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Tennyson: A Selected Edition by Christopher Ricks 9781405832823
RRP: £39.99£39.54This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson's poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson. The collection contains in full all four of... -
Writing for Wellbeing: Theory, Research, and Practice by Katrin Den Elzen 9781032163147
RRP: £36.99£32.53Writing can support our wellbeing even under the most difficult life circumstances, helping us to adapt to significant change, make sense of loss, improve our physical and emotional resilience, and foster personal growth. Numerous studies of Expressive... -
Middle English Romances in Translation: Amis and Amiloun Athelston Floris and Blancheflor Havelok the Dane King Horn Sir Degare by Kenneth Eckert 9789088903397
RRP: £40.00£37.66The popular romances of medieval England are fantasy stories of love at first sight; brave knights seeking adventure; evil stewards; passionate, lusty women; hand-to-hand combat; angry dragons; and miracles. They are not only fun but indicate a great... -
Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: £22.99£19.60Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park.We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating... -
The Wiley Guide to Writing Essays About Literature by Paul Headrick 9781118571231
RRP: £25.95£22.60This outstanding practical guide to writing analytical essays on literature develops interpretive skills through focused exercises and modeled examples. The program is tailored to meet the specific needs of beginning undergraduates. Features unique,... -
Introducing Swedenborg: 2021 by Peter Ackroyd 9780854482207
RRP: £8.95£5.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482207Author Peter AckroydFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg SocietyWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)... -
The End of History and the Last Man by Ian Jackson 9781912127917
RRP: £6.50£6.11Francis Fukuyama's controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama's work, the... -
The Poems of Andrew Marvell by Andrew Marvell 9781405832830
RRP: £39.99£38.94Little known as a poet in his own time, Andrew Marvell (1621-78) was a patriotic politician and champion of religious toleration during the Restoration. Although long celebrated for the great love lyric, To His Coy Mistress, the last century has seen his... -
A Sort Of Life by Graham Greene
RRP: £9.99£7.11Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters... -
The Abolition of Man by Ruth Jackson
RRP: £6.50£6.11C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy - and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality... -
Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: £40.00£35.32Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway's patron saint. Once found in most homes and schools and still... -
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £11.99£10.15A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full... -
Slide Rule by Nevil Shute Norway
RRP: £9.99£7.11Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at... -
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal by Christopher Eagle 9780367867782
RRP: £39.99£35.06Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is... -
One Hundred Miracles: Music, Auschwitz, Survival and Love by Zuzana Ruzickova
RRP: £10.99£7.77The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian... -
Deceived With Kindness by Angelica Garnett
RRP: £9.99£7.11Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself, naturally enough, the daughter of Vanessa's husband Clive. Her... -
Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes 9780571174263
RRP: £20.00£13.46Ted Hughes has written a series of pieces on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath; and on his deep-rooted concern over education, the environment and the arts.About the AuthorTed Hughes (1930-1998)... -
In the Spirit of Spark: The Muriel Spark Society Lecture by Ali Smith
RRP: £4.99£3.60In November 2017 Ali Smith gave the annual Muriel Spark Lecture to kick off the Muriel Spark centenary celebrations. Those lucky enough to get tickets were treated to an invigorating, joyous call-and-response between two of our best writers, both... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9780300106541
£6.35The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist "To be able to read Macbeth with the eye of one of our profession's top linguists and scholars is a treat for the heart as well... -
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre by Naomi Conn Liebler 9780415131834
RRP: £37.99£33.38Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and King Lear as `sacrifical victims of the prevailing social... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9780312463182
£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312463182Author Mary ShelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning -
The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses by Harry Blamires 9780415138581
RRP: £43.99£38.44Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have... -
Debt: The First 5000 Years by Sulaiman Hakemy
RRP: £6.50£6.11Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of generating profit and exerting control, is central to grasping the way in which our society really works... -
The European Folktale: Form and Nature by Max Luthi
RRP: £15.99£13.92"Niles' excellent translation should bring Luthi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." -Library JournalLuthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important... -
The Oxford Book of Death by D. J. Enright
RRP: £10.99£7.77The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside... -
The Empty Shield: A Decision by Giacomo Donis
RRP: £12.99£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477920Author Giacomo DonisFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 501gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence 9780345466273
RRP: £7.99£5.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345466273Author Jerome LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust: Volume 4 by Evelyn Waugh 9780198703150
RRP: £102.50£102.18Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust (1934) is often thought to be among his best novels. It is a darkly bitter account of the end of a marriage, its causes and its effects. Waugh wrote the book with half an eye on his own recent experience of the break-up... -
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
RRP: £11.99£10.15An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Sumana Roy has written-grown-a radiant and... -
Writers and Their Mothers by Dale Salwak 9783319683478
RRP: £19.50£16.05Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and... -
The Maias by Eca de Queiroz 9781910213445
RRP: £15.99£13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize 2008 and The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781910213445Author Eca de QueirozFormat... -
Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts by Emmanouil Kalkanis
RRP: £6.50£6.11Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts is considered a key work in art history. Its ideas have provoked widespread debate, and although it was first published more than sixty years ago, it continues to feature regularly on numerous university... -
Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £20.00£13.86In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote:... -
Can the Subaltern Speak? by Graham Riach
RRP: £6.50£6.11A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) is that they have no platform to express their concerns and no voice to... -
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism by Adrian Gill
RRP: £9.99£6.80'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber'A golden writer' Andrew MarrA. A. Gill was rightly hailed as one of the greatest journalists of our time. This selection of some of his recent pieces, which he made himself before his... -
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
RRP: £12.99£9.70Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country... -
The History of the Hobbit: One Volume Edition by John D. Rateliff
RRP: £35.00£24.36In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and... -
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
RRP: £9.99£7.11Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is Christy Brown's own story. He... -
Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester 9780099478720
RRP: £12.99£9.09If you love Georgette Heyer, 'the queen of Regency romance', this is a must-read: the definitive guide to the sparkling world of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels, which are currently being reissued.A bestselling novelist since 1921, Georgette Heyer is... -
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays by Jenny Diski
RRP: £10.99£7.77Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism 'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times 'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise' Emilia Clarke ...