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The Art of Poetry: Forward Poems, revised selection by Michael Meally 9780995467149
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467149Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Philosophical Dictionary by Francois Voltaire 9780140442571
RRP: £14.99£10.95Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French... -
Plant Dreaming Deep: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393315516
RRP: £16.50£13.75May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire-how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.About the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.Reviews"A drama of... -
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 9780393958287
£23.44The 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... -
Dead as Doornails: A Memoir by Anthony Cronin
RRP: £10.00£8.93Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick... -
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking: 2018 by Duncan Minshull 9781910749982
RRP: £14.99£12.55"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness." -Soren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and... -
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns by Dohra Ahmad
RRP: £14.99£9.93Spanning a period of over three hundred years and twenty-five countries, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature is a wide-ranging anthology that brings together well-known authors such as Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie alongside emerging... -
Children of Heracles: Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Four plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays... -
Writing Home by Polly Devlin
RRP: £10.99£7.00In the pieces brought together in Writing Home, Polly Devlin OBE, most bewitching of writers, covers subjects that range over her whole life and thought. She writes about places: about her childhood deep in the countryside of Northern Ireland (where, in... -
Moral Essays: v. 1: De Providentia De Constantiade Ira De Cementia by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: £62.00£49.22This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only book that he regarded as an autobiography, A Certain... -
Parts of Animals by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39Inductive zoology.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the... -
Elegies by Sextus Propertius
RRP: £24.95£24.54Learned love poems from the early Augustan age.The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much... -
H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit 9789356995826
RRP: £17.50£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356995826Author Kunal PurohitFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus 9780674416758
RRP: £17.95£14.60More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9780141018980
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Darn Bach o'r Haul by Rhiannon Williams 9781913996741
£9.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913996741Author Gwasg y BwthynFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Gwasg y Bwthyn CyfPublisher Gwasg y Bwthyn CyfDimensions(mm) 165mm * 140mm * 12mm -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.26From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719
RRP: £9.99£3.51From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Moral Essays: v. 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Untitled 2 by Rosita Boland
RRP: £14.99£13.45'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one... -
By the Book by Pamela Paul
£13.33Every 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... -
Escape Into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions by Evan Puschak
RRP: £27.00£16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982163952Author Evan PuschakFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria Books -
Metamorphoses: Bks. 9-15 by Ovid
RRP: £24.95£24.54The poetry of change.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the... -
Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson 9780330510790 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.91I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start . . . stand back. We are on the brink. Yes. I have an idea.' When Hunter S... -
Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney 9780571141517
RRP: £12.99£8.56The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself. Should it be governed? Should it be the... -
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks 9781529087420 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£6.87'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - ObserverWhen Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual... -
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks 9781529087420
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - ObserverWhen Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual... -
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story) by Julian Barnes
RRP: £12.99£9.09In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness... -
How People Change by Allen Wheelis 9780060904470
RRP: £8.99£7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060904470Author Allen WheelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Ornament and Silence by Kennedy Fraser 9780375701122
RRP: £19.00£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701122Author Kennedy FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
RRP: £23.00£14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033188Author Jane SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 413g -
Epistulae Morales: v. 1: Letters I-LXV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service... -
Always Astonished: Selected Prose by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: £10.99£7.38"After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his... -
Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era - the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to... -
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Selected Works by Vladimir Mayakovsky 9781910392164
RRP: £14.99£10.95'This exhibition is not a jubilee, it's an account of my work. I demand help - not the glorification of non-existent virtues. That's what we are talking about, comrades, and not about glorifying private persons.' Mayakovsky was a poet, playwright,... -
Against the Professors by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
Phaedrus by Plato
RRP: £12.99£11.06"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek text. . . . The footnotes are always helpful, never obtrusive... -
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson 9780812975321
RRP: £18.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975321Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison
RRP: £25.00£16.99In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an...