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Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerso Jeffrey S. Cramer 9781640093836
RRP: $20.63$14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093836Author Jeffrey S. CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Street Haunting: A London Adventure & Bulwell by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $5.16$4.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170427Author Virginia WoolfImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture by Mary Carruthers 9780521716314
RRP: $45.14$33.35Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition... -
A Point of View by Clive James
RRP: $14.18$10.51From the fierce and funny Clive James, this is Britain in the twenty-first century - from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, and from Britain's Got Talent to contemporary art.Between 2007 and 2009, Clive James wrote and presented A Point of View for BBC... -
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen 9780008299262
RRP: $12.89$8.82A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years,... -
A Little Greek Reader by The late James Morwood
$49.69This concise volume provides brief original reading matter to illustrate key features of Greek grammar and syntax. Each chapter begins with an account of the grammatical issue in question; this is then followed by a selection of passages from Greek... -
Poetic Intention by Edouard Glissant 9780982264539
RRP: $21.92$15.05This marks the publication of the first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant's classic meditation on poetry and art. In this wide-ranging book, Glissant discusses poets, including Stephane Mallarme and Saint-John Perse, and visual... -
Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art by Susan Owens
RRP: $41.93$36.83The first art book to explore Rossetti's art and poetry together, including her own artworks, illustrations to her writing, and art inspired by her Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets. The intensity of her... -
Shakespearean Tragedy by Professor Kiernan Ryan 9781472586988
$26.08This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right through to his... -
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen by Julia Parry
RRP: $14.18$9.80Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming's On Chapel... -
The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography by Frank T. Coulson 9780197689707
$56.30Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious... -
An Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Helen Roche 9781912128976
RRP: $8.39$8.11A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder's linguistic precocity allows him to cite evidence... -
Lives: v. 7 by Plutarch
RRP: $32.19$30.65Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular... -
A Shakespeare Glossary by C. T. Onions 9780198125211
RRP: $62.55$57.30The last edition of this famous glossary was published in 1919. This thorough revision takes account of the considerable advances in Shakespeare scholarship since then.Reviews'If the revision is more streamlined, less amiably idio-syncratic, less... -
El Camino by Miguel Delibes by Jeremy S. Squires 9780719080562
RRP: $38.70$35.02Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing... -
Selected Poems by Roger McGough
RRP: $12.89$9.44An updated selection of Roger McGough's finest, best-loved verse. The complete span of McGough's writing, from the 1960s to the new millennium, is represented. 'McGough's trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown, the jokes that are... -
Melchior Wankowicz: Poland's Master of the Written Word by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm 9780739175903
RRP: $98.04$85.95In Melchior Wankowicz: Poland's Master of the Written Word, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm examines the life and writing of famous Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz, author of legendary work "The Battle of Monte Cassino". Acclaimed by his readers... -
The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War by Ardis Butterfield 9780199657704
$54.36The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: $21.92$15.05WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War... -
The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel's Key Moments by John Matthew Fox 9781737847403
RRP: $14.18$10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737847403Author John Matthew FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint BookfoxPublisher BookfoxWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm -
Selected Letters by John Keats 9780199555734
RRP: $14.18$10.31'Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?' Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development and sout-making. They represent one of the most... -
School House in the Wind: A Trilogy by Anne Treneer by Anne Treneer 9780859895125
RRP: $20.63$17.71Long out of print and now published together for the first time, these three volumes of autobiography of the Cornish author and schoolteacher Anne Treneer cover the period from her birth at Gorran in 1891 to her retirement from teaching in 1948. The... -
A Christmas Carol: and Other Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
RRP: $21.92$15.84'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw... -
Books Of Blood Omnibus 1: Volumes 1-3 by Clive Barker
RRP: $16.76$11.86Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and... -
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: $43.80$36.15Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's... -
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell 9780195133318
RRP: $36.75$30.01The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world. He explores the British... -
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by L. D. Reynolds
RRP: $54.17$50.93One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to... -
Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer by Ann Morgan
RRP: $12.89$9.44'A brilliant, unlikely book' SpectatorHow can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent... -
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay
RRP: $24.50$17.56In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century... -
Tank Girl - Cream of the Tank by Alan Martin
RRP: $25.79$20.95Spewing filth and fury since 1988, celebrate the 20th anniversary of Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett's foul-mouthed, anarchic creation with "The Cream of Tank Girl"!Boasting tons of unseen artwork, rarely seen comic strips, every Jamie Hewlett "Tank Girl"... -
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II: North America 1894-1960 by Peter Brooker 9780198778424
$86.03The second of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of 'little magazines' which were so instrumental in... -
The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry by Judith Ryan 9780521687201
RRP: $29.66$25.23German poetry has long held a special place within the Western literary tradition. Its major achievements include Luther's hymns, Goethe's unequalled poetic versatility, the Romantics' lyric songs and the challenging poetry of Hoelderlin, Rilke and Celan... -
Texts of Terror (40th Anniversary Edition): Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives by Phyllis Trible
$22.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506481388Author Phyllis TribleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men by J. Andrew Deman 9781477325452
RRP: $45.15$39.96A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author's subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. By the time Chris Claremont's run as author of Uncanny X-Men ended in 1991, he had changed comic books forever. During his... -
The Pensive Citadel by Victor Brombert 9780226828664
RRP: $25.80$21.90A reflective volume of essays on literature and literary study from a storied professor. In The Pensive Citadel, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the... -
James Joyce's 'Work in Progress': Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments by Dirk Van Hulle
RRP: $56.75$50.10The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the... -
Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature Jorge Luis Borges 9780811222747
RRP: $19.34$17.07Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures - delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary... -
Budapest by Chico Buarque 9780747573708
$17.20Jose Costa has just attended the Anonymous Writers Congress in Istanbul and is on his way back to Rio when a bomb scare on his flight forces him to spend a night in Budapest. Fascinated by the Hungarian language - he is after all a ghost writer by trade... -
Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa
$16.31Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author's use of 'rotten English' - a mixture of Nigerian pidgin... -
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco
RRP: $34.77$29.61In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader-his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist Nerval's Sylvie, for Little Red Riding Hood, Agatha Christie, Agent 007...