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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $6.66'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw... -
William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.41'Fascinating' The Times'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary SupplementPoet, artist, visionary... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9780198804970
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.00"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her... -
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9780140449266
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.42The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translationThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on... -
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis by Katherine McKittrick
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.72The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations... -
Corinne: or Italy by Madame De Stael
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.90`Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.' Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in... -
The Dark Enlightenment - Imperium Press by Nick Land 9781922602688
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922602688Author Nick LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 7mm -
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.65A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology' The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement' Daily Telegraph'An exhilarating feat, it takes its... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780198837756
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.44'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... -
My Bum is SO CHEEKY! (PB) by Dawn McMillan 9780702313783 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $2.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.31This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The... -
Virginia Woolf "The Hours. the British Museum Manuscript of _Mrs. Dalloway_ by Helen M Wussow 9781935625018
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $62.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625018Author Helen M WussowFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm)... -
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9780141392462
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.63A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Chateau d'If. There he learns... -
Galatea by John Lyly
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.08Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch, Galatea might be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a world engaged in a process of change, the characters find themselves locked in a series of transgressive situations that speak... -
The Joyce of Everyday Life Vicki Mahaffey 9781684485260
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.77Part of James Joyce's genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, "a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they... -
The Merchant Of Venice: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.22The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The play was described as a comedy in the First Folio but its modern audiences find it more problematic to... -
Fantastic Four by Stan Lee 9780143135838
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.23Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroeshroughout the 1960s, the Fantastic Four was both the flagship title and the creative laboratory of the Marvel... -
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.28With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran.Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this... -
ReQuiem Por Un Campesino EspanOl by Ramon J. Sender
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.61"Requiem per un campesino espanol" was first published under the title Mosen Millan in Coleccion Aquelarre,Mexico, 1953. The present text follows the first Spanish edition published by Destino, Barcelona, 1974, which bears a few minor variants, mainly in... -
Hamlet: A Critical Reader by Ann Thompson 9781472571373
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.10Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.04A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics.For Gertrude Stein... -
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare ? by James Shapiro
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.58For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been... -
King Richard III: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436899
Booksplease Price: $14.55Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles. James R Siemon examines the attraction of this villain to audiences and focuses on how beguiling, even funny, he can be, especially in the earlier parts of the play. Siemon also... -
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
Booksplease Price: $10.24Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a work that is ever... -
Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.77Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection... -
The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world by Joseph Hone 9781784744670
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.34'Absolutely fascinating . . . A must-read for anyone enthralled by the value and integrity of books' Janice Hallett, author of The Alperton AngelsA true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers: the literary crime that fooled... -
The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241182611
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.60Learn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare 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 the works of... -
A Level English Text Guide - Hamlet by CGP Books
RRP: $10.97Booksplease Price: $10.00This book contains everything you need to write better A-Level and Undergraduate English essays on William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', all presented in a helpful and entertaining way to make study and revision easier. There are clear notes on the... -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Booksplease Price: $9.43Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this... -
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9780333294413
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $55.28One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later... -
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.40`Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). ... -
Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Skirrid Hill Luke McBratney 9781471853982
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.42Exam Board: AQA A, WJEC, WJEC EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion;... -
The Unforgivable Cristina Campo 9781681378022
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378022Author Cristina CampoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
An Inspector Calls: Essay Writing Guide for GCSE (9-1) by Accolade Press 9781913988012
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913988012Author Accolade PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Accolade PressPublisher Accolade PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums by Jillian M. Hess 9780192896070
RRP: $29.01Booksplease Price: $24.50Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept... -
Formula C1 Advanced Coursebook and Interactive eBook with Key with Digital Resources & App by Pearson Education 9781292391489
RRP: $47.98Booksplease Price: $40.17Formula is our new three-level Cambridge English exampreparation series for teens and young adults. It works equally well for bothextensive and intensive courses and covers B1 Preliminary, B2 First, and C1Advanced levels. Using Pearson's... -
My Ear at His Heart by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.48'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' EsquireAmongst a batch of papers, Hanif Kureishi discovered an abandoned manuscript - a novel, written by his... -
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.86A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was... -
Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: $45.78Booksplease Price: $44.39In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has... -
Sylvia Plath: A Very Short Introduction Prof Heather Clark 9780198841470
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.02Sylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of work that changed the direction of modern poetry, and...