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Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley by George Levine 9780226475516
RRP: £40.00£38.55In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the... -
The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction by William Veeder 9780226391977
RRP: £48.00£46.39In The Art of Criticism, William Veeder and Susan M. Griffin have brought together for the first time the best of the Master's critical work: the most important of his Prefaces, which R. P. Blackmur has called "the most sustained and I think the most... -
The Unresolvable Plot: Reading Contemporary Fiction by Elizabeth Dipple 9780367339753
£107.01Originally published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. The ambitious experiments of writers such as Greene, Garcia Marquez, Borges, Nabakov, Calvino, Beckett, Eco, Spark, Hoban,... -
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five: Bookmarked by Curtis Smith 9781632460110
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632460110Author Curtis SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing -
Rise Of The Graphic Novel, The (2nd Edition): Faster Than A Speeding Bullet by Stephen Weiner 9781561637027
RRP: £13.95£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561637027Author Stephen WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 369g -
Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor by Helena Michie 9781474406635
RRP: £100.00£91.32Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics' attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding... -
The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 by William Patrick Martin 9781442271869
RRP: £11.99£10.55The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recommended reading lists. This book is a long overdue... -
Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism: The Challenges of Science by Allan Hunter 9781138794726
RRP: £94.99£82.35First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day... -
A Companion to Herman Melville by Wyn Kelley 9781119045274
RRP: £37.95£33.76In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville's works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to MelvilleConsiders... -
Reading Today by Heta Pyrhonen 9781787351974
RRP: £35.00£30.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351974Author Heta PyrhonenFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 470g -
Reading Today by Heta Pyrhonen 9781787351967
RRP: £15.00£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351967Author Heta PyrhonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 520g -
Against Amazon by Jorge Carrion 9781771963039
RRP: £12.99£8.63Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the author's essays on these vital social, cultural,... -
Writers on the Air by Donna Seaman 9781589880214
RRP: £25.99£16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880214Author Donna SeamanFormat PaperbackPage Count 467Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 669g -
Wonderfully Wordless: The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books by William Patrick Martin 9781442254770
RRP: £41.00£35.52Wonderfully Wordless: The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books is the first comprehensive best book guide to wordless picture books (and nearly wordless picture books). It is an indispensable resource for parents and teachers who love... -
Literary Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature by Alex Palmer 9781510772595
RRP: £14.99£9.36Packed with fascinating facts, Literary Miscellany is sure to please both professor and pleasure reader alike. Wouldn't it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you'll... -
Where the Muses Still Haunt – The Second Reading by Hall Drury Anne 9781587315398
RRP: £21.00£17.76"Re-reading is one of life's joys," Anne Drury Hall reminds us. Not simply from the sweetness of remembering or because of the way a book can be like an old friend, but because returning to a great book is inseparable from the endeavor to succeed at... -
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Returnee Detective and Postcolonial Crime Fiction by Kamil Naicker 9781032633787
RRP: £135.00£117.28A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the ‘open and shut case’ of its narrative form. But what happens to that form in a world where guilt and innocence are not easily... -
Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel by Hannah Pardey 9781837644698
£96.61Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. It will be made available open access after three years. Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect investigates the material conditions of producing, distributing and... -
The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers by Jonathan Rose 9781474494885
RRP: £31.00£25.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474494885Author Jonathan RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
The Edinburgh History of Reading: Common Readers by Jonathan Rose 9781474494878
RRP: £31.00£25.65Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century reading brain, the 4 volumes of the Edinburgh History of Reading demonstrate that... -
The Edinburgh History of Reading: Early Readers by Mary Hammond 9781474494854
RRP: £31.00£25.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474494854Author Mary HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
The Savage Detectives Reread by David Kurnick 9780231194105
RRP: £68.00£60.37The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolano's novel has also been called an exercise in... -
The Unresolvable Plot: Reading Contemporary Fiction by Elizabeth Dipple 9780367339845
RRP: £29.99£28.33Originally published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. The ambitious experiments of writers such as Greene, Garcia Marquez, Borges, Nabakov, Calvino, Beckett, Eco, Spark, Hoban,... -
Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post-War Years by Ian Carter 9780367339319
RRP: £33.99£30.00The campus novel is one of the best loved forms of fiction in the post-war period. But what are its characteristic themes? What are its prejudices? And what does it take for granted? Originally published in 1990, this is the first study to connect... -
Last Night's Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino 9780143127314
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127314Author Kate GavinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 224g -
Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture by Jeffrey M. Makala 9780271094038
RRP: £91.95£81.06Invented in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping-the creation of solid printing plates cast from movable type-fundamentally changed the way in which books were printed. Publishing Plates chronicles the technological and cultural shifts that resulted... -
Melville's Protest Theism: The Hidden and Silent God in Clarel by Stan Goldman 9780875801742
RRP: £27.99£18.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801742Author Stan GoldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 211Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 28g -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani 9780525574972
RRP: £25.00£17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525574972Author Michiko KakutaniFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)... -
The Beginner's Guide to Pulp Fiction: The Heroes, the Villains and the Writers by Jonathan W Sweet 9781080408252
RRP: £9.95£8.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781080408252Author Jonathan W SweetFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Books and Learning in Twelfth-Century England - The Ending of `Alter O by Rodney Thompson 9780955370205
RRP: £35.00£34.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955370205Author Rodney M ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint The Red Gull PressPublisher The Red Gull PressWeight(grams) 1g -
Read This Next: Your (500) New Favorite Book(s) by Howard Mittelmark 9780061856037
RRP: £10.99£10.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061856037Author Howard MittelmarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9781465429889
RRP: £27.99£21.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781465429889Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Publisher DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Weight(grams) 1134g -
The Handy Literature Answer Book: An Engaging Guide to Unraveling Symbols, Signs and Meanings in Great Works by Daniel Burt
RRP: £19.99£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578596355Author Daniel BurtFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press -
Beyond The Beach: The Wit and Wisdom of Nevil Shute by Bill Levy
RRP: £9.95£8.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467929127Author Bill LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
How to Read and Why by Bloom 9780684859071
£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684859071Author BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 268g -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino 9780544146679
RRP: £15.99£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544146679Author Italo CalvinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World's Greatest Invention by P J M Marks 9780226824093
RRP: £45.00£33.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226824093Author P J M MarksFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami 9781101974537
RRP: £17.00£8.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101974537Author Haruki MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cecite d'Homere) by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £11.99£7.59Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct yet densely multilayered... -
Big Books in Times of Big Data by Inge Van de Ven
£49.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283377Author Inge Van de VenFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press