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Three Gothic Novels by Horace Walpole
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings.This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The... -
Selected Poems by Lord Byron
RRP: $21.92$16.36Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual... -
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $16.76$11.04Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at... -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray
RRP: $15.47$10.51London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is... -
English Food: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss 9780007255573
RRP: $16.76$10.94'An absolute gem' Sunday Times 'A mouthwatering history' The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the... -
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse by Christopher Ricks
RRP: $19.34$14.64A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great... -
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria by William Trevor
RRP: $12.89$9.17Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria - two novels by William Trevor'Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart' Daily Mail'Marvellous, superb. As rich and moving as anything I have read in... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $16.76$11.73Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward... -
Selected Poems: Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson 9780140424430
RRP: $12.89$9.17As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.'Into the jaw of DeathInto the mouth of... -
Othello: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare 9780199535873
RRP: $10.31$7.47The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571315284
RRP: $16.76$11.04No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential... -
Best of Myles: A Selection from Cruskeen Lawn: Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9780007247189
RRP: $16.76$10.94Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life. With shameless irony and... -
Stephens Plays: v. 1: "Bluebird", "Christmas", "Herons", "Port" by Simon Stephens
RRP: $28.37$26.56First collection from the 2004 Pearson Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens Plays: 1 brings together four of the early plays from the winner of the 2002 Pearson Best New Play Award. Since Bluebird in 1998, Stephens has gained recognition for humane... -
England Your England by George Orwell 9781913724689
RRP: $6.45$5.70George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $14.18$9.18'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern... -
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold 9780199538744
RRP: $11.60$8.32'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 9780141192468
RRP: $21.92$17.20Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had... -
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth
RRP: $12.89$9.17'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.' Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the... -
Poems And Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857157352
RRP: $12.89$9.17A few magical poems by Coleridge remain among the most celebrated works in the language: KUBLA KHAN, CHRISTABEL and - above all -THE ANCIENT MARINER. All are included in this volume, together with many other superb but lesser-known poems and a selected... -
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $15.47$10.87This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his... -
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser
RRP: $16.76$11.73Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's service and worked with him in his efforts to revive... -
Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore by W. B. Yeats
RRP: $14.18$10.38A classic collection of Irish fairy tales and lore by Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and poet W. B. Yeats Originally published as two separate volumes in 1800s, this premier collection of Irish stories edited and compiled W. B. Yeats is the perfect... -
Don Juan by Lord Byron
RRP: $21.92$15.84Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where... -
Selected Poems and Prose by Edward Thomas
RRP: $14.18$10.02The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or... -
A Little, Aloud: An anthology of prose and poetry for reading aloud to someone you care for Angela Macmillan 9780701185633
RRP: $21.92$15.84We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly, research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading and wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable health and happiness benefits. It stimulates thought and... -
The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 1 T. S. Eliot 9780571295487
RRP: $64.50$42.69T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's 'Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill 9780198713180
RRP: $43.85$39.81Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have... -
Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 by J. G. Ballard 9780262048323
RRP: $38.70$25.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048323Author J. G. BallardFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 638gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 162mm * 33mm -
John Milton's Paradise Lost in Plain English by Professor John Milton 9780963962157
RRP: $17.16$16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963962157Author Professor John MiltonFormat PaperbackImprint New Arts LibraryPublisher New Arts LibraryWeight(grams) 513g -
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Tóibín 9780241970614
RRP: $14.18$10.02A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an... -
William Morris on Socialism: Uncollected Essays by William Morris 9781474458085
RRP: $161.25$130.63Presents the first extended collection of new William Morris essays in several decade The first collection of new Morris essays in several decades, gathered from manuscripts, newspapers and long out-of-print contemporary sources Follows Morris's... -
Selected Writings by John Ruskin
RRP: $12.89$9.17'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
RRP: $11.60$7.84In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Tales of the Elders of Ireland by Ann Dooley
RRP: $14.18$10.02"'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide... -
Invitation To The Dance by Hilary Spurling
RRP: $16.76$11.73A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character,... -
The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
RRP: $45.15$32.62George Orwell's best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political... -
The Major Works by Robert Browning
RRP: $18.05$13.09This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning's poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career to... -
New Irish Short Stories by Joseph O'Connor
RRP: $16.76$11.04Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring, among many others, William Trevor and Roddy Doyle,... -
The Poems of Norman MacCaig by Norman MacCaig 9781846971365
RRP: $32.25$21.92This collection of Norman MacCaig's poems is offered as the definitive edition of his work. It has been edited by his son, Ewen. A prolific writer, MacCaig left about 600 unpublished poems after his death; 99 have been selected for inclusion here. The... -
The Major Works by John Milton
RRP: $19.34$14.64This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Milton's poetry and prose - all the English verse together with a...