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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Poole
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776144Author Adrian PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher... -
Shakespeare and the Victorians by Adrian Poole 9781903436714
Booksplease Price: $84.80Adrian Poole's major new study is the first to present a fully comprehensive view of what Shakespeare meant to the Victorian period as a whole. He examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare,... -
Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy by Adrian Poole
RRP: $378.00Booksplease Price: $120.46This is a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by nineteenth-century novelists... -
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction by Adrian Poole
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.23What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists by Adrian Poole 9780521871198
RRP: $212.10Booksplease Price: $202.00In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne,... -
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists by Adrian Poole 9780521691574
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $61.07In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne,... -
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation by Adrian Poole 9780192142092
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $173.29The debts that English poetry owes to the Classics are massive and various. But they have been richly repaid by the astonishingly inventive tradition of translation to which some of the greatest... -
FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Popularity and Neglect by Adrian Poole 9780857287816
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $131.42Edward FitzGerald's 'Rubaiyat', loosely based on verses attributed to the eleventh-century Persian writer, Omar Khayyam, has become one of the most widely known poems in the world, republished... -
Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XII by Adrian Poole 9781472518507
Booksplease Price: $78.58The four writers featured in this volume represent different aspects of the modernist response to Shakespeare. James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Samuel Beckett were all exceptionally learned... -
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 9780140434972
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.31One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter AckroydOur Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9780141396477
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival... -
Henry James The Shorter Fiction: Reassessments by N. H. Reeve 9780333647301
Booksplease Price: $190.18Eleven essays representing a fresh engagement, from a variety of critical positions, with the tales and nouvelles of Henry James. The collection contains new studies of well-known stories, such as... -
Henry IV Part Two by William Shakespeare
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.35'This, of the history plays, is The Tragedy ... the most lyrical Shakespeare ever wrote' Simon SchamaThe old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff -... -
Henry James The Shorter Fiction: Reassessments by N. H. Reeve 9781349253739
Booksplease Price: $190.18Eleven essays representing a fresh engagement, from a variety of critical positions, with the tales and nouvelles of Henry James. The collection contains new studies of well-known stories, such as... -
Washington Square by Henry James
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38'She will do as I have bidden her.' Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless... -
The Shakespearean Forest by Anne Barton 9781009226684
Booksplease Price: $43.28The Shakespearean Forest, Anne Barton's final book, uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power. The collection is representative of... -
The Shakespearean Forest by Anne Barton 9780521573443
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $192.07The Shakespearean Forest, Anne Barton's final book, uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power. The collection is representative of... -
Tennyson: A Selected Edition Christopher Ricks 9781405832823
Booksplease Price: $100.99This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson's poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of... -
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion -... -
Baudelaire and 'Le Spleen de Paris' by J. A. Hiddleston 9780198158394
Booksplease Price: $173.92The collection of prose poems known as Le Spleen de Paris is an important, puzzling and yet relatively neglected area of Baudelaire's work. This book attempts to cast light on the uncertainty that... -
The American by Henry James 9780199555208
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search... -
What Maisie Knew by Henry James 9780199538591
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents,... -
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories by Henry James
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.16'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.' The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his... -
Daisy Miller and An International Episode by Henry James 9780199639885
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.38'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence' Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or... -
An Anthology of Poems by Members of Trinity College Cambridge by Angela Leighton 9781784103569
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $31.40An anthology of poems by members of Trinity College, Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. This landmark anthology celebrates six centuries of poetry from Trinity College,... -
Victorian Shakespeare: Volume 2: Literature and Culture by Gail Marshall 9781403911179
Booksplease Price: $190.18What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers, through close examination of works by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics... -
Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals Yui Kajita 9781836244981
Booksplease Price: $65.44This book aims to put Walter de la Mare back on the literary map. A writer beloved by many, he has nevertheless remained on the sidelines of literary history. Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals... -
The Ambassadors by Henry James
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in... -
Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English by J. Michael Walton 9780521861106
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.98In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues... -
Prepossessing Henry James: The Strange Freedom Julián Jiménez Heffernan 9781032058665
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their... -
Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English by J. Michael Walton 9780521102896
Booksplease Price: $67.45In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues... -
Medieval Shakespeare: Pasts and Presents by Ruth Morse 9781107559523
Booksplease Price: $67.45For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions... -
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884–1886: Volume 1 by Henry James
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $129.15Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886 includes 179 letters, 94... -
Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture by Juliet John 9780199261376
Booksplease Price: $114.79This is the first major study of Dickens's villains. They embody, John argues, the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and 'theatrical' aspects of his writing. Though there have been many studies of... -
Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontes by Terry Eagleton 9781403946980
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.19Myths of Power - Anniversary Edition sets out to interpret the fiction of the Bronte sisters in light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced. Its aim is not... -
English Literature and Ancient Languages by Kenneth Haynes 9780199212125
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $91.37Literature in English is hardly ever entirely in English. Contact with other languages takes place, for example, whenever foreign languages are introduced, or if a native style is self-consciously... -
Selected Letters by Thomas Hardy 9780198185468
Booksplease Price: $184.23Thomas Hardy's greatness as a novelist and poet is universally acknowledged. These letters provide invaluable glimpses into his life, from the years as an unknown architect's assistant in London in...