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Three Novels of Iain Banks: Whit, The Crow Road and The Wasp Factory by A. MacGillivray 9780948877483
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877483Author A. MacGillivrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 by Edmund Wilson 9780374529277
RRP: £20.00£12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529277Author Edmund WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith by John Blackburn 9780948877216
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877216Author John BlackburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe by Gill Rye
RRP: £41.99£36.75Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany,... -
Poetics of Relation by Betsy Wing 9780472066292
£23.28Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate... -
Shadows of Reality: W.G. Sebald's Photographic Materials by W. G. Sebald 9781911343660
RRP: £49.95£34.58The first-ever volume of the photographs of German writer W.G. Sebald, exquisitely designed to shed new light on his creative process, as it chronicles the images and encounters that shaped his writing life. Shadows of Reality presents a unique, fully... -
The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: £9.99£7.11'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history... -
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
RRP: £12.99£8.48Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this, the last book he completed before his death, the much-loved poet, broadcaster and author offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the... -
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond by Ben Macintyre
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories' One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most... -
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka 9780241695746
RRP: £24.00£15.93Available for the first time in English, the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers 'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923,... -
Proust and Venice by Peter Collier 9780521673389
RRP: £38.99£33.26Proust's famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) is a fascinating exploration not only of memory and desire, of high society and everyday life, but also of art. The study focuses on Venice, one of the hero's central... -
Oxford Literature Companions: A Streetcar Named Desire by Annie Fox
RRP: £9.99£9.59Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James 9781529042085
RRP: £20.00£14.29Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this, the last book he completed before his death, the much-loved poet, broadcaster and author offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the... -
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £8.99£6.45Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to... -
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
RRP: £12.99£8.561606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King... -
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99£9.37Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a younger... -
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: York Notes Advanced by Thomas Hardy 9781405807074
RRP: £7.99£6.15York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Death of a Salesman by Su Fielder 9780198399025
RRP: £9.99£9.59Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature by Brian Nelson
RRP: £22.99£19.04In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas... -
The Connell Short Guide To Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot by Sophie Ratcliffe 9781907776786
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776786Author Sophie RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
RRP: £16.99£15.06Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other, and it is to Brod, as his literary executor and... -
Dhuoda, Handbook for her Warrior Son: Liber Manualis by Marcelle Thiebaux 9780521395991
RRP: £49.99£43.02The Liber Manualis is a distinctive guidebook to conduct and survival in tumultuous times written by a Carolingian mother for her adolescent son. This edition provides a complete translation in English, accompanied by the Latin original. Advancing views... -
This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 9780747546016
RRP: £14.99£10.95The author of "The Barracks Thief" and "Hunters in the Snow" recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the... -
AQA English Literature A: A Level and AS by Luke McBratney
£37.58This AQA AS and A Level English Literature A Student Book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the AQA A Level English Literature specification. Structured and written to build on skills students acquired at GCSE, this book helps... -
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure by Rene Girard
RRP: £29.00£26.08This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, including fashion, advertising, and propaganda techniques. In considering such aspects, the author goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics and... -
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman Hannah Arendt 9781681375892
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375892Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism by Paul Hamilton 9780198831143
£41.09TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period... -
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £14.99£10.95____________________ 'A superbly edited and evocatively illustrated collection that brings together everything that Scott wrote to his wife' - Sunday Telegraph 'Heartbreaking ... Love has seldom seemed more poignant' - Sunday Times 'Excellent ..... -
Shakespeare's Montaigne Michel De Montaigne 9781590177228
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177228Author Michel De MontaigneFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum by Christopher S. Mackay
RRP: £34.99£28.73The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486-7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early modern period. Its descriptions of the evil acts of witches and the ways to exterminate them continue to... -
The Connell Short Guide To Ian McEwan's Atonement by Theo Tait
RRP: £5.99£4.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776922Author Theo TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
RRP: £24.99£21.78The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the... -
AQA English Literature B: A Level and AS by Adrian Beard 9780198337485
£33.17Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A Level Subject: English Literature First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 This book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 AQA A... -
The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 by John Carey
RRP: £10.99£7.32Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw,... -
The Connell Short Guide To Toni Morrison's Beloved by Theo Tait 9781911187059
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187059Author Tessa RoynonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Writers and Their Mothers by Dale Salwak 9783319683478
RRP: £19.50£16.05Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and... -
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: £9.99£6.70The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Zola by Brian Nelson 9780521543767
RRP: £25.99£21.99Emile Zola is a towering literary figure of the nineteenth century. His main literary achievement was his twenty-volume novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870-93). In this series he combines a novelist's skills with those of the investigative journalist... -
Robin Jenkins by Iain Crichton-Smith
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877261Author Iain Crichton SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish... -
The Lives of the Poets: A Selection by Samuel Johnson 9780199226740
RRP: £13.99£9.75'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English...