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The Complete English Poems by John Donne
RRP: £14.99£11.35Donne created new forms of lyric, satire, elegiac and religious verse, and his independence of view, compact manner of expression encompassing conflicting moods, impassioned paradox, outbreaks of cynicism and wry humour make his work particularly... -
Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd
RRP: £16.99£12.28Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary,... -
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £25.00£18.02Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary... -
Twelfth Night: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436998
RRP: £8.99£8.39Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of critical debate surrounding gender and sexuality. The... -
Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
RRP: £20.00£14.58Enjoy a whole year of the very finest nature writing, with one carefully selected piece to savour every day. This beautifully illustrated daily anthology brings you the very best of nature writing from around the world and through the centuries, from... -
An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth Riley Quinn 9781912128532
RRP: £6.50£6.11Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies - the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world. Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon... -
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill Adrian Gill 9781474617383
RRP: £9.99£6.80A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated every page. This second collection of his journalism brings together pieces from... -
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach 9780803260979
RRP: £16.99£12.40"Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all."-Janet Flanner, New YorkerSylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with... -
Writing The Future by Dan Coxon 9781915368027
RRP: £9.99£6.80For as long as humans have existed, they have asked: What if? Science fiction was a defining genre of the postwar era, and its current boom across books, film and TV shows no sign of slowing. Space ships, time travel, aliens and artificial... -
Beloved by Laura Gray 9780582414600 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.80Key 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... -
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather Love 9780674032392
RRP: £25.95£20.64Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that... -
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: York Notes Advanced by Thomas Hardy 9781405807074 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.80York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York... -
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: York Notes Advanced by Thomas Hardy 9781405807074
RRP: £7.99£6.15York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York... -
Oxford Literature Companions: L'Etranger: study guide for AS/A Level French set text by Simon Kemp 9780198418344
£11.03Get 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... -
The Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath
RRP: £8.99£6.45World-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion: 'If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down'. The volume has received wide coverage, fuelled much passionate debate and caused... -
Alice's Adventures on the London Underground by Peter Lawrence 9781838463083
RRP: £12.99£11.95It's a cool July day. A young girl is tired of window-shopping in Oxford Street, when a white rabbit runs past her looking at his watch. "Oh dear! Oh dear! It's 3 o'clock already. I shall be too late!" Without thinking, she chases after the rabbit and... -
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide Al Alvarez 9780747559054
RRP: £16.99£12.28Using the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area of human behaviour: suicide. "The Savage God" explores the cultural attitudes, theories, truths and... -
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99£9.09Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit... -
The Art of Writing English Literature Essays: for A-level & Beyond by Neil Bowen 9780993077821
RRP: £22.99£18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077821Author Michael Bowen, Neil MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia Press -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780198837756
RRP: £6.99£4.52'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable... -
The Baton Rouge Interviews: with Edouard Glissant and Alexandre Leupin Kate M Cooper 9781789621303
RRP: £22.99£20.72This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant's thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences... -
Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity: by Edouard Glissant Celia Britton 9781789621297
RRP: £22.99£20.72This book reproduces the texts of four lectures, followed by discussions, and two interviews with Lise Gauvin published in Introduction a une poetique du divers (1996); and also four further interviews from L'Imaginaire des langues (Lise Gauvin, 2010). ... -
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell 9781844087686
RRP: £12.99£9.09Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail its relation to the extravagant, scandalous, and... -
Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: £22.00£17.36Since Gutenberg's time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine... -
El Publico by Lorca 9788437606729
£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437606729Author LorcaFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Catedra, S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra, S.A. -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939
RRP: £12.99£9.09Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social... -
The Sherlock Holmes Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241205914
RRP: £19.99£13.63Learn about the world's greatest detective in The Sherlock Holmes Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sherlock Holmes in this overview guide to the... -
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives by Edward Said 9780231114493
RRP: £28.00£23.62This book offers a searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at... -
Grace Nichols by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9780746309551
RRP: £18.69£13.33This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of border crossings. Nichols's major female protagonists... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780199536795
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer.' Atlantic Monthly The Iliad is the story of a few days' fighting in the tenth year of the legendary war between the Greeks and the Trojans, which broke out when... -
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £10.99£7.40By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACEWhat is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood... -
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center bell hooks 9780745316635
RRP: £24.99£16.38Feminist Theory established bell hooks as one of international feminism's most challenging and influential voices. This edition includes a preface by the author, reflecting on the book's impact and the development of her ideas since it was first... -
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
RRP: £10.00£6.71Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, renowned writer Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne... -
An Analysis of C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's The Core Competence of the Corporation The Macat Team 9781912127122
RRP: £6.50£6.11C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's 1990 The Core Competence of the Corporation helped redefine traditional ideas of management strategy. It did so by focusing companies on one of the key critical thinking skills: evaluation. In critical thinking, evaluation... -
An Analysis of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish Meghan Kallman 9781912127511
RRP: £6.50£6.11Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative thinkers - and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered models so useful to other scholars that the book now ranks among the most influential academic works ever... -
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £8.99£6.45Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to... -
2 Corinthians: A Handbook on the Greek Text by Fredrick J. Long 9781602587397
£44.68The Greek of 2 Corinthians is some of the most complex of any New Testament text, displaying Paul's full range of rhetorical strategies. Long's analysis of the soaring rhetoric locates Paul's letter within the first-century Mediterranean world, employing... -
Fiction in the Quantum Universe by Susan Strehle 9780807843659
RRP: £42.95£39.47In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert... -
Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 1: The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean by Fitz Hugh Ludlow 9780996639439
RRP: £32.00£23.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996639439Author Fitz Hugh LudlowFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974 by Gonda Van Steen 9780198718321
£98.82This volume offers a critique of cultural and intellectual life in Greece during the dictatorship of 1967-1974, discussing how Greek playwrights, directors, and actors reconceived the role of culture in a state of crisis and engaged with questions of...