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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre by Josie Billington
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776175Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses by Patrick Hastings
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.74From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scholarly perspectives, and historical and biographical context to create an easy-to-read, entertaining, and... -
Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many by Thomas P. Hillman 9781606354711
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.02Illuminating the central struggle in The Lord of the Rings to deepen understanding of the whole of Tolkien's legendariumIn this remarkable work of close reading and analysis, Thomas P. Hillman gets to the heart of the tension between pity and the desire... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.36From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was... -
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
Booksplease Price: £35.64Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century. Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in... -
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham Helen Vendler 9780674081215
Booksplease Price: £29.46Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds of break in poetic... -
The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study by Thad Logan 9780521631822
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.37The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were frequently played out. In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, Logan uses an... -
Shakespeare: Hamlet by Paul A. Cantor 9780521549370
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.01In this useful guide, Paul Cantor provides a clearly structured introduction to Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Cantor examines Hamlet's status as tragic hero and the central enigma of the delayed revenge in the light of the play's Renaissance context... -
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle by Hugh MacDiarmid
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Kenneth Buthlay's edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid's complex and often opaque use of language. The drunk man... -
Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature by Angela Leighton
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.10Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration... -
Ted Hughes in Context by Terry Gifford 9781108425551
Booksplease Price: £88.19Ted Hughes wrote in a wide range of modes which were informed by an even wider range of contexts to which his lifetime's reading, interests and experience gave him access. The achievement of Ted Hughes as one of the major poets of the twentieth century... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns by Gerard Carruthers
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.73The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides both a comprehensive introduction to and the most contemporary critical contexts for the study of Robert Burns. Detailed commentary on the artistry of Burns is complemented by material on the cultural... -
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Daniel Hahn
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that... -
Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality by Rachel Hope Cleves
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.73The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood... -
Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening... -
The World of Bede by Peter Hunter Blair 9780521398190
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.59An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d.735), this book (originally published in 1970) is available again for the enjoyment of all those interested in the early medieval world. With an... -
Shakespeare'S Storms by Gwilym Jones
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.44Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book AwardThe first comprehensive study of Shakespeare's storms. Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in... -
What Happens in Hamlet by J. Dover Wilson
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £25.16John Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has been widely translated. Hamlet has excited more curiosity and aroused more... -
Fifty Forgotten Books by R. B. Russell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... -
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin 9780300098228
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.45An 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... -
A History of Ambiguity by Anthony Ossa-Richardson
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.20Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism-far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive... -
In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781526171931
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.02These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly... -
A Literary Guide to the Lake District by Grevel Lindop 9781910758120
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910758120Author Grevel LindopFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Sigma PressPublisher Sigma Press -
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney by Bernard O'Donoghue 9780521547550
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.04Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists... -
The Life of a Long Distance Writer by Richard Bradford 9780720613179
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £6.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720613179Author Richard BradfordFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers -
The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form Peter Boxall 9781009314299
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.65The Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book... -
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.67The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have shaped the way we encounter literature. Eighteenth-century children and young women... -
Julian Barnes from the Margins: Exploring the Writer's Archives by Professor Vanessa Guignery 9781350243187
Booksplease Price: £33.09Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes - including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence - this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary... -
Liberty against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies by Christopher Hill
Booksplease Price: £17.32In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill uses the literary culture of the seventeenth century to explore the immense social changes of the period as well as the expressions of... -
Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures 1990 by Christopher Ricks 9780192824073
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Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry Bernard O'Donoghue 9780745007168
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £50.65This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on... -
The Real Kenneth Grahame: The Tragedy Behind The Wind in the Willows by Galvin, Elisabeth 9781526748805
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the... -
Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time by Daniel Mulhall 9781848408814
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848408814Author Daniel MulhallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 373gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
Virginia Woolf: The Waves by Virginia Woolf 9780521315630
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her... -
The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature by Sheila M. Kidd
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980359Author Sheila M. KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy 9781907903632
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.40Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life,... -
Pygmalion Bernard Shaw 9780713679977
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.01'Not bloody likely' Ever since Pygmalion opened in London in April 1914 it has proved a very controversial play, from the (then) shocking language, to arguments about its correct ending. Critical interpretations have been similarly disputatious,... -
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776069Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
William Golding's Lord of the Flies John Carey 9781907776625
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776625Author John CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency by Amanda M Dennis
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.53Reveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency Accents the importance of the body in Beckett and provides a new reading of the body in his postwar writing and experimental prose of the 60's and 80's ...