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The New Modernist Studies by Douglas Mao
RRP: £30.99£22.85This 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: £75.00£72.33Re-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: £18.99£16.87This 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... -
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... -
Walter Benjamin: Or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism by Terry Eagleton 9781844673506
RRP: £15.99£13.71From 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: £25.99£21.06Explores 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... -
The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt 9780199796779
RRP: £10.49£7.44In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Beat Generation writers revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took... -
Collected Screenplays 2 by Harold Pinter 9780571203246
RRP: £25.00£17.40There is no writer who excels at the art of adaptation for the screen so much as Harold Pinter. His consummate craftmanship and unerring ear for dialogue, coupled with his sensitivity and understanding of the work of other writers, makes the three... -
Kim: A Norton Critical Edition by Rudyard Kipling 9780393966503
£19.60The text-that of the 1901 Sussex Edition-is fully annotated and accompanied by three maps that help students place the novel in geographical and historical contexts. "Backgrounds" explores the novel's complicated issues of multiculturalism, imperialism,... -
Nick Dear Plays 1: Art of Success; In the Ruins; Zenobia; Turn of the Screw by Nick Dear
RRP: £18.99£12.83This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art... -
A River Runs Through it and Other Stories by Norman Maclean 9780226500607
RRP: £28.00£20.43From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, A... -
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits by Jason Allen-Paisant 9780192867223
RRP: £70.00£63.74Aime Cesaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Cesaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between... -
The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle by Colin Duriez
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 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... -
The Theology of Samuel Beckett by John Calder
RRP: £9.99£7.72Like all the greatest writers, Samuel Beckett was primarily interested in discovering the meaning and purpose of life and of the world into which we are born. Knowledgeable about the religion his family and education instilled in him, which as an adult... -
August Wilson's Fences by Ladrica Menson-Furr
RRP: £18.99£17.91This title provides a guide to the political and historical context of the 1950s and to the African American cultural context.August Wilson is generally acknowledged to be the most respected African American playwright. His cycle of plays spanning the... -
On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin by Michael Harding
RRP: £13.99£9.20One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden, he found himself falling back into the old religious devotions of an earlier time. The meaning he had found through years of engagement with... -
Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: £13.99£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612196930Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
K. by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99£9.09What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his... -
R. S. Thomas by Tony Brown 9780708321935
RRP: £7.99£6.16At his death in 2000, R.S. Thomas was widely considered to be one of the major poets of the English-speaking world, having been nominated for the Nobel prize for Literature. With Dylan Thomas, R.S. Thomas is probably Wales' best-known poet... -
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection by Richard Lansdown 9780198722557
RRP: £32.49£30.74Alongside 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... -
Beryl Bainbridge by Huw Marsh 9780746312193
£73.11Beryl Bainbridge is one of Britain's major post-war novelists. This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique... -
The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War by Gebreyesus Hailu
RRP: £14.99£13.11Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception... -
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
RRP: £24.99£22.37Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of... -
Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff by Deborah A. Starr
RRP: £29.99£26.39The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of... -
Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and the Historical Novel by Perry Anderson 9781804290798
RRP: £16.99£14.10There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In Different Speeds, Same Furies, Perry Anderson... -
The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose by Alain Badiou
RRP: £17.99£15.30The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the... -
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski 9780374536251
£15.62In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist and... -
Study Guide to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee by Intelligent Education 9781645421825
RRP: £9.95£7.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645421825Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm -
Samuel Beckett: Faber Critical Guide by John Fletcher
RRP: £9.99£6.70Do 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... -
Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century by Ronald Hingley
RRP: £28.99£26.93This book, first published in 1977, begins with a close look at the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers, and at the problems of their profession. It then examines their environment in its broader aspects, the Russian empire being considered from... -
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction by John Sutherland
RRP: £8.99£6.45'I rejoice', said Doctor Johnson, 'to concur with the Common Reader.' For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an... -
A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie by Verlyn Flieger 9780873386999
RRP: £37.95£31.16J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion have long been recognized as among the most popular fiction of the twentieth century, and most critical analysis of Tolkien has centered on these novels. Granted access by the Tolkien... -
Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film by Usha Vishnuvajjala 9781641893831
RRP: £95.00£90.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893831Author Usha VishnuvajjalaFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf by Susan Sellers
RRP: £25.99£21.89Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful... -
The Beat Generation FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters by Rich Weidman 9781617136016
£15.44EThe Beat Generation FAQE is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II... -
Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity, and the End of Culture by Simon J. James
RRP: £29.49£27.15H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in detail. Maps of Utopia tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he... -
Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser
RRP: £28.00£21.36Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is... -
Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky by Bryan Karetnyk
RRP: £12.99£9.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE GLOBAL READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2018Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In exile, they... -
Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture by Annie McClanahan 9781503606586
RRP: £23.99£20.41Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture-from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies-has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of... -
Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: £8.99£6.45'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his...