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Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka
RRP: $43.86$31.08The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the... -
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II: North America 1894-1960 by Peter Brooker 9780198778424
$130.05The 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 Histories: No. 1 by Polybius
RRP: $48.65$45.61Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was... -
Aristophanes: Clouds by Aristophanes 9780856682100
RRP: $54.58$48.65Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry by Judith Ryan 9780521687201
RRP: $44.83$38.14German 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... -
Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents by Vassiliki Kolocotroni
RRP: $56.53$47.54Modernism is the movement which attempts to redefine the relationship between art and life, seeking to establish a mode of thought to account for new and radical practices in both realms. This anthology is a guide to the Modernist movement in literature... -
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 9780393974980
$25.99It has been collated with the Mellstock Edition of 1920, for which Hardy submitted final corrections. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardy's native home and the... -
Literary Papyri Poetry: Selections: v. 3 by D. L. Page
RRP: $48.65$45.61Scraps of verse from the sands of Egypt.The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th-4th centuries BC fragments of two tragedies (one a satyr play) by Aeschylus; of... -
Virginia Woolf: The Waves by Virginia Woolf 9780521315630
RRP: $60.43$42.69Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her... -
Aesop's Animals: The Facts Behind the Fables by Jo Wimpenny
RRP: $35.08$25.25Turns a critical eye on Aesop's Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop's Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are... -
Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects by Virginia Burrus
RRP: $46.78$40.64Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from... -
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture by Marilyn B. Skinner 9781444349863
RRP: $79.95$72.40This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Covers a wide range of... -
Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
RRP: $23.38$15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492433Author Namwali SerpellFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore 9780008331924
RRP: $29.23$26.23A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small... -
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook by Isidore Okpewho 9780195147643
RRP: $68.23$44.56Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the... -
Michel Foucault by Sara Mills 9780415245692
RRP: $38.98$34.50It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon... -
Sophocles: v.2: "Antigone", "Women of Trachis", "Philocetes", "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles
RRP: $48.65$45.61Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from... -
The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation by Louis Montrose
RRP: $58.50$57.82As a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of sixteenth-century patriarchal English society. Louis Montrose's long-awaited book, "The Subject of Elizabeth", illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her... -
Venantius Fortunatus: A Latin Poet in Merovingian Gaul by Judith W. George 9780198148982
$214.13Venantius Fortunatus, writing in the latter half of the sixth century, was not only a major Latin poet, but also an important historical figure. Educated in Ravenna, he travelled to Gaul and wrote substantially in a range of genres for Merovingian... -
Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime by Agatha Christie
RRP: $19.48$13.26Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself,... -
Republic, Volume I: Books 1-5 by Plato
RRP: $48.65$45.61The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family ca. 427 BC. In early... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 by John N. Duvall 9780521123471
RRP: $44.83$38.14Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second... -
Lucian, True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary by Diskin Clay 9780198789659
RRP: $43.86$41.03Lucian of Samosata's True History is a fantastical tale of voyage and imagination. No editor, translator, or reader knows quite how to describe it or fit it comfortably into a familiar genre of Greek literature: 'satires' and 'dialogues' only partially... -
Power: A Reader by Mark Haugaard 9780719057298
RRP: $38.98$35.53An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes and Bourdieu alongside recent conceptions of power... -
The Avengers by Stan Lee 9780143135784
RRP: $81.90$58.13Illustrated 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... -
The Cambridge History of English Poetry by Michael O'Neill
$92.72Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console, and move. The Cambridge History of English Poetry offers sparklingly fresh and dynamic readings of an extraordinary range of poets and... -
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster
RRP: $35.08$23.67Full of Forster's renowned wit and perceptiveness, ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL offers a rare insight into the art of fiction from one of our greatest novelists.'His is a book to encourage dreaming.' Virginia Woolf Forster pares down the novel to its essential... -
Desiring Donne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation by Ben Saunders 9780674023475
RRP: $97.40$77.59Throughout his life, John Donne was well acquainted with the consequences of desire. He wanted a courtly career badly enough to renounce the Catholicism of his childhood. Later, he wanted a woman badly enough to gamble that career for her sake; he lost,... -
Comparative Mythology by Jaan Puhvel 9780801839382
RRP: $51.68$45.42In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he... -
New Rhyming Dictionary and Poet's Handbook by Burges Johnson 9780062720146
$24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062720146Author Burges JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 366gDimensions(mm)... -
Looking Back by John Osborne
RRP: $39.00$26.25When John Osborne died at Christmas 1994, his obituaries cited his autobiographical writings as perfect examples of undiluted talent and acerbic wit. Now, Osborne's superb autobiographies, A Better Class of Person: 1929-1956 and Almost a Gentleman:... -
Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan by Hugh McFadden 9781843510666
RRP: $38.98$36.70Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin (1955-66) and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St... -
The Histories: v. 3, Bk. 5-8 by Polybius
RRP: $48.65$45.61Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency by Amanda M Dennis
RRP: $40.93$37.54Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency Accents the importance of the body in Beckett and provides a new reading of the body in his postwar writing and experimental prose of the 60's and 80's ... -
A Separate Peace SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469792
RRP: $11.68$8.58When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
Antonio'S Revenge: By John Marston by John Marston 9780719057038
RRP: $38.98$34.75Part of the major re-launch of MUP's most prestigious series.. The text is supported by variant readings, detailed notes, and a statistical breakdown of word use.. A number of these plays are being performed at the Globe Theatre and in rep as well as... -
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader by Bill Ashcroft
RRP: $77.98$70.32The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the... -
Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude by Saigyo
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809428Author Saigyo SaigyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ilan Stavans
RRP: $17.53$12.89The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural... -
Four Romances of England: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, Athelston by Ronald B. Herzman
$79.21Fitted with ample introductions, notes, and glosses, this volume will make an excellent text for a class of any level on Middle English romance. This excellent edition includes King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. These romances...