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Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.84'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature... -
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What... -
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid,... -
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.77A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100... -
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 by Martin Amis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time... -
The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society's changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.Our... -
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great... -
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $21.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735793Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint -
Literary Cats by Judith Robinson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.28'Everything you ever wanted to know about cats in books. A wonderful idea, beautifully executed.' - Viv Groskop Cats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and... -
An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to... -
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9781465491015
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $20.22Learn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a... -
New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing. From the extraordinary ideas but sexless... -
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71From Colm Toibin comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families.In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Toibin not only... -
Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays by Elisa Gabbert 9780374605896
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374605896Author Elisa GabbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Appropriate: A Provocation by Paisley Rekdal 9781324003588
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate,... -
Living in Language: International reflections for the practising poet: 2024 by Erica Hesketh 9781739894856
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894856Author Erica HeskethFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint -
Jane Austen for Every Day of the Year by Anonymous 9780753735602
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Jane Austen for Every Day of the Year is a charming collection of 366 quotes and short passages drawn from Jane Austen's novels, with excerpts from her intimate, witty letters scattered throughout. ... -
The Mummy's Foot and the Big Toe: Feet and Imaginative Promise by Alan Krell 9781780239156
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $18.68In this quirky and surprising history, Alan Krell addresses the absurd and abject, the banal and the nastily subversive, and the romantic and fetishistic, as he describes the appearance of the foot... -
By the Book by Pamela Paul
Booksplease Price: $18.43Every 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... -
Key Concepts in Victorian Studies by William Hughes
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.02Provides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian period Surveys not merely the reign of Queen Victoria but its antecedents in the long... -
Echo by Amit Pinchevski
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543408Author Amit PinchevskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
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Literary London: A Street by Street Exploration of the Capital's Literary Heritage by Ed Glinert 9780141026244 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.27From the Globe at Bankside to the Wimpole Street home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London is, and always has been, crammed with literary life. Playwrights, novelists, diarists, poets and essayists... -
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom 9780063452046
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller."An impressive work...deeply, rightly...