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The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis by Alan Jacobs
RRP: $44.58$31.36By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations... -
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene by John Parham
RRP: $41.15$40.82The 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... -
The Absurd in Literature by Neil Cornwell 9780719074103
$59.66Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 by Merritt Moseley
RRP: $63.45$55.80In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also... -
The Death of Camus by Giovanni Catelli 9781787383869
RRP: $25.71$22.86In 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... -
Irish Women Poets Rediscovered: Readings in poetry from the eighteenth-twentieth century by Maria Johnston 9781782054795
RRP: $60.04$49.43Irish 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... -
Gilles Deleuze by Claire Colebrook
RRP: $44.58$38.82Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze tells us, but because literature can recreate the boundaries of life. With his emphasis on... -
Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974 by Dianne C. Luce 9781643363554
RRP: $51.37$41.39Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthyDevotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be... -
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts by Bill Ashcroft 9780415661911
RRP: $56.59$50.02This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity... -
Extreme Metaphors by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $25.71$16.64A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J. G. Ballard's greatest interviews. J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. Best known for his controversial bestseller 'Crash' and the memoir 'Empire of the Sun', he was a writer of... -
Latest Readings by Clive James
RRP: $18.85$16.07An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might... -
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview by Kurt Vonnegut 9781612190907
RRP: $24.00$15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612190907Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 175g -
Critical Companion to James Joyce: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work by A.Nicholas Fargnoli 9780816066896
RRP: $34.22$28.82The author of such classics as ""Dubliners"", ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"", ""Ulysses"", ""Finnegans Wake"", and more, James Joyce is one of the greatest writers of all time. Known for his experimental use of language, Joyce endured... -
Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies by Luc Boltanski 9780745664057
RRP: $42.87$37.41The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was... -
Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp 9781783527083
RRP: $42.88$28.87This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century,... -
Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Helena: Volume 11 by Evelyn Waugh
$133.91This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each... -
Understanding Brecht by Stanley Mitchell 9781859844182
RRP: $22.28$19.40The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Benjamin and Brecht both independently minded... -
W. H. Auden: A Commentary by John Fuller
RRP: $42.88$29.14Now 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... -
Maeve Brennan: Wit, Style and Tragedy: An Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke
RRP: $22.28$15.59Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was moulded by the cultural ideologies of nationalism and lit by the creative energy of the Abbey and Gate theatres. She was seventeen when her father was... -
William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century by Joan Hawkins
RRP: $60.04$52.42William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded)... -
Critical Perspectives on Max Porter by David Rudrum 9781032662367
RRP: $231.57$201.17Max Porter is amongst the most exciting British writers of the twenty-first century. His striking books straddle the divide between poetry and prose as deftly as they combine literary experimentation with mainstream success. This book is the first study... -
Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel 9780231211277
RRP: $51.46$39.14Contemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Midcentury writers tended to set their works in their own moment, but for the last several decades critical acclaim and attention have fixated on historical fiction. This shift is particularly... -
J.R.R. Tolkien by Toby Widdicombe
$40.53With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.R.R. Tolkien invented the modern fantasy novel. For readers and students getting to grips with this world for the first time, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Guide for the Perplexed... -
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I: A Novel by Peter Weiss
RRP: $42.87$35.99A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is... -
Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland by John McCourt
RRP: $37.72$31.05"This book was crying out to be written." The Irish Times "Scandalously readable." Literary Review James Joyce's relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication of his masterwork Ulysses - referred to by The... -
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song by Douglas Young
RRP: $11.92$10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950262994Author Douglas YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Autobiographies by W. B. Yeats 9780684853383
$42.99Autobiographies 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... -
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay
RRP: $30.86$22.21In 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... -
By Avon River by H. D. 9780813062372
$30.22H.D. called By Avon River "the first book that really made me happy." In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.'s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that... -
A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita by J.A.E. Curtis 9781644690789
RRP: $37.72$30.82Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its rich... -
Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: The Annotated 'Watt' by Chris Ackerley
RRP: $48.01$43.76Obscure Locks, Simple Keys is a comprehensive study of this most enigmatic of all of SmauelBeckett's texts. Chris Ackerley's approach, which has some similarities to genetic editing, is based on an extensive study of the manuscripts and different... -
Aura: By Carlos Fuentes by Peter Standish 9780719081835
RRP: $22.28$19.02Since its publication in 1962, Carlos Fuentes' novel, Aura, remains not merely an object of academic interest but a continuous source of controversy in Mexico. It was the explosive combination of sex and religion that incensed the Ministro de Hacienda,... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 7 (English): The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921. (English translation of selected texts) by Albert Einstein 9780691057187
RRP: $106.35$81.92In the spring of 1919, two British solar eclipse expeditions confirmed the correctness of general relativity theory and propelled Albert Einstein to instant celebrity. Before this major turning point, the majority of Einstein's writings published in this... -
Brit Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to British Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw
RRP: $15.42$10.74Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British crime arena. After the success of earlier entries in the series, Nordic Noir and Euro Noir, he returns to... -
Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 by Jon Cook
RRP: $65.10$58.94Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 brings together key critical and theoretical texts from the twentieth century which have animated debates about modern poetry. Helps readers to think critically about the nature of modern poetry, and to engage... -
The New Modernist Studies by Douglas Mao
RRP: $53.16$39.19This is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of this vibrant, complicated scholarly enterprise, the collection reconsiders its achievements and... -
A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour - Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder by Grace A. Musila
RRP: $128.65$124.07Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated. Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in... -
James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child by Mary Adams 9781032314778
RRP: $32.57$28.94This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents' grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties.Mary Adams links Joyce's... -
Walter Benjamin: Or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism by Terry Eagleton 9781844673506
RRP: $27.43$23.52From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.A classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theoristAbout the AuthorTerry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow,... -
R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland: Party, Prose, and Political Aesthetic by Lachlan Munro 9781474498272
RRP: $44.58$36.12Explores the complex life of the most controversial and enigmatic Scot of his generation, and his contribution to Scottish life and lettersShortlisted for Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2022 Includes accounts of Graham's...