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The Scent of Light: Five Novellas Kristjana Gunnars 9781552454381
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.17Kazim Ali introduces five autofiction novellas by Kristjana Gunnars-available in the U.S. for the first time, in a single, handsome volume "Between the late eighties and late nineties, Kristjana... -
On the Calculation of Volume II Solvej Balle 9780571383405
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW **'Fantastic.' Karl Ove Knausgard 'A literary phenomenon.' The Cut 'Unforgettable.' Hernan Diaz 'A masterpiece.' Nordic Council Literature Prize 'A total explosion: a... -
Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929 Sebastian P. Klinger 9781421450797
RRP: $172.58Booksplease Price: $123.14An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a... -
Ekphrasis, Memory and Narrative after Proust: Prose Pictures and Fictional Recollection Leonid Bilmes 9781350336872
Booksplease Price: $62.13This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel. Drawing on A la recherche du temps perdu, Leonid Bilmes considers how Vladimir Nabokov, W. G. Sebald, Ben Lerner, Ali... -
Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929 Sebastian P. Klinger 9781421450803
RRP: $67.28Booksplease Price: $50.76An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a... -
Philosophy in the Garden by Damon Young 9781912854332
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his 'thought tree'? In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon... -
Pedigree by Patrick Modiano
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me"Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical... -
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni 9780674660236
Booksplease Price: $54.00A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader.The... -
Fashioned Texts and Painted Books: Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry by Erin Edgington 9781469635774
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $114.70Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine... -
Deleuze'S Philosophical Lineage II by Graham Jones
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $54.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474449199Author Graham JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud by Stephen Greenblatt 9780300276367
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.93A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud "A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy... -
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud Stephen Greenblatt 9780300283334
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.60A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud "A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy... -
Memory in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences by Sebastian Groes 9781349566426
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $198.67This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating... -
Metalanguage and Identity: From Narration to Reflection David Evans 9781350497856
Booksplease Price: $186.79How does language attain to rear view reflection and then timeless analysis? How does language garner its conceptualisation in order to do this? This book is an exploration of the process in which... -
Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts: Phenomenological and Existentialist Descriptions of the Living Body by Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann 9783837666809
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $63.88While Alzheimer's might be associated with a difficulty to express oneself, Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann addresses this topic by examining experiences with Alzheimer's based on narratives. In this... -
Memory in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences by Sebastian Groes 9781137520579
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $198.59This book maps and analyses the changing state of memory at the start of the twenty-first century in essays written by scientists, scholars and writers. It recontextualises memory by investigating... -
How to Draw a Circle: On Reading and Writing Dan Beachy-Quick 9780472039708
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $40.23What is it to write a poem? What work do words do when placed with care and vision into the intensely charged space of poetic effort? How to Draw a Circle does not seek to answer those questions, but... -
Zombie Proust Jérôme Prieur 9781068300127
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27"Marcel Proust passed away on the 18th of November. It was 1922. One day, I could no longer resist: I went in search of him. I prowled about, I visited the rooms where he had lived, I walked in... -
Lifework: On the Autobiographical Impulse in Contemporary Art, Writing, and Theory Moran Sheleg 9781526172471
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $134.39Following the critical scepticism surrounding the notion of the 'self' as a singular entity during the 1960s, many artists and writers sought to test the apparent problem posed by autobiography as... -
The Rhythm of Thought: Art, Literature, and Music After Merleau-Ponty by Jessica Wiskus 9780226274256
Booksplease Price: $41.05Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance - so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought... -
The Paris Hours by Alex George 9781250307200
Booksplease Price: $26.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250307200Author Alex GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron... -
Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel by Dora Zhang
Booksplease Price: $48.36The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description-what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool." As a result, critics have largely neglected... -
What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk by Professor Michael Lucey 9780226816654
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $188.96Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental... -
Proust and His Banker: In Search of Time Squandered by Gian Balsamo 9781611177367
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $56.47What Marcel Proust wanted from life most of all was unconditional requited love, and the way he went after it-smothering the objects of his affection with gifts-cost him a fortune. To pay for such... -
Lifework: On the Autobiographical Impulse in Contemporary Art, Writing, and Theory Moran Sheleg 9781526194787
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $72.40Following the critical scepticism surrounding the notion of the 'self' as a singular entity during the 1960s, many artists and writers sought to test the apparent problem posed by autobiography as... -
The Child In Time by Ian McEwan
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one... -
Desire: Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.46You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful... -
On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life Ben Hutchinson 9780008588496
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.12Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? ... -
The Ideal Reader: Proust, Freud, and the Reconstruction of European Culture by Jacques Riviere
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34Jacques Riviere knew how to accept art emotionally. No French critic was ever less a traditional pedagogue. Rivibre was an intelligent French writer, who knew that the summit of the intellect is to... -
Collective Memory and the Historical Past by Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Booksplease Price: $57.51There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey... -
Madame Proust: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Booksplease Price: $48.95Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" opens with one of the most famous scenes in literature, as young Marcel, unable to fall asleep, waits anxiously for his mother to come to his bedroom and kiss... -
Proust at the Movies by Martine Beugnet
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in... -
Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera Ricky Ian Gordon 9780374605728
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $39.31At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher's bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though scandal, sadness, and confusion would shake that... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9781784877460
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9780099573074
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE'A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read' GuardianEmma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and... -
Madame Bovary: Vintage Classics French Series by Gustave Flaubert 9781784878450
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written.Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance... -
Textual and Critical Intersections: Conversations with Laurence Sterne and Others by Melvyn New 9780813069838
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $108.26In this collection of essays representing fifty years of scholarship on Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New brings Sterne into conversation with other authors-both his contemporaries, such as James Boswell... -
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Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky 9780099488781 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.52**AS FEATURED IN HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S BOOK CLUB, THE READING ROOM**'A masterpiece' The Sunday TimesIn 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what... -
No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize 'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear,... -
Suite Francaise: Vintage Classics French Series by Irène Némirovsky 9781784878412
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61The second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. Nemirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. In 1941, Irene sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living...