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Edda by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: €10.70€7.79The only English translation to include the complete work - a must-have for all students of early Norse literature.Over a period of twenty years, Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose EDDA as a textbook for young poets who... -
Shakespeare: Hamlet by Paul A. Cantor 9780521549370
RRP: €28.55€23.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Kamasutra by Vatsyayana Mallanaga 9780199539161
RRP: €11.89€8.46'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... -
Estate Management and Symposium by Xenophon 9780198823513
RRP: €10.70€7.68Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was appreciated for its literary qualities including its... -
The Norton Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales by David Lawton 9780393643503
€32.86Available as both a portable paperback volume and an enhanced digital edition, this complete collection of The Norton Chaucer: Canterbury Tales is meticulously glossed and annotated. With access to the ground-breaking Reading Chaucer Tutorial included in... -
How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers by Wislawa Szymborska 9780811229715
RRP: €16.65€14.58In this witty "how-to" guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she... -
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780198863120
RRP: €9.51€6.89"I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is now best remembered for its concluding story in which the great detective appears to plunge to his death into the waters at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, locked in... -
The First Wash of Spring by George Mackay Brown
RRP: €20.83€15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246251Author George Mackay BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
The Mammoth Book of Lost Symbols: A Dictionary of the Hidden Language of Symbolism by Nadia Julien
RRP: €13.08€8.81Humanity has always used symbols-material objects used to denote difficult, abstract concepts-to describe thoughts and feelings, or to protect secret truths from common knowledge. This concise A-Z guide is a fascinating work of reference that brings to... -
The Language of Languages by Ngugi Wa Thiong′o 9781803090719
RRP: €16.65€14.58With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's writings on translation. Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been at the... -
Hamlet by W. Shakespeare
€18.68Includes an informative, detailed and practical introduction to Shakespeare's life, times and language. Supports the texts with useful notes. Provides activities for before, during and after study. Book InformationISBN 9780582097209Author William... -
Three Plays by Mae West: Sex, The Drag and Pleasure Man by Lillian Schlissel 9780415909334
RRP: €42.83€39.26Mae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversial figures of her era. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer. In Three Plays By Mae West, Lillian Schlissel brings this underexplored part of West's career to... -
George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality by Peter Brian Barry 9780197627402
RRP: €23.79€20.38George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell's... -
If Animals Could Talk by Carla Butwin
RRP: €15.46€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621066118Author Carla ButwinFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
The Dutch Courtesan by Karen Britland
RRP: €15.46€15.09The Dutch Courtesan is a riotous tragicomedy that explores the delights and perils afforded by Jacobean London. While Freevill, an educated young Englishman and the play's nominal hero, frolics in the city's streets, taverns and brothels, Franceschina,... -
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake 9780192811677
RRP: €14.27€10.03The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was created early in Blake's series of illuminated books, each of which was presented by him as an attractive work of art made entirely by his own hand. Written principally in prose, The Marriage represents Blake's first... -
The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes by Jane Austen
RRP: €16.66€11.14It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and... -
Lancelot-Grail: 5. Lancelot part V and VI - The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation by Norris J. Lacy 9781843842361
RRP: €41.64€32.23Lancelot is the central romance of the Vulgate Cycle, in which the chivalric elements in Arthur's court come to the fore. These chivalric elements contain the seeds of Arthur's destruction and the dissolution of the Round Table, as Lancelot's love for... -
Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts 1830-1890 by Jenny Bourne Taylor 9780198710424
€72.24This anthology of primary materials will help redraw our understanding of the complexity and range of Victorian psychological thought and its relations to the wider cultural framework of the era. Drawing together an unprecedented range of materials from... -
The Lost Properties of Love by Sophie Ratcliffe
RRP: €11.89€7.90Love affairs, grief, unhappiness, the mess at the bottom of your handbag. This is a book about the things we hide from other people, and how we might find new ways to think about love and intimacy in the twenty-first century. ... -
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy by Toril Moi 9780199202591
€43.84Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a fuddy-duddy old realist, whose plays are of... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: €15.46€10.82'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places... -
The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
RRP: €20.22€14.61'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!' Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed... -
How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences by Scott R. Harris 9781452241340
RRP: €40.45€36.13This brief, introductory book provides readers with a step-by-step guide to reading and understanding a social science research article. The author demonstrates the many strengths of social research, including its advantages over ordinary ways of knowing... -
Marxism and Literary Criticism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €23.79€21.05Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis... -
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: €26.12€22.46During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist-the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies-has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial... -
The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities by Jeffrey Cohen
RRP: €32.12€27.13This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to... -
Lyra Graeca: v. 1 by D. A. Campbell
RRP: €29.69€27.83Precious snippets of ancient song.This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and... -
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
€23.31In this highly praised new translation of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature and those... -
Goethe and His Age by Georg Lukacs 9780850360714
RRP: €17.79€14.68Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850360714Author Georg LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England by William H. Sherman 9780812220841
RRP: €28.55€24.80In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal... -
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Minh-Ha
RRP: €19.03€16.95" . . . methodologically innovative . . . precise and perceptive and conscious . . . " -Text and Performance Quarterly"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing... -
London Fog: The Biography by Christine L. Corton
RRP: €23.74€19.18A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Telegraph Editor's ChoiceAn Evening Standard "Best Books about London" SelectionIn popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow "pea-soupers," were born in the... -
Black Country Steam, Western Region Operations, 1948 1967 by Dorney, Paul 9781399090322
RRP: €29.75€20.97The railway lines of the heavily industrialised Black Country were of considerable commercial importance to the fortunes of the Great Western Railway and its successor, the Western Region of British Railways. Nevertheless, they received little attention... -
Art of Darkness: Poetics of Gothic by Anne Williams 9780226899077
RRP: €33.32€32.59This text aims to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama and verse - including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto", Shelley's "Frankenstein", Coleridge's "The Rime of... -
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson
RRP: €53.54€39.73The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture by Kam Louie
RRP: €32.12€26.53At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion... -
A writer's diary: Being extracts fromt he diary by Virginia Woolf 9781903155882
RRP: €19.04€18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155882Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
Don Juan and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: €14.27€10.28Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli`re composed and performed his comedies, scarcely a decade... -
Using Critical Theory: How to Read and Write About Literature by Lois Tyson
RRP: €42.83€38.19Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on...