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The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
RRP: £30.00£19.80In 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... -
Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker
RRP: £14.99£9.80The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker's new book traces the... -
Essays On The Art Of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror by Lorna Sage
RRP: £12.99£3.51Go out and get Carter. Get all her fiction, all her fact.' Ali Smith This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. Here her fellow writers, along with an impressive company of critics, disuss the novels, stories and... -
The Monster Theory Reader by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
£27.50A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning-across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time-from foundational texts to the most recent contributions Zombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons,... -
12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £12.99£8.60When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or... -
Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa
£12.64Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author's use of 'rotten English' - a mixture of Nigerian pidgin... -
Beowulf: Revised Edition by Michael Swanton 9780719051463
£9.74New, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life.. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem.. Explanatory notes drawing on archaeological sources.. Prose... -
Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £40.00£27.68In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he was received into the Church of... -
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of The Railway Children by Eleanor Fitzsimons
£14.21A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Rubery Book Award 2020 (Non Fiction) Edith Nesbit is considered the inventor of the children's adventure story and her brilliant children's books influenced bestselling authors including C.S... -
Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life by Kenneth Gross 9780226309583
RRP: £20.00£19.40The puppet can entertain or terrify, evoke the innocence of childhood, or become a magical entity, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets are often creepy things, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this... -
Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World by Claudia Benthien
£21.80"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth": metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations-tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more-proliferate in Western culture... -
Victor Hugo by Bradley Stephens 9781789140842
RRP: £12.99£9.09Victor Hugo (1802-85) is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic campaign against artistic tradition and defying the... -
Modernism: A Cultural History by Tim Armstrong 9780745629834
£17.13The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres... -
Revolution in Poetic Language by Julia Kristeva
£23.29The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, pyschoanalystic, philisophical, and literary theories and criticisms of such.The linking of psychosomatic to... -
Samuel Johnson: The Yale Anthology of His Prose and Poetry by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £32.50£29.15An anthology of the essential and enduring works of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent man of letters-moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet-and his influence endures to this day. This... -
Selected Letters by John Keats 9780199555734
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?' Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development and sout-making. They represent one of the most... -
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience by Alexander Etkind 9780745651309
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of... -
Autobibliography by Rob Doyle
RRP: £12.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750524Author Rob DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas 9781781258682
RRP: £12.99£9.09Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of... -
Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780801491856
RRP: £30.95£22.23This dazzling book is at once an indispensable guide to Stevens's poetic canon and a significant addition to the literature on the American Romantic movement. It gives authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences of Stevens and deals at... -
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi
RRP: £33.99£30.00What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and... -
Stigmata: Escaping Texts by Helene Cixous 9780415345453
RRP: £16.99£15.22A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Helene Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a... -
Infinite Conversation by Maurice Blanchot 9780816619702
£26.90In this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Western thought and have influenced virtually all the themes that inflect the contemporary literary and... -
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
RRP: £14.99£10.95Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself... -
I Saw Ramallah by Muraid Barghauthai
RRP: £17.00£11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032662Author Mourid BarghoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey 9780300273021
RRP: £10.99£9.37A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews-amassed over a lifetime of writing In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times. In a career... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
£16.29A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Su Fielder 9780198419556
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,... -
Criticism: Ideas in Profile by Catherine Belsey 9781781254509
£7.40Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics At the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a poem, a play, a painting, a novel or a piano concerto, we are acting as critics,... -
Steppenwolf Tpb by H. Hesse
RRP: £18.99£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312278670Author H. HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba
RRP: £28.99£25.09Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates... -
Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture by Leslie Howsam
£20.84Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus... -
Against the Grain: Selected Essays by Terry Eagleton 9780860918417
RRP: £19.95£14.63These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences.Eagleton's combative... -
Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England by Elizabeth L. Swann
RRP: £29.99£27.40Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth... -
The Diary of Anne Clifford 1616-1619: A Critical Edition by Katherine O. Acheson 9780367149130
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1995, this book contains a full version of The Diary of Anne Clifford, alongisde an introduction and textual notes. Anne Clifford left one of the most extensive autobiographical records of the seventeenth century and, it was first... -
Ustinov Still at Large by Peter Ustinov 9780879759674
£13.64"I wish to cause no pain, except where it is deserved." -- Peter Ustinov The legendary Peter Ustinov was one of the world's most versatile and talented contributors to the arts. Ustinov's talents were widely demonstrated both in print and on... -
Critical Essays – Volume 1, 1944–1948 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.99£19.73This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path... -
Who's Who in Dickens by Professor Donald Hawes
RRP: £19.99£17.69Who's Who in Dickens is an accessible guide to the many characters in Charles Dickens' fiction. Dickens' characters are strikingly portrayed and have become a vital part of our cultural heritage - Scrooge has become a by-word for stinginess, Uriah Heep... -
Fictionality by Karen Petroski 9780367752293
RRP: £19.99£17.69Does fiction enhance reality, or threaten our sense of what is real? What, if anything, is special about experiencing fictional works and worlds? Today we speak casually of parallel universes and virtual reality; how much do we really know about what...