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Cratylus by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.76On names, forms, beauty, and lies.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is... -
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 5: January 1794 to December 1797 by Jeremy Bentham 9781911576235
RRP: £45.00£39.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911576235Author Jeremy BenthamFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 830g -
Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said 9780679761273
RRP: £19.00£15.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761273Author Edward W. SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story John Freeman 9781984877826
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984877826Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
The Letters of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson 9780593134658
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593134658Author Shirley JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard 9780316497220
RRP: £13.99£13.40A New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the YearWhen "The Fourth State of Matter," her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa was published in The New... -
Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America by Charles Bowden
RRP: £13.99£12.59Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden's dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own... -
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection by Richard Lansdown 9780198722557
RRP: £34.49£25.55Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful... -
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel 9780393324020
RRP: £25.00£21.24Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of 2001, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel appears as the most authoritative and complete edition of his fiction ever published in paperback. Babel was best... -
Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches by Lucian
RRP: £16.99£12.28Described by a later Greek historian as "a man seriously committed to raising a laugh", Lucian exulted in the exposure of absurdity and the puncturing of pretension, and was capable of finding a comic angle on almost any subject. In this selection we... -
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald
RRP: £18.99£13.82* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * WINNER OF THE 2022 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION * 'A heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation' MARLON JAMES Isaac Fitzgerald has... -
Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti 9780872863170
RRP: £19.99£15.23Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the... -
Stubble Archipelago by Wayne Koestenbaum 9781635902068
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635902068Author Wayne KoestenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 by Barry Lopez 9780618586431
RRP: £18.99£14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618586431Author Philip ZaleskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)... -
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
RRP: £14.00£9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452260092Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Random House... -
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus 9780140442175
£11.75No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his... -
Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs by Gerald Murnane 9781911508663
RRP: £11.99£8.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Shakespeare Revue by Christopher Luscombe 9781854592590
RRP: £13.99£10.18An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard. Devised for, and first performed by, the Royal Shakespeare Company, this show has been a hit with audiences all over the world. It includes songs and sketches by Alan Bennett, Noel... -
Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £16.99£12.86The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich's most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality and identity are still powerful and... -
Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
RRP: £11.99£8.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492433Author Namwali SerpellFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Buzzworthy: Cocktails Inspired by Female Literary Greats by Jennifer Croll
RRP: £14.99£11.11The author of Free the Tipple is back with another collection of delectable cocktails-this time a literary mix inspired by the world's most iconic women writers. The fifty recipes in this volume are as unconventional, imaginative, and refreshing as... -
Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints by Mary Clayton
RRP: £29.95£24.03Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from lyrical to dramatic to narrative, the individual poems show great inventiveness in reimagining perennial Christian topics. In different... -
Euripides: Trojan Women by Barbara Goff 9780715635452
£25.45Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women... -
Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors by Janet Ashby
RRP: £24.00£14.688 essays by leading Japanese writers (including Banana Yoshimoto and Haruki Murakami) presented in vertical format with translation on facing page and a series of notes that elucidate nuance, grammar, culture. At the back is a Japanese-English dictionary... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by James Raven
RRP: £23.49£16.61In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative... -
Cato: A Tragedy, & Selected Essays by Joseph Addison 9780865974432
£12.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974432Author Joseph AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 508g -
Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought by Ann Bergren
RRP: £16.95£14.06"What if truth were a woman?" asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greek thought, truth in language has a special relation to the female by virtue of her pre-eminent art-form-the one Freud believed was even invented by women-weaving. The essays in this book... -
The Modern Monologue: Men by Michael Earley 9780413672100
£21.76The Modern Monologue in two volumes, one for men and one for women, is an exciting selection of speeches drawn from the landmark plays of the 20th century. The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre-- and the plays most... -
Experiments on Reality by Tim Robinson
RRP: £13.99£10.01Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the globe... -
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 9780393958287
£23.92The editor has made necessary typographical corrections and carefully introduced and annotated the text for the student reader. Dickens' number plans for David Copperfield, which reveal his practice both as a serial writer and as a craftsman, are also... -
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 by Adrienne Rich 9780393311624
RRP: £18.50£16.37Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.About... -
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger
RRP: £35.00£28.74Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he... -
There Once Was A Man With Six Wives: Our Kings and Queens in Limericks Mick Twister 9781911042235
RRP: £12.99£8.71A hugely entertaining collection of clever and fun limericks, one for each monarch in British history - and more! Royal history as you've never seen it before - in limericks! ... -
Walden Henry Thoreau 9781857151367
RRP: £16.99£12.47In this classic of American literature, Thoreau gives an account of his two years experience of the 'simple life' in the woods, telling how he sought and found material and spiritual sustenance in the solitude of the cabin which he built for himself on... -
Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger by Lilly Dancyger
RRP: £22.00£16.93The rage of women is at a high: sparked by the Women's March of early 2017, stoked by countless policies of the Trump administration, and finally reaching incineration levels over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh in October 2018. But this issue isn't... -
The Sacred Magic of the Qabbalah by Manly P Hall 9781684931057
RRP: £19.99£17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684931057Author Manly P HallFormat HardbackPage Count 42Imprint Mockingbird PressPublisher Mockingbird PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jurgen Matthaus 9781442251670
RRP: £68.00£60.13In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party's chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781108461825
RRP: £8.99£7.62For this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new introduction. It draws on recent research in theatre to set Romeo and Juliet in its mid-1590s context, making connections with other plays by... -
The Poems by Caius Valerius Catullus
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years by A. David Moody 9780199215584
RRP: £28.99£21.20This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait, covering Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single highly readable and challenging narrative, in a way that has not been done before, the illuminating story of his life, his...