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A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories by Glenway Wescott 9780299296902
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story ""A Visit to Priapus"" was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried... -
British Writing from Empire to Brexit: Writing, Identity and Nation Robert Spencer 9781032137865
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This introduction to British literature from 1900 to 2021 looks at British writing from the perspective of the 2016 Brexit vote and its seismic repercussions. The book covers a wide variety of... -
The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf by Marianna Torgovnick 9780691639420
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £99.42Marianna Torgovnick maintains that it is worthwhile to think about novels in terms of the visual arts--in part because major novelists like James, Lawrence, and Woolf did so, and did so fruitfully,... -
Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet by Frank Kermode
Booksplease Price: £16.75Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic. "Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art... -
Keepers of the Flame by Sean O'Brien 9780413774125
Booksplease Price: £14.24A brilliant new thriller about poetry and fascism In the 1930s a young poet and patriot, Richard Jameson falls in love with the socialist daughter of Sir Henry Exton, a powerful media mogul. But in... -
Scraps Of The Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia by Thomas Moylan
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the... -
Off The Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and her friends across the country offer poems in praise of the magic of reading. In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy... -
Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siecle by Fraser Riddell
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent... -
The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the war. Banished by her beautiful, indolent mother to England, Barbary Deniston is thrown into the care of her... -
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories by Tony Tanner
Booksplease Price: £29.51'And then went down to the ship.' Thus, with a nod to Homer, Ezra Pound began his own epic odyssey through the world of literature and the modern world. There is no literature without a departure, a... -
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 9780140185638
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A strange, tragic, inspired book ... It is absolutely unafraid' E. M. ForsterA party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is a young girl, Rachel Vinrace,... -
Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781529083934
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The enchanting festive poem from Carol Ann Duffy, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, and adorned with sumptuous illustrations by artist Margaux Carpentier, Christmas Eve at The Moon Under... -
Three More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice by Ronald Firbank 9780811209755
Booksplease Price: £15.28So cleverly and wittily are the stories told that we sense we belong in the charmed cafe society of post-1918 Britain, and life seems, as Ernest Jones says in his critical introduction, "a Nirvana in... -
Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy
Booksplease Price: £18.30In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity. Simultaneously stripping... -
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 9780140189704
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.50The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of... -
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader by David Lodge 9780582484221
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £61.65Twentieth Century Literature is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. It is a companion volume to Modern... -
Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad 9780521561631
Booksplease Price: £118.38The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters (first published 1921) offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the... -
A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England by Jed Esty
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World... -
Closure in the Novel by Marianna Torgovnick 9780691615059
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Drawing on a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, French, American, and Russian novels, Marianna Torgovnick demonstrates the variety and complexity of the process by which a work... -
Alexandria Still: Forster, Durrell, and Cavafy by Jane Lagoudis Pinchin 9780691616599
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully written book describes the profound influence exerted by the spirit of... -
Essays on European Literature by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691618883
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.10Although the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages,... -
Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781035038565
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity.Simultaneously stripping... -
Galdos and the Art of the European Novel: 1867-1887 by Stephen Gilman 9780691614885
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays. In this critical study of Galdos in English, Stephen Gilman... -
Collected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and... -
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss's 'sweet girl', and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only... -
Collected Poems by Dennis O'Driscoll 9781784105112
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67In this career-defining book, the poems of Dennis O'Driscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was... -
Openings: 'So varied, so subtle, so tonally poised - a stunning collection.' TESSA HADLEY by Lucy Caldwell 9780571382750
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.54'One of the finest short-storywriters at work today. These stories are honest, finely nuanced and indelible in their impact.'WENDY ERSKINE'One of our best short story writers.' THE TIMES'You'll lose... -
Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton 9781513219837
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.69"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?" -- E. M. ForsterThe Descent of Man and Other Stories offers the author's... -
Sister India by Peggy Payne 9781573229104
Booksplease Price: £17.42The exotic and suspenseful New York Times Notable Book that tells the story of an eccentric guest-house keeper in Varanasi, India, and the passions evoked by her sacred city along the GangesThe... -
Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and... -
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Swooningly glorious' The Times'Indisputably her best volume' Sunday TimesThe Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are... -
Sherman Plays: 2: Onassis; Passing By; The Miser by Martin Sherman
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Onassis portrays the last years of the life of the wealthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who, after a notorious affair with Maria Callas, married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President John... -
The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton 9781513263496
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?" -- E. M. ForsterThe Descent of Man and Other Stories offers the author's... -
Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947 Alex Tickell (University of Portsmouth, UK) 9780415745697
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key... -
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood 9780811218047
Booksplease Price: £15.64First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction... -
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal... -
Firbank: Five Novels by Ronald Firbank 9780811207997
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.91"A person who dislikes Ronald Firbank," quipped W. H. Auden, "may, for all I know, possess some admirable quality, but I do not wish ever to see him again." Edmund Wilson pronounced him "one of the... -
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 9780521824354
Booksplease Price: £118.38Since its first appearance in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1899 and 1900, Lord Jim (1900) has been acclaimed as a modernist masterwork. Its narrative innovations and psychological complexity... -
Radio Empire: The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel by Daniel Ryan Morse
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated... -
Radio Empire: The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel by Daniel Ryan Morse 9780231198363
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated...