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Metamorphoses: Bks. 9-15 by Ovid
RRP: $48.65$47.85The 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... -
The Hidden Plot: Notes on Theatre and the State by Edward Bond 9780413725509
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Style: The art of writing well (Harriman Classics) by F.L. Lucas
RRP: $29.23$19.46*4th edition with a new foreword by Joseph Epstein (Harriman Classics)* Lost for almost forty years, Style has acquired the status of a legend. Loved by some of the greatest modern authors and acclaimed by critics, this guide to recognising and writing... -
History: Bks. I-IV by Herodian
RRP: $48.65$45.61A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
Greek Through Reading by J.A. Nairn 9781853990373
$74.37Greek Through Reading stresses the importance of early reading of good and varied Greek to give the student a sense of idiom. The Greek selections come from twenty-five authors ranging from Homer to the Anthology. These are arranged in fourteen... -
We'll Never Have Paris Andrew Gallix 9781912248384
RRP: $33.13$22.50In 1948 Robert Doisneau took a picture of a young woman working at her typewriter on the banks of the Seine. With her stylish sunglasses and short skirt, she seems to epitomise Left Bank bohemian chic. In fact she turns out to be the English author Emma... -
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture: Third Edition by Lisa Robertson 9781552452325
RRP: $29.23$19.27This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson. There are essays -- many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries -- on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics,... -
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting by Ann Hood
RRP: $25.33$21.51Knitting Yarns explores what is so magical about knitting and how it can inspire joy and help us get through life-changing events. Knitting occupies an important a place in the hearts of a number of writers. Ann Hood has collected twenty-seven original... -
Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings by Glenn O'Brien 9781733540100
RRP: $48.75$33.77"Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the reader's life." --Michael Chabon A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last... -
De Re Rustica: v. 3: Bks.X-XII by Columella
RRP: $48.65$45.61A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military ... -
Essays of E. B. White by E B White 9780062149893
RRP: $21.43$18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062149893Author E B WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 358g -
Critic at Large: Essays and Rreviews 2010-2022 by DJ Taylor 9781915553195
RRP: $19.50$15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553195Author DJ TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press -
Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown by Robert Gordon
RRP: $37.03$28.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867735Author Robert GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 538g -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $31.18$22.64Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth,... -
Love Sonnets of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.68$9.54Once it blooms, it changes everything. Love is uplifting, enlightening, transforming. In this timeless collection of more than 80 sonnets, William Shakespeare pays tribute to our most beautiful emotion. Read and share them with the one you love.About the... -
If the War Goes On . . .: Reflections on War and Politics by Hermann Hesse
RRP: $19.48$13.07Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in... -
Shop Talk by Philip Roth
RRP: $25.33$17.73Philip Roth is the voice of our times.In a sequence of intimate conversations with some of the most influential and insightful writers of the twentieth century, Roth explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work and that of their... -
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman 9780525562955
RRP: $36.95$24.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562955Author Philip PullmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions by Pico Iyer 9780679776109
RRP: $42.90$29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776109Author Pico IyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm... -
Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence 9780140183771
RRP: $25.33$17.73Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature... -
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
RRP: $19.48$16.75A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. One of the... -
Meadows Of Gold Masudi 9781138980617
RRP: $93.58$82.31First published in 1989. Mas'udi was born in Baghdad about 896 AD, during the Caliphate of Mu'tadid and died in Egypt sometime around the year 956, eleven years after the Buwaihids, a Shi'a dynasty of Iranian origin, had occupied Baghdad and taken... -
A Balthus Notebook by Guy Davenport
RRP: $17.45$12.05In his 1989 book on Balthus-the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century-Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of the work of this master. Reading it today highlights... -
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
RRP: $33.13$23.95The definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman MailerFrom his early 'A Credo for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was... -
Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens
RRP: $27.30$19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394702780Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times Professor A. C. Grayling 9781408864623
RRP: $33.13$23.95A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of... -
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel 9781558614444
RRP: $21.43$17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614444Author Mireille GanselFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The... -
What Happened? by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: $21.43$14.27'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and... -
Love and Ruin: Tales of Obsession, Danger, and Heartbreak from The Atavist Magazine by Evan Ratliff
RRP: $25.33$22.35Since its founding in 2011, The Atavist Magazine has garnered an unprecedented eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digital publication to win in feature writing. This collection presents the finest examples of a new kind of... -
Naturales Quaestiones: v. 1: Bks.I-III by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $48.65$45.30Following 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,... -
On Animals by Susan Orlean 9781838955489
RRP: $19.48$12.71'Every essay in this book is magnificent... Mesmerizing.' New York Times'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book... -
On Imagination by Mary Ruefle 9781941411476
RRP: $21.43$14.39"It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea," Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus,... -
We Too: Essays On Sex Work And Survival by Natalie West 9781558612853
RRP: $38.98$26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558612853Author Natalie WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
An Earnest Blackness by Eugen Bacon 9780999153581
RRP: $40.93$35.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999153581Author Eugen BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Anti-Oedipus PressPublisher Anti-Oedipus PressWeight(grams) 127g -
Portraits And Observations: The Essays Of Truman Capote by Truman Capote 9780812994391
RRP: $42.90$33.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812994391Author Truman CapoteFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
Republican Party Reptile by P. J. O'Rourke 9780871136220
RRP: $33.15$22.00Confessions, Adventures, Essays, And (other) Outrages of P. J. O'rourke, this is the first collection of wildly humorous essays from the former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon.Book InformationISBN 9780871136220Author P. J. O'RourkeFormat... -
Moralia: v. 2 by Plutarch
RRP: $48.65$45.61Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
Satyajit Ray Miscellany: On Life, Cinema, People & Much More by Ray , Satyajit 9780143448990
RRP: $37.03$24.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143448990Author Ray SatyajitFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 20mm -
In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M Weaver, 1929-1963 by Richard M. Weaver 9780865972834
RRP: $27.20$24.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972834Author Richard WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 861Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1034g -
Heroides by Ovid 9780674990456
RRP: $48.65$47.85Two early works by the consummate Latin love poet.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...