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In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781526171931
RRP: $42.00$30.51These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly... -
Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life by Jane McVeigh 9783030965105
RRP: $48.28$37.19Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction to Richmal Crompton's... -
The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie by Earl F. Bargainnier 9780879721596
RRP: $39.80$39.12This study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction - sixty-seven novels and more than one hundred short stories - is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishments as a writer. Bargainnier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly... -
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell 9780195133318
RRP: $59.83$48.85The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world. He explores the British... -
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II: North America 1894-1960 by Peter Brooker 9780198778424
$140.05The second of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of 'little magazines' which were so instrumental in... -
The Avengers by Stan Lee 9780143135784
RRP: $88.20$62.60Illustrated 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... -
Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction by Alice Hall 9781350180154
RRP: $41.98$36.98Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different... -
Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Professor Edward Mendelson 9780691172491
RRP: $67.20$54.10Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907-73), one of the greatest literary figures of the... -
J.d. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195896Author David StreitfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill by Jeffrey Wainwright 9780719067556
RRP: $41.98$36.98Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry 'recognises that words fail us'. These essays explore Hill's struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. This book seeks to show how all his work is marked by the quest for the right pitch... -
Autobiographies by W. B. Yeats 9780684853383
$49.92Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the... -
The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle by Colin Duriez
RRP: $23.08$16.32The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis's college rooms, they included an... -
Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets by Kenneth Paul Kramer 9781561012855
RRP: $31.48$24.21This exploration of T. S. Eliot's last major poem, Four Quartets, examines the poem's potential to transform readers' faith journeys. Kramer shows that the power of Four Quartets is its ability to create a dynamic interaction between the poem and the... -
The Transnational Beat Generation by Nancy M. Grace 9780230108417
RRP: $94.48$94.44This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the... -
Sweetly Sings Delaney: A Study of Shelagh Delaney's Work 1958-68 by John Harding 9781906075835
RRP: $31.48$28.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075835Author John HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Summary and Analysis of 1984: Based on the Book by George Orwell by Worth Books 9781504046800
RRP: $18.88$9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046800Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form by Paul K. Saint-Amour 9780190200954
RRP: $86.08$61.01Tense Future falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or predetermined by war. Part two shifts the focus... -
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay
RRP: $39.88$28.58In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 10: 1910-1940: The Modern Movement by Professor Chris Baldick 9780198183105
$216.05The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf by Jane Goldman 9780521547567
RRP: $50.38$39.98For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema,... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
RRP: $47.23$42.08This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we... -
Arabian Nights of 1934 Geoffrey O'brien 9781949597271
RRP: $48.30$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949597271Author Geoffrey O'brienFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova Press -
Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War by J. Silkin 9780333653999
RRP: $94.48$94.44The poetry of the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language. Unique for its immediacy and searing honesty, it has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding of and response to war and the suffering it creates... -
A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer by Oyama Shiro 9780801443756
RRP: $41.98$33.60San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood. After completing a... -
Samuel Beckett: Faber Critical Guide by John Fletcher
RRP: $20.98$14.07Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Beckett and need a reliable guide to his plays? A Faber... -
Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness by Stevan M. Weine 9781531502669
RRP: $58.78$46.60A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century. Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem "Howl" opens with one of the most resonant... -
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $18.88$13.55Published 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... -
C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction by James Como
RRP: $18.88$13.55Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene by John Parham
RRP: $50.38$42.78The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity's alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how... -
Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide by David Norris
RRP: $18.88$14.07James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as "Ulysses," but David Norris explores his life and work in this engaging and... -
A Thousand Laurie Lees: The Centenary Celebration of a Man and a Valley by Adam Horovitz
RRP: $27.28$20.20This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. It is about the spirit of the man and the spirit of a place. A Thousand Laurie Lees is a poetic reassessment of the Slad Valley, a memoir from a different age rooted in the same idyllic... -
Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture by Theresa M. Kelley 9781421405179
$110.57Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. Botany sits at the intersection where romantic scientific and literary... -
Madness, Language, Literature by Michel Foucault
RRP: $58.80$57.52Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less explicit... -
Multiple Joyce: 100 Short Essays About James Joyce's Cultural Legacy by David Collard
RRP: $41.98$27.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952386329Author David CollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 480g -
Irish Women Poets Rediscovered: Readings in poetry from the eighteenth-twentieth century by Maria Johnston 9781782054795
RRP: $73.50$60.52Irish Women Poets Rediscovered is a ground-breaking collection of original essays which brings to new recognition the lives and work of seventeen remarkable Irish women poets spanning the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Its unique format combines... -
The Death of Camus by Giovanni Catelli 9781787383869
RRP: $31.48$28.64In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of... -
A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays by Paul Allen
RRP: $16.78$11.47Do 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 Ayckbourn's work and would love a handy reference book? A... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914 by Joanne Shattock 9780521709323
RRP: $52.48$44.48The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of... -
Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery
RRP: $23.08$15.37He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. He is indestructible.Beautiful Burnout is about the soul-sapping three-minutes when men become gods and gods, mere men. It's about the second when the guard ... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: I: The Young Genius 1885-1920 by A. David Moody
RRP: $35.68$26.63This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and...