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This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Andrew Bennett
RRP: £19.99£19.39What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how?Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, this beautifully written book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an... -
The Rise Of The Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding by Ian Watt
RRP: £16.99£12.28This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.In the space of a... -
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft 9780415280204
RRP: £25.99£22.63The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as... -
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader by Patrick Williams 9780745014913
£3.78 - £48.24This popular text provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of thinkers both historical and contemporary.Book InformationISBN 9780745014913Author Patrick... -
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge
£5.33 - £7.11As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She's written more than fifty novels - romances, detective stories and contemporary works of... -
Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism by Gabriel Egan
RRP: £37.99£33.38Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare... -
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer 9781472145017
RRP: £20.00£17.62'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as... -
The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski 9780226294032
RRP: £21.00£17.76Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of... -
The Iliad by Homer 9781857150605
RRP: £16.99£12.68One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven... -
Oxford Student Texts: An Ideal Husband by Jackie Moore 9780198374817
£11.76Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.Book InformationISBN... -
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
RRP: £16.99£12.28'It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and... -
Bodas De Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780719007644
RRP: £9.99£7.23"This excellent edition is most welcome. A select bibliography, a brief vocabulary, several footnotes to explain points of difficulty, fourteen long endnotes... and even the music of the songs, make the edition an extremely valuable and interesting... -
Milton Place by Elisabeth De Waal 9781910263211
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263211Author Elisabeth De WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing 9780231122696
RRP: £28.00£21.76Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of... -
Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us About Conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22 by Christopher Coker
RRP: £27.50£23.64Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our... -
So Brightly at the Last by Ian Shircore
RRP: £18.99£15.31Jimi Hendrix, Princess Diana and Syria's Asma Al-Assad rub shoulders with Auden, Eliot and Shelley - and with the Trouser Thief Clive met during ten long weeks locked up in a closed psychiatric ward - in this offbeat and affectionate poetic biography. ... -
How Literary Worlds Are Shaped: A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination by Bo Pettersson 9783110611076
RRP: £23.50£20.94Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it... -
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £6.99£5.13WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the first time in 1798. It is the story of a... -
Muriel Spark's Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by David S. Robb 9780948877148
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877148Author David S. RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language by Janet Brennan Croft 9780786428274
RRP: £24.99£20.29Tolkien and Shakespeare: one a prolific popular dramatist and poet of the Elizabethan era, the other a twentieth-century scholar of Old English and author of a considerably smaller body of work. Though unquestionably very different writers, the two have... -
Iona: Poems by Kenneth Steven 9781640606302
RRP: £15.00£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640606302Author Kenneth StevenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 113g -
The Claustrum: An investigation of claustrophobic phenomena by Donald Meltzer 9781912567270
RRP: £25.99£24.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912567270Author Donald MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Harris Meltzer TrustPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 324gDimensions(mm) 230mm... -
The Hebrew Bible as Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Tod Linafelt
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, contains some of the finest literature that we have. This biblical literature has a place not only in the synagogue or the church but also among the classics of world literature. The stories of Jacob and... -
Out of Africa ; and, Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen 9780679724759
RRP: £18.00£12.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724759Author Isak DinesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Biofiction: An Introduction by Michael Lackey
RRP: £35.99£31.69Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting... -
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter by Angela Topping 9781906075255
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075255Author Angela ToppingFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Key Concepts in Victorian Studies by William Hughes
RRP: £14.99£12.55Provides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian period Surveys not merely the reign of Queen Victoria but its antecedents in the long nineteenth century Includes illustrations derived wholly from... -
Anne Bronte Reimagined: A View from the Twenty-first Century by Adelle Hay
RRP: £9.99£6.80Anne Bronte: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this remarkably talented and pioneering author been so overlooked? Anne's writing has often been compared harshly with that of Charlotte and Emily - as if... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Helen Roche 9781912128976
RRP: £6.50£6.11A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder's linguistic precocity allows him to cite evidence... -
Poisonous Tales: A Forensic Examination of Poisons in Fiction by Hilary Hamnett
RRP: £24.00£20.12Dangerous, dark and difficult to detect, poisons have been a common character in literature from ancient times to the modern day. Their ability to perform deadly deeds at a distance is a common device for creating dramatic tension and playing on our real... -
Night Philosophy by Fanny Howe 9781916425026
RRP: £10.99£7.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425026Author Fanny HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
Politics Among Nations by Ramon Pacheco Pardo
RRP: £6.50£6.11Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau's watertight reasoning skills.The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: £13.99£10.15An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in... -
Woolf's "To the Lighthouse": A Reader's Guide by Janet Winston 9780826495839
£23.63This is a concise and authoritative guide to Virginia Woolf's classic text "To the Lighthouse" (1927), including a brief plot summary and introduction to characters and a guide to critical reception. "To the Lighthouse" is one of Virginia Woolf's most... -
The Bear: History of a Fallen King by Michel Pastoureau
RRP: £24.95£19.88The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages,... -
Merrily's Border: The Mysterious World of Merrily Watkins - History & Folklore, People & Places by Phil Rickman
RRP: £15.99£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839300Author Phil RickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Robert Browning: Selected Poems by John Woolford 9781405841139
RRP: £35.99£35.82Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was one of the defining figures of the Victorian age. Famous in his lifetime for his elopement and marriage to Elizabeth Barratt, his critical reputation grew steadily in the years following her early death. Browning's... -
The Mammoth Book of Tasteless Jokes by E. Henry Thripshaw
£3.39 - £8.60The ultimate collection of tasteless and sick jokes that just shouldn't be told. More than 3,000 off-colour jokes, covering every taboo from sex and death to race and disability, this book leaves no stone unturned in its search for the most dubious... -
Heroic Legends of the North: An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles by Edward R. Haymes
RRP: £29.99£26.64Originally published in 1996, this book is a study of two of the central themes of medieval German mythology, the Dietrich and Nibelung legends. It traces its two legendary topics form their historical roots during the last centuries of the Roman Empire... -
The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages by Jeffrey F. Hamburger 9780691124766
RRP: £48.00£38.51The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological...