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Essays on Gay Literature by Stuart Kellogg 9781138442733
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $147.95An important contribution to the rapidly growing field of gay literary criticism and scholarship, this volume contains well-written and intelligently argued essays on the the homosexual tradition in... -
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and... -
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Dear George And Other Stories by Helen Simpson 9780749395452 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.48In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her characteristic blend of comedy and lyricism. Here are tales of young love... -
The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates... -
Selected Poems by Paul Farley 9781447220428
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today. Selected Poems takes stock of a singular talent of great formal gifts: for readers new to his work, this is an... -
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China The Arthur Waley Estate 9780415612807
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24First published in 1939. This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's appeal is to the imagination; the appeal of mencius is to the moral feelings;... -
The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson 9781783523801
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $11.12From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined... -
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The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson 9781783523801 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.47From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined... -
The Art Of Perspective: Who Tells the Story by Christopher Castellani 9781555977269
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.69A writer may have a story to tell, a sense of plot, and strong characters, but for all of these to come together some key questions must be answered. What form should the narrator take? An... -
Dear George And Other Stories by Helen Simpson 9780749395452
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her characteristic blend of comedy and lyricism. Here are tales of young love... -
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of GandhiBakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet... -
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 9780393926323
Booksplease Price: $20.91A generous "Contexts" section provides extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters as well as comments on the novel from her fellow writers and friends, among them E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. Also... -
The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume 3, Pilgrimage 1912-1947 by Webb 9780521083980
Booksplease Price: $67.73This is the third and final volume of the letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As leading figures in the Fabian Society, prominent historians and public figures, they numbered among their... -
Aspects of Bloomsbury: Studies in Modern English Literary and Intellectual History by S. Rosenbaum 9781349404544
Booksplease Price: $116.82Much of the widespread interest in the Bloomsbury Group over the past quarter-century has been biographical, yet without the Group's works there would be little interest in their lives. The studies... -
Edward Marsh: A Life of Poets, Painters and Players by Sharon Mather 9781911397786
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.88Sir Edward 'Eddie' Marsh was an ornament of early twentieth-century society; a respected civil servant, polymath and scholar who led a remarkable life. Always at the heart of the establishment, he... -
Caprice by Ronald Firbank 9780811212434
Booksplease Price: $8.33The stage-struck daughter of an English rural dean runs off with the family plate to London and a theatrical career-only to die tragically by the bite of a mousetrap in her moment of triumph as a... -
The Reef by Edith Wharton
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Edith Wharton's subtle variation on the theme of the eternal triangle features Anna Leath, a rich American widow living in France; her daughter's delightful governess, Sophy Viner; and the first love... -
Extramural: Literature and Lifelong Learning by Adrian Barlow 9780718892791
Booksplease Price: $33.18More than a personal account of a career in education, but an argument for an idea, Extramural is an argument for the lifelong pursuit of knowledge and the invaluable part Cambridge Institute of... -
Burne-Jones Talking: His Conversations 1895-1898 Preserved by His Studio Assistant Thomas Rooke by Thomas Rooke 9781843680895
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'To know his work without his talk is "not to know him" ...only when they are side by side is the common origin and aim seen and the complete man displayed.' Thus Thomas Rooke, studio assistant to... -
In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welch
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.13'Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me' Alan Bennett'Vivid ... surprising ... an exquisite balance of pain and beauty' GuardianOrvil Pym does not... -
The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Mrs Stone changed from a famous, rich American actress to a notorious, very rich American widow. But the transition took years and all that time her youth and legendary beauty slipped away. So she... -
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 9781857151602
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.54In his last completed novel, published in 1864-5, Dicens confirmed his reputation as a story-teller of genius while extending the sphere of his imagination to new worlds. Like all Dickens' novels,... -
Regenerating the Novel: Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence James J. Miracky 9780415867092
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36In this exploration of the most innovative and iconoclastic modernist fiction, James J. Miracky studies the ways in which cultural forces and discourses of gender inflect the practice and theory of... -
The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history' Sunday TimesThe quarter... -
Summer by Edith Wharton 9780241422243
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.13A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural MassachusettsSeventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her... -
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9780099540786
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11'No summary can do this marvellous, rich and unforgettable novel anything like justice' Philip PullmanKim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an... -
Bungalow Modernity: A Study of Twentieth Century Fictions of Home by Mary Lou Emery 9781476680255
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $43.83Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating... -
Sciences of Modernism: Ethnography, Sexology, and Psychology by Paul Peppis 9781316639115
Booksplease Price: $41.43Sciences of Modernism examines key points of contact between British literature and the human sciences of ethnography, sexology and psychology at the dawn of the twentieth century. The book is... -
The Return of Pytheas: Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue by Paschalis Nikolaou 9781848615670
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28The Return of Pytheas is a study of poetry and poems through and across two language traditions - Greek and English. While the main focus is recent and contemporary, exchanges reach back as far as... -
Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81A novel about the brutality of fame and what happens when fandom turns to obsession, from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Quickening MazeHenry Banks, a brilliant, anxiously ambitious young actor... -
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence 9780099511786
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISKSeven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general... -
Constitutional by Helen Simpson 9780099494188
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman finds... -
Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage by Andrea Zemgulys 9781107404700
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $51.72Modernist writers in the early twentieth century aimed to write in inventive and transformative ways, but they lived in places celebrated for their association with the achievements of past... -
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $37.90In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a... -
Summer by Edith Wharton
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie... -
Edgelands by Michael Symmons Roberts
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have... -
English Pastoral Music: From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955 by Eric Saylor
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $39.77Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical,... -
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope 9780140430868
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The first novel in Anthony Trollope's 'Palliser' series, Can You Forgive Her? traces the fortunes of three very different women in an exploration of whether social obligations and personal happiness... -
Dream Sequence Adam Foulds 9781787330825
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Henry Banks, a brilliant but narcissistic young actor, is prepared to go to any length for a role, to capitalise on his successes in television drama by securing the lead in the latest film by a... -
iGirl by Marina Carr
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.33I NeanderthalPrince of the PlainsI saw EdenIt wasn't muchI sawThe treeThe gatesRustyBut stillIntactI sawThe triple lockThe jack bootThe size of an oakI retreatedWiselyGod they WereUgly Marina Carr's...