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The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington 9780198834571
RRP: £17.99£16.01She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish. After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean,... -
Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England by Eleanor Parker
RRP: £25.00£18.49"Outstanding." - The Sunday Times "Beautifully written." The Times "Superbly adroit." The Spectator "Excellent." BBC History Magazine The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England - so what... -
The Dark Powers of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: £16.99£12.79J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion are some of the greatest tales of good versus evil ever told. From the creation of Arda to the War of the Ring, Tolkien's Middle-earth has seen war and rebellion, devastation and... -
Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the... -
Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines by Jean Menzies
RRP: £10.99£7.51Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun, and relive the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts in these stories of love, betrayal, infatuation and punishment.Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines is... -
Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu 9780198864356
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.' In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bartram-Haugh house with her mysterious Uncle Silas... -
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780198856047
RRP: £7.99£5.79'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.' In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the... -
Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in the Hobbit by Joseph Pearce
£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618900586Author Joseph PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Catholic CoursesPublisher Catholic CoursesWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar 9780393602975
£20.00This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types, including multicultural versions and literary rescriptings. Along with the introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar are twenty-four critical essays exploring the various aspects of... -
The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Tolkien's World by Antony Cummins 9781786787781
RRP: £30.00£21.06The One Ring contains the entire epic and famously labyrinthine history of Middle Earth, taken from J.R.R. Tolkien's books (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, as well as all the lesser known volumes), broken down into easy-to-absorb... -
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth: The Definitive Guide to the World of J.R.R. Tolkien by Robert Foster
RRP: £100.00£68.22First ever deluxe, slipcased edition of the peerless A-Z guide to the names, places and events in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, fully illustrated in colour throughout by acclaimed Tolkien artist, Ted Nasmith, and featuring an exclusive... -
Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians by John Colarusso
RRP: £22.00£16.99An exciting collection of mythology about heroes, heroines, villains, and monsters in the intriguing world of the nomad warriors of the CaucasusThe Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts expands... -
The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
RRP: £30.00£18.63In the tradition of his books On Beauty and On Ugliness and The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco presents an enthralling illustrated tour of the fabled places that have awed and eluded us through the ages."Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our... -
J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth by Bradley J. Birzer 9781684515356
RRP: £12.99£8.18With a new introduction by the authorPeter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative... -
Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth by Mark Williams 9780691183046
RRP: £25.00£20.18A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fictionIreland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to... -
Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
RRP: £6.99£5.13Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a 'miraculous thunder-voice, from out of the centre of the world.' The impact of Carlyle's... -
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £14.99£10.95Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. The tales of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for... -
Essays on Ethics and Culture by Sabina Lovibond 9780192856166
RRP: £78.00£70.88These essays discuss various ontological and epistemological questions in moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch, though without seeking to weave these into any unified system. The... -
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition by Maria Tatar 9780691182995
RRP: £18.99£15.11Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new... -
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc 9781552453957
RRP: £12.99£8.63A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022)Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty?If every... -
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell 9780198858317
RRP: £9.99£7.11"Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Disgusted by society's materialism, Gordon Comstock leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet. In his race to the bottom,... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520281431
RRP: £14.99£12.27One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator... -
Understand Greek Mythology by Steve Eddy
RRP: £12.99£8.18Ancient Greek myths shaped and were shaped by one of the most important culture in the history of the world. Even today, stories such as Oedipus, Narcissus, Odysseus and the Golden Fleece reverberate through our popular culture.This is the ideal... -
Shadow & Evil In Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz
RRP: £27.00£17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877739746Author Marie-Louise von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Illustrated World of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: £30.00£20.86The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's works have inspired artists for generations and have given rise to myriad interpretations of the rich and magical worlds he created.The Illustrated World of Tolkien gathers together artworks and essays from expert... -
The Fairy-Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber
RRP: £20.00£13.59'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders' Financial Times'Like a child after the Pied Piper... -
Math, Symbol, and Culture by Clifford Geertz 9780393094091
RRP: £20.00£17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393094091Author Clifford GeertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan by Adam Kabat 9780231209731
RRP: £30.00£23.63In Edo-period Japan, readers relished works known as kibyoshi that combined text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga. Monsters often took center stage in these stories. This book presents a selection of Edo monster comics... -
Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths by Helen Morales
RRP: £12.99£8.18A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyonce.The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways... -
The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin
RRP: £12.99£9.54"The Arabian Nights" has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriential literature, have a clear idea of when the... -
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780198863120
RRP: £7.99£5.79"I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is now best remembered for its concluding story in which the great detective appears to plunge to his death into the waters at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, locked in... -
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780198856702
RRP: £8.99£6.45Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While the outcry... -
Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection from Count Dracula to Vampirella by Christopher Frayling 9780500296776
RRP: £14.99£9.69A comprehensive anthology of vampires in literature, from Dracula to Twilight. Christopher Frayling has spent 50 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of mass culture - the vampire. Vampyres is a comprehensive... -
The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition by John Callow
RRP: £30.00£22.39"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An... -
A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: £25.00£16.55The spellbinding world of Middle-earth is full of beasts and battles, heroes and heroines, and the struggle between good and evil.In this dictionary of sources, Tolkien scholar and best-selling author David Day's four decades of research inform us about... -
Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth by Joseph Campbell
RRP: £23.00£14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608683246Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers by Sarah Iles Johnston
RRP: £30.00£20.56An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."-Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series"Move over, Edith Hamilton! Sarah Iles Johnston has... -
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni
RRP: £22.50£19.84An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian,... -
Greek Mythology Explained: A Deeper Look at Classical Greek Lore and Myth by Marios Christou 9781633538962
RRP: £14.99£10.87Ancient Greek Gods and Mythology Explored Like Never Before#1 Bestseller in Ancient & Classical LiteratureDiscover six classic stories of Greek mythology in this exciting retelling that paints both famous and lesser-known Greek gods in a whole new light... -
Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World by Professor Michelle Karnes
£24.12A cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period's philosophical writing...