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What is 'Englishness'? Who defines it? What impact have changes to England and the English, as well as England's relationship with the outside world, had on 'Englishness'? Has 'Englishness' become an anachronism at the turn of a new century?These...

Although Dylan Thomas died in 1953, his work has never been out of print and his notorious life continues to fascinate. To mark the centenary of Thomas's birth, Dylan Thomas's Swansea, Gower and Laugharne is being reprinted. This popular publication...

This new addition to the Women Writers in English series records Anne Askew's narrative of her imprisonment for heresy and her interrogation by officials of church and state in the last days of Henry VIII. As a spiritual autobiography, a historical...

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an improved, accessible and throughly up-to-date edition. Starting with the authoritative Revels Plays edition of 1964, John...

The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the...

Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writers in the English language. Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated female writers in history, best...

'The Art of Letter Writing' gives over fifty examples of the perfect letter for any occasion. Unsure how to break off an engagement, accept an invitation to a country house weekend, complain about a courier or write to a countess? This book contains...

Aldous Huxley's stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time is confirmed in this gathering of his distinguished stories into a single volume. Twenty-one pieces are here, including "The Gioconda Smile,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907282822Author Robbie MoffatFormat PaperbackPage Count 830Imprint Palm Tree PublishingPublisher Palm Tree PublishingWeight(grams) 798g

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881956Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 356gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst demographic...

Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the...

All Over Ireland, edited by Deirdre Madden (Molly Fox's Birthday, Time Present and Time Past), continues the tradition of featuring the work of both new and established writers, including Colm Toibin, Mary Morrissy and Eoin McNamee. These diverse and...

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great...

A deluxe edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of wondrously charming nonsense, in time for its 150th anniversaryWhen Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, little does she know that she is traveling to a world of magic where...

The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge, scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976115748Author Standish O'GradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Old Baldy PressPublisher Old Baldy PressWeight(grams) 215g

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Heart-breaking, heart-warming, and hilarious: a glorious debut' Ruth Hogan'Strong and taut' Anne Griffin 'Fresh, thoughtful and original' Irish Times'I really enjoyed this, Eleanor is a lovely writer' Sheila O'FlanaganMeet...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Heart-breaking, heart-warming, and hilarious: a glorious debut' Ruth Hogan'Strong and taut' Anne Griffin 'Fresh, thoughtful and original' Irish Times'I really enjoyed this, Eleanor is a lovely writer' Sheila O'FlanaganMeet...

Woven Shades of Green is an annotated selection of literature by authors who focus on the natural world and the beauty of Ireland. It begins with the Irish monks and their largely anonymous nature poetry, written at a time when Ireland was heavily...

This volume provides a wide-ranging collection of the writing of noted Bloomsbury figure Vita Sackville-West. One of the most well known lesbian authors of the 20th century, Sackville-West was a central figure among the Bloomsbury modernists, and had a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854111869Format PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 185g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854111869Format PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 185g

Justus Lipsius' De Constantia (1584) is one of the most important and interesting of sixteenth century Humanist texts. A dialogue in two books, conceived as a philosophical consolation for those suffering through contemporary religious wars, De...

Antonio and Mellida was the first play by John Marston performed by the newly revived Paul's Company in 1599. Marston sought to display a variety of talents, comic, tragic, satiric and historical, advertising his own dramatic skills and the prowess of...

The legend of Saint Patrick is irresistibly captivating-he drove the snakes out of Ireland, battled the druids, and used the three-leaf Shamrock to convert the pagan Irish to belief in the Christian Trinity. Yet, as so often happens, these stories are...

A major poet, writer, and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the nineteenth century. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, revised and reimagined Blake's project of marrying images and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625001Author Edward L BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Forever immortalised as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first 'books' as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers - Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third - these...

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, "Tartuffe "is a satire on religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe worms his way into Orgon's household, blinding the master of the house with his religious "devotion," and almost succeeds in...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889420385Author Arthur MachenFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513206578Author Aldous HuxleyFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

The Scale of Perfection is the major work of the late fourteenth-century contemplative writer, Walter Hilton, an Augustinian canon, presumed to have studied canon law at Cambridge before renouncing a promising legal career in order to become a recluse...

This new edition presents three odes to saints in alliterative and stanzaic form, composed in the north and east Midlands around 1400. The hymns address St Katherine of Alexandria (from Bodley Rolls 22), St John the Evangelist (Lincoln Cathedral Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864908Author Michael MoorcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

"Center or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll" includes essays by Catherine Belsey, Harry Berger, Jr., Philippa Berry, Raphael Falco, Jean E. Howard, Lena Cowen Orlin, Patricia Parker, Phyllis Rackin, Bruce R...

This book is about the role of writers and intellectuals in shaping constitutional change. Considering an unprecedented range of literary, political and archival materials, it explores how questions of 'voice', language and identity featured in debates...

Unbounded Attachment is about the uses of the language of sentiment in British women's writing from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen. It focuses on a range of writers for whom this language has the potential to hold together disparate elements in late...