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The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose by Robert Graves
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807337Author Robert GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9780393640106
Booksplease Price: €15.80This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The Second Quarto text, edited by Robert S. Miola and accompanied by his footnotes, headnotes, and introductory materials. * Eighteen illustrations from 1604 to 2008, three of them new to the Second Edition. * The... -
D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall: In Search of Utopia by Prof. Philip Payton 9781804131329
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €73.43This book examines D.H. Lawrence's attempt to create a utopian community of likeminded idealists in Cornwall, a quest that was given greater urgency by the outbreak of the First World War, an event Lawrence viewed with horror. He saw Cornwall as a... -
Gothic Literature by Andrew Smith 9780748647415
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.41This is the new edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature. This revised edition includes a new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twentieth century and looks at... -
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9780393964523
Booksplease Price: €14.66Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorized editions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is faithful to Defoe's original edition. Annotations assist the reader with obscure words and idioms, biblical references, and... -
Shakespeare's Apprenticeship: Identifying the Real Playwright's Earliest Works by Ramon Jimenez 9781476672649
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.55The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work. Now, new literary and historical evidence demonstrates that five heretofore anonymous plays published or... -
GCSE Set Text Student Guides - AQA GCSE (9-1) English Literature and Language - An Inspector Calls by Julia Burchell
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €13.13Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Language, GCSE 9-1 English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 Develop your students' skills in English Literature and English Language as you study An Inspector Calls... -
White Leaping Flame / Caoir Gheal Leumraich: Sorley Maclean: Collected Poems by Sorley MacLean
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.55This collected editon of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of poetry, poetry previously published in various magazines, literary journals and anthologies, and poetry which has never been published before... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses by Sean Latham 9781107423909
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.45Few books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than James Joyce's Ulysses, a work that at once entices and terrifies readers with its interwoven promises of pleasure, scandal, difficulty and mastery. This volume offers... -
This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith 9781524748548
Booksplease Price: €11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524748548Author Emma SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm * 34mm -
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 9780393937527
Booksplease Price: €16.04The text of the novel is again based on Hardy's final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition. The Norton Critical Edition includes: expanded footnotes, further drawing out Hardy's web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in... -
The Grail Legend by Emma Jung
Booksplease Price: €28.21The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language by Lynne Magnusson 9781107583184
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €25.48The power of Shakespeare's complex language - his linguistic playfulness, poetic diction and dramatic dialogue - inspires and challenges students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers across the globe. It has iconic status and enormous resonance, even as... -
Compl Poetry Blake Rev Ed by William Blake
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385152136Author William BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1032gDimensions(mm)... -
Palgrave's Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave
RRP: €16.05Booksplease Price: €11.42Originally published in 1861, Palgrave's Golden Treasury quickly established itself as the most popular selection of English poems. Today it stands as a testament to the richness of our finest native poetic writing from Spenser, Shakespeare, and... -
Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare by Pascale Aebischer 9781107559448
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €30.93While film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays captured the popular imagination at the turn of the last century, independent filmmakers began to adapt the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The roots of their films in European avant-garde cinema and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy by Claire McEachern
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.26This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America,... -
Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 by Jane Roberts 9781781382660
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €38.37The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a sense of changes in scripts across time is through visual... -
Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Bernhard Bischoff
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €29.39This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history... -
Byron in Context by Clara Tuite
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.36George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824), was one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic period, as well as a peer, politician and global celebrity, famed not only for his verse, but for his controversial lifestyle and involvement in the... -
The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.90'the highest matter in the noblest form' John Donne's description of the Psalms celebrates not only the perfection of the biblical psalms but their translation into poetic form by the Sidneys, who turned them into some of the most accomplished lyric... -
John Donne's Poetry by John Donne
Booksplease Price: €18.06The texts reprinted in this new Norton Critical Edition have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible, collated against the most important families of Donne manuscripts-the Cambridge Belam, the Dublin Trinity, and... -
The Major Works by Robert Browning
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.16This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning's poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career to... -
A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition by Scott C. Lucas
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €26.17Over the six decades it remained in print in Tudor and Stuart England, William Baldwin's collection of tragic verse narratives A Mirror for Magistrates captivated readers and led numerous poets and playwrights to create their own Mirror-inspired works on... -
Love and Sex in D. H. Lawrence by David Ellis
RRP: €38.62Booksplease Price: €31.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954712Author David EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press -
National 4 & 5 English, Second Edition Jane Cooper 9781510426955
Booksplease Price: €32.97Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst teaching: August 2017First exams: Summer 2018Introduce, develop, test and reinforce the skills required for success in National 4 & 5 English.Fully updated in accordance with the revised N5... -
Romantic Poetry and Prose by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780195016154
Booksplease Price: €63.05This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats,... -
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden by Steven N. Zwicker 9780521531443
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.36John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural... -
Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams 9780330322201
Booksplease Price: €12.38This book will change your life. The Deeper Meaning of Liff is a specially updated edition of Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's humorous lexicon of things there should be words for. A beloved classic, The Deeper Meaning of Liff contains illustrations from... -
Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don W. King 9781606354506
Booksplease Price: €41.17The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. LewisDetailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warren's famous brother, C. S. Lewis, and also demonstrates how... -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray 9781035031689
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.33With diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts, this is an exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating journey through the city.London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the... -
Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity by Janine Barchas
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.23In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen's novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and... -
The Narnia Code: C S Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens: C S Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens by Michael Ward 9781842277225
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.05The Narnia books are mysterious. Millions of people have been captivated by them, but are left with unanswered questions. Why are there seven books? Are they biblical allegories? If so, why do four of them seem to have no biblical basis? ... -
Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780812971811
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971811Author Jonathan BateFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The 100 Best Novels: In English by Robert McCrum 9781903385470
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385470Author Robert McCrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Macbeth: Shakespeare Retold by William Shakespeare 9781914927034
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927034Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West 9781773236407
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €9.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773236407Author Vita Sackville-WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Discourse by Sara Mills
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €24.20This volume provides a broad analysis of the term 'discourse' and a thorough examination of the many theoretical assumptions surrounding it. In the revised edition of this invaluable guidebook, Sara Mills:*examines the historical definitions and... -
The English Novel: An Introduction Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9781405117074
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €32.14Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Chris Megson 9781408129388
Booksplease Price: €33.47Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume equips readers with an understanding of the...