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Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast by Tom Bolton
RRP: $23.40$16.19"Out on the estuary a slab of land had separated itself from the horizon and was moving closer" Shortlisted for the New Angle Prize 2019 In 2016 Tom Bolton set out on a mission to walk the long, winding coastline of Essex - from Purfleet on the... -
The Eudaimonic Turn: Well-Being in Literary Studies by James O. Pawelski 9781611475289
RRP: $191.10$167.12In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given text's complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice... -
I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader by Elias Canetti
RRP: $31.18$22.13A 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... -
Library of History: v. 8 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: $48.65$45.61Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
Aches and Pains by Maeve Binchy 9781853718878 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.63$3.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853718878Author Maeve BinchyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd -
The Great Exhibition of 1851 by Louise Purbrick
RRP: $38.98$34.75The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world, an imperial spectacle, a picture of capitalism, a liberal dream, a vision of modern life. Historians have saturated the Great... -
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $44.85$43.15This is an analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Coetzee argues that a... -
Works: v. 5 by Demosthenes
RRP: $48.65$45.61The 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... -
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder
RRP: $31.18$23.44"Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times." -Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance Sixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter... -
Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others by Anthony Grafton 9781800081666
RRP: $68.25$61.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081666Author Anthony GraftonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 30mm -
Love + Hate: Stories and Essays by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: $19.48$13.07Hate skews reality even more than love.In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers will find... -
Panics and Persecutions: 20 Quillette Tales of Excommunication in the Digital Age by Quillette Magazine
RRP: $39.00$25.86In an age when telling the wrong joke or using the wrong pronoun can cost you your career, Quillette magazine - founded in 2015 by Australian-based journalist Claire Lehmann - has provided a forum for thinkers of all political stripes to push back... -
Against the Professors by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: $48.65$45.61A 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... -
Geography: v. 5 by Strabo
RRP: $48.65$45.61The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, ... -
Professor at Large: The Cornell Years by John Cleese 9781501716577
RRP: $38.98$34.20And now for something completely different. Professor at Large features beloved English comedian and actor John Cleese in the role of Ivy League professor at Cornell University. His almost twenty years as professor-at-large has led to many talks, essays,... -
Windows by Anne Quinney
RRP: $31.18$27.77At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers an autobiographical perspective on the private... -
Telling Times by Nadine Gordimer
RRP: $25.33$19.09Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of... -
The Art of Poetry: For GCSE and Beyond by Michael Meally 9780993077852
RRP: $33.13$26.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077852Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Writer and the World: Essays by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: $25.33$18.06During 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... -
Condition of Secrecy by Inger Christensen
RRP: $25.33$22.35The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. As The New York Times proclaimed, "Despite the rigorous structure that... -
My Unwritten Books George Steiner 9780753825693
RRP: $19.48$13.26George Steiner, the eminent professor of English at Cambridge and Geneva universities, has outlined seven books he has never written, but has always wanted to write, in seven sections.In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of... -
Writers and Their Teachers by Dale Salwak
RRP: $39.00$29.87By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa... -
Jack London: The Socialist Writings: The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, Revolution and Other Essays by Jack London 9781939375032
$33.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939375032Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Sabino Falls PublishingPublisher Sabino Falls PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Dreaming and Scheming: Collected Prose by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: $19.48$13.07Writing seems to be a problem of some kind. It isn't as if most people can just sit down and start to write brilliantly, get up from the desk, so something else all day, and then, next morning start again without any conflict or anxiety. To begin to... -
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition by Ernest F. Fenollosa
RRP: $46.78$44.09First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that... -
Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta by Mark Musa
RRP: $76.05$68.48"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet's own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied... -
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
RRP: $21.43$14.27In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating... -
What Time Is It? by John Berger
RRP: $29.23$26.56"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is... -
Livy: Ab urbe condita Book VI by Livy
RRP: $54.58$47.33Book VI of Livy's Ab urbe condita covers the history of Rome from 390 to 367 BC, a period during which the city, while in the process of recovering from being sacked by the Gauls, faced serious civil disturbance, the resolution of which fundamentally... -
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, etc. by Jonathan Lethem 9780099563433
RRP: $33.13$23.95This volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring and Marlon Brando. Then there are investigations of a shelf's worth of Jonathan Letham's literary models and contemporaries:... -
Works: v. 1 by Decimus Magnus Ausonius
RRP: $48.65$45.61A master of the jeweled style.Ausonius (Decimus Magnus), ca. AD 310-ca. 395, a doctor's son, was born at Burdigala (Bordeaux). After a good education in grammar and rhetoric and a short period during which he was an advocate, he took to teaching rhetoric... -
The Best American Essays 2020 by Robert Atwan
RRP: $25.33$18.54Andre Aciman "quite simply, one of the finest essayists of the last hundred years" (Los Angeles Review of Books) and one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, selects the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and... -
On Women by Susan Sontag
RRP: $31.20$17.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250876850Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm * 23mm -
Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard 9780300254112
RRP: $25.33$22.39The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Eric Chevillard, published in English for the first time Eric Chevillard is one of France's leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose... -
Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals by Joy Williams 9780762796502
RRP: $29.23$22.48Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the natural world.Reviews"Joy Williams is now the most gifted writer of her generation." -- Harold Brodkey ... -
Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition by Professor Mary Douglas
RRP: $40.95$39.60Exploring beyond the usual boundaries of social anthropology, a leader in the field shows why our readings of ancient literary texts may be off the mark Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all... -
Virginia Woolf: Essays on the Self by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $29.23$24.47Woolf's fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who 'seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended'. He is, Woolf adds,so complex, so... -
Sleep, Death's Brother by Jesse Ball 9781945711022
RRP: $27.30$25.62Sleep, Death's Brother is an instruction manual on dreaming for children or incarcerated persons, teaching such individuals to lucid dream and thus use their dreams to somewhat escape their situations. While it is often the case that dream life is... -
The Ideal of Culture: Essays by Joseph Epstein 9781604191233
RRP: $35.08$34.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604191233Author Joseph EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 572Imprint Axios PressPublisher Axios Press -
Fraud by David Rakoff 9780767906319
RRP: $29.23$21.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767906319Author David RakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division...