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Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker Zachary Leader 9780674248397
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.76The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century-an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James... -
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell 9780195133318
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.59The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and... -
Hidden Possibilities: Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark by Robert E. Hosmer Jr. 9780268206291
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52Described by David Lodge as "the most gifted and innovative writer of her generation," Muriel Spark had a literary career that spanned from the late 1940s until her death in 2006, and included poems,... -
Hidden Possibilities: Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark by Robert E. Hosmer
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Described by David Lodge as "the most gifted and innovative writer of her generation," Muriel Spark had a literary career that spanned from the late 1940s until her death in 2006, and included poems,... -
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780198122272
Booksplease Price: £42.96Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained and powerful... -
Selected Prose Works 9780472050956
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £17.08"A timely and significant supplement to C. P. Cavafy's poetic canon, the Selected Prose Works, eloquently translated and meticulously annotated by Peter Jeffreys, allows readers yet another creative... -
CageTalk - Dialogues with and about John Cage by Peter Dickinson 9781580465090
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.40Revealing unpublished interviews with John Cage and some of his closest colleagues, including Virgil Thomson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pauline Oliveros, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor. John Cage,... -
Prefaces to Shakespeare by Tony Tanner 9780674064249
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.54When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume IV: Prose: 1956-1962 by W. H. Auden 9780691147550
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.10This fourth volume of W. H. Auden's prose provides a unique picture of this legendary writer's mind and art when he was at the height of his powers, from 1956 through 1962, including the years when... -
Selected Letters of William Empson by John Haffenden 9780199286843
Booksplease Price: £60.51This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career. Parts of the... -
Shakespeare: For All Time by Stanley Wells 9780195160932
Booksplease Price: £82.52From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly illustrated... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199592562
Booksplease Price: £40.41The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear... -
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.41Walter Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general-in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone... -
Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel by Gary Saul Morson 9781618111616
Booksplease Price: £88.72Gary Saul Morson's ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on "prosaics" (his coinage) argues that life's defining events... -
Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History by Ross Hamilton 9780226821047
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £15.85From ancient philosophy to Tristram Shandy and Buster Keaton movies, this book tells the engaging history of accident as an idea. An accidental glance at a newspaper notice causes Rousseau to... -
The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £28.60This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and... -
William Empson, Volume II: Against the Christians by John Haffenden 9780199276608
Booksplease Price: £36.53Following the acclaimed first volume, Among the Mandarins, this is the second and concluding volume of the authorized biography of William Empson, one of the foremost poets and literary critics of... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £73.30This 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... -
W. B. Yeats: A Life Vol.2: II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 by R. F. Foster 9780198184652
Booksplease Price: £107.15The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a cross-roads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in... -
The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature by Tarif Khalidi 9780674011151
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.13This work presents in English translation the largest collection ever assembled of the sayings and stories of Jesus in Arabic Islamic literature. In doing so, it traces a tradition of love and... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume III: Prose: 1949-1955 by W. H. Auden 9780691133263
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £83.60This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text... -
How Milton Works by Stanley Fish 9780674012332
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.68Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world's preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement... -
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £25.47Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language.In detailed commentaries on...