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London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray
RRP: £11.99£7.59London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is... -
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E a Tyler 9781250023551
RRP: £30.00£14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250023551Author J E a TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 206mm... -
The Odyssey SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469761
RRP: £5.99£4.40When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by SparkNotes 9781411471009
RRP: £5.99£4.40When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and... -
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E A Tyler
RRP: £25.00£17.88For all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the definitive guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages and people.The Complete Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every single reference - names, dates, places, facts, famous... -
The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
RRP: £30.00£22.55**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War,... -
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: £10.99£7.25* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings... -
The History of the Hobbit: One Volume Edition by J.R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £100.00£68.01Brand new deluxe edition of this definitive companion to The Hobbit, quarter-bound, stamped in gold foil with a unique design inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's own artwork, featuring a ribbon marker and housed in a matching custom-built slipcase... -
Henry Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists by Henry Eliot
RRP: £12.99£9.09Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world... -
Lord of the Flies SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469860
RRP: £5.99£4.40When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
Great Expectations: New Grade 9-1 GCSE English Literature AQA Text Guide (Collins GCSE 9-1 Snap Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: £5.99£5.10Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Everything you need to revise for your... -
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science by Bruce Clarke
RRP: £49.99£44.50With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into... -
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster
RRP: £10.99£7.25A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide-a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience... -
I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes by Mardy Grothe 9780061358135
RRP: £10.99£7.25'An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor' - Robert Frost. 'It is metaphor above all else that gives clearness, charm and distinction to the style' - Aristotle. Throughout history, great minds have demonstrated a special... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Margaret Kean
RRP: £19.99£17.69John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate... -
Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction by Sara Upstone
RRP: £14.99£9.80Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary... -
The Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes 9781586638504
RRP: £7.99£5.60Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance-and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the... -
Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: £8.99£6.45In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of the general culture of... -
Oxford School Shakespeare: As You Like It by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.23Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. As You Like It is a popular... -
100 Children's Books: that inspire our world by Colin Salter
RRP: £22.00£15.58An amazing guide to some of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over. In 100 Children's Books That... -
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf 9780008658458
RRP: £2.99£2.31HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,... -
Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Sabina Knight 9780195392067
RRP: £8.99£6.61Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of... -
Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films: A 21st Century Guide by Barry Forshaw
RRP: £12.99£8.68The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; Andre Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw's informed... -
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £11.99£10.15A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full... -
Macbeth SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes
RRP: £5.99£4.40When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
The Oxford Book of Death by D. J. Enright
RRP: £10.99£7.77The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside... -
The Legion Of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History by Jon Morris 9781594749322
RRP: £23.00£17.50Every hero needs a villain. But not all villains are dangerous some are incompetent, comical, or just weird. In his follow-up to The League of Regrettable Superheroes, author Jon Morris presents over a hundred of the strangest, most stupefying... -
1984 SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469389
RRP: £5.99£4.40When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
Literary London by Eloise Millar 9781789295931
RRP: £9.99£6.52Discover one of the best cities in the world through the lens of some of the most iconic writers who have ever lived. London has long inspired and celebrated books and writing, and some of the most well-known and beloved names in English Literature have... -
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance by Dr Peter Kirwan 9781350225169
£43.32The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and performance studies by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on the key methods and... -
The Art of Discworld by Paul Kidby
RRP: £18.99£13.15A sumptuous illustrated journey through Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD; a companion volume to THE LAST HEROIn THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett takes us on a guided tour of the Discworld, courtesy of his favourite Discworld artist, Paul Kidby. Following... -
Things Fall Apart SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469686
RRP: £5.99£4.50When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium by Alex Johnson 9780712352253
RRP: £9.99£6.80This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books... -
In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: £19.99£17.69In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts. Developing an original... -
Summary and Analysis of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race: Based on the Book by Margot Lee Shetterly by Worth Books 9781504046657
RRP: £8.99£4.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046657Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
The Book Lover's Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists by Alex Johnson 9780712354240
RRP: £19.99£13.35Enjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors' diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative twists and transformative moments in their favourite... -
Short Oxford History of English Literature by Andrew Sanders
RRP: £40.49£37.19The Short Oxford History of English Literature is the most comprehensive and scholarly history of English literature on the market. It offers an introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day in... -
To Kill a Mockingbird SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469730
RRP: £5.99£4.40When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and... -
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod... -
A Sea of Words by Dean King
£15.28A new edition of the classic companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea loving novels, updated to include the final novel in the series. This comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and political...