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Sara/Minna Von Barnhelm (Trans. Ernest Bell/Anthony Meech) by Gotthold Lessing
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.82"Sara, Minna von Barnhelm Two contrasting plays by the influential German playwright and critic, Gotthold Lessing. Sara is a compelling domestic tragedy that is as popular now as when it was first... -
The Art of Angling: Poems About Fishing Dr Henry Hughes 9781841597881
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Fishing has inspired a wealth of poetry-Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern... -
Twenty-Five German Poets: A Bilingual Collection by Walter Arnold Kaufmann 9780393007718
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $24.11The book spans three centuries--opening with Angelus Silesius, Klopstock, Claudius, Goethe, and Schiller, and ending with Brecht and Boell--but it has considerable continuity. The prefaces for each... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world... -
Thomas Mann by Herbert Lehnert 9781789140811
Booksplease Price: $21.91This concise yet thorough critical biography throws new light on the work of German novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and social critic Thomas Mann. It also offers a fresh look at the value of... -
Secret Strasbourg Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar Guillaume Bouvier 9782361956233
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.63Let Secret Strasbourg guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Strasbourg guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures... -
Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love by Arthur G. Zajonc 9781584200628
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.31In Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry, Arthur Zajonc offers an overview of the meditative life, weaving practical instruction together with the guidance and inspiration of the world's great... -
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.72All That Is Solid Melts into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes... -
Intuition: The Focus of Thinking by Rudolf Steiner 9781855845572
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.87Rudolf Steiner draws a clear distinction between the spiritual meaning of the word Intuition and its ordinary definition. As the highest form of spiritual perception, Intuition has an existential... -
Unearthly Toys: Poems and Masks by Ned Denny 9781784105389
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Winner of the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Ned Denny's Unearthly Toys are treacherous playthings, as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling, a `rhapsody of rags... -
The Notary by Alexandros Rangavis 9786185048662
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99A wealthy count on his deathbed, his libertine nephew, an upstanding young clerk, and a scheming notary who stops at nothing to protect his daughter make The Notary an iconic tale of suspense and... -
Faust: New Translation by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.36In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual... -
Prosper'S Demon by K. J. Parker 9781250260512
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.68An exorcist's methods aren't delicate but they're undeniably effective: he'll get the demon out-he just doesn't particularly care what happens to the person. His target, Prosper of Schanz is a man of... -
Action at a Distance by John Durham Peters
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media? Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an 'acting at a distance,' an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the... -
Music: Mystery, Art and the Human Being by Rudolf Steiner
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.87'Our neurosensory system is inwardly configured music, and we experience music as an artistic quality to the degree that a piece of music is in tune with the mystery of our own musical structure.' -... -
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada 9781846276323
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Three bears. The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia. The second, her daughter, a skilled dancer in an East Berlin circus. The third,... -
Tactical Training in the Endgame by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.76Goethe once wrote, "Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated than we can conceive." He could well have had chess endgames in mind. Endgames have fewer pieces on the board... -
The Princes Islands: Istanbul's Archipelago by Joachim Sartorius 9781907973000
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.65Off the coast of Istanbul, in the Marmara Sea, lie the Princes Islands, an archipelago of unusual natural beauty, which has long been considered the maritime suburb of the imperial capital on the... -
Micromegas by Voltaire
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a... -
Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller 9780140447118
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This dramatic story recounts Mary, Queen of Scots's remaining days held captive in Fotheringay Castle. In scenes alternating between Mary's prison and Elizabeth's court at Westminster, Schiller's... -
Candide by Voltaire 9781847497284
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss. But after committing an indiscretion and being... -
Color Meditation Kees Veenman 9781584208730
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.94Is there such a thing as the essence of colour? How can we learn to experience colour more intensely? What is the connection between Christ and colour?Colour specialist Kees Veenman begins by... -
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Harry Clarke 9780717150236
Booksplease Price: $22.10In 1916 George Harrap published an edition of The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen which included specially commissioned illustrations from a new young Irish illustrator, Harry Clarke. Although... -
Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73Begun in 1912 at the castle of Duino near Trieste, these ten Elegies were finally completed, after a decade of sporadic and protracted creation, at the Chateau Muzot in the Swiss Valais. Rilke... -
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by A. S. Byatt
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as... -
Transparent Window Scenes Through the Year by Michaela Kronshage
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76'Humans experience great joy in colours. The eye needs them as it needs the light.' -- J.W. GoetheBeautiful tissue-paper window scenes are a lovely way to bring colour and light into a home or... -
The Principle of Reason by Martin Heidegger
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86The Principle of Reason, the text of an important and influential lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1955-56, takes as its focal point Leibniz's principle: nothing is without reason... -
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Classical Literary Careers and their Reception by Philip Hardie 9780521762977 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $3.16This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major... -
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception by Philip Hardie 9780521762977
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $81.50This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major... -
The Robbers and Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one,... -
Intimate Verses by Henri Zoghaib 9780815609254
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.89Lebanese poet, writer, and critic Henri Zoghaib is a leading cultural figure in the Arab world. His poetry, at once tightly condensed and intensely emotional, has been translated into several... -
The Hill Of Evil Counsel: Three Stories by Amos Oz 9780099747406
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these three closely linked... -
Letters of Introduction: An A-z of Cultural Heroes and Legends Kevin Jackson 9781857546552
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $12.35In Letters of Introduction Kevin Jackson invents a new genre, the Alphabet Essay. Always inventive, scholarly and sometimes zany, Jackson approaches ten writers and two 'themes', building an alphabet... -
The Nature of Substance: Spirit and Matter by Rudolf Hauschka 9781855841222
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.01"What is the nature of matter?"Within conventional science, the reductionist, materialist view asserts that matter is solely physical. Hauschka shows that open-minded study, based on qualitative... -
Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel by Ewa Szary-Matywiecka
Booksplease Price: $22.45In this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska's Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition, an international success upon its publication in 1816 that is now widely considered to... -
The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering an enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an... -
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit by Elias Canetti
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices of Marrakesh, he captures the essence of... -
Transforming the Soul: v. 1 by Rudolf Steiner 9781855841581
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.01'The spiritual-scientific investigator has...to transform the soul itself into an instrument; then - when his soul is awakened and he can see into a spiritual world - he experiences, on a higher... -
3 Days in Leipzig: Smart and Sustainable Travel by Dr Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen 9783967220469
RRP: $12.06Booksplease Price: $9.31With the BKB travel guide, you can not only plan your trip to LEIPZIG carefully, you can also travel in the certainty that your travel guide was produced in an environmentally friendly way. Nothing... -
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For...