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British Fiction Today by Rod Mengham 9780826487322
Booksplease Price: £40.79"British Fiction Today" provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the latest critical perspectives on current British... -
The Major Works by Alfred Tennyson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Tennyson's poetry... -
The Bible: Authorized King James Version by Robert Carroll 9780199535941
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.33The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation... -
The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.39The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and... -
The Bible and the Narrative Tradition by Frank McConnell 9780195070026
RRP: £31.49Booksplease Price: £30.54In his introduction to this book, McConnell describes the Bible as "less a book and more a living entity in the evolving consciousness of Western man." Until recently, studies of the Bible centered... -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 9780393927924
Booksplease Price: £22.04Originally titled "The Saddest Story" and heralded by Graham Greene as "one of the finest novels of our century," Ford's 1915 tale of passion and deceit in the lives of two married couples is a... -
Old English Poetry: An Anthology by R. M. Liuzza
Booksplease Price: £21.57R.M. Liuzza's Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney's; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode... -
The Major Works by Alexander Pope
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Pope's poetry and prose... -
Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe by Ian Watt 9780521480116
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £69.22In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don... -
Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe by Ian Watt 9780521585644
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.58In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don... -
The Major Works by John Milton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Milton's poetry... -
Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel by A. D. Nuttall 9780198117414
Booksplease Price: £65.63What is the difference between a natural beginning and the beginning of a story? Some deny that there are any beginnings in nature, except perhaps for the origin of the universe itself, suggesting... -
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 9781784871925
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08'Not since Shakespeare has love been so fully, vividly, scrupulously and directly communicated' Sunday TimesRead this stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £13.03From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting... -
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 9780141183961
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World... -
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to... -
The Major Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.61This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and... -
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh 9780241284629
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.The most... -
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of... -
The Practice of Reading by Denis Donoghue 9780300082647
Booksplease Price: £33.01This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must read texts... -
Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature by Alastair Fowler 9780198709688
Booksplease Price: £29.39Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in... -
Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon by John Kerrigan 9780198184515
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £42.96Revenge has long been central to European culture. From Homer to Nietzsche, St Paul to Sylvia Plath, numerous major authors have been fascinated by its emotional intensity, and by the questions which... -
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007320967
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC'S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of... -
Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature by Alastair Fowler 9780199592227
Booksplease Price: £32.31Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in... -
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds by Jerome Bruner
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.33In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind... -
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.20What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this... -
Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions by Piero Boitani 9780268029500
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89The Genius to Improve an Invention derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. Distinguished literary... -
The Odes of John Keats by Helen Vendler 9780674630765
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £26.95Helen Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes... -
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America by Martin Amis 9780099461869
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.15At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles,... -
Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera by Derek Hughes 9781107402911
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Human sacrifice has fascinated Western writers since the beginnings of European literature. It is prominent in Greek epic and tragedy, and returned to haunt writers after the discovery of the Aztec... -
The Dying Animal Philip Roth 9780099422693
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New StatesmanDavid Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent... -
Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions by Piero Boitani 9780268029517
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The Genius to Improve an Invention derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. Distinguished literary... -
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History by Lynne W. Hinojosa 9781032155371
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history-meaning both the burdens of the past,... -
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780006550198
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. The year is 1794 and... -
Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction by Dr. Maria J. Lopez 9781501372193
Booksplease Price: £36.66Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English. In its concern with... -
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday TelegraphAt sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an... -
Beowulf: Facing Page Translation by R. M. Liuzza 9781554811137
Booksplease Price: £22.58R.M. Liuzza's translation of Beowulf, first published by Broadview in 1999, has been widely praised for its accuracy and beauty. The facing-page translation is accompanied in this edition by... -
A Quarter Century of Common Knowledge: Eleven Conversations by Jeffrey M. Perl 9781478004905
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66To commemorate the journal's quarter-century, this double issue consists of foundational pieces arranged in conversation with one another. Common Knowledge has opened lines of communication among... -
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
Booksplease Price: £8.61Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of... -
Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions by Stephen Orgel 9781403911773
Booksplease Price: £46.58In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremost Shakespeareans of our time explores the ways in which Shakespeare has been imagined from his time to ours. Drawing on performance history,...