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Drawing in the Dark: Henry Moore's Coalmining Commission by Chris Owen
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $67.89In contrast to Henry Moore's well-known drawings depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz, little has been written about how this son of a Yorkshire coalminer tackled his second commission from... -
Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars by Michael Thurston 9780807849798
Booksplease Price: $89.54Rethinking American activist poetry of the 1920s and 1930s; ""Poetry makes nothing happen,"" wrote W.H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the... -
Railway Rhymes Peter Ashley 9781841597782
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.52Railway Rhymes is probably the first time that the poetry of railways has been brought together into one dedicated volume. Here will certainly be found the old favourites - Philip Larkin's 'Whitsun... -
![Huxley's ""Brave New World: Essays by David Garrett Izzo 9780786436835](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2752109/2751447/9780786436835__00274.1714740446.jpg?c=1 "Huxley's ""Brave New World: Essays by David Garrett Izzo 9780786436835")
Huxley's ""Brave New World: Essays by David Garrett Izzo 9780786436835
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14Aldous Huxley was one of the most prophetic intellectuals of the twentieth century, and his best-known work was a novel of ideas that warned of a terrible future then 600 years away. Though ""Brave... -
Slow Burn by Jordi Doce 9781915968067
RRP: $16.80Booksplease Price: $13.99Suddenly there's a room missing in the house. Just yesterday there was a door, now it's gone. A path opens through the forest, which fades as you enter. Disappearance, absence, these are now integral... -
Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Professor Norman Page 9780312227128
Booksplease Price: $98.15Like Paris in the '20s, Berlin in the early thirties was one of the most exciting cities in the world. As the Weimar Republic sputtered to a close and war loomed on the horizon, the city was a magnet... -
Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere by Mark D. Walhout 9780312226725
Booksplease Price: $97.19This collection examines the ways in which religion and literature are capable of renewing what the eminent German philosopher Jurgen Habermas refers to as 'the public sphere'. The essays range from... -
The Condor and the Cows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador,... -
The Politics of the Soul: From Nietzsche to Arendt John Dickson 9781032330150
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This book takes the form of intellectual histories of eight major representative figures of the twentieth century, who inherited and responded to the spiritual problematic left by Nietzsche. With... -
Volume 12, Tome IV: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art: The Anglophone World by Jon Stewart
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $104.77While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists. This use can be traced in the work... -
David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture: Unpublished Prose by David Jones 9781350274327
Booksplease Price: $94.00David Jones - author of In Parenthesis, the great poem of World War I - is increasingly recognized as a major voice in the first generation of British modernist writers. Acclaimed by the likes of T.S... -
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953 by Dylan Thomas
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.58Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just before his death in New... -
Influential Ghosts: A Study of Auden's Sources Rachel Wetzsteon 9780415762816
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $111.17Influential Ghosts: A Study of Auden's Sources explores some of the most important literary and philosophical influences on W.H. Auden's poetry. The study attempts to show that Auden's poetry derives... -
The Critical Response to Marianne Moore by Elizabeth Gregory 9780313318818
Booksplease Price: $128.84Gregory documents for the first time, the critical reception history of the great modernist poet Marianne Moore. This collection of 71 of the most important and provocative reviews and essays from... -
The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After Charles Altieri (University of California, Berkeley) 9781405121071
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $81.50Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden 9780571234370
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date... -
Train Songs: Poetry of the Railway by Don Paterson 9780571315789
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'This is the night mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order...' -- W.H. Auden Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and... -
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 9781513263526
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.58“Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”-W.H. Auden “The common experience of Kafka’s readers is one of general and vague fascination, even in stories they... -
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 1: 1931-1939 Dylan Thomas 9781474607995
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.56Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just before his death in New... -
Poetry and Prayer: The Power of the Word II by Francesca Bugliani Knox
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $86.92Interdisciplinary and ecumenical in scope, Poetry and Prayer offers theoretical discussion on the profound connection between poetic inspiration and prayer as well as reflection on the work of... -
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 9780099511878
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.96'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling ... -
Fear and Trembling: A New Translation by Soren Kierkegaard 9781631498312
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $35.43First published in 1843 under the pseudonym "Johannes de silentio" (John of Silence), Soren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history... -
The Scare in the Crow by Tammy Armstrong
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $19.85As Tammy Armstrong rode horseback on a one-month sojourn in Iceland, up rose the ley lines that crosshatched the landscape - ancient tracks rife with saga, myth, and human history. In this... -
Who Was Cousin Alice? and Other Questions by John Matthias 9781848611689
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $33.73Who Was Cousin Alice? & Other Questions attempts to answer both the first question posed in the title about American poet John Matthias' early family memories, and then to raise and engage, in a... -
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman 9780571207695
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Staging the Lyric: Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama Sarah Berry 9781350420465
Booksplease Price: $64.13Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and... -
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W. H. Auden
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.83W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending with an... -
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
'The Map of All My Youth': Early Works, Friends, and Influences by Katherine Bucknell 9780198129646
Booksplease Price: $154.62This is the first volume in a new series on the work of the poet W. H. Auden. The volume contains a large amount of Unpublished material by Auden, notably six poems written in German in the early... -
Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain by Michael McCluskey 9783030605575
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $235.45Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain looks at the impact of aviation in Britain and beyond through the 1920s and 1930s. This book considers how in this period flying went from a... -
American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast: Mass Vernacular Allison R. Neal 9780197806135
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $124.07American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to reveal the broad institutional, technological, and cultural resonances of poetic voice... -
The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Isherwood's short, poignant novel is a tender and wistful love story Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George, an English professor in suburban... -
New Selected Journals, 1939-1995 by Stephen Spender
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $66.95Private faces in public placesAre wiser and nicerThan public faces in private places.W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries... -
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 9781787557949
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.44Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury... -
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 9781839641824
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.17Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury... -
Granular Modernism by Beci Carver 9780198709923
Booksplease Price: $241.25Granular Modernism understands the way that some Modernist texts put themselves together as a way of pulling themselves apart. In this volume, Beci Carver offers a new way of reading Modernist novels... -
Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915,... -
Reading F. T. Prince by Will May
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $69.11F.T. Prince (1912-2003) is now emerging as one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century Anglophone poetry. Born in South Africa, he came to England in the 1930s, where he studied alongside... -
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood 9780099548829
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.82In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his...