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An Inspector Calls: Essay Writing Guide for GCSE (9-1) by Accolade Press 9781913988012
RRP: £10.99£7.04Apologies 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 *... -
What Am I Still Doing Here?: My Life as Me by Roger Lewis
RRP: £10.99£6.47'Unremittingly glorious. I and the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table demanding it until we are satisfied.'Stephen FryLoveable... Dreadful... Amazing... Learned... Baroque... Exquisite... Utterly wonderful... Uplifting..... -
Sylvia Plath: A Very Short Introduction Prof Heather Clark 9780198841470
RRP: £8.99£6.61Sylvia 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... -
The Connell Short Guide To Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot by Sophie Ratcliffe 9781907776786
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776786Author Sophie RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd
RRP: £16.99£12.28Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary,... -
Harold Pinter: Faber Critical Guide by Bill Naismith
RRP: £12.99£8.56Do you want to know why Harold Pinter is a figure of such influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Or do you teach Pinter and need a reliable guide to the plays? The Faber Critical... -
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
RRP: £10.99£7.77Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up the old culture in search of something new and more... -
Paterson by William Carlos Williams
RRP: £13.99£11.95Paterson is both a place-the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr... -
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £10.99£7.77A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of... -
Northland Stories by Jack London 9780140189964
£11.20Like the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as they conftont the merciless frozen expanses of the north. Yet London breaks free of stereotypical figures... -
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster 9780141441696
RRP: £9.99£7.11E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
RRP: £9.99£7.11A 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... -
Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Skirrid Hill Luke McBratney 9781471853982
RRP: £12.50£11.84Exam 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;... -
Study and Revise for AS/A-level: The Handmaid's Tale by Nicola Onyett
RRP: £12.50£11.84Exam Board: AQA A, AQA B, OCR, EdexcelLevel: 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;... -
Dylan Thomas: A New Life by Andrew Lycett
RRP: £14.99£9.80The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n' roll' lifestyle as his artistic workDylan Thomas was a romantic and controversial figure; a poet who lived to excess and died young. An inventive genius with a gift for... -
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
RRP: £10.99£7.32'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else... -
Framing Narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939-2009: New Readings by Margaret Atack
RRP: £25.00£17.92The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles published every year - Irene Nemirovsky's Suite francaise and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, both... -
Fantastic Four by Stan Lee 9780143135838
RRP: £25.00£18.88Illustrated 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... -
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry
RRP: £12.99£9.09A 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... -
One True Sentence: Writers & Readers in Pursuit of Hemingway's Art by Mark Cirino
RRP: £19.99£13.56A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula... -
The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot by John Xiros Cooper 9780521547598
RRP: £19.99£17.13T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to... -
W. H. Auden: A Commentary by John Fuller
RRP: £25.00£16.99Now available for the first time in paperback, John Fuller's Commentary is a compendious yet condensed reference work dealing with all of Auden's writings. For every poem, play or libretto, Fuller encapsulates the publishing history, paraphrases... -
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99£7.11Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
RRP: £10.99£7.12'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An... -
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh 9781910463291
RRP: £8.99£6.20The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and engaging, and ultimately deeply emotional, The Perfect Stranger is the story of a soldier, a poet and a husband... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: £16.99£13.16The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one... -
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection by Richard Lansdown
RRP: £16.99£12.68Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful... -
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything by Claire Harman 9781529918342
RRP: £10.99£7.77** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and... -
Junglist Two Fingas 9781913462505
RRP: £10.99£7.40Back in print after two decades, Junglist tells the compelling, comic, stream-of-consciousness story of four young Black men coming of age among the raves and Jungle music scene in London during the 1990s. Layered with poetic verse, prose and... -
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today by Professor Nick Groom 9781838957001
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Fascinating.... Wonderfully exhilarating.' Mail on SundayFinalist for The Tolkien Society Best Book AwardAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than... -
China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 by Chris Murray 9780198767015
RRP: £88.00£79.80Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel narratives, ancient Greece and Rome lent interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to Britain's information on the Middle Kingdom... -
Colette: My Literary Mother Michèle Roberts 9780192858214
RRP: £18.99£16.32The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps,... -
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine by Nicholas Royle 9781526173638
RRP: £15.99£11.80In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves deeply into questions about the value of art, music... -
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Drama And The Kamiriithu Popular Theater Experiment by Niyi Afolabi 9781592213429
RRP: £34.95£22.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213429Author Niyi AfolabiFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 506g -
Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War Catherine Reilly 9781844082254
RRP: £9.99£6.80Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart' wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new generation of the bitter sufferings of women as well as men... -
And Still I Rise by Dr Maya Angelou
RRP: £10.99£7.40A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am... -
The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
RRP: £24.99£21.78The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the... -
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 7, The Twentieth Century and Beyond by Andrew Nash 9781009010474
RRP: £29.99£28.40The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in Britain. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a range... -
Modernism: An Anthology Lawrence Rainey (University of York) 9780631204497
RRP: £39.95£36.64Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published. Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore,... -
Seamus Heaney's Regions by Richard Rankin Russell 9780268040369
RRP: £45.00£39.58Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded,...