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Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians: Including Henry Fielding. the Earl of Chatham. Horne Tooke. Horace Walpole. George Grenville. Thomas Gray. George Selwyn. Lord North. Earl of Bute. Earl Temple. Etc: Volume 2 by Jesse Jesse 9780461394597
Booksplease Price: $23.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461394597Author Jesse JesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint -
Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians: Including Henry Fielding. the Earl of Chatham. Horne Tooke. Horace Walpole. George Grenville. Thomas Gray. George Selwyn. Lord North. Earl of Bute. Earl Temple. Etc: Volume 2 by Jesse Jesse 9780371456699
Booksplease Price: $23.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371456699Author Jesse JesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 371Imprint -
Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind by Linda Kim 9781496201850
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $51.86Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum In Race ExpertsLinda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by... -
Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle by Lukas Rieppel 9780674737587
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $28.41A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in... -
The Hatfield Lunar Atlas: Digitally Re-Mastered Edition by Anthony Cook 9781493901678
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $51.11"The Hatfield Lunar Atlas" has become an amateur lunar observer's bible since it was first published in 1968. A major update of the atlas was made in 1998, using the same wonderful photographs that... -
Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840 by Brycchan Carey 9783030327910
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $128.77This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate... -
Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840 by Brycchan Carey 9783030327941
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $128.77This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate... -
Return to the Far Side of Planet Moore!: Rambling Through Observations, Friendships and Antics of Sir Patrick Moore by Martin Mobberley 9783319157795
Booksplease Price: $44.85The result of an exhaustive study of Sir Patrick Moore's observations of the Moon and planets for more than 60 years, this book is a fantastic companion to the extremely popular, "It Came From Outer... -
The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law Jeremy Tambling 9781350354579
Booksplease Price: $39.40In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth... -
Understanding Jonathan Coe by Merritt Moseley 9781611176506
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $26.95In Understanding Jonathan Coe, the first full-length study of the British novelist, Merritt Moseley surveys a writer whose experimental technique has become increasingly well received and critically... -
Four Plays: A Sense of Detachment,The End of Me Old Cigar,Jill and Jack,A Place Calling Itself Rome by John Osborne
Booksplease Price: $15.83Includes the plays A Sense of Detachment, The End of Me Old Cigar, Jill and Jack and A Place Calling Itself Rome Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of... -
Plays for England by John Osborne
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.96John Osborne (1929-1994) was the leading playwright of the post-war British theatre revival: a rennaissance that is said to have started when his Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal... -
![Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of "Homo Economicus" by Sarah Comyn 9783319943244](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/7763026/8799078/9783319943244__65036.1746843568.jpg?c=1 "Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of "Homo Economicus" by Sarah Comyn 9783319943244")
Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of "Homo Economicus" by Sarah Comyn 9783319943244
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $104.13Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of 'Homo Economicus' provides a transhistorical account of homo economicus (economic man), demonstrating this figure's significance to economic... -
Boxing: A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $19.14Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to... -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 4-6: Volumes 4,5,6 The Eastern Empire by Edward Gibbon
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $57.10The first three volumes of Gibbon's DECLINE AND FALL (the western empire) were published by Everyman in 1993. Volumes 4-6 complete the set which is now available for the first time in many years... -
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole by Joel Schechter 9780859893350
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $27.03Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were... -
Misers: British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700–1860 by Timothy Alborn 9780367524647
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage;... -
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole by Joel Schechter 9780859899970
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $80.33Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were... -
Albion's People: English Society 1714-1815 by J. Rule 9780582089167
Booksplease Price: $21.98This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society, incorporating the exciting new research... -
Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 by William Beatty Warner
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.89Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. William... -
On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.32Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior... -
![The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 9780140433135 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9679992/10696712/9780140433135__87937.1781301798.jpg?c=1 "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 9780140433135 [USED COPY]")
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 9780140433135 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.88Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in Penguin Classics.Born in Newgate prison and... -
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics Carol Stewart 9781032926575
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, Carol Stewart provides a new perspective on the rise of... -
The Code Of The Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.21Nothing but trouble can ensue when Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia instructs him to steal a silver jug from Totleigh Towers, home of magistrate and hell-hound, Sir Watkin Bassett. First he must face the... -
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in Penguin Classics.Born in Newgate prison and... -
The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 by Orlando Ricardo Menes 9780268035211
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.29The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 celebrates the distinction and diversity of poets associated with the university during these nearly two decades. This anthology is a companion volume... -
Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $4.37Lionel Asbo has just won GBP139,999,999.50 on the Lottery. A horribly violent, but horribly unsuccessful criminal, Lionel's attentions up to now have all been on his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He... -
Marco Polo Travels by Everyman
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17 of them in China. He isone of the few early adventurers whose name... -
The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 by Orlando Ricardo Menes 9780268207045
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $73.98The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 celebrates the distinction and diversity of poets associated with the university during these nearly two decades. This anthology is a companion volume... -
The Demon Undertaker by Cameron McAllister 9780552574044
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Bolt your doors! Do not dare to sleep! A kidnapper known as 'The Demon Undertaker' is on the loose in London! Yesterday he continued his reign of terror in his most chilling crime yet - kidnapping... -
Anthropology Of Iraq by Field 9781138870031
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.45First published in 2005. Informed by the author's extensive fieldwork in Iraq, this work is an invaluable resource for all those interested in the anthropology of Iraq. Providing the reader first... -
Anthropology Of Iraq by Field
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $142.79First published in 2005. Informed by the author's extensive fieldwork in Iraq, this work is an invaluable resource for all those interested in the anthropology of Iraq. Providing the reader first... -
: Gulliver and the Gentle Reader (1991): Studies in Swift and Our Time by C J Rawson 9781138558847
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $44.62Originally published in 1973, Gulliver and the Gentle Reader critically examines the writing of Jonathan Swift. The book is predominately concerned with what Rawson coins 'the "unofficial" energies'... -
A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature by John Richetti 9781405135023
RRP: $103.14Booksplease Price: $79.01A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era,... -
Literature and Crime in Augustan England by Ian A. Bell
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $43.51Eighteenth-century England saw an explosion of writings about deviance. In literature, in the law, and in the press, writers returned again and again to the question of crime and criminals.While the... -
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace by James T. Costa
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.50A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the... -
Tom Jones by Ross Ericson
Booksplease Price: $19.12All the girls love a bastard. Tom Jones follows the adventures of a young man of illegitimate birth through a tale of love, deception and mistaken identity; a feast of human nature, served up in... -
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace James T. Costa 9780691233802
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.12A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian... -
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of his Learned Friends by John Nichols 9781108074094
Booksplease Price: $75.34In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (1745-1826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century,... -
Reading Character after Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel by David Mark Diamond 9780813950891
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28How Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century...