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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 9781841593661
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.76Benjamin Franklin's account of his rise from poverty and obscurity to affluence and fame is a self-portrait of a quintessential American which has charmed every generation of readers since it first... -
River Stories 9781841596396
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43River gods and nymphs frolic in Ovid's mythic telling. The trickster Coyote reroutes a river in a Native American tale. A set of stone steps at the shore of the Ganges bears witness to heartbreak in... -
Irish Stories by Christopher Morash 9781841596419
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.37The short story flourishes in Ireland. All Irish conditions seem to favour it. With its roots in the fertile soil of the Gaelic folk tradition, it appeared to grow and thrive on the discontinuities... -
English Romantic Poets by Sir Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' -William WordsworthNo generation of poets has felt more powerfully and enduringly than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early... -
A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 9781841594255
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay and using powerful images and... -
X47 Empty Dumpbin Everyman Plinth by Misty M Beller 9780999701249
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999701249Author Misty M BellerPage Count 260Imprint Everyman's LibraryPublisher Everyman -
Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather 9781857150896
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04When Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United States, he finds a vast desert region of red hills and tortured arroyos that is American by law but Mexican... -
Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems by Mihaela Moscaliuc 9781841598352
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Ever since Eve plucked a tempting apple in the Garden of Eden, the fruits of the earth have been essential to human culture and the stories we tell about our world. Poets from ancient times to the... -
Byron's Travels by Lord Byron 9781841594194
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04In Lord Byron's lifetime, details of his travels were widely known through poems set in different countries, ranging from his homes in Scotland and England, through Europe and the Middle East, to the... -
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence 9781841594224
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.73In the bleak aftermath of World War I, Constance, Lady Chatterley, is a young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralysed. With her husband's... -
German Romantic Poets by Charlotte Lee 9781841598314
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song: the poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known musical compositions of... -
Novels, Tales, Journeys by Alexander Pushkin 9781841594187
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04The archetypal Romantic, killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37, Alexander Pushkin was effectively the founder of modern Russian literature. Though famous as a poet, he was equally at home in... -
Stories of Southern Italy by Various
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil... -
Picturehouse Poems: Poems About the Movies Harold Schechter 9781841598147
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston... -
Stories of Books and Libraries by Jane Holloway
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.95Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in... -
Poems About Trees Harry Thomas 9781841598178
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them- and poets have long chronicled the relationship. In this collection, Robert Frost's... -
The Unseen Poems Rumi 9781841598161
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Rumi: Unseen Poems - the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series - is a treasury of poems which have never been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer ... -
Florence Stories by Ella Carr
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Florence's world-famous Renaissance is brought to life in this anthology through the eyes of its most illustrious chroniclers. Beginning with Dante's vision of Inferno, teeming with his Florentine... -
Rebellion by Joseph Roth
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisfied with... -
Paris Stories by Shaun Whiteside
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the... -
Buzz Words: Poems about Insects by Howard Schechter
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting,... -
Montale: Poems Eugenio Montale 9781841598093
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of... -
Poems of Healing by Karl Kirchwey
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82From ancient Greece and Rome (Sappho, Marcellus Empiricus) to the current Covid 19 crisis (Eavan Boland's 'Quarantine'), poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human... -
The King Must Die / The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04In two remarkable historical novels, Mary Renault fashions from the myth of Theseus a convincingly flawed hero and weaves a thrillingly plausible account of the Labyrinth and the infamous Minotaur... -
Sondheim: Lyrics Peter Gethers 9781841598185
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has won eight Tonys, eight Grammys, six Olivier Awards, an Academy Award and a Pulitzer Prize. His brilliant songs and lyrics of genius have... -
Venice Stories Jonathan Keates 9781841596259
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's... -
Little Poems by Michael Hennessy
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted... -
Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 9781841593937
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form... -
Prague Stories by Richard Bassett
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives... -
Berlin Stories by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in terms of urban architecture - largely a creation of the progressive 19th... -
Poems of Rome Karl Kirchwey 9781841598116
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city -... -
Border Lines: Poems of Migration by Mihaela Moscaliuc
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards and losses of migration.Each year, millions join the ranks of intrepid migrants who have reshaped societies throughout... -
Selected Writings by Alexander von Humboldt
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.73Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with... -
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 9781841593715
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you... -
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul 9781841593913
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Post-colonial Africa is dissected with pitiless lucidity in this disturbing novel about an outsider, the young Indian trader, Salim, who has moved from the coastal settlement where he grew up to an... -
The Ambassadors by Henry James 9781841593746
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.76The original American in Paris. This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, has all the elements of great writing, brilliant plot and gorgeous setting- An Edwardian... -
Elizabeth Bowen: Collected Stories Elizabeth Bowen 9781841593920
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05A brilliant and much admired novelist, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed herself as a writer of short fiction: 'the supreme genius of her time', writes John Banville in his introduction; 'There... -
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead 9781841594163
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.30'A thrilling blend of noir and fantasy.'Guardian.In an unnamed city - a hardboiled pre-Civil Rights New York sort of city -heroine Lila Mae has succeeded in becoming the very first Black female... -
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.14First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards - and double consciousness - experienced by Black people... -
Alexander Pope Poems by Alexander Pope
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15As a young man Pope shot to fame with The Rape of the Lock, a light-hearted mock-heroic poem about a trivial society scandal, still his best remembered work. Wit and irony, dazzling technical mastery...