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The Princes' Islands: Istanbul's Archipelago by Joachim Sartorius 9781914982088
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Off the coast of Istanbul, in the Marmara Sea, lie the Princes' Islands. An archipelago of unusual natural beauty, they have long been considered the maritime suburb of the imperial capital on the... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Armed 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: $38.91This 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: $38.06Booksplease Price: $25.99Let 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... -
Dr. Mephisto by Chris Hamilton-Emery 9781784630751
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40Dr. Mephisto is in the form of a long sequence of poems. It traces Mephistopheles as he ranges freely through time and space, at times a laconic observer, at others a thuggish participant, but always... -
Twenty-Five German Poets: A Bilingual Collection by Walter Arnold Kaufmann 9780393007718
RRP: $49.98Booksplease Price: $42.82The 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... -
Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love by Arthur G. Zajonc 9781584200628
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $28.96In 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... -
Sara/Minna Von Barnhelm (Trans. Ernest Bell/Anthony Meech) by Gotthold Lessing
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $31.65"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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83Fishing 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... -
Friedrich Nietzsche by Ritchie Robertson 9781789146066
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04In this concise yet comprehensive critical biography, Ritchie Robertson examines the work of Friedrich Nietzsche within the context of his life. The book traces Nietzsche's development from... -
Action at a Distance by John Durham Peters
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.94How 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... -
Intuition: The Focus of Thinking by Rudolf Steiner 9781855845572
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.18Rudolf 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... -
The Notary by Alexandros Rangavis 9786185048662
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $21.30A 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... -
Prosper'S Demon by K. J. Parker 9781250260512
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $18.97An 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... -
Unearthly Toys: Poems and Masks by Ned Denny 9781784105389
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.90Winner 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... -
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by A. S. Byatt
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04The 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33'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: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.94The 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... -
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $27.92All 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... -
Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.49Begun 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... -
Tactical Training in the Endgame by Cyrus Lakdawala
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $36.87Goethe 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... -
Faust: New Translation by Ivan Turgenev
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $18.40In 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... -
Candide by Voltaire 9781847497284
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33Candide 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: $45.20Booksplease Price: $31.87Is 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: $39.25In 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... -
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception by Philip Hardie 9780521762977
RRP: $214.20Booksplease Price: $144.75This 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 Princes Islands: Istanbul's Archipelago by Joachim Sartorius 9781907973000
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.47Off 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... -
Music: Mystery, Art and the Human Being by Rudolf Steiner
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.18'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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Three 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,... -
Micromegas by Voltaire
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.16Micromegas 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: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28This 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... -
The Robbers and Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Friedrich 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.11Lebanese 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83The 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... -
Beware the Banshee's Cry: The Folklore & History of Messengers of Death Steven J. Rolfes 9780738778273
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.46Unveil the mystery of the banshee and other entities that bridge the gap between life and death with this book's extensive Celtic folklore and historic cases. From deities like the Morrigan to... -
Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel by Ewa Szary-Matywiecka
Booksplease Price: $39.87In 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... -
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.97No 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... -
Sonnets to Orpheus, Bilingual Edition by Rainer Rilke
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.49Written with astonishing rapidity in two weeks of February 1922, when Rilke was finally completing the Duino Elegies that had occupied him intermittently for a decade, Sonnets to Orpheus is a series... -
Beyond Spoon River: The Legacy of Edgar Lee Masters by Ronald Primeau 9780292729254
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70As the first full-length critical study of Edgar Lee Masters, Beyond Spoon River is important not only for its reevaluation of this American poet and his work but also for its valuable insights into... -
October Nights by Gerard de Nerval 9780241747247
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.2890 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIn October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris - a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also...