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Dublin Tales by Helen Constantine 9780192855558
RRP: £12.99£9.09Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: £14.99£11.35An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in... -
Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach
RRP: £22.00£16.97This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the... -
Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination by Michael McGillen 9781501772825
RRP: £25.99£22.49Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of time-beyond those of historicism and... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691234533
RRP: £12.99£8.87Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life-and how he might guide yours, tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie-Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title... -
You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures by Alan Cumming
RRP: £19.95£15.25If you were to put David Sedaris and Glenn O'Brien in a blender and add a dash of New York and Hollywood gossip, you would wind up with Alan Cumming. Described by Time magazine as one of the most fun people in show business, Cumming is a... -
Weird Realism - Lovecraft and Philosophy Graham Harman 9781780992525
RRP: £14.99£13.03As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative... -
Not Me by Eileen Myles
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936756677Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9780674022225
RRP: £18.95£15.37Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the... -
Philip Larkin by Laurence Lerner 9780746311370
RRP: £18.69£17.08Philip Larkin is one of the finest English poets of our time. His poetic personality - nostalgic, wry, melancholy, ironic, witty and haunting - has appealed to a far wider audience than that of literary specialists, while also winning the respect of... -
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman 9780198861386
RRP: £8.99£6.45'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.' One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature,... -
The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies Greg Harvey (Mind Over Media, Point Reyes Station, California) 9780764541865
RRP: £14.99£9.80J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian - have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century. And the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter... -
The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels by Anthony Gary Brown 9780786493852
RRP: £21.99£18.37Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their... -
Critical Essays – Volume 1, 1944–1948 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £22.99£19.73This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path... -
A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £5.00£4.42Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian... -
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Susan Bernofsky
RRP: £14.99£13.03The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator Finalist for the 2021 NBCC Award for Biography "[An] authoritative, moving biography. . . . Walser made of his... -
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today by Professor Nick Groom
RRP: £20.00£13.86'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... -
Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction Robert J. C. Young (Wadham College, Oxford) 9781405120944
RRP: £33.95£30.98This seminal work-now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface-is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory. Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire,... -
Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome by Julian Lovelock 9780718894368
RRP: £23.50£17.84In 1929, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), a journalist and war correspondent who was on the books of MI6, turned his hand to writing adventure stories for children. The result was Swallows and Amazons and eleven more wonderful books followed, spanning in... -
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom
RRP: £16.99£9.37This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This is a book... -
The Rabbits by A. A. Milne 9781788424592
RRP: £9.99£6.75The adventures of a group of friends, pre-war, with far too much time on their hands. The Rabbits, as they call themselves, are Archie Mannering, his sister Myra, Samuel Simpson, Thomas of the Admiralty, Dahlia Blair and the narrator, with occasional... -
Beckett and Nothing: Trying to Understand Beckett by Daniela Caselli 9780719087844
RRP: £19.99£17.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen by Potter
RRP: £25.00£21.19This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words. Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the... -
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All by Gregory Bassham 9780812695458
RRP: £21.99£16.66"The Lord of the Rings" is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in... -
Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1918 by Volker Weidermann
RRP: £12.99£8.56At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. ... -
Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time by Paul Maher, Jr. 9781589796874
RRP: £30.00£21.35Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as... -
C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935–1947 by Mark A. Noll 9781514007006
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514007006Author Mark A. NollFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm -
The Great War and the Language of Modernism by Vincent Sherry 9780195178180
RRP: £37.49£27.31With the expressions "Lost Generation" and "The Men of 1914," the major authors of modernism designated the overwhelming effect the First World War exerted on their era. Literary critics have long employed the same phrases in an... -
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness Patrick Wright 9781913462581
RRP: £20.00£14.35Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent... -
Leabhar na hAthghabhala: Poems of Repossession by Louis de Paor
RRP: £30.00£17.88This is the first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. It forms a sequel to Sean O Tuama and Thomas Kinsella's pioneering anthology, An Duanaire 1600-1900 / Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), but features... -
The Novels of Rex Warner: An Introduction by N H Reeve 9780312037031
£91.50This critical introduction to Warner's writings aims to rehabilitate them from neglect by discussing the development of his ideas and their problematic relationship with the fictional forms through which he articulated them - a relationship which deepens... -
The Avengers by Stan Lee
RRP: £25.00£17.95Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesStarting in 1961, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and their collaborators transformed the superhero genre with a series... -
Enid Blyton: A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder
RRP: £17.99£15.36This book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton's business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of... -
A Point of View by Clive James
RRP: £10.99£7.93From the fierce and funny Clive James, this is Britain in the twenty-first century - from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, and from Britain's Got Talent to contemporary art.Between 2007 and 2009, Clive James wrote and presented A Point of View for BBC... -
El Camino by Miguel Delibes by Jeremy S. Squires 9780719080562
RRP: £30.00£26.95Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing... -
'Love Me or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes by Graham Saunders 9780719059568
RRP: £19.99£17.82Blasted brought Sarah Kane to the theatre pages of the broadsheets, the front pages of the tabloids, and to the notice of the nation. Covers all Kane's major plays and productions, contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691144733
RRP: £20.00£15.89When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no... -
Three Plays by Mae West: Sex, The Drag and Pleasure Man by Lillian Schlissel 9780415909334
RRP: £35.99£32.32Mae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversial figures of her era. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer. In Three Plays By Mae West, Lillian Schlissel brings this underexplored part of West's career to... -
George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality by Peter Brian Barry 9780197627402
RRP: £19.99£17.13George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell's... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: £12.99£9.09'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places...