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The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £12.00£8.00In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the... -
I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader by Elias Canetti
RRP: £15.99£11.67A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen. He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won... -
The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard 9780226044026
RRP: £12.00£10.16The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard's work depicts the corruption of the modern world, the dynamics of... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: £16.99£11.67WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War... -
The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here by Susanne Paola Antonetta
RRP: £20.95£15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257807Author Susanne Paola AntonettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University... -
Aeneas: Virgil's Epic Retold for Young Readers by Virgil
RRP: £21.99£21.80Two thousand years ago the Roman poet Virgil related the adventures of a hero called Aeneas. He was a man who escaped from the burning ruins of Troy and, 'driven by Fate', led his people to a new home in a distant land. The story of Aeneas and the... -
Aristophanes: Clouds by Aristophanes 9780856682100
RRP: £27.99£24.95Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais by Francois Rabelais
RRP: £30.00£24.29Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, Francois Rabelais' irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the... -
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... -
The Idler 85, Jul/Aug 22: Featuring Jarvis Cocker plus wild swimming, mudlarking and more by Tom Hodgkinson 9781739660802
RRP: £9.00£6.46The Idler is a literary and philosophical lifestyle periodical edited by Tom Hodgkinson. This instalment features an interview with Jarvis Cocker about his memoir Good Pop Bad Pop, a guide to mudlarking, Arthur Smith in praise of teachers, Kate Rew on... -
Stories from South Uist by Angus MacLellan
RRP: £9.99£8.76This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell. The stories in the book include every type of tale found on... -
Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from the Battlefront by James Patterson 9781529135305
RRP: £16.99£11.27'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton_______Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories... -
Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime by Agatha Christie
RRP: £9.99£6.80Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself,... -
Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity by Rosanna McLaughlin 9780995705227
RRP: £10.99£7.64To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their way around the silverware. In the 1970s Tom Wolfe... -
Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology by Laura Otis
RRP: £11.99£8.43'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.' John Tyndall, 1874 Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate... -
microbursts by Elizabeth Reeder
RRP: £12.00£8.30microbursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the... -
Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan by Hugh McFadden 9781843510666
RRP: £19.99£18.82Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin (1955-66) and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St... -
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: £20.00£13.35'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the... -
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
RRP: £7.99£5.79'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished'Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or... -
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.' James Wolcott in his... -
Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners: Mrs Ritchie: Mrs Grundy in Scotland: Women - An Inquiry: 'Women in Scotland' by Willa Muir
RRP: £20.00£13.46This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her generation.Her writing is rich with paradox - although obsessively Scottish in subject and style, she resented... -
The Hedgehog, The Fox And The Magister's Pox: Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: £16.99£12.28Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world.In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O... -
Street Haunting: A London Adventure & Bulwell by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £4.00£3.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170427Author Virginia WoolfImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Goethe, Volume 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691043449
RRP: £25.00£19.99Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man... -
Greek Orators I: Antiphon, Lysias by M. Edwards 9780856682476
£30.09Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies ... -
My Crazy Century by Ivan Klima
RRP: £16.99£11.98More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klima's generation. Klima's story begins in the 1930s, in the Terezin concentration camp... -
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph
RRP: £17.99£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063138322Author JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Infernalia: The Writings of Michael Rose by Peter H Gilmore 9780988553699
RRP: £16.95£13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988553699Author Peter H GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Underworld AmusementsPublisher Underworld AmusementsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins by Zoë Bossiere 9780814349601
RRP: £24.95£19.88Lyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions in creative nonfiction, opening up space not only for new forms of writing, but also new voices and a new literary canon. This anthology features some of... -
The Common Reader: Volume 1 by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover Virginia Woolf's informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon - from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational... -
The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer's Diary: 2017 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £14.99£12.55A new anthology of Dostoevsky's remarkable work 'A Writer's Diary'. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in... -
Persons and Polemics: Historical Essays by Edward Thompson 9780850364392
RRP: £14.95£13.60Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850364392Author Edward ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson 9781848878563
RRP: £9.99£6.70'Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.' TimeOne of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned... -
Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys Through the Turning Times by Jay Griffiths 9781915068019
RRP: £18.00£12.96This new book of essays from the author of Wild tracks the turning light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times. Beginning in night and winter, it moves to dawn and spring, then noon and summer and finally evening and autumn. Set partly... -
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... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain by Mark Twain 9780486489230
RRP: £12.49£9.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486489230Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm)... -
The Curtain: Essays by Milan Kundera
RRP: £14.99£9.80In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often, Kundera suggests, a novel is thought about only within... -
Discourses: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Epictetus
RRP: £24.95£23.39From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled permanently... -
So Real It Hurts by Lydia Lunch
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809430Author Lydia LunchFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by F. M. Dostoevsky 9780810115187
£16.98In June 1862 Fyodor Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly a trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, Dostoevsky also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were...