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New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series by Steven Carter 9780761845843
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.89New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series, the fifth volume of a major work in progress, features more than 400 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of "meetings of the... -
222: Aphorisms & Reflections by Steven Carter 9780761841401
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $70.36The second installment of Steven Carter's multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of "meetings of the minds"-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.About... -
222: Aphorisms & Reflections by Steven Carter 9780761840503
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $66.98222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-perfection in Western culture over the last five centuries by Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg,... -
Paul's Literary Style: A Stylistic and Historical Comparison of II Corinthians 11:16-12:13, Romans 8:9-39, and Philippians 3:2-4:13 by Aida Besancon Spencer 9780761839545
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $66.98Paul's Literary Style determines quantitatively how Paul varies the style of his writing to assist communication with different communities and to ascertain some constant characteristics of his writing. Using 2 Corinthians 11:16-12:13, Romans 8:9-39, and... -
Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A Companion by Kathy Rees 9781476681245
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $70.82The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these... -
Death of a Salesman by Brenda Murphy 9781587656101
Booksplease Price: $194.04This title contains in-depth critical discussions of Arthur Miller's great drama. When it premiered, ""Death of a Salesman"" received immediate critical praise and popular attention. Miller set out to change the face of American Drama and succeeded. The... -
Walt Whitman: A Companion by John E. Schwiebert 9781476676586
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $70.82Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years. Whitman absorbed the world, transmuting it into poems that address a spectrum of topics--from democracy... -
A Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms by Edward Quinn 9780816062447
Booksplease Price: $31.30This is an insightful guide to literary terms in context. In clear, non-technical language, this dictionary explores more than 1,000 literary terms and themes - with 200 new to this edition. Taking an expanded view of the term ""literary,"" this book... -
Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds by Nicholas J. Karolides 9780816082315
Booksplease Price: $93.70Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political suppression also occurs in the name of security and the... -
Public History, Private Stories: Italian Women’s Autobiography by Graziella Parati 9780816626076
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $43.15Explores the way Italian women writers craft identities through writing.In this important volume, Graziella Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiography-a public act that is also the creation... -
Critical Insights: Life of Pi by Yann Martel 9781642656671
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $163.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642656671Author Yann MartelFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint H.W. Wilson Publishing Co.Publisher H.W. Wilson Publishing Co. -
Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 by Judith Tschann 9780197224175
Booksplease Price: $122.36The late thirteenth-century manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 86, contains a personal anthology of nearly 100 texts in French, English and Latin, including secular literature, devotional material, and texts with practical applications, ranging... -
Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason 9781442276192
RRP: $267.15Booksplease Price: $239.52The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural... -
A Concordance to the Poems of Jonathan Swift by Michael Shinagel 9780801407475
RRP: $333.45Booksplease Price: $253.42'Book InformationISBN 9780801407475Author Michael ShinagelFormat HardbackPage Count 1008Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 1814gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 67mm -
Virginia Woolf and Her Influences: Selected Papers from the Seventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf by Laura Davis 9780944473443
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944473443Author Laura DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm)... -
Virginia Woolf: Texts and Contexts: Selected Papers from the Fifth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf by Beth Rigel Daugherty 9780944473283
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944473283Author Beth Rigel DaughertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams)... -
Librarianship and Information Science in the Islamic World, 1966-1999: An Annotated Bibliography by Sterling J. Coleman 9780810851795
RRP: $177.45Booksplease Price: $155.47Country-by-country, this comprehensive, annotated bibliography brings together the vast number of articles, books, conference papers, theses, dissertations, and reports that have been written about librarianship in the Islamic World during the past fifty... -
Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835 by J. R. de J. Jackson 9780198112396
Booksplease Price: $182.79The contribution of women to Romantic poetry has been generally underestimated. Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770 - 1835 provides the first complete record of the volumes of verse written by women and reveals the scale of their involvement... -
The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing by John Sturrock 9780198182627
RRP: $181.35Booksplease Price: $148.14Keeping track of contemporary writing is by its nature difficult. What are the recent developments in Chinese or Israeli fiction? What has happened to poetry in Russia since the fall of Communism? Are we even up to date with the best novels or plays of... -
The Development of Albert Camus's Concern for Social and Political Justice by Mark Orme 9781611473438
