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Essays by George Orwell 9780141395463
RRP: £9.99£7.11These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.About... -
Naturales Quaestiones: v. 1: Bks.I-III by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Following nature in pursuit of ethics.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,... -
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £7.99£5.79'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical... -
Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler) 9781635579048
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579048Author V (formerly Eve Ensler)Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g -
When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351689Author Dodie BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature by M. H. Abrams 9780393006094
RRP: £27.00£22.78In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789-1835)-the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in... -
Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations by Charles Nicholl
RRP: £10.99£7.77History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of The Reckoning, The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street and... -
Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
RRP: £12.99£9.09The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture.In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's perennial areas of interest... -
Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £12.99£9.09J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens... -
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Professor Audre Lorde
RRP: £12.99£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580911863Author Audre LordeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Philostratus: Apollonius of Tyana, III, Letters of Apollonius, Ancient Testimonia, Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.88The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.Philostratus' colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This volume, which... -
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £12.99£8.56Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great... -
The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla 9780349700366
RRP: £9.99£6.92GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt the country as one's own' Publishers Weekly An urgent collection of essays by first- and... -
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780393957495
£15.23Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus's important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament,... -
Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli 9781847085191
RRP: £12.99£8.56Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neighbourhood, revisiting the landmarks of her past, or getting lost in a... -
Ymbapuroli by Angharad Price 9781845277802 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.00£3.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845277802Author Angharad PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch -
Angels & Saints by Eliot Weinberger
£21.16Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The... -
Are Women Human?: Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society by Dorothy L. Sayers
£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802829962Author Dorothy L. SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £18.99£12.83The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV 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 ... -
Trojan Women by Euripides 9780674995741
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three 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... -
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: £12.99£8.56Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brunnhilde diagnoses Wotan, father of the gods, to be a victim of... -
First Light by Erica Wagner
RRP: £10.99£7.47Described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkein', Alan Garner has been enrapturing readers with works like The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service, Red Shift and The Stone Book Quartet for more than half... -
Juvenal: Satires Book I by Juvenal
RRP: £27.99£24.27Satire was a genre of poetry invented and developed by the Romans. When it came into Juvenal's hands, he stamped his mark upon it: indignation. His angry voice had an overwhelming influence upon later European satirists and persists in modern forms of... -
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Heidi Pitlor
RRP: £12.99£10.16A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post),... -
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate 9780385423397
RRP: £23.00£17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385423397Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: £5.00£4.42First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured but ardent tone, Woolf weaves together thought and... -
The Fastidious Assassins by Albert Camus
RRP: £7.99£5.79A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only... -
Works: v. 4 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading by Eileen Myles
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Small Press) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9781570270574Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher... -
The Writer and the World: Essays by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £12.99£9.26During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage - many of which have been unavailable for some time - are... -
The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: £9.99£6.80GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt the country as one's own' Publishers Weekly An urgent collection of essays exploring what it's like to... -
Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Jonathan Miller: One Thing and Another by Jonathan Miller
RRP: £21.99£20.99'Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?' 'I'm rather glad I'm not. I'm quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.' Over the course of seven decades,... -
Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney 9781739220747
RRP: £10.99£7.40After a decade-long relationship with a dominatrix he called Daddy, Emerson Whitney began to crave something besides submission. It came as a full surprise: submission had been so central to his early adulthood. Now what? Dizzied by new questions of... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 9780393310399
RRP: £9.99£7.71Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young... -
Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee
RRP: £15.99£11.61As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and... -
Vathek and Other Stories by Malcolm Jack 9780140435306
RRP: £12.99£9.09An enthralling work of Gothic fiction, modelled on the Arabian Nights, William Beckford's Vathek and Other Stories is edited with an introduction by Malcolm Jack in Penguin Classics.William Beckford was a novelist, travel writer, art critic and... -
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa 9780142437094
RRP: £10.99£10.95Zitkala-Sa struggled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she attended boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian... -
On Poetry and Poets by Professor T S Eliot 9780374531973
RRP: £12.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531973Author Professor T S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 295g