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Dockers and Detectives by Ken Worpole 9781905512379
RRP: £8.99£7.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512379Author Ken WorpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
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... -
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 by James Walter McFarlane
RRP: £16.99£12.28An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophyBook InformationISBN 9780140138320Author James McFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage... -
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691157009
RRP: £35.00£27.61Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and... -
Regeneration: York Notes Advanced by Sarah Gamble
RRP: £7.99£6.64Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical... -
Tragedy by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £22.50£18.95An exploration of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture-from literature and politics to philosophy and theater... -
Love From Nancy by Charlotte Mosley
RRP: £14.99£8.54Contains Nancy Mitford's humorous letters to her family and friends. Mitford never wrote an autobiography, but this collection of letters provides a portrayal of her life and the times in which she lived.About the AuthorCharlotte Mosley lives in Paris... -
Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents by Dennis Walder
RRP: £43.49£41.26This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage... -
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... -
Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems by T. Hardy
RRP: £74.99£55.73Thomas Hardy's first love was always poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was fifty-eight years old, having already established his reputation with fourteen novels and over forty short stories, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published... -
The Connell Guide to The American Novel 1880-1940 by Stephen Fender
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187578Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Interpretation Of Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877735267Author Marie-Louise von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
RRP: £16.99£15.44Max 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... -
A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein by Karen Zumhagen-Yekple
RRP: £28.00£27.39Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his... -
The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis
RRP: £9.99£6.99When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most concentrated and richly faceted poems.' It can be seen... -
The Tree by John Fowles
RRP: £15.00£10.96John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed and best-selling... -
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes by Ferdinand Mount 9780747596479
RRP: £12.99£9.09Cold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue. A tender, moving and witty portrait of Ferdinand Mount's family and his early... -
Dubliners: York Notes Advanced by John Brannigan
RRP: £7.99£5.96Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
RRP: £12.99£8.56An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking... -
The Connell Short Guide To George Orwell's Animal Farm by Zachary Seager 9781911187196
RRP: £5.99£4.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187196Author Zachary SeagerFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman
RRP: £11.99£10.15In his brief life, Alexander the Great gained fame as the military genius who conquered the known world. After death, his legend only increased. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near... -
AQA English Language and Literature: A Level and AS by Ruth L. Doyle 9780198337492
£33.17Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A Level Subject: English Language First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 This book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 AQA A... -
Brave New World: York Notes Advanced by Aldous Huxley
RRP: £7.99£5.96York 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... -
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... -
The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett by John Calder 9780714542836
RRP: £9.99£7.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714542836Author John CalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Calder Publications LtdPublisher Alma Books Ltd -
Alchemy: Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction by Joanna Kavenna 9781910749166
RRP: £14.99£13.33Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the 'real life' story. Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying 'fact... -
Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present by Roger Luckhurst 9780582312043
RRP: £49.99£47.84At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve... -
Mapping Michel Serres by Niran Abbas 9780472030590
£37.45International scholars shed new light on the work of renowned French philosopher, Michel Serres.About the AuthorThe work of Michel Serres - including the books Hermes, The Parasite, The Natural Contract, Genesis, The Troubadour of Knowledge, and... -
The Connell Short Guide To E. M. Forster's A Room with a View by Michael Patrick Allen 9781911187110
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187110Author Michael Patrick AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Jeremias Held. 'Liber Emblematum' (Frankfurt-Am-Main 1566): 'Liber Emblematum' (Frankfurt-Am-Main 1566) by Andrea Alciato 9782503525396
RRP: £34.00£32.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503525396Author Andrea AlciatoFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 168mm * 20mm -
Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Rilke 9780679642329
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642329Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)... -
Oxford Literature Companions: The Great Gatsby by Garrett O'Doherty 9780198398967
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,... -
Swedish Gothic: Dark Forces, Creatures and the Wilderness by Yvonne Leffler 9781839980336
RRP: £20.99£19.72The book explores the Gothic tradition in Swedish literature. It aims to give an overview of the development of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today and to highlight the characteristic features of the Swedish tradition of Gothic in relation... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: £12.99£8.47'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin 9781487558253
RRP: £23.99£20.41In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos
RRP: £8.95£6.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992740962Author Yiannis RitsosFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 85g -
AS English Literature Revision: Improve Your Grade by Joy Sandifer 9780954712624
RRP: £14.59£9.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954712624Author Joy SandiferImprint Camrose OrganizationPublisher Camrose Organization -
Words of Fire: Selected Essays of Ahad Ha'am by Ahad Ha'am 9781910749029
RRP: £14.99£13.73Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his thought. These essays show him to have been a brilliant exponent of the art of the essayist. Moreover, as the... -
Magic, Metallurgy and Imagination in Medieval Ireland: Three Studies by John Carey 9781891271281
RRP: £14.95£12.53This book is a study of the rich and fascinating traditions found early Irish literature concerning smiths and the fashioning of metal. The smith had a special status within the traditional societies of early Ireland and elsewhere in the Celtic-speaking... -
The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries by Katie Ritson
RRP: £37.99£33.38Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of...