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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
RRP: $48.30$28.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735793Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
RRP: $29.40$18.44Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It... -
Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays by Elisa Gabbert 9780374605896
RRP: $37.80$21.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374605896Author Elisa GabbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 141mm *... -
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 by Martin Amis
RRP: $27.28$19.09Of 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 comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov,... -
Henry Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists by Henry Eliot
RRP: $27.28$19.09Who 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... -
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
RRP: $23.08$16.32'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 TimesMost of what we say about books is really... -
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: $42.00$30.01'A joy of a book - enriching, illuminating, eclectic and far from a conventional science read' Richard Webb, New Scientist Books of the Year'Carlo Rovelli's imaginative rigour, his lively humour and his beautiful writing are inspiring' Erica WagnerOne of... -
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $20.98$14.93During 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 is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and... -
Literary Cats by Judith Robinson
RRP: $35.68$27.91'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 poetry, from ancient myths and fables to much-loved... -
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: $23.08$16.32'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 communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of... -
Portable Magic: Our Long Love Affair with Books by Emma Smith
RRP: $42.00$37.00'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 TimesMost of what we say about books is really... -
The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
RRP: $27.28$19.09Taking 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 collective notion of the city and country is... -
The Battles of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: $35.68$25.79The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's works are punctuated by dramatic and explosive battles. Men versus Orcs, Elves versus Sauron, Goblins versus Dwarves - the history of Middle-earth has seen some of the greatest characters pitted against each other... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel by J. A. Downie
RRP: $86.08$85.03Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the... -
Lighted Window, The: Evening Walks Remembered by Peter Davidson
RRP: $52.50$40.89Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In this innovative combination of place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on... -
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
RRP: $42.00$33.37A 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 aphorisms, known as the Zurau aphorisms, after the... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: $25.18$20.37"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew... -
Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
RRP: $33.58$24.38Ever since Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. In this engaging and personal book, Sebastian Faulks examines and... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch
RRP: $46.20$36.46From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization... -
An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $16.78$12.16Beautifully 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 perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also... -
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd
RRP: $23.08$14.95To 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 modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of... -
Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism by Catherine Nicholson
RRP: $63.00$48.91The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies"I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter... -
Key Concepts in Victorian Studies by William Hughes
RRP: $31.48$26.36Provides 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 nineteenth century Includes illustrations derived wholly from... -
New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
RRP: $33.58$24.38From 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 explores the often tense relationship between writers... -
By the Book by Pamela Paul
$27.38Every 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... -
Summary and Analysis of the Underground Railroad: Based on the Book by Colson Whitehead by Worth Books 9781504046596
RRP: $10.48$8.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046596Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint by Mary Jacobus 9780691170725
RRP: $88.20$71.48Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and sometimes hard to decipher, these inscriptions are a... -
Living in Language: International reflections for the practising poet: 2024 by Erica Hesketh 9781739894856
RRP: $31.50$22.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739894856Author Erica HeskethFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint The Poetry Translation CentrePublisher The Poetry Translation Centre -
Word Unheard: A Guide Through Eliot's Four Quartets Harry Blamires 9781138998445
RRP: $69.28$61.24Eliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by... -
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement by Mary Jacobus
RRP: $58.80$45.78A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita DeanOn Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and... -
Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures Richard North 9781408247709
RRP: $92.38$90.85The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures provides a scholarly and accessible introduction to the literature which was the inspiration for many of the heroes of modern popular culture, from The Lord of the Rings to... -
The Lives And Extraordinary Adventures Of Fifteen Tramp Writers From The Golden Age Of Vagabondage by Ian Cutler 9781627310840
RRP: $39.88$27.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310840Author Ian CutlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974 by Dianne C. Luce 9781643363554
$73.77Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthyDevotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be... -
The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Nicola J. Watson
RRP: $85.03$64.55The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been... -
PEN International: An Illustrated History by Carles Tonner
RRP: $94.50$61.43'I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact... -
Los Angeles Review of Books: Weather Issue: No. 24, Fall 2019 by Tom Lutz 9781940660431
RRP: $16.78$16.25Whenever you bring up the weather as a subject, someone will offer up a quote, usually by Mark Twain. There is the famous and apocryphal "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." There are also quotes from Proust:... -
Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries by Lene Johannessen 9781498571999
RRP: $178.50$156.47Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries considers aesthetic imaginaries as they constitute and are constituted by and in our shared realities. With contributions from twelve scholars working in the fields of literary studies, visual studies, anthropology,... -
Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural History by Karl S. Guthke 9780691628554
$204.52Whether Goethe actually cried "More light!" on his deathbed, or whether Conrad Hilton checked out of this world after uttering "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub," last words, regardless of authenticity, have long... -
Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Imitation Issue: No. 23, Summer 2019 by Tom Lutz 9781940660424
RRP: $16.78$16.25Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. Since its founding in 2011, LARB has quickly established... -
Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism by Anjum Khan
RRP: $153.30$134.78Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism is a collection of chapters dealing with multiple minority cultures from all over the world. The book examines the status of several less known cultures or cultural communities which...