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The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine
RRP: £24.99£22.07Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulistsTold in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express... -
An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man 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 Nigel Smith 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 Fan's Notes by The Estate Of Frederick Exley
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a goddam football game! You won't always get the girl! Life is rejection and pain and loss...'A Fan's Notes - the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure. Our narrator is the ultimate unreconstructed... -
An Analysis of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man Ruth Jackson 9781912127290
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... -
The Oxford Book of Letters by Frank Kermode 9780192804907
RRP: £26.99£22.37Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into their lives, and it is partly the guilty pleasure we take in such literary eavesdropping that makes this volume so compelling. More than 300... -
Deceived With Kindness Angelica Garnett 9780712662666
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... -
The Battles of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: £16.99£12.28The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's works are punctuated by dramatic and explosive battles. Men versus Orcs, Elves versus Sauron, Goblins versus Dwarves - the history of Middle-earth has seen some of the greatest characters pitted against each other... -
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... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9780300106541
£6.22The 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... -
Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide by Tory Young 9780521690140
RRP: £22.99£19.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
An Analysis of David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years Sulaiman Hakemy 9781912128792
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 Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
RRP: £12.99£8.48Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. In this paperback of the landmark biography,... -
Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust: Volume 4 by Evelyn Waugh 9780198703150
RRP: £110.00£109.56Evelyn 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... -
The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics by Arthur W. Frank
RRP: £19.00£16.20Since it was first published in 1995, "The Wounded Storyteller" has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent... -
An Analysis of Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts Emmanouil Kalkanis 9781912453894
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... -
Oxford Literature Companions: Der Besuch der alten Dame by Rene Koglbauer
£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... -
Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood by Gwen Raverat
RRP: £10.99£7.32This new edition celebrates the 65th anniversary of the publication of Period Piece, which has never been out of print. Period Piece is the classic memoir of a Cambridge childhood, written by Charles Darwin's granddaughter. It evokes a time when long... -
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... -
An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? Graham Riach 9781912127504
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... -
The Trial Of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford
RRP: £5.99£4.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970979Author Sybille BedfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 108g -
The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye
RRP: £11.99£10.94Addressed to educators and general readers-the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life-this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the... -
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £10.99£7.77WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's... -
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism Adrian Gill 9781474605175
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... -
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... -
The Art of Writing English Literature Essays: For A-level and beyond by Neil Bowen 9780993077845
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077845Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 322g -
The Maias by Eca de Queiroz 9781910213445
RRP: £17.99£14.89Apologies 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... -
William Shakespeare's Othello: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Andrew Hadfield 9780415227346
RRP: £19.99£17.69William Shakespeare's Othello (1601-2) has delighted and disturbed theatre audiences for the past four centuries, and remains one of the most frequently performed and widely studied of his plays. This volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing... -
A/AS Level English Literature A for AQA Student Book Russell Carey 9781107467927
£30.69A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 A Level English qualifications. Approved by AQA, this print Student Book is suitable for all abilities, providing stretch opportunities for the more able and additional scaffolding... -
The Haunting Of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: £10.99£6.47Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy... -
Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: £35.00£31.74Beginning 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... -
Haiku and Modernist Poetics by Dr Yoshinobu Hakutani 9780230616554
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics. This study shows that the most pervasive East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times... -
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 ... -
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson
RRP: £16.99£15.22In this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. At the time Jameson was actually writing the book, in the mid to late seventies, there was a major reaction against... -
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Margaret Atwood 9780747598718
RRP: £9.99£7.11In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is... -
Jean-Paul Sartre Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) 9780415435659
RRP: £19.99£17.69A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre's thought in context, and considers a number... -
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £30.00£21.35Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries. What does it mean to be English? This dazzling book... -
Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism by Lauren Fournier
RRP: £31.00£21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544887Author Lauren FournierFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Villette by Charlotte Bronte 9780199536658
RRP: £8.99£6.45'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.' George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
RRP: £20.00£14.29Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L...