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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206469Author Jennifer AulieFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267856Author Lorenza MAzzettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877148Author David S. RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

Poetry 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561840540Author Dr Israel RegardieFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint New Falcon Publications,U.S.Publisher New Falcon Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060838737Author Adam NicolsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102313Author Lorenzo De' MediciFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His novels, The Plague and The Outsider, have a timeless power and appeal and are studied all over the world, and his philosophical work has had an enduring influence...

John Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensive overview of the author's life, times and writings. It...

This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Loewy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world...

For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and...

Modernism is commonly perceived as a response to the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century. To what extent then can we explain its continued persistence? Madelyn Detloff argues for modernism's relevance to our own age, a time of escalating...

Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert...

Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the breadth of his literary range and cultural influence being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307405791Author Les StandifordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA Inc

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. A green horse great and tall;A steed full stiff to guide,In broidered bridle allHe worthily bestrides Dating from around 1400 and composed by...

Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the vengeful slaying of the suitors of his beautiful wife Penelope, the stirring adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst...

This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare's history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean. Between 1852 and 1859, Kean produced celebrated productions of Henry V, Henry VIII, King John, Macbeth and...

'Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?' 'I'm rather glad I'm not. I'm quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.' Over the course of seven decades,...

This is a new translation of and commentary on Pico della Mirandola's most famous work, the Oration on the Dignity of Man. It is the first English edition to provide readers with substantial notes on the text, essays that address the work's historical,...

This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic. Explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112686Author Judith P. ZinsserFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583229156Author Lynne Sharon SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 171g

This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to...

In Boccaccio's time, the Italian city-state began to take on a much more proactive role in prosecuting crime - one which superseded a largely communitarian, private approach. The emergence of the state-sponsored inquisitorial trial indeed haunts the...

The definitive history of the flamboyant life of Ian Fleming and his most famous creation, James Bond.This new biography of Ian Fleming presents a fresh and illuminating portrayal of the iconic creator of James Bond. Oliver Buckton provides the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374519049Author Christa WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

By the end of the seventeenth century the most effective means of persuasion and communication was the pamphlet, which created influential moral and political communities of readers, and thus formed a 'public sphere' of popular, political opinion. This...

Philosophy and Terry Pratchett is the first attempt by philosophers to explore themes in Sir Terry Pratchett's writings. It will appeal to both specialists and fans of Pratchett with serious essays written in a manner accessible to anyone who enjoys, or...

As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries...

An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature. This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It consists of a chronological overview of Portuguese literature...

This critical edition of T. S. Eliot's Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...

Ford Madox Ford had a fascinating life, spent among several of the most important groups of artists and writers of his time. Friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells and above all Joseph Conrad, Ford was a leading figure of the avant-garde in pre-First...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551069Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

How did individuals write about their lives before a modern tradition of diaries and autobiographies was established? Adam Smyth examines the kinds of texts that sixteenth- or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the...

Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet it was through his study of the social and cultural...

This innovative, extensively illustrated study examines how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed significantly to the production of the modern Greek nation and its national imagination. It also shows how, in return, national imagination has...

Although the children's story Alice in Wonderland has been in print for over 150 years, the mysteries and rumours surrounding the story and its creator Lewis Carroll have continued to grow. The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first time anyone...

By the end of the seventeenth century the most effective means of persuasion and communication was the pamphlet, which created influential moral and political communities of readers, and thus formed a 'public sphere' of popular, political opinion. This...