RRP: $198.90Booksplease Price: $163.72This book seeks to assess the emphases and complexities of Albert Camus' lifelong preoccupation with justice within the sociopolitical sphere, against a background of changing personal and historical circumstances. It provides a chronological account of... -
The Creative Vision of Bessie Head by Coreen Brown 9781611472578
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $125.72This book explores how Head's writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life. Her desire to portray and yet subvert oppression that she encountered in South Africa and Botswana led to a romanticism born of her need to create an antithesis to... -
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Companion by Prentiss Clark 9781476677606
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $59.22In his 1837 speech "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "life is our dictionary," encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century. This comprehensive study explores Emerson as a preacher, poet,... -
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Mildred R. Mickle 9781587656248
Booksplease Price: $180.10This title includes in-depth critical discussions of Maya Angelou's novel. Maya Angelou's ""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"" took the world by storm when it was published in 1969. As it shot to the top of best-seller lists, it made Angelou one of the... -
The Emergence of Standard English by John H. Fisher 9780813108520
RRP: $94.58Booksplease Price: $42.86Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. John H. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the... -
Beginning Modernism by Jeff Wallace 9780719067884
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $112.92Modernism was the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. Yet despite its now-secure location in history, the radical experimental practices of modernism continue to bewilder as much as they excite. Beginning Modernism offers... -
A Student's Guide to Literature by R. V. Young
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $15.37This guide to Western literature and poetry addresses timely issues. It demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons. Learn how great fiction and poetry are... -
Aclaraciones a la Poesia de Holderlin by Martin Heidegger
Booksplease Price: $52.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788420647500Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackImprint Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)Publisher Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR) -
Triquarterly: An International Journal of Writing, Art and Cultural Inquiry by Susan Firestone Hahn
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $17.28Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. Under the editorial direction of poet Susan Firestone Hahn, TriQuarterly continues to publish... -
Power of Sympathy and the Coquette by William Brown
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $53.43To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808403463Author William BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &... -
A Platonick Song of the Soul by Henry More
RRP: $251.55Booksplease Price: $210.39For information on similar titles, please visit www.rlpgbooks.com.Book InformationISBN 9781611480955Author Henry MoreFormat HardbackPage Count 671Imprint Bucknell University PressPublisher Bucknell University PressWeight(grams) 1120gDimensions(mm) 246mm... -
American Protest Literature by Zoe Trodd
Booksplease Price: $58.03"I like a little rebellion now and then"-so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an... -
Arthurian Bibliography IV - 1993-1998 Author Listing and Subject Index by Elaine Barber
RRP: $253.50Booksplease Price: $246.77Latest update of essential Arthurian resource. A must for any self-respecting library. NOTES AND QUERIES A standard work of reference. ENGLISH STUDIES With the appearance in 1999 of the very extensive interim volume covering the years 1978 to 1992,... -
How Picturebooks Work by Maria Nikolajeva 9780415979689
RRP: $132.58Booksplease Price: $116.26How Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in picturebooks. The authors explore picturebooks as a specific medium or genre in literature and culture, one that prepares children for other media of... -
John Ruskin: An Idiosyncratic Dictionary Encompassing his Passions, his Delusions and his Prophecies by Michael Glover 9781848223745
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $30.03From Aesthete to Ziffern, Baby-Language to Verbosity, Badgers to Railway Stations: this gloriously serendipitous dictionary presents the life, times and strong opinions of John Ruskin (1819-1900) - art critic, patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, social... -
A Study Guide for Markus Zusak's The Book Thief by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375396882
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375396882Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm)... -
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde by Prof Barry Windeatt 9780198823407
Booksplease Price: $63.94This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of... -
The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King by Stanley Wiater
RRP: $60.43Booksplease Price: $39.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312324902Author Christopher GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)... -
Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad by Owen Knowles 9780198604211
RRP: $49.71Booksplease Price: $47.81'Scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous'. This is how the TLS recently described the Oxford Reader's Companion Series. In September 2000, the book which pioneered the series, The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens came out in paperback. Now the Oxford... -
Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "the Lord of the Rings" by Fleming Rutledge 9780802824974
Booksplease Price: $38.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802824974Author Fleming RutledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 373Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
A Study Guide for A Study Guide to Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375400138
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375400138Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm)...