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Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives by Katherine Elkins
RRP: $34.17Booksplease Price: $33.08With the story of a madeleine dipped in tea, Marcel Proust makes famous moments that transport one to an earlier time thought lost forever. His In Search of Lost Time announces a quest narrative with... -
Love: Vintage Minis Jeanette Winterson 9781784872724
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.26How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here... -
The Friction of Life: An investigation on Renato Caccioppoli's life Lorenza Foschini 9783031652615
RRP: $42.56Booksplease Price: $36.47Naples, May 8, 1959. Renato Caccioppoli, a mathematical genius, prodigious pianist, captivating storyteller, highly cultured and multilingual, believed to be the grandson of the anarchist movement... -
Urbane Revolutionary: C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society by Frank Rosengarten 9781604735376
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94In Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society, Frank Rosengarten traces the intellectual and political development of C.L.R. James (1901-1989), one of the most significant... -
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year Nick Rennison 9780857305015
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.751922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire... -
Humanism, Empire, and Nation: Korean Literary and Cultural Criticism by Travis Workman
Booksplease Price: $28.15Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture.Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the twentieth century-writing in the context of... -
Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives by Katherine Elkins 9780190921576
Booksplease Price: $121.34With the story of a madeleine dipped in tea, Marcel Proust makes famous moments that transport one to an earlier time thought lost forever. His In Search of Lost Time announces a quest narrative with... -
Adorno: The Recovery of Experience by Roger Foster 9780791472095
RRP: $93.53Booksplease Price: $76.86Examines the role of experience within Adorno's philosophy of language and epistemology.In Adorno, Roger Foster argues that there is a coherent critical project at the core of Adorno's philosophy of... -
At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature by Peter Schwenger
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25At the Borders of Sleep is a unique exploration of the connections between literature and the liminal states between waking and sleeping-from falling asleep and waking up, to drowsiness and insomnia,... -
Joyces Mistakes: Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation by Tim Conley 9780802087553
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $56.51James Joyce has written that 'the man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are the portals of discovery.' In Joyces Mistakes, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an 'error' in a... -
Franco by Paul Preston 9780006862109
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.19'Magisterial ... As engagingly readable as a good novel' Observer The definitive biography of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, from the acclaimed historian Paul Preston. ... -
Into the Weeds Lydia Davis 9780300279740
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her... -
Degas at the Opera by Henri Loyrette
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $42.76Throughout his entire career, from his debut in the 1860s up to his final works post1900, the Opera formed the focal point of Degas's output. It was his own 'front room'. He explored the theatre's... -
Mathematics of the Universe Soledad Romero Mariño 9780764368387
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.77The lyrical verses and captivating illustrations of this picture book explore how the concepts and patterns of mathematics shape the natural world. The universe seems in such disarray, ... -
A Journey Around My Room by 9781847493088
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of... -
Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac 9781857150155
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Set in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, it relates the story of the vengeful Bette who, along with her scheming accomplice Valerie Marneffe, sets out to ruin her extended family. Exploring themes... -
The Quiet Contemporary American Novel by Rachel Sykes
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $79.48This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In doing... -
Flat Protagonists: A Theory of Novel Character by Marta Figlerowicz
RRP: $86.43Booksplease Price: $79.68We've all encountered protagonists who, over the course of a novel, turn out to be more complicated than we thought at first. But what does one do with a major character who simplifies as a novel... -
Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community by Jessica Berman
Booksplease Price: $41.43In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, first published in 2001, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein... -
Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community by Jessica Berman 9780521805896
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $115.70In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, first published in 2001, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein... -
Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation: New Edition by R. A. Skelton 9780300065206
Booksplease Price: $105.87The Vinland Map, dated to about A.D. 1440-at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas-is a unique map of the world that shows an outline of the northeast American coast and a legend... -
The Explosion of the Radiator Hose: A Novel by Jean Rolin
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the... -
Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 1: Music, Literature, and the Arts Theodor W. Adorno 9781509552382
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself... -
A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's "Petersburg by Leonid Livak 9780299319342
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Andrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce's Ulysses, Franz Kafka's... -
Time and Narrative: v. 2 by D. Pellauer
Booksplease Price: $25.95In volume 1 of this three-volume work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing. Now, in volume 2, he examines these relations in fiction and theories of... -
From Dickinson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature by Glenn Hughes
RRP: $59.28Booksplease Price: $51.52Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists - Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan - have explored the human relationship to a... -
Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man by Andrew Goldstone 9780199861125
Booksplease Price: $93.99No aspect of modernist literature has attracted more passionate defenses, or more furious denunciations, than its affinity for the idea of autonomy. A belief in art as a law unto itself is central to... -
Conversations with Edmund White by Will Brantley 9781496815057
Booksplease Price: $31.77Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished... -
Conservative Thinkers from All Souls College Oxford by Richard Davenport-Hines
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.87Investigates historic strands of conservative thought and responds to the radical changes which many think have transformed the Conservative party into a populist movement upholding English... -
Conversations with Edmund White by Will Brantley 9781496813558
Booksplease Price: $114.29Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982 discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished... -
Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust by Michael Lucey 9780822338970
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the... -
The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays by Richard Moran
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $105.81The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology. A... -
The Bergsonian Mind Mark Sinclair 9781032137650
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.27Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is widely regarded as one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century. His work explored a rich panoply of subjects, including time, memory,... -
The Two Loves of Sophie Strom Sam Taylor 9780571380121
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43'Lyrical and profound, delving into the depths of human connection. You will cry.'GLAMOUR'Impressive . . . it gripped my heart and imagination.'JO BROWNING WROE'Intriguing . . . there is also... -
Marrano as Metaphor: The Jewish Presence in French Writing by Elaine Marks
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41When Europeans in the Middle Ages spoke of "marranos," they were making a derogatory reference to "crypto-Jews"--those who publicly converted to and performed as Christians, but who remained secretly... -
No Cherry Time by Jennie Feldman 9781910345818
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68In its geographical sweep - from Israel / Palestine westward across Europe, then circling back to Greece - No Cherry Time reflects a personal tale of alienation, departure and quest. Fine-tuned to... -
The Assommoir by Emile Zola 9780198828563
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a... -
Overstaying by Ariane Koch 9781805330165
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26An isolated woman clashes with an enigmatic visitor in this funny, jagged parable about integration, difference and hospitality An isolated young woman living in a small Swiss town decides to take... -
The Allure of Chanel (Illustrated) Paul Morand (Author) 9781805330752
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.58The story of Coco Chanel in her own words, as told by her to Paul Morand - in a Deluxe special edition, illustrated by Karl Lagerfeld and authorised by Chanel Told in her own words, Coco Chanel's... -
Pragmatic Modernism by Lisi Schoenbach 9780195389845
Booksplease Price: $70.41Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernist thought...