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Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer With Illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones by Geoffrey Chaucer 9781606601044
RRP: $122.83$82.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606601044Author Geoffrey ChaucerFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works by Gary Taylor 9780199580538
RRP: $81.88$75.64Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play A... -
Writing the Thames Christina Hardyment 9781851244508
RRP: $48.75$41.57Thames aficionado Robert Gibbings once wrote that 'the quiet of an age-old river is like the slow turning of the pages of a well-loved book'. Writing the Thames tells a much-loved river's story through the remarkable prose, poetry and illustration... -
News from the Midell Regions and Calthorpe′s Chapel by Dorothy Calthorpe
RRP: $78.00$75.17An introduction to a new early modern woman writer that makes her manuscripts available in print for the first time. This first print edition of two extant manuscripts by Dorothy Calthorpe (1648-1693) introduces a new seventeenth-century woman writer... -
Walking Literary London by Stephen Browning
RRP: $29.23$21.35London possesses a literary heritage which is unique and in large part unrivalled in any city in the world. In this book, literary London is presented through its authors and literature: William Shakespeare, Andrea Levy, G.A. Henty, Geoffrey Chaucer,... -
Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur: The Definitive Original Text Edition Peter J C Field 9781843844600
$58.97Peter Field's new edition of the Morte Darthur has been hailed as "our standard critical edition of Malory". This paperback of Vol 1 only makes the complete definitive original spelling text edition available, with the same pagination as in Vol 1 of the... -
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Collins Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: $5.83$5.54HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Featuring the last 12 stories ever written about the infamous detective, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains some of Conan Doyle's most villainous and... -
Windy Arbours: Collected Critisism by Aidan Higgins 9781564783912
RRP: $35.08$23.99In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be... -
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $19.48$14.22It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable John Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent figure of nineteenth century English intellectual life... -
Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857150278
RRP: $29.23$21.35Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. This selection of verse and prose displays the extraordinary scope of his mind, the power of his imagination and the virtuosity of his literary... -
William Blake: Selected Poems Louise Guinness 9781912945047
RRP: $19.48$13.26This selection of Blake's poetry is packaged in an attractive and collectible format and marketed at an attractive price for the customer. It is part of a series of poetry titles designed to be seen as a set.Book InformationISBN 9781912945047Author... -
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection by Richard Lansdown 9780198722557
RRP: $67.26$49.82Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful... -
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780199538263
RRP: $19.48$13.86Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott by Fiona Robertson
RRP: $46.78$38.04Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is widely recognised as one of the central and defining figures in Scottish literature and in European and American Romanticism. Fabled in his own lifetime as 'the Wizard of the North' and as the (long-anonymous) 'Author of... -
Victorian Demons: Medicine, Masculinity, and the Gothic at the Fin-De-SieCle by Andrew W. M. Smith 9780719063572
RRP: $38.98$34.75Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siecle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts,... -
Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9780375725661
RRP: $34.13$25.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725661Author Gerard Manley HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
Ground Work: Writings on People and Places by Tim Dee
RRP: $19.48$13.86The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing'Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology' ObserverWe are living in the anthropocene - an epoch where everything... -
Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels in One Sitting by Joelle Herr
RRP: $13.63$9.63Celebrate the bicentennial birthday of Charles Dickens with this Miniature Edition packed with witty summaries of the novels of one of history's most beloved storytellers. All fans of great literature can enjoy these perfectly portable renditions of... -
The Selected Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
$118.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145147Author Samuel BeckettPage Count 2047Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams)... -
Different Kinds of Love Leland Bardwell 9781906614515
RRP: $19.50$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614515Author Leland BardwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 198g -
Seasons Greetings From George: The Christmas Cards of George Mackay Brown George Mackay Brown 9781915530073
RRP: $25.33$16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530073Author George Mackay BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9781606601211
RRP: $40.93$27.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606601211Author Charles DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
With Dust Still in His Throat: The Writing of B. L. Coombes, the Voice of a Working Miner by B. L. Coombes 9781783161492
RRP: $23.38$17.55The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this... -
The Letters of Junius by John Cannon 9780198124559
$119.20A scholarly edition of the letters of Junius. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198124559Author John CannonFormat HardbackPage Count 678Imprint... -
Selected Poems: Thomas Chatterton by Thomas Chatterton 9781857546927
RRP: $19.40$13.59Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with the medieval world and escaped into it from miserable... -
Early Welsh Gnomic and Nature Poetry by Nicolas Jacobs 9781907322686
$33.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322686Author Nicolas JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research... -
Eutopia: Studies in Cultural Euro-Welshness, 1850–1980 by M. Wynn Thomas 9781786836144
RRP: $48.73$36.66The Brexit debates confirmed how Wales’s relationship to Europe has for too long been discussed exclusively, narrowly and suffocatingly in terms of its social, political and economic aspects. As a contrast, this volume sets out to explore the rich,... -
Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: The Annotated 'Watt' by Chris Ackerley
RRP: $54.58$50.72Obscure Locks, Simple Keys is a comprehensive study of this most enigmatic of all of SmauelBeckett's texts. Chris Ackerley's approach, which has some similarities to genetic editing, is based on an extensive study of the manuscripts and different... -
The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology by Denise Gigante
RRP: $76.05$74.16A collection of outstanding British periodical essays from the era in which the genre was invented From the pens of spectators, ramblers, idlers, tattlers, hypochondriacs, connoisseurs, and loungers, a new literary genre emerged in eighteenth-century... -
Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope
RRP: $19.48$13.86Henry Jones, an unprepossessing London insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The old man's will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry's charming cousin Isabel Brodrick, lies neatly folded in a well-thumbed volume of... -
London in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
$6.14'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,' said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a 'riddle', a 'cesspool' and a 'modern Babylon', and both... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull
RRP: $19.48$12.95The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us... -
John Donne by John Donne
RRP: $17.53$11.86John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in... -
Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews by Professor Christopher Murray
RRP: $25.33$16.69Since the success of "Philadelphia Here I Come!" in 1964, Brian Friel has written over 20 plays to critical acclaim, confirming him as one of the major dramatists of the 20th century. This collection of writing from 1964 to 1999 delves into his work and... -
Oxford Student Texts: Love Through the Ages by Julia Geddes
$22.93One of a series of thematic collections of texts. Each includes general notes on the texts, as well as discussion of themes, issues and context.One of a series, this one concentrating on the theme of 'love'.ReviewsIt has everything for wider reading for... -
Cymru and I by Gosia Buzzanca 9781781727300
RRP: $19.48$13.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727300Author Gosia BuzzancaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 318mm * 20mm -
Literary Devolution by Scott Hames
RRP: $56.53$52.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474418140Author Scott HamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Decadence: An Annotated Anthology by Jane Desmarais 9780719075513
RRP: $38.98$28.31The tradition of Decadent writing in the 19th century remains a fascinating current in the evolution of modern literature. This new anthology brings together key texts from an international range of Decadent writings and writings about Decadence, many of... -
Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture by Catherine Maxwell 9780198701750
RRP: $89.68$78.96This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with... -
The Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones 9780460872973
RRP: $19.48$13.96'So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw...' In this superb collection of tales, Celtic mythology and...