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The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen by James McFarlane 9780521423212
RRP: $60.88$51.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
An Analysis of Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts Emmanouil Kalkanis 9781912453894
RRP: $13.65$13.21Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts is considered a key work in art history. Its ideas have provoked widespread debate, and although it was first published more than sixty years ago, it continues to feature regularly on numerous university... -
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] by Adam Long 9781493077298
RRP: $27.28$20.39TheatreAbout the AuthorAdam Long (London), Daniel Singer (Southern California), and Jess Winfield (Hollywood) are the original members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.Book InformationISBN 9781493077298Author Adam LongFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill by Jeffrey Wainwright 9780719067556
RRP: $41.98$36.98Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry 'recognises that words fail us'. These essays explore Hill's struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. This book seeks to show how all his work is marked by the quest for the right pitch... -
The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $16.78$12.56In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic... -
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin 9780300098228
RRP: $41.98$36.48An enchanting biography of J. M. Barrie, the man who created Peter Pan and his Lost Boys "For an insightful exploration of Barrie and the boys who inspired him, nothing rivals [this book]."-Norman Allen, Smithsonian Magazine J. M. Barrie, Victorian... -
The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry by J.T. Welsch 9781839981807
RRP: $52.50$50.72The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, sold, and consumed, it connects the seemingly... -
Shakespeare and Virtual Reality by Stephen Wittek 9781009001878
RRP: $35.70$30.91Teaching Shakespeare through performance has a long history, and active methods of teaching and learning are a logical complement to the teaching of performance. Virtual reality ought to be the logical extension of such active learning, providing an... -
Is This Why Africa Is? by Marricke Kofi Gane 9781909326200
RRP: $14.68$13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909326200Author Marricke Kofi GaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Marrickegane PublishingPublisher Marrickegane PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer 9781250867193
RRP: $37.80$28.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250867193Author Geoff DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 454g -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
RRP: $33.60$19.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745426Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable by Eviatar Zerubavel 9780691202433
RRP: $33.58$27.53How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Taken for... -
The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred by Susan Irvine
RRP: $62.90$50.46The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy. Condemned to death for treason around 525 ce, the Roman scholar Boethius turned to philosophy to transform... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard
RRP: $33.58$29.19What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear a world of wit, irony, and knowing... -
Doll by Maria Teresa Hart
RRP: $20.98$16.57Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessed-by our... -
Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur: The Definitive Original Text Edition Peter J C Field 9781843844600
$63.97Peter Field's new edition of the Morte Darthur has been hailed as "our standard critical edition of Malory". This paperback of Vol 1 only makes the complete definitive original spelling text edition available, with the same pagination as in Vol 1 of the... -
An Analysis of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays Abena Dadze-Arthur 9781912127283
RRP: $13.65$13.21Clifford Geertz has been called 'the most original anthropologist of his generation' - and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation... -
More Than Cool Reason: Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor by George Lakoff
RRP: $48.30$46.47"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.'... -
Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See by Megan Dowd Lambert 9781580897914
RRP: $33.58$24.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580897914Author Megan Dowd LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Publisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. -
The Curtain: Essays by Milan Kundera
RRP: $31.48$21.13In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often, Kundera suggests, a novel is thought about only within... -
Trilogy by H. D. 9781857543162
RRP: $27.20$19.24As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II), Trilogys three long poems rank with T. S. Eliots Four Quartets and Ezra Pounds Pisan Cantos. The first book of the Trilogy, published in the midst of the "fifty thousand... -
Beyond the Secret Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett (with a Foreword by Jacqueline Wilson) by Ann Thwaite
RRP: $20.98$14.62The definitive and revealing biography of the author of The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett's favourite theme in her fiction was the reversal of fortune, and she herself knew extremes of poverty and wealth. Born in Manchester in 1849, she... -
European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe by Fatima El-Tayeb 9780816670161
RRP: $46.18$40.93European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent essentialist definitions of Europeanness produces new... -
Undoing Apartheid by P Lalu
RRP: $37.78$37.21Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of 'petty apartheid', which... -
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings by Antonin Artaud 9780520064430
RRP: $63.00$49.75A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on... -
The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $54.60$52.19Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher if not the only famous philosopher." He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes from an... -
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers 9780804741088
RRP: $73.50$67.16In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers-in spite of the almost total academic... -
The Routledge Companion to Gothic by Catherine Spooner
RRP: $60.88$52.69In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age. The Routledge... -
Compass Points - A Practical Guide to Poetry For - How to find the perfect form for your poem Alison Chisholm 9781782790327
RRP: $20.98$18.52A Practical Guide to Poetry Forms is a practical handbook on poetry forms, giving informative details on the construction of the major set forms. It also includes exercises, all within the scope of the beginner, yet stimulating enough to engage the more... -
Royal Greenwich: From the Plantagenets to the Windsors by Pieter van der Merwe 9781906367756
RRP: $42.00$29.99Discover the rich royal history of the area where Henry VIII built his first tournament ground, Elizabeth I took daily walks in the Park and Charles II raced early royal yachts against his brother. In 2012, to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond... -
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 9780393938531
$25.98This Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition of the novel, accompanied by Michael Gorra's introduction and explanatory footnotes. Background and contextual materials centering on James as a writer, The Portrait of a Lady in revision,... -
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
RRP: $20.98$7.69'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe... -
Murder at Larinum: Narrative Parts of "Pro Cluentio" by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780862920937
RRP: $46.18$45.97This volume contains the explanatory sections of Cicero's speech Pro Cluentio - the defence in a particularly lurid murder case set in the northern Italian provincial town of Larinum. It forms an admirable introduction to the reading of Golden Latin... -
Women and Letterpress Printing 1920-2020: Gendered Impressions by Claire Battershill 9781009219327
RRP: $26.23$21.99This Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. Drawing on examples from modernist writer/printers of the 1920s to literary book artists of the early 21st,... -
Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli Ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison by A S Byatt 9780679777533
RRP: $33.60$25.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679777533Author A. S. ByattFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Latin Phrase Book by C. Meissner 9780715614709
$53.45This classic textbook consists of a large collection of Latin idioms and phrases organised by topic. Originally published in German as Lateinische Phraseologie, it was translated into English from the sixth German edition with supplementary words and... -
Notes From Underground by Stephen Duncombe
RRP: $39.88$27.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621064848Author Stephen DuncombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
Captured at Arnhem: From Railwayman to Paratrooper by Hicks, Norman 9781399014571
RRP: $31.48$23.33Tom Hicks story begins when he joins the LMS straight from school and follows his early life on the railways in the 1930s, through enlistment, training as a paratrooper, wartime service, imprisonment and his return to the LMS as an engine driver. Tom... -
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer 9781555975791
RRP: $33.58$27.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781555975791Author Geoff DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint Graywolf... -
The Tamer Tamed; or, the Woman's Prize by Celia R. Daileader 9780719053672
RRP: $23.08$17.05This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century.Co-edited by a feminist critic...