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Requiem For Harlem: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 4 - `A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' by Henry Roth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
House Of Leaves: the prizewinning and terrifying cult classic that will turn everything you thought you knew about life (and books!) upside down Mark Z Danielewski 9781529943993
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.43Discover the nightmarish tale of a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside - a tale that continues to inspire devotion among its ever-growing army of fans...'Phenomenal . . . thrillingly... -
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Six by Daniel Chanan Matt
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.64Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique, lyrical Aramaic, this... -
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Seven by Daniel Chanan Matt
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.40Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the... -
Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation by Kevin Hart 9780226827582
Booksplease Price: £30.73An original and profound exploration of contemplation from philosopher, theologian, and poet Kevin Hart. In Lands of Likeness, Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a... -
B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz 9780231200561
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.43There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped... -
A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe by Geoffrey Hartman 9780823228331
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.66For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity... -
B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped... -
Pure Products of America, Inc.: A Narrative Poem by John Bricuth 9781421418070
RRP: £15.50Booksplease Price: £12.41This propulsive narrative poem tells the extended story of the popular born-again televangelist Ray Bob Elray-better known to all his fans as Big Bubba-his twin sons, Nick and Jesse, and his niece... -
A Diving Rock on The Hudson: Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 2 - 'A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature' Henry Roth 9781857993561
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78'A landmark of the American literary century' Boston Globe Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth returned with Mercy of a Rude Stream - a... -
Shakespeare's Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment by Richard Van Oort
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £40.68Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies - Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus - through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder,... -
Twenty Questions by J. D. McClatchy
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays... -
House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.92Discover the nightmarish tale of a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside that still inspires devotion among an army of fans... Experimental in terms of design, typography, structure and... -
Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman by Jane Bennett 9781478008309
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? "Influx &... -
The Islands by Carlos Gamerro 9781908276087
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Felix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlan and charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is... -
Ronald Johnson's Modernist Collage Poetry by Ross Hair 9780230108691
Booksplease Price: £46.74Using a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra... -
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson Camille Paglia 9781917189552
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43One of David Bowie's 100 favourite books 'I read it voraciously ... it made me want to read the books ... stimulating and compelling' Mike White, creator of The White Lotus 'So brilliant about... -
Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman by Jane Bennett
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £52.93In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? "Influx &... -
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £15.60When Latin American writers burst on to the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself overnight out of thin air. Not only... -
Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol by Solomon Ibn Gabirol 9780691070322
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most... -
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe 9780691123578
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,... -
Morning Knowledge by Kevin Hart 9780268030933
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.80Kevin Hart is not only one of Australia's most important poets but a major figure in world poetry. He is a visionary writer who has taken his bearings as much from English Romanticism and European... -
Marlowe and Shakespeare: The Critical Rivalry by Robert Sawyer 9781349952267
Booksplease Price: £111.93Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artistic... -
The Solitudes by Luis de Gongora 9780143106722
Booksplease Price: £12.69An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time.A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Gongora pioneered poetic... -
Exorcising Translation: Towards an Intercivilizational Turn by Douglas Robinson 9781501326042
Booksplease Price: £31.52Exorcising Translation, a new volume in Bloomsbury's Literatures, Cultures, Translation series, makes critical contributions to translation as well as to comparative and postcolonial literary studies... -
Warning to the Crocodiles by Antonio Lobo Antunes 9781943150137
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.08Set in the aftermath of the "Carnation Revolution" of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes's Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political... -
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht 9780871407672
Booksplease Price: £42.24Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, "that very rare phenomenon, a great poet". Hugely prolific, Brecht... -
Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace 9780691119816
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of... -
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Selected Poems by James Applewhite 9780822336013 [USED COPY]
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £9.85James Applewhite has produced nine extraordinary books of poetry. This volume is the first anthology of his remarkable oeuvre. It brings together chronologically arranged selections from all of his... -
The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron by Carlos Gamerro 9781908276506
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.621975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlan, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Peron in... -
Selected Poems by James Applewhite 9780822336396
Booksplease Price: £29.92James Applewhite has produced nine extraordinary books of poetry. This volume is the first anthology of his remarkable oeuvre. It brings together chronologically arranged selections from all of his... -
The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy by Terryl L. Givens 9780199933808
Booksplease Price: £29.51In 1997, Terryl Givens's The Viper on the Hearth was praised as a new classic in Mormon studies. In the wake of Mormon-inspired and -created artistic, literary, and political activity - today's... -
Edmund Spenser: A Life by Andrew Hadfield 9780199591022
Booksplease Price: £34.19Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless... -
Derrida's Marrano Passover: Exile, Survival, Betrayal, and the Metaphysics of Non-Identity Agata Bielik-Robson 9781501392658
Booksplease Price: £31.52In this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida's 'Toledo confession' - where he portrayed himself as 'sort of a Marrano of the French Catholic culture' - Agata Bielik-Robson shows Derrida's... -
Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin 9780674057371
Booksplease Price: £27.42Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel... -
Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake by Leo Damrosch
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.82In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time,... -
Reimagined: 45 Years of Jewish Art Mark Podwal 9781943876303
RRP: £70.99Booksplease Price: £70.72Wide-ranging appeal across the realm of Judaic interest, from fans of artists such as Ben Shahn to illustrators like David Levine. A must-have for collectors of Judaica, both art and written works... -
By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion by Terryl L. Givens
Booksplease Price: £21.75With over 100 million copies in print, the Book of Mormon has spawned a vast religious movement, but it remains little discussed outside Mormon circles. Now Terry L. Givens offers a full-length... -
Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity by Ross Posnock 9780691138435
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest... -
Wild Track: New and Selected Poems by Kevin Hart 9780268011215
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.99The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart's work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese,...