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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... -
Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism 1824-1837 by Katherine Kolb 9780199391950
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $90.09As a composer, Hector Berlioz embodied his century as the quintessential Romantic artist. Niccolo Paganini called him "Beethoven's only heir," and for a young Richard Wagner, he was dazzling as a... -
Mavis Gallant: The Eye and the Ear by Marta Dvorak 9781487505301
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $49.45With a confidante's insights, Marta Dvorak sets up an innovative connection between Mavis Gallant's dazzling writing and the whole spectrum of the arts. She simultaneously engages with the feats of... -
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World by Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller 9781138870178
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.04With interdisciplinary analyses of texts whose origins span the diversity of the Jewish and Muslim traditions, the provocative essays collected in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone... -
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World by Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $113.61With interdisciplinary analyses of texts whose origins span the diversity of the Jewish and Muslim traditions, the provocative essays collected in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone... -
Lies: Vintage Minis by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.26'The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.'Is lying simply an uncomfortable truth about life or... -
The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays by Richard Moran 9780197521113
Booksplease Price: $31.53The 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... -
Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust by Jennifer Rushworth 9780198790877
Booksplease Price: $145.27This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one... -
John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education by Valerie Purton 9781783088058
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $87.46An art historian, cultural critic and political theorist, John Ruskin was, above all, a great educator. The inspiration behind William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi, Ruskin's... -
Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature Mat Fournier 9780231209526
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $118.19During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portrayals of homosexuality and queerness. The same moment, however, witnessed the... -
Old Goriot Honore De Balzac 9781857150377
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.11Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he... -
Fiction as Knowledge: Modern Post-romantic Novel by John McCormick 9780765804808
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $40.66Critics of fiction have long been aware that the romantic movement in Europe and America gave a powerful impulse to the art of fiction. The exact nature of that impulse has resisted analysis like so... -
The Constellational Novel Louis Klee 9780198956303
RRP: $99.33Booksplease Price: $91.18A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary... -
To the Boathouse: A Memoir by Mary Ann Caws 9780817354961
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.25The southern landscape forms a lush backdrop in this memoir by Mary Ann Caws in which she recounts a life of passionate engagement. She sketches her early years in North Carolina, where she makes her... -
The Allure of Chanel by Euan Cameron 9781805330219
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60The story of Coco Chanel in her own words, as told by her to Paul Morand Told in her own words, Coco Chanel's memories offer a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential women in... -
Unsettled: A Reckoning on the Great Plains by Dawn Morgan 9780889778573
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.88A memoir that reckons with the high costs of European settlement and Indigenous dispossession on the Great Plains. A surprise rodeo leaves a buffalo bull dead and a cowboy gored to death. Seeing the... -
Bernard Berenson: Connoisseurship and the Art Market Mark Campbell 9781848222601
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $32.10Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) was an American connoisseur of Lithuanian Jewish extraction who was a hugely significant figure in the evolution of the commercial art world from the late 1880s to the... -
Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism Zakir Paul 9780691257976
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $85.63A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thoughtIn the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of... -
Translating Memories of Violent Pasts: Memory Studies and Translation Studies in Dialogue by Claudia Jünke 9780367711788
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50This collection brings together work from Memory Studies and Translation Studies to explore the role of interlingual and intercultural translation for unpacking transcultural memory dynamics,... -
A Test of Powers: Writings on Criticism and Literary Institutions Franco Fortini 9781803095950
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.19A foundational work of Italian intellectual life that blends political essays and literary criticism, anticipating key debates of the New Left and exploring the intersection of ideology and... -
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013.'Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has... -
The Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62His elegantly-crafted tale of sibling rivalry, Honore de Balzac's The Black Sheep is translated from the French with an introduction by Donald Adamson in Penguin Classics.Philippe and Joseph Bridau... -
The Shorter Proust: An abridged edition of Remembrance Of Things Past by Jim Putz 9781913460402
Booksplease Price: $22.11'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' by Marcel Proust is a magnificent and towering achievement of French literature, published in English translation in twelve volumes between 1922 and 1931, and... -
Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text by Richard Lehan 9780807143674
Booksplease Price: $38.82Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took... -
The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the College de France (1978-1979 and 1979-1980) by Roland Barthes
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $34.82Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel... -
Life in Common: An Essay in General Anthropology by Tzvetan Todorov
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52In Life in Common Tzvetan Todorov explores the construction of the self and offers new perspectives on current debates about otherness. Through the seventeenth century, solitude was considered the... -
Shoot!: The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator by Luigi Pirandello
Booksplease Price: $24.33Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot!" is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian... -
Madeleine Euan Cameron 9780857058607
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55"Immersive, nuanced, impeccably researched" IAN RANKIN"Beautifully written and moving" ALLAN MASSIE"Poignant, nostalgic and redolent of the smell of France" SIMON BRETTFamily history has always been... -
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac 9780140440508
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin... -
No Exit from Vietnam: A memoir by a Marine Corps Veteran Bob Armstrong 9781036139186
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.12No Exit from Vietnam is a subversive, issue-driven memoir of the US-Vietnam war and its aftermath. In 2021, the Department of Veterans Affairs discontinued a prescription for Vicodin that Bob... -
Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon 9780141044057
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09'It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian Books of the YearBrian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles... -
In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz by Anselm Kiefer 9781803090382
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz collected here, Kiefer returns to the essential elements of his art, his aesthetics, and his creative processes. The only visual... -
Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present by Richard Begam 9780199980970
RRP: $49.65Booksplease Price: $35.42As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global... -
Madeleine Euan Cameron 9780857058591
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20"Immersive, nuanced, impeccably researched" IAN RANKIN"Beautifully written and moving" ALLAN MASSIE"Poignant, nostalgic and redolent of the smell of France" SIMON BRETTFamily history has always been... -
In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welch
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09'Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me' Alan Bennett'Vivid ... surprising ... an exquisite balance of pain and beauty' GuardianOrvil Pym does not... -
Arabesque: Sumptuous Food from Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon by Claudia Roden
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.79FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES THE FINEST FOODS OF TURKEY, LEBANON AND MOROCCO'Roden's great gift is to conjure up not just a cuisine but the culture from which it springs' Nigella Lawson________Arabesque is a... -
Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present by Richard Begam 9780199980963
Booksplease Price: $133.84As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global... -
Shoot!: The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator by Luigi Pirandello 9780226669816
Booksplease Price: $67.63Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot!" is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian... -
Comrades by Paul Preston 9780006386964
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44A brilliant new portrait of the Spanish Civil War from our greatest historian of Spain. 'Anyone interested in Spain will want this book.' Alan Massie, Daily Telegraph A bravura new... -
Fullblood Arabian by Osama Alomar
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.20A prominent practitioner of the Arabic "very short story" (al-qisa al-qasira jiddan), Osama Alomar's poetic fictions embody the wisdom of Kahlil Gibran filtered through the violent gray absurdity of...