoker's classic "Dracula" (1897) for undergraduates. "Dracula" (1897) is one of the most commonly studied gothic novels and has been hugely influential through... -
Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements by Alex Goody 9781349959631
RRP: £54.99£54.80Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject. Focusing on American women writers and particularly on the city... -
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Neil Gaiman
RRP: £12.99£6.02Upon publication, "Don't Panic" quickly established itself as the definitive companion to "Adams" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". This edition comes up-to-date, covering the movie, "And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer and the build up to the... -
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
RRP: £12.99£9.09A Financial Times Book of the Year Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the... -
An A-Z of Jane Austen by Michael Greaney 9781350254206
RRP: £13.99£11.86Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z... -
Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint by Jennifer Wallace 9781350035621
RRP: £23.99£20.28From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century... -
The History of the Hobbit: One Volume Edition by J.R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £100.00£68.01Brand new deluxe edition of this definitive companion to The Hobbit, quarter-bound, stamped in gold foil with a unique design inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's own artwork, featuring a ribbon marker and housed in a matching custom-built slipcase... -
Catullus: A Commentary by C. J. Fordyce 9780198721475
£46.97This edition of eighty poems of Catullus is designed for both university and school use. An introduction deals with the life of Catullus, with his indebtedness to Alexandrian poetry, and with the later history of the poems. The Latin text comes from the... -
The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age by Andrew Pettegree
RRP: £15.99£13.37The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles-"an instant classic on Dutch book history" (BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review)"[An] excellent contribution to book history."-Robert... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science by Bruce Clarke
RRP: £49.99£44.50With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780413771001
RRP: £10.99£9.66A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation 'The play has been flooded with light, like a room with the curtains drawn back' John Peter, Sunday Times'The direct simplicity of this new translation ..... -
Ornament and Silence by Kennedy Fraser 9780375701122
RRP: £19.00£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701122Author Kennedy FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Bruce by John Barbour
RRP: £25.00£16.99This 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... -
Persuasion by Jane Austen 9780674049741
RRP: £29.95£25.49Published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in 1817, Persuasion crowns Jane Austen's remarkable career. It is her most passionate and introspective love story. This richly illustrated and annotated edition brings her last completed novel to life with... -
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight/Pearl/Cleanness/Patience by J. J. Anderson
RRP: £9.99£6.29SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is one of the most important alliterative poems of Medieval literatureNow a major film THE GREEN KNIGHT starring Dev PatelFrom the north-west midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight dates from the second half of the 14th... -
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
RRP: £23.00£14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033188Author Jane SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 413g -
Epistulae Morales: v. 1: Letters I-LXV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Meditative missives.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 service... -
Always Astonished: Selected Prose by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: £10.99£7.38"After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his... -
Blake's London: the Topographic Sublime by Iain Sinclair 9780854481705
RRP: £8.95£5.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854481705Author Iain SinclairFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society -
Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's "Euthyphro", "Apology of Socrates", and "Crito" and Aristophanes' "Clouds" by Thomas G. West 9780801485749
RRP: £11.99£10.94Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (three dialogues by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology of... -
The Albert Memmi Reader by Albert Memmi
RRP: £66.00£56.93Born in 1920 on the edge of Tunis's Jewish quarter, the French-Jewish-Tunisian sociologist, philosopher, and novelist Albert Memmi has been a central figure in colonial and postcolonial studies. Often associated with the anticolonial struggles of the... -
Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft: Recipes inspired by cosmic horror by Olivia Luna Eldritch
RRP: £16.99£12.28Immerse yourself in the black seas of infinity that is Lovecraft's World like never before with these diverse cuisines inspired by its places, characters and a pantheon of alien deities.The H.P. Lovecraft Cookbook is bursting with photos of many of the... -
Aristotle Ethica Eudemia by R. R. Walzer 9780198145752
£54.99BLWith new text and full apparatus criticus The Eudemian Ethics was one of two ethical treatises which Aristotle wrote on the subject of ethica or `matters to do with character'. Although the two works cover much the same ground, the Nicomachean... -
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
RRP: £12.99£8.56Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'.Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the... -
The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb by Stanley Plumly
RRP: £12.99£11.46On 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... -
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities by Steve Mentz 9780367763664
RRP: £35.99£31.69An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of...