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Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $27.28$17.98Sweeney 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... -
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake
RRP: $23.08$16.32Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the... -
Stories from a Fractured City Tales of Two Londons by Claire Armistead
RRP: $23.08$13.59London today is embattled as rarely before. In a city of enormous wealth, poverty is rampant. The burnt-out hulk of Grenfell Tower stands as an appalling reminder that inequality can be so acute as to be murderous. Here, Claire Armitstead has drawn... -
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold 9780199538744
RRP: $18.88$13.55'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... -
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
RRP: $23.08$16.32Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose - whether everyday or sublime - into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the... -
Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 2 by Anthony Powell
RRP: $42.00$30.01Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to... -
Three Gothic Novels by Horace Walpole
RRP: $27.28$19.09The 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: $35.68$26.63Described 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... -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray
RRP: $25.18$17.12London: 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: $27.28$17.81'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... -
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser
RRP: $27.28$19.09Asser'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... -
Selected Poems: Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson 9780140424430
RRP: $20.98$14.93As 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... -
British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler by Katharine M. Briggs
RRP: $31.48$28.52In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance... -
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571315284
RRP: $27.28$17.98No 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... -
The Major Works by John Milton
RRP: $31.48$23.84This 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... -
Complete Poems by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: $39.88$30.68Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics and... -
Best of Myles: A Selection from Cruskeen Lawn: Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9780007247189
RRP: $27.28$17.81Under 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... -
England Your England by George Orwell 9781913724689
RRP: $10.50$9.28George 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: $23.08$14.95'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... -
Selected Writings by John Ruskin
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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... -
Poems And Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857157352
RRP: $20.98$14.93A 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: $25.18$17.70This 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... -
Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore by W. B. Yeats
RRP: $23.08$16.91A 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: $35.68$25.79Byron'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... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 9780141192468
RRP: $35.68$27.99Part 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 Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $27.28$19.09Marlowe'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... -
Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: $20.98$14.93This 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 Sidney's poetry and prose - all the major writing, complemented by... -
The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 1 T. S. Eliot 9780571295487
RRP: $105.00$69.49T. 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: $71.38$64.81Broken 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... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: $20.98$14.93This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost in Plain English by Professor John Milton 9780963962157
RRP: $27.93$26.12Apologies 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 -
William Morris on Socialism: Uncollected Essays by William Morris 9781474458085
RRP: $262.50$212.65Presents 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... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
RRP: $18.88$12.77In 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... -
Samuel Johnson: The Yale Anthology of His Prose and Poetry by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $68.25$61.22An anthology of the essential and enduring works of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent man of letters-moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet-and his influence endures to this day. This... -
Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 by J. G. Ballard 9780262048323
RRP: $63.00$41.58Apologies 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 -
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: $73.50$53.11George 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... -
New Irish Short Stories by Joseph O'Connor
RRP: $27.28$17.98Edited 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: $52.50$35.68This 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 Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393603057
$79.80The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video...