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Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd's Writings by Nan Shepherd 9781912916108
RRP: $11.60$8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916108Author Nan ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India by Sir Henry Yule
RRP: $11.60$8.32'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two India enthusiasts, it documents the... -
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $12.89$9.17The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by David... -
Virginia Woolf "The Hours. the British Museum Manuscript of _Mrs. Dalloway_ by Helen M Wussow 9781935625018
RRP: $70.95$59.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625018Author Helen M WussowFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm)... -
Dancing By The Light of The Moon: Over 250 poems to read, relish and recite Gyles Brandreth 9781405944557
RRP: $16.76$11.73Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' DAME JUDI DENCHIncludes an... -
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $19.34$12.64This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the... -
Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 1 Anthony Powell 9780099436683
RRP: $25.80$18.43_________________________The first three volumes of Anthony Powell's remarkable A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME sequence: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING; A BUYER'S MARKET; THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD'One of the greatest pleasures of my reading life. The cool elegance of... -
English Romantic Verse by David Wright
RRP: $16.76$11.73English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will be found here - 'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan'... -
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell 9780415378475
RRP: $24.50$21.76The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices,... -
Selected Poems: Rossetti Christina Rossetti 9780140424690
RRP: $12.89$9.17This new selection of Rossetti's poems brings together works by one of the most significant nineteenth-century English poets. It includes an illuminating introduction, a chronology of Rossetti's life and works, and explanatory notes.About the... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by John Tenniel
RRP: $10.31$7.47'A work of glorious intelligence and literary devices . . . Nonsense becomes a form of higher sense' Malcolm Bradbury'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole . . . without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll,... -
Short Stories in Irish for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Irish the fun way! by Olly Richards
RRP: $14.18$9.55An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Irish."Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology... -
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction by Lionel Shriver 9780008458652
RRP: $12.89$8.41The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's cancelled by Christmas' THE TIMES... -
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) William Shakespeare 9781435154476
RRP: $51.60$35.80Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. Henry V. Macbeth. A Midsummer Night's Dream. King Lear. Lovers of literature will immediately recognise these as signature works of William Shakespeare, whose plays still rank as the greatest dramas ever produced in the English... -
The Complete Poems by John Keats
RRP: $16.76$11.73Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Poems of John Keats is edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard.Keats's first volume of poems, published... -
Dylan Thomas Omnibus: Under Milk Wood, Poems, Stories and Broadcasts by Dylan Thomas
RRP: $14.18$5.30All Dylan Thomas' major works gathered together and featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.A rich collection of Dylan Thomas' best-loved poems and stories, such as PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG, and pieces he... -
The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: $16.76$11.73Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly... -
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard by Richard Greene
RRP: $16.76$11.09Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393603026
$47.76The 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... -
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
RRP: $32.25$23.19Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in this collection from the... -
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $12.89$9.17Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/A Woman of No Importance/An Ideal Husband/A Florentine Tragedy/The Importance of Being Earnest'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness'The Importance of Being Earnest is a... -
Richard Jefferies: A Miscellany by Richard Jefferies 9781912916054
RRP: $12.89$8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916054Author Richard JefferiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Selected Poems and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: $16.76$12.24A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically... -
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Volume 4 William Shakespeare 9781631066450
RRP: $33.54$23.77"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed." -William Shakespeare Arm yourself with this volume from the Knickerbocker Classics series, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, including 16 comedies, 10 histories, 12... -
Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters by Kathryn Sutherland
RRP: $19.34$15.30In their celebration of 'little matters' - the regular round of visiting, dining out, drinking tea, of reading and walking to the shops and sending to the post - Jane Austen's letters and novels have many similarities. The thirteen letters collected by... -
News from Nowhere and Other Writings by William Morris
RRP: $12.89$9.17Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the... -
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth
RRP: $24.50$18.07The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection... -
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $19.34$13.80The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: $11.60$8.32A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with... -
Treasures of Cornwall: A Literary Anthology by Luke Thompson
RRP: $12.89$8.41Cornwall is steeped in poetry, legend and storytelling. Join Luke Thompson on a literary tour around its dramatic coastline, its cliffs and coves, across the moor and down the mines.Meet Cornish poets such as Jack Clemo and Charles Causley, enjoy... -
Areopagitica and Other Writings by John Milton
RRP: $16.76$11.73John Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. Today he is remembered first and foremost for his poetry, but his great epic Paradise Lost was published very late in his life, in 1667, and in his own time most... -
The Major Works by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $18.05$13.09This 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 Johnson's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by essays,... -
Mr Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange 9781402208768
RRP: $16.76$14.64Monday 9th September"I left London today and met Bingley at Netherfield Park. I had forgotten what good company he is; always ready to be pleased and always cheerful. After my difficult summer, it is good to be with him again. ..."The only place Darcy... -
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
RRP: $14.18$10.02Robert 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... -
Major Works by John Clare
RRP: $15.47$10.87This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: $10.31$7.47Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and... -
Stories from a Fractured City Tales of Two Londons by Claire Armistead
RRP: $14.18$8.35London 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... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9780393696875
$14.73This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1890 (Lippincott's Magazine) version and the 1891 (book) version of the novel. Under the editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie, students have the opportunity to comparatively read and... -
Complete Poems by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: $24.50$18.85Rossetti 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... -
Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 2 by Anthony Powell
RRP: $25.80$18.43Anthony 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...