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Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein by Horace Walpole
RRP: $18.85$14.46Macabre and melodramtic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly... -
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg 9781846042072
RRP: $27.43$19.91Wild Mind is for everyone who writes or wants to write. Natalie Goldberg teaches a Zen-like method that will take you straight to the source of creative power, to the mind that is 'raw, full of energy, alive and hungry'. These pages are packed with wise,... -
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes by Ferdinand Mount 9780747596479
RRP: $22.28$15.59Cold 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... -
Poems by Emily Dickinson 9781857157048
RRP: $20.58$14.48An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics ' 129pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The... -
Dubliners: York Notes Advanced by John Brannigan
RRP: $13.71$10.22Key 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... -
Renaissance Theories of Vision by Charles H. Carman
RRP: $92.61$80.40How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical... -
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey by Janet Malcolm
RRP: $18.85$12.56In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St... -
A Place in the Country by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $17.14$12.20A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyWhen W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him... -
The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable by Eric R. Lybeck 9781912128204
RRP: $11.15$10.48One of the primary qualities of good creative thinking is an intellectual freedom to think outside of the box. Good creative thinkers resist orthodox ideas, take new lines of enquiry, and generally come at problems from the kinds of angles almost no one... -
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton
RRP: $30.86$20.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471479Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology by Andrew Hadfield 9780198871576
RRP: $37.72$35.32A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the... -
The Connell Short Guide To George Orwell's Animal Farm by Zachary Seager 9781911187196
RRP: $10.27$7.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187196Author Zachary SeagerFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Culture: A new world history by Martin Puchner
RRP: $42.88$28.18'A writer of genius' - William DalrympleCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to... -
Barnhill: A Novel by Norman Bissell
RRP: $15.42$10.98George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven by a passionate desire to undermine the enemies of democracy and make plain the dangers of dictatorship,... -
Theory of International Politics by Riley Quinn
RRP: $11.15$10.48Kenneth Waltz's 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a "scientific revolution" in the study of international relations - bringing the field into a new era of systematic study. The book is also a lesson in reasoning... -
Book Parts by Dennis Duncan 9780198885443
RRP: $32.57$27.99What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of the book, there are dozens of... -
The Poems of W.B. Yeats: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Michael O'Neill 9780415234764
RRP: $34.29$30.34Deeply involved with Irish culture and history, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest poets writing in the last two centuries. This sourcebook provides essential help for readers who wish to learn more about his powerful, haunting poems... -
Thomas Hardy by Geoffrey Harvey 9780415234924
RRP: $63.45$55.80Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy reflected in his works the dynamics of social, intellectual and aesthetic change in nineteenth-century... -
Time and Narrative: v. 1 by D. Pellauer
$29.13Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the... -
The Library of the Lost: In Search of Forgotten Authors by Mark Valentine 9781723710872
RRP: $34.22$29.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781723710872Author Mark ValentineFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
The Love Poems Of Rumi by Deepak Chopra
RRP: $22.28$15.59Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi expressed the deepest feelings of the heart through his poetry. This volume consists of new translations edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood... -
Kicking Away the Ladder by Sulaiman Hakemy 9781912128938
RRP: $11.15$10.48South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang used his 2003 work Kicking Away The Ladder to challenge the central orthodoxies of development economics, using his creative thinking skills to shine new light on an old topic. Creative thinkers are often... -
The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone by Susan Paterson Glover
RRP: $68.59$60.14Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an... -
Television and Serial Adaptation by Shannon Wells-Lassagne
RRP: $66.88$58.70As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged... -
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
RRP: $30.86$24.12Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $85.77$57.45A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot... -
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Ryan Moore
RRP: $11.15$10.48Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United... -
A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading: An Anthology of Literary Texts by Richard Jacobs 9780415234689
RRP: $63.45$56.48A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading brings literature to life by combining a rich selection of literary texts with original and lively commentary. Unlike so many introductions to literary studies, it vividly demonstrates how criticism and theory can... -
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
RRP: $63.38$56.45From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and... -
Exposure by Olivia Sudjic 9781999922337
RRP: $10.29$7.62A personal essay on exposure, auto-fiction, internet feminism and the anxiety epidemic. Last year Olivia Sudjic published Sympathy, a novel about surveillance and connection in the internet age. If a debut novel is written by a woman, it is often read... -
Biography: A Very Short Introduction by Hermione Lee
RRP: $15.42$11.06Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with history and works of fiction? Does a biography need... -
Hölderlin′s Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $32.57$27.75One of Europe's greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe's greatest poets, Friedrich Hoelderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesn't living... -
Pride and Prejudice: York Notes for AS & A2 by Laura Gray
RRP: $13.71$12.04THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy... -
Sidelines: Selected Prose 1962-2015 by Michael Longley 9781911253297
RRP: $51.46$36.62Michael Longley's prose centres on poetry. This is so, even when he is writing autobiographically, or reflecting on war and memory, or enthusing about music and painting. Since Longley writes relatively little criticism, readers of his poetry have lacked... -
Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto by Rebecca Pohl
RRP: $11.15$10.48Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern,... -
Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid 9780252082504
RRP: $32.57$28.06The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and... -
The Wheel of Fire by G. Wilson Knight 9780415253956
RRP: $25.71$23.29Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, this is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar, G... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Der Besuch der alten Dame by Rene Koglbauer
$18.92Get to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions. The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and examiners and provide comprehensive coverage of... -
Black Skin, White Masks by Rachele Dini
RRP: $11.15$10.48Frantz Fanon's explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless expose of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. Using Fanon's incisive analytical abilities to expose the consequences of colonialism on the psyches of colonized... -
Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $25.64$16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433615Author P. G. WodehouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.