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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $9.85'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... -
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9780140449266
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.82The 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... -
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading Sam Leith 9780861548187
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.34'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest... -
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9780141392462
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.57A 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... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780198837756
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $9.73'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... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9780198804970
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $10.45"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... -
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780393979084
Booksplease Price: $24.61This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskell's 1850... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.41By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His... -
Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $7.33With 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... -
Jane Eyre: York Notes for AS & A2 Karen Sayer 9781447948834
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.40THE 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 very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy... -
The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde by Peter Raby
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $48.17The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the... -
Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.26Poet, 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 Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry by Christopher R. Miller 9780521123495
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $66.75Lyric poetry has long been considered an art form of timelessness, but Romantic poets became fascinated by one time above all others: evening, the threshold between day and night. Christopher R. Miller investigates the cultural background of this... -
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy 9780333294413
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $83.56One 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... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.22Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy... -
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.68`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). ... -
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums by Jillian M. Hess 9780192896070
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $43.04Every 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... -
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.38A 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... -
Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $7.78Booksplease Price: $6.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486401461Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 55gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an... -
The Woman Reader 1837-1914 by Kate Flint 9780198121855
RRP: $96.51Booksplease Price: $81.88Why was the topic of women and reading so controversial for the Victorians and Edwardians? What was it assumed that women read, and what advice was given about where, when, and how to read? Kate Flint examines texts ranging from fiction, painting, and... -
Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $26.48A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great... -
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books Clare Pollard 9780241354797
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.52What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits explores the stories behind our favourite picture books, weaving in tales of... -
Marcel Proust by Michael Wood
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.31A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself writing about Proust's work as an event and... -
Bronze Horseman by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9781853995750
Booksplease Price: $46.62This last and most brilliant narrative poem by Russia's greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin, should form an essential part of all courses in Russian literature. It combines praise of Peter the Great and his city of St Petersburg with a dramatic account of... -
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 by James Walter McFarlane
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.22An 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 9780140138320Author James McFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays by William Hazlitt
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.93William 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. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and... -
John Keats by John Barnard 9780521318068
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $52.65This book offers a revaluation of Keats' major poetry. It reveals how Keats' work is both an oblique criticism of the dominant attitudes to literature, sexuality, religion and politics in his period, and a powerful critique of the claims of the... -
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $22.13Beginning 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 American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy... -
My Childhood by Maxim Gorky 9780140182859
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.68Coloured 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 paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old... -
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 9780140435122
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.82'A revelation ... as well as being sympathetic to the plight of children, it is hilarious' A. N. WilsonThe hero of Dickens's flamboyantly exuberant novel, Nicholas Nickleby, is left penniless after his father's death and forced to make his own way in the... -
Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence by Valerie L. Gager 9780521031516
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.11Shakespeare and Dickens, first published in 1996, traces Dickens' own interest in Shakespeare from childhood, not only through his own reading and performance but also through numerous theatrical, literary and artistic sources. The book proceeds to... -
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.21Tomcat 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 Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate... -
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes 9780007204571
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.27Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. 'Coleridge: Early Visions' is the first part of Holmes's... -
A. Mary F. Robinson: Victorian Poet and Modern Woman of Letters by Patricia Rigg
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $52.49Born in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed to cultural and literary currents from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was equally at home in London and Paris and prolific in both English and French... -
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth 9780199682133
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.34'It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.' Maria Edgeworth's 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life... -
Rilke: The Life of the Work by Dr Charlie Louth 9780198885559
RRP: $61.41Booksplease Price: $53.82The life of Rilke's work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the life unfolding in Rilke's words over the course of his career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us as we read? What does reading involve? These are questions of the... -
Herman Melville by Kevin J. Hayes 9781780238074
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.25American novelist and poet Herman Melville is considered by many to be the finest author his nation has produced. Born in New York in 1819, he achieved recognition as a leader of world literature with his daring stylistic innovations, and his masterpiece... -
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses by Paula Byrne 9780008322250
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.50A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most... -
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 9780393264883
Booksplease Price: $25.94The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This edition also includes: biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the fourth edition, those by Jon Spence (Becoming...