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Oxford Student Texts: Wilfred Owen: Selected Poems by Helen Cross
$15.17One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.One of a series, this... -
The Communicating Vessels: Two Portraits of Grief by Friederike Mayroecker by Mayrocker Friederike
RRP: $16.76$11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998267586Author Mayrocker FriederikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint A Public SpacePublisher A Public Space -
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West by Various Authors 9781805330516
RRP: $14.18$9.44Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of Francois Truffaut and... -
Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fates by Malachy Tallack
RRP: $19.34$13.16Journey through the imagined islands of history. Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply human error. They are phantoms, fakes and legends: an... -
The Dreyfus Affair: Jaccuse and Other Writings by Emile Zola 9780300073676
$28.87In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, which they claimed to be proof of espionage on behalf of Germany. Dreyfus was subsequently court-martialed and... -
Plays, Prose Writings And Poems by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $19.34$14.64Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde's belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works include Wilde's... -
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9781857150742
RRP: $23.21$17.22These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory,... -
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: $14.18$10.02Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her... -
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology by Alice Oswald
RRP: $19.34$14.13'It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling, omniform Day...' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby, 27 September 1802This anthology of poems and prose ranges from literary weather - Homer's winds, Ovid's flood - to scientific... -
Criminal Child: Selected Essays by Jean Genet
RRP: $19.34$11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373614Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780226782768
RRP: $107.07$102.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226782768Author Lucius Annaeus SenecaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages) by W.G. Sebald
RRP: $14.06$9.95Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great,... -
Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates
RRP: $16.76$11.73This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb... -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: $19.34$15.16A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: $21.92$15.45With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the... -
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
RRP: $16.76$11.04In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear - fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in your children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a... -
Walking, Writing and Performance by Roberta Mock
RRP: $37.35$36.29This collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that discuss processes of development, writing and... -
Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell by Katherine Angel
RRP: $14.18$10.02Unmastered is groundbreaking, incisive and moving. Exploring desire and pleasure, grief and pain, it underlines the importance and difficulties of speaking desire as a woman. How do we explore sexuality on our own terms, and find language for our... -
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
RRP: $14.18$10.02It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck.In... -
King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: $14.18$10.02This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led... -
Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Jenny Joseph 9781800818125
RRP: $12.89$8.41Jenny Joseph was no ordinary poet - and Led by the Nose is no ordinary memoir. Shaped around the smells of the English countryside, it is full of the wilful personality and the sly humour that characterised the purple-clad old woman in her iconic poem... -
One Hundred Miracles: Music, Auschwitz, Survival and Love by Zuzana Ruzickova
RRP: $14.18$10.02The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian... -
Essays and Letters by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: $19.34$14.13One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters and essays traces the life and thoughts of this... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
RRP: $16.76$12.87An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking... -
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings by Sylvia Plath 9780571049899
RRP: $12.89$8.64From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional storywriter.When the first edition... -
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
RRP: $14.18$10.02Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. EX... -
Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman by Rebecca Tamas
RRP: $16.76$11.53* LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. * Repackaged for 2022 with an additional essay In Strangers, Rebecca Tamas explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of... -
A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains Isabella L. Bird 9780860682677
RRP: $14.18$9.55'There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird' SPECTATOR'Venture deep into the Colorado wilderness, and you will find her long-lasting legacy in the community of people choosing to live a life without limits' RUBY WAX, GUARDIAN 'This... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: $12.89$8.27Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
RRP: $14.18$9.44Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on.Vogue, 10 of the Most Anticipated... -
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $21.92$15.84________________ 'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman 'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' -... -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of... -
An Apartment in Uranus by Paul B. Preciado
RRP: $16.76$11.04Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to define the 'third sex' and the rights of those who 'love... -
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
RRP: $11.60$8.00Aged 15 and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped on a night out. The injuries she sustained that evening ended her gymnastics career, and eventually manifested in life-long chronic illnesses, which medical... -
Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing by James Joyce
RRP: $14.18$10.02'I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism' James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history,... -
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant.To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical... -
Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
RRP: $25.80$20.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394752099Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Bukowski In A Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life by Kim Addonizio
RRP: $28.37$18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128465Author Kim AddonizioFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198g -
Essays Lydia Davis 9780241371473
RRP: $25.80$18.95From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion'She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'Among my... -
This Old Man: All in Pieces by Roger Angell 9781101971390
RRP: $21.87$14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101971390Author Roger AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 295g