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Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller 9780140447118
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This 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 Princes Islands: Istanbul's Archipelago by Joachim Sartorius 9781907973000
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44Off 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... -
Candide by Voltaire 9781847497284
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Candide 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.39Is 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: £16.49In 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: £90.00Booksplease Price: £60.82This 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... -
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Classical Literary Careers and their Reception by Philip Hardie 9780521762977 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £2.36This 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... -
Banking on the State: The Political Economy of Public Savings Banks by Professor Mark K Cassell
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22Germany's public savings banks - Sparkassen - are a remarkable and puzzling phenomena. No other advanced industrial country relies as heavily on such small, public financial institutions to fuel its... -
Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel by Ewa Szary-Matywiecka
Booksplease Price: £16.75In 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 Robbers and Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Friedrich 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
Booksplease Price: £10.37Lebanese 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Unveil 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... -
Letters of Introduction: An A-z of Cultural Heroes and Legends Kevin Jackson 9781857546552
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.22In 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44"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... -
The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Nobel 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44'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... -
Evocations of Italy Lena M. Lencek 9780810148307
RRP: £107.00Booksplease Price: £85.23A collector's edition of a world-historical classic In 1907, Pavel Muratov, a budding littErateur and art connoisseur from Moscow, set off for Italy with his wife, three friends, and a dozen books... -
3 Days in Leipzig: Smart and Sustainable Travel by Dr Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen 9783967220469
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.95With 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23No 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Written 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68As 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: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.7490 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... -
Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780141395913
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for... -
First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process by Robert D. Richardson 9781609383473
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.84Writing was the central passion of Emerson's life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in "The Poet," "The American Scholar," Nature, "Goethe," and "Persian Poetry," less well known... -
Lions by Hans Blumenberg 9780857428264
Booksplease Price: £13.11For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the... -
Seedtime: Notebooks, 1954–79 by Philippe Jaccottet 9781803093598
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.74The first volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters.Seedtime-Jaccottet's notebooks-is an especially good introduction to this leading... -
Waltz by Francesc Trabal 9781564788771
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01First published in 1936, and considered one of the most groundbreaking and significant novels written in Catalan, "Waltz" tells the tale of an idle, introspective, and somewhat oblivious young "man... -
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Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman" by Marc Redfield
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He... -
This is the Garden: An Anthology by 9780711231740
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88From Homer to Tom Stoppard, writers whose direct concern with gardening may only be slight, find themselves deeply involved with particular, maybe imaginary gardens. Thus gardens turn up in the most... -
Teacher Hacks: Languages by Silvia Bastow 9781036010652
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £15.75Unlock the secrets to effective teaching with "Teacher Hacks," an essential book series for educators dedicated to mastering the art of instruction. In this book, Silvia Bastow and Sinead Moxham zoom... -
Obscurity by Philippe Jaccottet
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63The story of an intense encounter between two men who were once very close and now must grapple with the fractured ideals that separate them. After several years abroad, a young man returns to his... -
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'he sat down and wept, to think that even the rams knew more about the deeds of love than he did' Daphnis is fifteen years old, Chloe thirteen. They are drawn to each other and long to make love... -
Pollock by Leonhard Emmerling 9783836529075
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.60The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso... -
Facets of a Harmony: The Roma and Their Locatedness in Eastern Slovakia by Jan Ort
Booksplease Price: £16.75A crucial contribution to Romani studies focuses on a single Slovak village to explore universal issues of belonging. In this important contribution to contemporary Romani studies, Jan Ort focuses... -
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn 9780330391955
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they... -
Black Box by Amos Oz 9780099303831
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A powerful and tragicomic blend of politics and personal destiny, Black Box records in a series of letters the wrecked marriage of Ilana and Alex. Seven years of silence following their bitter... -
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn 9780330391955 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.09An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they...