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Firbank: Five Novels by Ronald Firbank 9780811207997
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $35.51"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: $248.60Since 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: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94Initially 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: $245.70Booksplease Price: $192.07Initially 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... -
Galdos and the Art of the European Novel: 1867-1887 by Stephen Gilman 9780691614885
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $108.93Benito 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... -
Jane Austen, Early and Late by Freya Johnston 9780691198002
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $65.73A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six... -
Julia Wedgwood, The Unexpected Victorian: The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual by Sue Brown 9781839988592
Booksplease Price: $53.99Though Julia Wedgwood is still remembered as a commentator on the work of her uncle, Charles Darwin, and for her brief but intense friendship with Browning, her contemporary standing as a writer... -
Julia Wedgwood: The Victorian Female Intellectual by Sue Brown 9781839984105
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $201.10Though Julia Wedgwood is still remembered as a commentator on the work of her uncle, Charles Darwin, and for her brief but intense friendship with Browning, her contemporary standing as a writer... -
Jane Austen, Early and Late by Freya Johnston
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six... -
Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural History by Karl S. Guthke 9780691628158
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $76.92Whether Goethe actually cried "More light!" on his deathbed, or whether Conrad Hilton checked out of this world after uttering "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub," last words,... -
The Rover by Joseph Conrad 9781107149021
Booksplease Price: $248.60Set in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last novel that Conrad completed in his lifetime. A popular... -
Adapting Science Fiction to Television: Small Screen, Expanded Universe by Max Sexton 9781442252691
Booksplease Price: $191.92Before it reached television, science fiction existed on the printed page, in comic books, and on movie screens for decades. Adapting science fiction to the new medium posed substantial challenges:... -
When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley 9781035068678
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Farley's strength, throughout his career, is the delicacy of his poems' music, their soft lighting and good humour, and this book is no exception' - Poetry Book Society BulletinA family cohabits... -
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group in the Literary 1920s Kathleen Dixon Donnelly 9781036120450
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.38Throughout her adult life, English novelist Virginia Woolf was surrounded by a tight group of friends and relatives. Known collectively as the Bloomsbury Group, they lived near each other in... -
Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move by John Plotz 9780691146621
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? In Portable Property, John Plotz examines the new... -
Empty Nest: Poems for Families by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $26.08'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - GuardianIn this stunning anthology of ninety nine modern and classic poems, Carol Ann Duffy delves into the powerful and unique... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad by J. H. Stape 9781107610378
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $48.13Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad studies... -
The Ballad of Syd & Morgan Haydn Middleton 9780992946074
RRP: $23.10Booksplease Price: $17.70A beautiful young man dressed in Cuban heels and a crushed-velvet jacket cuts a dash as he strides up Silver Street in his native Cambridge, heading for the ornate splendour of King's College. It... -
The Birds by Aristophanes 9780413772787
Booksplease Price: $31.06A contemporary adaptation of The Birds by an award-winning poet, published to tie in with a major production at the National Theatre directed by Kathryn Hunter Pez and Eck are on the hunt for the... -
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction by Michael J. Hoffman 9780822335214
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $56.51What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several... -
Look What You Made Me Do: 'A great read' Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession by John Lanchester 9780571298679
Booksplease Price: $26.99'A great read. A box of delights which is also a thrilling satirical torture chamber.' Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession 'An absolute riot . . . totally compulsive.' Observer 'A modern master of... -
Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy
Booksplease Price: $4.49One of those rare books that is immediately enjoyable yet will repay many re-readings' Poetry ReviewCarol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection, for which she was given the Somerset Maughan... -
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each... -
The Origins of Science Fiction by Michael Newton 9780198853619
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.83'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy Peter Jeffreys 9781603296519
Booksplease Price: $65.79A gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empiresKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in... -
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330372220
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.42That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis's twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection,... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy by Peter Jeffreys 9781603296502
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $146.18A gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empiresKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in... -
Blood by Janice Galloway 9780749391959
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19'BLOOD is a virtuoso work: the writing sinewy and beautiful. . . the integrity of vision coruscating; the whole driven by the author's restless experimentation with form. And at least two stories,... -
A Bloomsbury Group Reader S. P. Rosenbaum (University of Toronto) 9780631190592
RRP: $100.70Booksplease Price: $94.63Because whenever they wrote the members of Bloomsbury tried to write well, there is an abundant variety of illuminating and delightful reading to be found in the short prose works of the Group's... -
Earth Prayers Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781035048144
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.43'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - GuardianThe wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated... -
Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 by Jo Carruthers 9783030298166
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $209.62Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature thatanticipates and pre-empts the recent philosophical 'turn' to materiality and affect. Critical volumes that... -
Beyond Moral Judgment by Alice Crary
RRP: $60.80Booksplease Price: $52.12What is moral thought and what kinds of demands does it impose? Alice Crary's Beyond Moral Judgment claims that even the most perceptive contemporary answers to these questions offer no more than... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $158.57This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only... -
What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern by Jed Rasula
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $68.92On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influenceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste... -
Chinese Approaches to Literature from Confucius to Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao by W. Allyn Rickett 9780691600949
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92These essays, by Chinese and Western scholars, treat selected aspects of Chinese literary theory, history, and criticism from the age of Confucius to the beginning of the twentieth-century. The... -
Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It by Jason Finch
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities'... -
Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century by Monica Cure
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has "died" many times-this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to... -
Lord of the Flies by William Golding 9780571191475
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic: 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go... -
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 9780749399535
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $12.58'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias CanettiWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRWELLOne morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself... -
Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe Ian Collins 9781399819060
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13'An intimate and insightful portrait of the peerless observer of rural life' RICHARD MABEY'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer'...