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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition by Jacob Grimm 9780691160597
RRP: £35.00£25.75When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the... -
Nature and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: £6.49£5.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486469478Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Too Brief A Treat by Truman Capote
RRP: £14.99£14.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702419Author Truman CapoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 388gDimensions(mm)... -
Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (loa #325): Run, River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It As It Lay A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album by Joan Didion
RRP: £33.99£21.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536454Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 950Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
A Balthus Notebook by Guy Davenport
RRP: £8.95£6.18In his 1989 book on Balthus-the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century-Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of the work of this master. Reading it today highlights... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead 9781611856606
RRP: £14.99£9.53When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd... -
Tree Spirits Grass Spirits by Hiromi Ito 9781643621920
RRP: £14.99£9.88A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito-part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear... -
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel 9781558614444
RRP: £10.99£9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614444Author Mireille GanselFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The... -
What Happened? by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: £10.99£7.32'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and... -
On the Sofa with Jane Austen by Maggie Lane
RRP: £14.99£12.55On the Sofa with Jane Austen is a collection of essays that first appeared in the Regency World magazine. They celebrate the quirkiest corners and cleverest contrivances of Jane Austen's art. The twenty-one topics range from coiffure to crime, from... -
Math, Symbol, and Culture by Clifford Geertz 9780393094091
RRP: £20.00£16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393094091Author Clifford GeertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles
RRP: £14.99£13.03The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen background materials and essays. "Passages from Ancient Authors" includes selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripedes' Phoenissae. The best of ancient and... -
A Plea For Eros by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: £9.99£6.80FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes . . . A book to renew one's faith in the literary essay' Robert... -
Anne Braden Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1947-1999 by Anne Braden 9781583679715
RRP: £65.00£52.37An intimate glimpse into the mind of a revolutionary of the civil rights movement Anne Braden was raised to be a southern belle. Instead she became a revolutionary who helped to shape the self-understanding of the entire civil rights movement. From... -
An Earnest Blackness by Eugen Bacon 9780999153581
RRP: £20.99£18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999153581Author Eugen BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Anti-Oedipus PressPublisher Anti-Oedipus PressWeight(grams) 127g -
The Rilke Alphabet by Ulrich Baer 9780823256297
RRP: £22.99£20.01The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet examines this... -
Early Welsh Gnomic and Nature Poetry by Nicolas Jacobs 9781907322686
£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322686Author Nicolas JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
Dear Nan. I Want To Hear Your Story: A Guided Memory Journal to Share The Stories, Memories and Moments That Have Shaped Nan's Life - 7 x 10 inch by The Life Graduate Publishing Group 9781922515223
£8.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922515223Author The Life Graduate Publishing GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Life Graduate Publishing GroupPublisher Life Graduate Publishing... -
Poe Knows: A Light Approach to a Dark Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £12.99£9.00An illustrated wit-and-wisdom-style packaging of quotes and excerpts from the fiction and nonfiction of Edgar Allan Poe, organized by theme and presented in a lighter-than-Poe context. This book will collect several hundred quotes and aphorisms from... -
Aristophanes: The Complete Plays by Paul Roche
RRP: £18.00£15.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451214096Author Paul RocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry by Craig Raine
RRP: £25.00£16.59'By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word "poetry" is up there with "soul". And I am against it.'My Grandmother's Glass Eye... -
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson 9780062419699
RRP: £9.99£6.64Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America's most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder-a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work. The Selected Letters of Laura... -
The Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend by Andrew Orchard
RRP: £18.99£12.75From Loki to Thor, Ragnarok to BeowulfA gripping and truly mesmerising delve into the Norse legendsFrom bestselling books to blockbusting Hollywood movies, the myths of the Scandinavian gods and heroes are part of the modern day landscape.For over a... -
Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope
RRP: £9.99£7.29Henry Jones, an unprepossessing London insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The old man's will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry's charming cousin Isabel Brodrick, lies neatly folded in a well-thumbed volume of... -
Chicago: The Second City by A. J. Liebling 9780803280359
RRP: £13.99£11.50Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City's people and culture-its colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history... -
Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882 by Queen Victoria 9780192893857
RRP: £16.99£12.68'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.' Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of her life. Originally intended for private... -
Style: The art of writing well (Harriman Classics) by F.L. Lucas
RRP: £14.99£9.98*4th edition with a new foreword by Joseph Epstein (Harriman Classics)* Lost for almost forty years, Style has acquired the status of a legend. Loved by some of the greatest modern authors and acclaimed by critics, this guide to recognising and writing... -
Oval by Elvia Wilk 9781913512095
RRP: £10.99£7.40Berlin is changing. Economic inequality is spiralling out of control, the party is moving on. Anja and Louis live on the mountain - an eco-community built and run by the corporation Anja works for. It is an experiment in green living. But soon enough the... -
Mission to the Volga by Ahmad Ibn Fadlan
RRP: £11.99£10.94The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper... -
American Originality: Essays on Poetry by Louise Gluck
RRP: £16.00£9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537463Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger: The Duke of Milan, The Roman Actor, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam by Philip Massinger 9780521292436
RRP: £43.99£37.16This volume provides a selection of four plays by Philip Massinger who, from 1625 to 1640, replaced John Fletcher as principal dramatist for the King's Men, the chief London theatre company for more than forty years. The selection consists of two of... -
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind by Robert D. Richardson
RRP: £27.00£21.46The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing... -
The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology by Roger S. Bagnall
RRP: £52.00£48.17Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and... -
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: The Writing Life by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.70In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds... -
Medieval English Lyrics and Carols by Thomas G. Duncan
RRP: £29.99£25.23A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary. Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature. This anthology provides a generous and wide-ranging... -
Rhetorical Treatises: De Oratore: v. 4: Book III, De Fato by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
Atlantis and Lemuria: History and Civilization by Rudolf Steiner 9781609425791
£15.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609425791Author Rudolf SteinerFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Publisher Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Granta 130: India: Another Way of Seeing by Ian Jack 9781905881857
RRP: £12.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881857Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 147mm *... -
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays by Jesse McCarthy 9781324091479
RRP: £13.99£12.25Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature and politics in the twenty-first century with virtuosic... -
African Myths & Tales: Epic Tales by Dr. Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Jnr
RRP: £20.00£13.75Africa south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early written records, the continent possesses a rich body of folk tales and legends that have been passed down through the strong...