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Boss Ladies, Watch Out!: Essays on Women, Sex and Writing by Terry Castle 9780415938747
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66A new collection of essays on literature and sexuality by one of the wittiest and most iconoclastic critics writing today.About the AuthorTerry Castle has taught at Stanford since 1983. She has... -
Fear of Dying Erica Jong 9781782117476
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'I loved Fear of Dying. I found it irreverent, funny, tender and very wise and it made me feel more alive' RACHEL JOYCE, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Vanessa Wonderman is smart, sexy - and... -
Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture by Kate Gilhuly
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture addresses the following question: how does a place "get a reputation?" The Athenians associated sexual behaviors with particular places and... -
Literary Criticism: A Short History: Classical Criticism by William K. Wimsatt Jr. 9780367692131
Booksplease Price: €122.80First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world. Divided... -
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
Booksplease Price: €15.41"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9781784878238
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.04Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for... -
Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780099518860
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.34INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREERShakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the... -
The Queens' English: The Young Readers' LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O. Davis 9781665926867
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.09This young readers adaptation of The Queens' English is a nonfiction illustrated reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language.This playful, richly illustrated... -
Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces Alice Butler 9781478029786
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €95.32In Close Writing, Alice Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller. While... -
The Queens' English: The Young Readers' Lgbtqia+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O Davis 9781665926874
Booksplease Price: €17.10This young readers adaptation of The Queens' English is a nonfiction illustrated reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language.This playful, richly illustrated... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson 9780691250625
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.32Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the... -
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.47No, they weren't 'just friends'! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. 'But historians famously care about women!', said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.80Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the... -
Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces Alice Butler 9781478033240
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €26.70In Close Writing, Alice Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller. While... -
Corporate Innovation: Marketing and Strategy by Gordon Foxall 9781138966826
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29This volume is concerned with understanding the factors that determine innovation and its contribution to corporate achievement. It considers the whole range of innovation, consumer and industrial,... -
The Ink Dark Moon by Izumi Shikibu
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and... -
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Professor Robert C. Solomon
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €34.15What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword... -
Ancient Greek Lyrics by William McCulloh
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry-including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative... -
A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New & Selected Poems by Gillian Conoley 9781643620114
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.25WINNER of the 39TH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST for the 89TH CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD IN POETRY SHORTLISTED for the 2019 GOLDEN POPPY BOOK AWARD IN POETRY Conoley's... -
Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann 9780691272023
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to... -
Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann 9780691272016
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €78.94A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to... -
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems J D McClatchy 9781841597454
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.50From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude... -
Word Witchery: Walking the Path of the Poetry Priestess Katie Ness 9781803417066
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.70Ancient priestesses of antiquity wrote and performed poetic incantations to the gods. Discover the forgotten magic of women s voices, of their poetry, and their word witchery! Poetry priestesses have... -
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda 9781784878207
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as... -
How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature by Emily Hauser 9780691248769
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €21.65How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one-aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous... -
The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse Christopher Childers 9780141392134
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.15The poets in this book are philosophers and statesmen; priestesses and warriors; teenage girls, concerned for their birthday celebrations; drunkards and brawlers; grumpy old men and chic young things... -
The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry Phyllis Weliver 9781138263567
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €29.01How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand... -
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters Sacha Coward 9781807070397
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.17A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy... -
The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry Phyllis Weliver 9780754605478
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €42.96How was music depicted in and mediated through Romantic and Victorian poetry? This is the central question that this specially commissioned volume of essays sets out to explore in order to understand... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €35.99This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on... -
The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden 9780691218656
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.35Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Award-winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles,... -
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore 9781925228113
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. Drawing from an astonishing trove of documents, including... -
The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture Robin Sowerby 9780415727297
Booksplease Price: €47.87The Greeks has provided a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece. In this new and expanded third edition the best-selling volume offers a lucid survey that covers all... -
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack Richard Ovenden 9781529378771
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.31An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital... -
The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame by D. Robinson 9781349286423
Booksplease Price: €55.07Once celebrated as 'the English Sappho,' Mary Robinson was a major figure in British Romanticism. This volume offers comprehensive study of Robinson's achievement as a poet, a professional writer, a... -
Ancient Greeks by Jane Lacey
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02DISCOVER the facts and DO the activities in this fun history series! Discover and Do! History is the perfect introduction to history for readers aged 7 and up who enjoy getting creative! Each book... -
Discover and Do: Ancient Greeks Jane Lacey 9781445177434
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07DISCOVER the facts and DO the activities in this fun history series! Discover and Do! History is the perfect introduction to history for readers aged 7 and up who enjoy getting creative! Each book... -
Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France by Joan DeJean 9780231062305
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €116.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJean DeJean is a Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Fictions of... -
World-Changing Women: 150 Women who Rewrote the Histories of Ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome Paul Chrystal 9781399056465
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.78Countless books have been written about prominent women in Greece and Rome, so we know all about Medea, Sappho, Lucretia, Boudica and Cleopatra and their significant actions and achievements. This... -
Monitoring Penal Policy in Europe by Gaëtan Cliquennois 9780367228101
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.77The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies. This is particularly the case for prisons and...