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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£12.52Apologies 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 -
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Various 9780349008622 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£6.77Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
So Brightly at the Last by Ian Shircore
£15.65Jimi 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. ... -
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... -
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... -
Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide by Owen Holland 9781848319042
RRP: £8.99£6.08From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline.Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and... -
The Mammoth Book of Tasteless Jokes by E. Henry Thripshaw
RRP: £12.99£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... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: £14.99£11.35An 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... -
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... -
Woolf's "To the Lighthouse": A Reader's Guide by Janet Winston 9780826495839
£24.11This 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
£20.29The 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,... -
Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies by Lisa Zunshine
RRP: £33.00£32.05Drawing on the explosion of academic and public interest in cognitive science in the past two decades, this volume features articles that combine literary and cultural analysis with insights from neuroscience, cognitive evolutionary psychology and... -
Coleridge on Shakespeare: The text of the lectures of 1811-12 by R. A. Foakes
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1971. The only substantial text of a series of lectures on Shakespeare by S T Coleridge is that provided by J P Collier's Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (1856). His text of these important lectures given by Coleridge in... -
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition by Walter J. Ong 9780415538381
RRP: £37.99£33.38Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition... -
Lyric Cousins: Poetry and Musical Form by Fiona Sampson
£21.85Today, poetry and art music occupy similar cultural positions: each has a tendency to be regarded as problematic, `difficult' and therefore `elitist'. Despite this, the audiences and numbers of participants for each are substantial: yet they tend not to... -
T. S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks 9780571170357
RRP: £10.99£7.32Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how far this makes Eliot suspect is what Ricks sets out to discover.About the AuthorChristopher Ricks is... -
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: £16.99£12.28Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.Chatwin himself was different things to different people: a journalist, a photographer, an art... -
The Historical Novel by Jerome de Groot 9780415426626
RRP: £19.99£17.69The historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible... -
Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film by Anat Pick 9780231147873
£21.80Simone Weil once wrote that "the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence," establishing a relationship between vulnerability, beauty, and existence transcending the separation of species. Her conception... -
The Outlandish Companion Volume 2 by Diana Gabaldon
RRP: £35.00£25.29Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels. Now Gabaldon serves up The Outlandish Companion, Volume Two, an all-new guide to Books 5-8 in the series: A Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo... -
The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man by Max Luthi
£13.41In this major work by the distinguished Swiss folklorist Max Luthi, the traditional fairytale is examined from two related points of view, that of aesthetics and that of anthropology. Luthi shows that fairytales are more than just a pleasing form; they... -
Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran
RRP: £22.99£20.16Interdisciplinarity covers one of the most important changes in attitude and methodology in the history of the university.Taking the study of English as its main example, this fully updated second edition examines the ways in which we have organized... -
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts by Blake Scott Ball
RRP: £27.99£23.61Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts... -
The Politics of Postmodernism by Linda Hutcheon 9780415280167
RRP: £35.99£31.69This classic text remains one of the clearest and most incisive introductions to postmodernism. Perhaps more importantly, it is a compelling discussion of why postmodernism matters. Working through the issue of representation in art forms from fiction to... -
The Outlandish Companion Volume 1 by Diana Gabaldon 9781780894935
£20.08Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels. In this beautifully illustrated compendium, Diana Gabaldon opens a door through the standing stones and offers a guided tour of what lies within... -
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780198835325
RRP: £9.99£7.11'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life... -
Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy Binns
£8.91Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known as "the invisible man of science fiction". He redefined the genre with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich... -
How to Read a Diary: Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers by Desiree Henderson
RRP: £25.99£22.63How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary writing. Grounded in examples from around the globe and from across history, this book explores the provocative questions... -
English Language and Literature for the IB Diploma by Lindsay Sarah Tandy
£52.05Developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (R)Everything you need to deliver a rich, concept-based approach for the new IB Diploma English Language and Literature course.- Navigate seamlessly through all aspects of the syllabus with... -
The 100 Best Books Children's Books by Brian Alderson 9781903385982
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385982Author Brian AldersonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212g -
The Invisible Spy: by Eliza Haywood by Carol Stewart 9781138235557
RRP: £39.99£35.46Interest in the work of Eliza Haywood has increased greatly over the last two decades. Though much scholarship is focused on her 'scandalous' early career, this critical edition of The Invisible Spy (1755) adds to the canon of her later, more... -
The Road to Serfdom by David Linden
RRP: £6.50£6.11Friedrich Hayek's 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics - which saw the threat of fascism from Nazi Germany and its allies beguilingly answered by the...