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Modernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.34Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As... -
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $31.40This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from... -
A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse William Shakespeare 9780571233793
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70For this new edition, first published in 1971, Ted Hughes augmented his original selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches and completely rewrote his accompanying essay, intending to... -
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 by James Walter McFarlane
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophyBook InformationISBN... -
The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays by William Hazlitt
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.11William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets... -
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780199537006
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.75`she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.' North and South is... -
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire TomalinWinner of the Whitbread First Book PrizeWitty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby by Nicolas Tredell 9781874166672
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $47.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ulysses Annotated: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Gifford
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.22Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of "Ulysses". The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously... -
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Toibin
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24Colm Toibin's Lady Gregory's Toothbrush is a beautiful insight into the life of outspoken Irishwoman, Augusta Gregory.A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner,... -
Shakespeare's Macbeth by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776045Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Hamlet: York Notes for AS & A2 by Jeff Wood
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the... -
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 9781903436912
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.43This major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of... -
William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45'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... -
Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.48'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It... -
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis 9780099422228
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $18.88Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces... -
Poems by a Lady by Helen Craik 9781906841560
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $34.00The poetry of Helen Craik (1751–1825), Gothic novelist and friend of Robert Burns, was long thought lost. The rediscovery of her manuscript Poems by a Lady (1790), transcribed and annotated here for... -
The Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.74The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern... -
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.13***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft... -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.46'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like... -
Germinal by Emile Zola 9780199536894
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom... -
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney by Neil Corcoran
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.82Seamus Heaney's poetic career has been one of constant development and expansion, and his place among the world's greatest literary figures is universally acknowledged. When it first appeared in... -
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.83Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the... -
My Childhood by Maxim Gorky 9780140182859
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.28Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a... -
This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 9780747546016
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74The author of "The Barracks Thief" and "Hunters in the Snow" recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and... -
Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780199540495
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound... -
The Tragedy of Coriolanus: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics. The... -
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Professor Brian Cummings
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.53'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people,... -
A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays by Paul Allen
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64Do you belong to an amateur theatre group wanting to 'do an Ayckbourn'? Are you the Artistic Director of a professional theatre seeking to slot an Ayckbourn into next season? Are you a fan of... -
Diaries, 1942-1954 James Lees-Milne 9780719566813
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable diary he kept for most of his... -
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.12A comprehensive and authorised biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie covering books, films, TV and plays - revised and updated edition. Agatha Christie was the author of... -
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer... -
One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe by Monica Dickens 9780349016016
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE ' Humorous, moving and fascinating' CLARE MACKINTOSH... -
Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.75Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled... -
A Rose For Winter by Laurie Lee
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony,... -
Shakespeare Made Easy: Macbeth by Alan Durband
Booksplease Price: $31.84The full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of... -
The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850) by William Wordsworth
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its... -
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer... -
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"Hamlet": The Texts of 1603 and 1623 by William Shakespeare
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.28This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. As a companion to the Second Quarto volume, it will be of...