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Red by John Logan
£11.17"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New Yorker Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko... -
Captured at Arnhem: From Railwayman to Paratrooper by Hicks, Norman 9781399014571
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tom 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... -
Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature by Sule E. Egya
RRP: £39.99£35.06Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained concentration on the Nigerian experience in postcolonial... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin by Ken Hirschkop
RRP: £19.99£17.13In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts,... -
Cena Trimalchionis by Petronius 9780198144595
£28.64Cena TrimalchionisReviewsThe text is clean and clear, the apparatus adequate (and most useful for pedagogic purposes), the notes almost always helpful. * Paul B. Harvey, Jr., Pennsylvania State University *Book InformationISBN 9780198144595Author... -
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393356977
RRP: £7.99£7.69World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche-and psychoses-of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in... -
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo 9780393345438
RRP: £12.99£10.34In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding... -
Gilbert Murray's Euripides: The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Gilbert Murray 9781904675358
RRP: £21.99£20.27In the story of the reception of Greek tragedy throughout the English-speaking world, Murray is a figure of immense importance. He unlocked the gates of commercial theatre to its performance - and its performance in verse - on both sides of the Atlantic,... -
The Canterbury Tales (No Fear) by SparkNotes 9781411426962
RRP: £7.99£5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781411426962Author SparkNotesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Barnes & Noble BooksPublisher Sterling Juvenile -
Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
RRP: £10.99£7.77Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost... -
The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus' Realms by Marianne E. Kalinke 9781783167876
RRP: £34.99£28.81The Arthur of the North is the first book-length study of the Arthurian literature that was translated from French and Latin into Old Norse-Icelandic in the thirteenth century, which has been preserved mostly in Icelandic manuscripts, and which in early... -
Memoirs from the Women's Prison by Nawal El Saadawi
RRP: £14.99£11.75In 1981, the celebrated author and activist Nawal el Saadawi was imprisoned by the Sadat regime in her native Egypt, for 'crimes against the state'. Through haunting and evocative prose, Saadawi here recounts how she and her fellow prisoners continued to... -
The Common Reader: Volume 1 by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover Virginia Woolf's informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon - from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational... -
The Connell Short Guide To John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men by Stephen Fender 9781911187066
RRP: £5.99£4.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187066Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Professor Edward Mendelson 9780691172491
RRP: £32.00£25.76Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907-73), one of the greatest literary figures of the... -
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi
RRP: £33.99£30.00What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and... -
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake by Northrop Frye
RRP: £32.00£25.16This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the... -
Parallel Lives: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.39Comparative 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... -
Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash by Tamar Biala
RRP: £24.00£20.52A unique compilation of contemporary women's midrashim. Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women, which has been long-anticipated by multiple American... -
Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
RRP: £16.00£12.85For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric... -
King Richard ll by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£8.17In this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in... -
Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts by Estelle Strazdins 9780192866103
RRP: £117.50£106.11Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. This wide-ranging work challenges conventional thinking... -
Anabasis by St John Perse 9780156074063
RRP: £15.00£10.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156074063Author St John PerseFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 129mm * 7mm -
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780300085068
RRP: £14.99£12.55This prize-winning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays. Stephen Booth's notes help a modern... -
J.d. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195896Author David StreitfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook 9781771965415
RRP: £13.99£9.26ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 * ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9781914602146
RRP: £20.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602146Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing -
Lorca'S Romancero Gitano: Eighteen Commentaries by Herbert Ramsden 9780719078248
RRP: £10.99£9.74This poem-by-poem guide to Lorca's Romancero gitano was prompted by the need for some form of guidance to the overwhelming amount of critical material published on the book, the relative neglect or misunderstanding of certain poems and a concern to... -
The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter by John Miller 9780712354561
RRP: £25.00£16.78With a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. Trees can evoke powerful feelings. For Henry David Thoreau, the woods are places beyond civilisation; for Ursula Le Guin and J. R. R. Tolkien, they are loaded with otherworldly potential; and for those fleeing... -
Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West by M. B. Parkes
RRP: £130.00£113.11From its publication in 1992 Pause and Effect has become a cornerstone of the study of punctuation across the world. Described as 'magisterial' by Lynne Truss in her best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this book has stimulated interest and scholarly... -
Euripides: Medea by Euripides
RRP: £27.99£24.27This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of... -
Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature by Benjamin R. Foster
RRP: £49.95£43.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883053765Author Benjamin R. FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 1044Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1497gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff 9780062442185
RRP: £14.99£9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062442185Author Helene HanffFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges 9780802130303
RRP: £12.99£8.63The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant... -
Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art by Reginald Gibbons
RRP: £28.00£27.39"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The... -
The Book of Book Jokes by Alex Johnson 9780712354516
RRP: £9.99£6.80The Book Lover's Joke Book is the funniest book about books you'll ever read. You'll find jokes about writers, agents, publishers, librarians, grammar, poetry, bookcases, and lightbulbs. There are rib-ticklers for typographers, crackers for critics, and... -
Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction by Natania Meeker
RRP: £29.99£26.50Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life... -
Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £14.99£9.80In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare - when the crown was constantly contested,... -
Street Haunting: A London Adventure & Bulwell by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £4.00£3.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170427Author Virginia WoolfImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Goethe, Volume 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691043449
RRP: £25.00£19.99Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man...