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The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: and Other Stories by Vernon Lee 9780198837541
RRP: $16.78$12.20I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of... -
"London Review of Books": An Anthology: No. 3 by London Review of Books 9781859841211
$51.41Erudite, witty and often controversial, The London Review of Books informs and entertains its readers with a fortnightly dose of the best and liveliest of all things cultural.This anthology brings together some of the most memorable pieces from recent... -
The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth by M. L. West 9780198152217
RRP: $241.50$218.76Ever since Neolithic times Greek lands lay open to cultural imports from western Asia: agriculture, metal-working, writing, religious institutions, artistic fashions, musical instruments, and much more. Over the last sixty years scholars have... -
Medea by Mike Bartlett 9781408183915
$25.47If there's a God, which at the moment I DOUBT, I want you to curse him. If there's any justice, I want them - both of them - in a car crash. Her husband's gone and her future isn't bright. Imprisoned in her marital home, Medea can't work, can't sleep... -
My Mother Said I Never Should GCSE Student Edition by Charlotte Keatley 9781474251822
$23.98Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key Stage 4. Whether for use in the classroom or... -
All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification by Timothy Steele 9780821412602
RRP: $41.98$41.33Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional... -
The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII Jacques Lacan 9781509510016
RRP: $37.78$34.21"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. A whole crowd... -
The Dance of Reality: A Psychomagical Autobiography by Alejandro Jodorowsky 9781620552810
RRP: $35.68$24.11Not a traditional autobiography composed of a chronological recounting of memories, Dance of Realityrepaints events from Jodorowsky's life from the perspective of an unleashed imagination. Like the psychomagic and metagenealogy therapies he created, this... -
Theory Of The Great Game: Writings from 'Le Grand Jeu' Dennis Duncan 9781900565677
RRP: $35.68$32.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565677Author Dennis DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 428g -
Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts Laura Swift (The Open University, UK) 9781474236836
RRP: $35.68$32.47The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main... -
For Now by Eileen Myles
RRP: $16.78$15.18In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work "A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait."-Kirkus Reviews "[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a... -
Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan Napier
RRP: $33.58$28.83The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world-"an essential work in anime scholarship." (Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic) A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a... -
Religion: Rereading What Is Bound Together by Michel Serres 9781503631496
RRP: $50.38$44.21With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion-a constant preoccupation since childhood-thereby completing Le Grand Recit, the comprehensive explanation... -
Understanding Hamlet: A Study Guide by Robert James Renwick 9780994758002
$11.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
One Hundred Miracles: Music, Auschwitz, Survival and Love by Zuzana Ruzickova
RRP: $23.08$16.78The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian... -
Essays by Plutarch
RRP: $31.48$23.90One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights... -
Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture by Leslie Howsam
RRP: $48.28$42.67Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus... -
Summary and Analysis of the Underground Railroad: Based on the Book by Colson Whitehead by Worth Books 9781504046596
RRP: $10.48$8.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046596Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer 9780393050943
RRP: $50.38$43.07Have 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 Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar
RRP: $50.38$43.72How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasising the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His... -
Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire and the Poetics of Talk by Amy R. Wong 9781503635173
RRP: $121.80$105.36In this book, Amy R. Wong unravels the colonial and racial logic behind seemingly innocuous assumptions about "speech": that our words belong to us, and that self-possession is a virtue. Through readings of late-Victorian fictions of empire, Wong... -
Rhythm: Form and Dispossession by Vincent Barletta
RRP: $50.40$48.36More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human existence. It's the pulse of the body, a power that orders... -
Dublin Tales by Helen Constantine 9780192855558
RRP: $27.28$19.61Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which... -
Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition by Michael Andre-Driussi 9780964279513
RRP: $39.06$30.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964279513Author Michael Andre-DriussiFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Sirius FictionPublisher Sirius Fiction -
A Study Guide for W. W. Jacobs's Monkey's Paw by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375384513
RRP: $20.90$19.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375384513Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm)... -
The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie by Earl F. Bargainnier 9780879721596
RRP: $39.80$39.12This study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction - sixty-seven novels and more than one hundred short stories - is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishments as a writer. Bargainnier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly... -
Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
RRP: $20.98$15.37Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background... -
Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces by Subha Mukherji 9781783080731
RRP: $52.50$50.72Why does the position of the threshold exert such a compelling hold on our imaginative lives? Why is it a resonant space? Why is it so urgently the place of writing - the place where one may remain, avoid speaking or naming, yet speak from? Through a... -
Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts: The Force of Character by Douglas S. Pfeiffer
RRP: $215.25$195.55How did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers' lives and their works? When did the person of the author--both as context and target of textual interpretation--come to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the... -
The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography by Paul Edmondson
RRP: $35.68$32.21This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation to his life. Well-known figures such as Richard... -
Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction by Mark Fisher 9780692066058
RRP: $25.20$18.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692066058Author Mark FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint ExmilitaryPublisher ExmilitaryWeight(grams) 249g -
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac 9780393971668
$27.99The text is accompanied by an introduction, textual annotations by the editor, and a map of Paris. "Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists" illustrates Balzac's immense influence on other writers, among them Charles Baudelaire, Hippolyte Taine,... -
Postmodernist Fiction by Brian McHale
RRP: $79.78$70.10In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and... -
A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's the Elephant Vanishes by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375390774
RRP: $20.90$19.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375390774Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm)... -
Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland by Joseph Falaky Nagy
RRP: $77.70$68.61How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from the... -
The New Short Story Theories by Charles E. May
RRP: $37.78$33.92The first edition of May's Short Story Theories (1976) opened with an essay entitled "The Short Story: An Underrated Art." Almost two decades later, the short story suffers no such slight. Publishers and critics have become increasingly interested in the... -
Modern Genre Theory by David Duff 9780582368057
RRP: $104.98$100.46Since Aristotle, genre has been one of the fundamental concepts of literary theory, and much of the world's literature and criticism has been shaped by ideas about the nature, function and value of literary genres. Modern developments in critical theory,... -
Introduction to Attic Greek: Answer Key by Donald J. Mastronarde 9780520275744
RRP: $39.88$31.75This booklet provides the answers to the exercises in Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition by Donald J. Mastronarde, (UC Press, 2013, 9780520275713). It is an invaluable guide for instructors and independent language students. Additional teaching... -
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint by Mary Jacobus 9780691170725
RRP: $88.20$72.03Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a... -
100 Reasons Shake-speare was the Earl of Oxford by Hank Whittemore 9780983502777
RRP: $34.48$30.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983502777Author Hank WhittemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Forever PressPublisher Forever PressWeight(grams) 449g