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A Sea of Words by Dean King
£15.32A 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... -
Hamlet SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469587
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... -
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99£9.37Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a younger... -
Frankenstein 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 Hunger Games (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by SparkNotes 9781411470989
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 Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey
RRP: £12.99£9.09Accessing the huge selection of critical theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary is an invaluable introduction to the theories and theorists in the field and will prove an authoritative resource for all students.About the... -
GCSE 9-1 English Language and English Literature Revision Guide (Collins GCSE 9-1 Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: £5.99£5.10Exam Board: Edexcel, AQA, OCR & WJEC Eduqas Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Language & Literature Suitable for the 2024... -
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch
RRP: £15.99£11.61Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context,... -
Animal Farm 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... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: £45.00£35.67An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through... -
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde by Prof Barry Windeatt 9780198823407
RRP: £29.99£28.90This 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... -
American Protest Literature by Zoe Trodd
RRP: £27.95£22.10"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... -
The Old Man and the Sea SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469723
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... -
Introducing Romanticism: A Graphic Guide by Duncan Heath
RRP: £8.99£6.70Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848.This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution', when modern attitudes to political and... -
Fahrenheit 451 SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469532
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... -
On Color by David Kastan
RRP: £16.99£14.61Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our... -
Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Susan Ratcliffe
RRP: £11.99£8.43This updated edition is the perfect gift for every occasion. From Shakespeare and Mark Twain to Albert Einstein and Kate Moss, this dictionary features 4,000 of the best and most popular quotations of past and present. Packed with quotable quotes on over... -
The Great Gatsby SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469570
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 Companion to Classical Literature by M. C. Howatson 9780199548552
RRP: £15.99£11.61The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales,... -
Oxford IB Diploma Programme: IB English A: Literature Course Book by Brent Whitted
RRP: £48.99£46.29Developed in cooperation with the IB, this student-friendly, concept-based Course Book has been comprehensively updated to support all aspects of the new English A: Literature syllabus, for first teaching in September 2019. With in-depth coverage of the... -
The Women Writers' Handbook: 30th Anniversary edition: 2020 by Ann Sandham
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912430338Author Ann SandhamFormat PaperbackImprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications -
The Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork by Joseph Campbell 9781608681662
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681662Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
A Glossary of Literary Terms by Geoffrey Galt Harpham 9781285465067
£48.39First published over fifty years ago, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS remains an essential resource for all serious students of literature. Now fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship on recent and rapidly evolving critical theories, the new... -
A Tale of Two Cities 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... -
Harbors and High Seas: Map Book and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian by Dean King 9780805066142
£17.75A new edition of the classic companion to Patrick O'Brian's seafaring novels, updated to include the final novel in the series. This indispensable guide to navigating the well-loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated, with new chapters devoted to the... -
A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: £25.00£17.38The spellbinding world of Middle-earth is full of beasts and battles, heroes and heroines, and the struggle between good and evil.In this dictionary of sources, Tolkien scholar and best-selling author David Day's four decades of research inform us about... -
Great Expectations SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469563
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... -
Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books by Professor John Carey 9780571204489
RRP: £12.99£8.56Pure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the pleasure they inspire. Pure Pleasure is an idiosyncratic antidote to the 'definitive' lists of twentieth-century classics. John Carey,... -
Brave New World SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469457
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... -
Who's Who in Dickens by Professor Donald Hawes
RRP: £19.99£17.69Who's Who in Dickens is an accessible guide to the many characters in Charles Dickens' fiction. Dickens' characters are strikingly portrayed and have become a vital part of our cultural heritage - Scrooge has become a by-word for stinginess, Uriah Heep... -
The Grapes of Wrath SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469556
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... -
Beginning Postmodernism by Tim Woods 9780719079962
RRP: £11.99£8.57'Postmodernism' became the buzzword of contemporary society in the 1990s. Yet, even now, it still remains confusing and baffling in its variety of definitions, contexts and associations. Beginning postmodernism aims to offer clear, accessible and... -
Heart of Darkness SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469815
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... -
Beginning Modernism by Jeff Wallace
RRP: £10.99£7.90Modernism 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... -
Julius Caesar SparkNotes Literature Guide by SparkNotes 9781411469594
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 Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer 9780393050943
RRP: £23.99£21.34Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age,... -
Genre by John Frow
RRP: £23.99£20.99This second edition of John Frow's Genre offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the area. Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture, but it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in... -
Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh 9781421419077
RRP: £39.00£35.04Roland McHugh's classic Annotations to Finnegans Wake provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds... -
By the Book by Pamela Paul
£13.68Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela... -
Critical Theory: The Key Concepts by Dino Franco Felluga
RRP: £29.99£26.64Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 300 widely-used terms, categories and ideas drawing upon well-established approaches like new historicism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and narratology as well as many new critical theories of...