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Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843442455
RRP: $11.60$8.00Euro Noir by Britain's leading crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw (author of Nordic Noir) examines the astonishing success of European fiction and drama. This is often edgier, grittier and more compelling than some of its British or American equivalents,... -
Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: $21.92$16.98The debate and discussion around Game of Thrones has covered questions of climate issues, industrialization, and questions of power, sex and gender. But in this essential companion to both George R.R. Martin's novels and the HBO show, Carolyne Larrington... -
A Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375386258
RRP: $12.84$11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375386258Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm)... -
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction by Jeff Prucher
RRP: $19.34$14.87From Ray Bradbury to Neil Gaiman, from Blade Runner to "Battle Star Galactica", science fiction has emerged from the margins of popular culture to claim a significant presence across media in print, film, and television. It has shaped our vision of the... -
Critic at Large: Essays and Rreviews 2010-2022 by DJ Taylor 9781915553195
RRP: $12.90$10.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553195Author DJ TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press -
The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible by A. N. Wilson
RRP: $12.89$9.17In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains relevant even in a... -
Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens
RRP: $25.79$22.82This third edition of Hans Bertens' bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism... -
Introducing Romanticism: A Graphic Guide by Duncan Heath
RRP: $11.60$8.64Philosophy, 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... -
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross 9780199543410
RRP: $19.34$14.25An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up... -
How to Write Like a Writer: A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice by Thomas C Foster
RRP: $16.76$10.94The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide.Combing... -
By the Book by Pamela Paul
$16.73Every 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... -
THE Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos by S. T. Joshi 9780978991180
$31.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978991180Author S. T. JoshiFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Mythos BooksPublisher Mythos BooksWeight(grams) 547gDimensions(mm) 140mm * 216mm * 22mm -
Critical Terms for Literary Study by Frank Lentricchia 9780226472034 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.54$3.42This expanded new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are: "Popular Culture"; "Diversity"; "Imperialism/Nationalism"; "Desire";... -
Critical Terms for Literary Study by Frank Lentricchia
RRP: $33.54$32.57This expanded new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are: "Popular Culture"; "Diversity"; "Imperialism/Nationalism"; "Desire";... -
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition by Sidonie Smith
RRP: $23.21$21.03With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely... -
The Way of the Storyteller: A Great Storyteller Shares Her Rich Experience and Joy in Her Art and Tells Eleven of Her Best-Loved Stories by Ruth Sawyer 9780140044362
RRP: $30.96$21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140044362Author Ruth SawyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Languages of Tolkien's Middle earth by Ruth S. Noel
$14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395291306Author Atanielle Annyn RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 184mm *... -
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand 9780452282315
RRP: $24.52$18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452282315Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176g -
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation by Peter France 9780199247844
RRP: $85.14$75.54Translation has been a crucial process in world culture over the past two millennia and more. In the English-speaking cultures many of the most important texts are translations, from Homer to Beckett, the Bible to Freud. Although recent years have seen a... -
Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion by Douglas Charles Kane 9781611460896
RRP: $54.18$47.64Douglas C. Kane reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father's work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some remote... -
The Household Tips of the Great Writers by Mark Crick 9781847082527 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with a Great Writer and his house.' Great Writer's Household Tips covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: $58.05$46.85An 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... -
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More by Graham Tarrant
RRP: $25.79$15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510741577Author Graham TarrantFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King by Stanley Wiater
RRP: $39.98$25.10Apologies 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)... -
Who's Who in Dickens by Professor Donald Hawes
RRP: $25.79$22.82Who'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 Oxford Handbook of Modernisms by Peter Brooker 9780198778448
$61.18The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms situates literary modernisms and the modernist arts in a series of unfolding relations with mass society and popular culture in both national and transnational settings. An unparalleled resource containing over fifty... -
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: Revised and updated edition by Marc Leeds
RRP: $46.44$36.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385344234Author Marc LeedsFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A (Centenary Edition) by Ayn Rand
RRP: $24.32$18.60After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer... -
Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "the Lord of the Rings" by Fleming Rutledge 9780802824974
RRP: $24.50$23.96Apologies 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 August Wilson's Fences by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399302
RRP: $12.84$11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399302Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
A Study Guide for M. T. Anderson's "Feed" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375379915
RRP: $12.84$11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375379915Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)... -
A Study Guide for A Study Guide to Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375400138
RRP: $12.84$11.61Apologies 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)... -
Reading Autobiography Now: An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition Sidonie Smith 9781517916879
RRP: $114.81$100.13A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative The boom in autobiographical narratives continues apace. It now encompasses a global spectrum of... -
The Shadow of a Dream and An Imperative Duty by William Dean Howells 9780742534025
RRP: $61.92$54.24These two nouvelles mark Howells' plunge into psychological realism. Their themes-a triangle of tragic agonies with psychological insights intriguingly proto-Freudian, and a drama of miscegenation-are anything but the "smiling", lightweight... -
The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by Fran Mason 9780810868557
RRP: $58.05$51.46Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in... -
Guide to Out-of-Print Materials by Narda Tafuri 9780810849747
RRP: $49.02$43.23The acquisition of out-of-print materials provides unique challenges to librarians in all types of libraries. Guide to Out-of-Print Materials offers a helpful overview of tools (both traditional and electronic) and techniques available for locating and... -
Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions by Miriam B. Mandel 9780810839885
RRP: $127.71$112.18Encyclopedic and lively, this book illuminates the basic facts associated with the more than 2,500 fictional and historical people, animals, events and cultural artifacts which appear in Hemingway's nine novels. Hemingway advertised himself as an... -
Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences Michael Lynn Crews 9781477330845
$64.23Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate... -
Homo Americanus: ERNEST HEMINGWAY, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, AND QUEER MASCULINITIES by John S. Bak 9781611474299
RRP: $126.42$111.07Though separated by only eleven years in age, Hemingway and Williams seem literary generations apart. Yet both authors bridged their modernist/postmodernist divide through mutual examinations of the polemics behind heteromasculinity, Hemingway in The Sun... -
The A to Z of Russian Theater by Laurence Senelick 9780810876200
RRP: $58.05$51.46Despite constant hindrance from government interference and control, the Russian theater has produced many memorable playwrights, schools of thought, and plays, whose influence can be seen throughout the world. Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector, Maksim...