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Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion by Sami Pihlström 9781666926279
Booksplease Price: £85.65Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion develops a distinctive approach to pragmatist philosophy of religion, and more generally to pragmatist... -
Songs Beyond Mankind: Poetry and the Lager from Dante to Primo Levi: Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 18 by Lino Pertile 9781438452647
RRP: £15.50Booksplease Price: £15.18Examines the preservation of the integrity of humanity through literature in the hells described by Dante in his Inferno and by Primo Levi in Survival in Auschwitz."Songs Beyond Mankind: Poetry and... -
Ka by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through... -
The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that... -
Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century Maïa Hruska 9780008768614
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'A book to underline endlessly, to dog-ear, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder' Polly Barton ... -
Final Drafts: Suicides of World-Famous Authors by Mark Seinfelt
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.91Some of the greatest writers in the history of the art-Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Jerzy Kosinski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Virginia Woolf-all chose to silence themselves by suicide, leaving... -
Kafkaesque: From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century Literature by Maïa Hruska 9780063486249
Booksplease Price: £16.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063486249Author Maia HruskaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Food by Gertrude Stein
Booksplease Price: £3.47Sadder than salad.From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday... -
Nexus 6: Essays in German Jewish Studies by Professor William C Donahue 9781640141469
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Features a new section on the institutional settings of German Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara... -
The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid 9781788169110
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.06SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022 A HISTORY TODAY BEST HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the... -
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 9780749399535
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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... -
The Lost: A search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn 9780007550128
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.09A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as... -
Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis 9781849017237
Booksplease Price: £20.70The testament to a tragedy.Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of... -
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Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis 9781849017237 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.04The testament to a tragedy.Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of... -
On the Run in Nazi Berlin: A Memoir by Bert Lewyn 9781641601108
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.15BERLIN, 1942. The Gestapo arrest eighteen-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort. Miraculously... -
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the... -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is... -
A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion by Frédéric Gros 9781804294185
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation. We feel... -
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Vital... [Erpenbeck] is asking a compelling and timely question' Sally Rooney, Irish Times Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas. Recently... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics... -
A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion Frédéric Gros 9781804294154
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of the world, of wealth in the face of those who... -
The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial TimesAn unforgettable journey through centuries and across cultures to the pivotal moment in evolution - when humans did something that... -
The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kirsch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.79Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, The New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam... -
The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. AudenThis volume contains all of Kafka's... -
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.47'I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided . . .'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by... -
Liquidation by Imre Kertesz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide... A compelling if deeply unsettling work' Independent Kingbitter, an... -
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he ... -
Nine Suitcases Bela Zsolt 9780712606899
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.53Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine... -
The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age by Tim Cole 9780810142725
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age challenges a number of key themes in Holocaust studies with new research. Essays in the section "Tropes... -
Mouse Folk by Franz Kafka 9781529986013
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Five of Franz Kafka's most compelling short animal stories, where fable, dark humour and unease collideA community gathers to listen to the singing of a mouse. An ape addresses an academy to explain... -
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead 9780099554646 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.52A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village... -
Testament: Shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award Kim Sherwood 9781786488688
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Captivating' Heather Morris 'Beautiful' Andrew Miller 'Hugely poignant' Independent 'Moving' Sunday TimesLonglisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize * Winner of the Bath Novel Award * Winner of the... -
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead 9780099554646
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village... -
The House on the Hill by Cesare Pavese
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' Italo CalvinoJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its knees... -
How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader by Peter Hayes
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.68As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let... -
The Three Electroknights by Stanislaw Lem
Booksplease Price: £3.24'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors,... -
Death Kit by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78First published in 1967, Death Kit is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, Susan Sontag's second novel offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience... -
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino 9780241339107
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.86'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering... -
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he... -
Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture by Peter Balakian 9780226254333
Booksplease Price: £24.80Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three. "I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary...