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Stories and Tales Hans Christian Andersen 9780415285971
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €105.16A true classic of Western literature, Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, arguably the most notable children's writer of all, has delighted young and old for generations. This unique... -
Stories and Tales Hans Christian Andersen 9780415285988
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.52A true classic of Western literature, Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, arguably the most notable children's writer of all, has delighted young and old for generations. This unique... -
The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories by Joost Zwagerman
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS'There is a lot... -
Silence Shusaku Endo 9781805330783
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Father Sebastian Rodrigues sets sail for Japan in 1640. He is on a mission to find one of the Portuguese Jesuits that went before him, a spiritual example to the younger priests, and disprove the... -
Friedrich Nietzsche's Impact on Modern German Literature: Five Essays by Herbert W. Reichert 9781469658186
Booksplease Price: €27.95These previously published essays discuss Nietzsche's influence on Arthur Schnitzler, Carl Sternheim, Georg Kaiser, Robert Musil, and Hermann Hesse. As a Festschrift, it also contains a tribute to... -
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders by Kahlil G. Gibran 9781786695277
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.84A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-born artist,... -
The Confusions of Young Torless by J. M. Coetzee 9780142180006
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €12.79At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their... -
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 9780393923209
Booksplease Price: €16.95Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, accompanied... -
C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters by C. G. Jung
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.85This is a collection of journalistic interviews which span Jung's lifetime. This book captures his personality and spirit in more than 50 accounts of talks and meetings with him. They range from... -
The Two Yvonnes: Poems by Jessica Greenbaum 9780691156637
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.42This is the second collection from a Brooklyn poet whose work many readers will know from the New Yorker. Jessica Greenbaum's narrative poems, in which objects and metaphor share highest honors,... -
The Assistant by Robert Walser 9780811215909
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.65Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he... -
Literary Translation & Poetry: UEA MA Anthologies 2023 by Daniel Hahn 9781915812230
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.06In the writing of poetry and translations, everything and nothing is foreign; everything and nothing is new. This hybrid collection takes us across the globe, showcasing an impressive range of poetry... -
Blues Ain't Nothing But a Good Soul Feeling Bad: Daily Steps to Spiritual Growth by Sheldon Kopp
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €18.74This companion to the classic If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! takes us on a spiritual search for inner peace with daily universal reflections. From renowned psychotherapist,... -
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Bela Balazs
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.41A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A... -
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Bela Balazs 9780691147116
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €21.16A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A... -
Selected Letters of C.G. Jung, 1909-1961 by C. G. Jung
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.39This one-volume edition allows the general reader to appreciate Jung's ideas and personality, as they reveal themselves in his comments to his colleagues and to those who approached him with genuine... -
The I Ching or Book of Changes by Hellmut Wilhelm 9780691097503
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.13The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a... -
The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811217064
Booksplease Price: €15.49In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young girl who survives the totalitarian regime of a curiously unnamed South American country (most likely... -
Virginia Woolf: Revaluation and Continuity by Ralph Freedman 9780520302822
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €37.24The renaissance of Virginia Woolf reflects a reassessment not only of Woolf as a writer but also of our social and political life as a whole. It points up differences between English and American... -
C.G. Jung Letters, Volume 2: 1951-1961 by C. G. Jung
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €117.27Beginning with Jung's earliest correspondence to associates of the psychoanalytic period and ending shortly before his death, the 935 letters selected for these two volumes offer a running commentary... -
A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now by James M. Russell
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €4.77This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment or inspiration, including some books that come from beyond any religious tradition. While... -
The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky by Franz Kafka 9780393347098
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.19Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is... -
The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse by Martin Swales 9780691614045
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €31.65Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroman is all too frequently used in English without an... -
Paulo Freire in the 21st Century: Education, Dialogue and Transformation by Peter Roberts
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.30This book explores the implications of world renowned educationalist Paulo Freire's theories for educational practice and how his ideas can help in bridging different genres and traditions. It... -
Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism by Gerrit-Jan Berendse 9789042023918
Booksplease Price: €140.52This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent... -
Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature by Lawrence Normand 9781474232852
Booksplease Price: €48.54Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature explores the ways in which 20th-century literature has been influenced by Buddhism, and has been, in turn, a major factor in... -
The Politics of Ecstasy by Timothy Leary 9781579510312
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40Writings that sparkle with the psychedelic revolution. The Politics of Ecstasy is Timothy Leary's most provocative and influential exploration of human consciousness, written during the period from... -
The Divine Face in Four Writers: Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C. S. Lewis by Maurice Hunt 9781501333965
Booksplease Price: €48.54An important contribution to studies in literature and religion, The Divine Face in Four Writers traces the influence of Christian and Classical prototypes in ideas and depictions of the divine face,... -
Where Europe Begins: Stories by Yoko Tawada
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.19Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as "a spectacular journey through a world of... -
The Undiscovered Self: Answers to Questions Raised by the Present World Crisis by C. G. Jung
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.53In The Undiscovered Self Jung explains the essence of his teaching for a readership unfamiliar with his ideas. He highlights the importance of individual responsibility and freedom in the context of... -
Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s by Philip D. Beidler 9780820352503
RRP: €115.37Booksplease Price: €104.04At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide '60s classics ranging from The... -
Harmonic Astrology in Practice David Hamblin 9781910531327
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.88Harmonic Astrology in Practice takes off where David Hamblin's previous book, The Spirit of Numbers: A New Exploration of Harmonic Astrology comes to a close. The practical advantage of harmonic... -
The Undiscovered Self: Answers to Questions Raised by the Present World Crisis by C. G. Jung 9780415278386
RRP: €116.61Booksplease Price: €102.76In The Undiscovered Self Jung explains the essence of his teaching for a readership unfamiliar with his ideas. He highlights the importance of individual responsibility and freedom in the context of... -
The Legend of the Baal-Shem by Martin Buber
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31These twenty captivating stories about the founder of the Hasidic faith Israel ben Eliezer called the Baal-Shem or Master of God's Name, provide a profound and charming account of the genesis of... -
Microscripts Robert Walser 9780811220330
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.02Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only... -
The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature by C. G. Jung 9781138134584
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €108.94The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature offers unique and penetrating insights into the lives and opinions of some of the most significant players in the cultural life of the twentieth century. Carl... -
Time Within Time: The Diaries, 1970-1986 by Andrei Tarkovsky
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.27Tarkovsky for me is the greatest, wrote Ingmar Bergman. Andrey Tarkovsky only made seven films, but all are celebrated for its striking visual images, quietly patient dramatic structures, and... -
The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature by C. G. Jung
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.48The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature offers unique and penetrating insights into the lives and opinions of some of the most significant players in the cultural life of the twentieth century. Carl... -
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9781847494122
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.70In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a... -
The Lyrical Novel: Studies in Herman Hesse, Andre Gide, and Virginia Woolf by Ralph Freeman
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €107.22The author, in defining the genre of "lyrical fiction," separates a type of .fiction that can be legitimately viewed as "poetry" from other narrative types. The lyrical novelist...