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The Shieling by David Constantine 9781905583218
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781905583218Author David Constantin -
The Life-Writer by David Constantine 9781905583744
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905583744Author David ConstantineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Dressing-Up Box by David Constantine 9781912697304
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912697304Author David ConstantineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Rivers of the Unspoilt World by David Constantine 9781912697564
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Described as one of the as one of the UK's finest short story writers, Constantine intricately interweaves fictional characters and events with the real to create new ways of seeing and connecting... -
Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten by David Constantine
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional... -
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Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten by David Constantine 9780140041194 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.20The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional... -
Italian Short Stories by Raleigh Trevelyan
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations... -
Kleist: Selected Writings by Heinrich Von Kleist 9780872207448
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £34.77Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most... -
In Another Country: Selected Stories by 9781905583768
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905583768Author David ConstantineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Kleist: Selected Writings by Heinrich Von Kleist 9780872207431
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most... -
Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises by Pamela Lyon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French... -
Italian Short Stories by Dimitri Vittorini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this... -
Spanish Short Stories by Jean Franco
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camilo Jose Cela have been chosen for... -
Heine Und Die Weltliteratur by T. J. Reed
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £64.33The 1997 London Heine Conference brought together leading scholars and critics from Austria, Britain and Germany. The essays collected in this volume offer a broad canvas of Heine's themes and... -
Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler 9781913505769
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian... -
In Case of Loss by Lutz Seiler 9781913505783
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler's beautifully... -
Poetry: The Literary Agenda by David J. Constantine 9780199698479
Booksplease Price: £23.69The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and... -
Homer by Katherine Callen King 9780415763646
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04First Published in 1994. Part of a collection on Classical Heritage, this is a collection of Homer's influence from the Middle ages to the twentieth century. This series will present articles, some... -
Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli by Giovanni Pascoli 9780691198279
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)-the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets-has been... -
Love Poems by Bertolt Brecht 9780871408563
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brecht's poetry did not become apparent until long after his death and today, many of his more than 2,000 poems have never appeared in English. Love... -
Oxford Poets Anthology: 2004 by Bernard O'Donoghue 9781903039663
Booksplease Price: £14.11This anthology follows the OxfordPoets anthologies of 2000, 2001 and 2002. It introduces a number of new poets who are beginning to make their way. The collection celebrates the diversity of the... -
Elective Affinities: A Novel by J. W. von Goethe
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.54In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into... -
Love Poems by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.36Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brecht's poetry did not become apparent until long after his death and today, many of his more than 2,000 poems have never appeared in English. Love... -
Faust, Part II by Goethe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust... -
Best British Short Stories 2020 by Nicholas Royle 9781784632359
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This new series... -
Poetry Book Society Winter 2018 Bulletin by Alice Kate Mullen 9781999858971
Booksplease Price: £8.93The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Winter 2018 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications,... -
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780199583027
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.' The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first... -
Faust, Part I by Goethe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks... -
Elder David J. Constantine 9781780370989
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. Many of the poems in his latest collection spring from... -
The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht 9780871407672
Booksplease Price: £42.24Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, "that very rare phenomenon, a great poet". Hugely prolific, Brecht... -
Empedocles Shoe by Bertolt Brecht 9780413757302
Booksplease Price: £56.67A key critical work bringing relevance to Brecht's poetry in the 21st century Brecht is increasingly recognised as one of the most important lyric voices of the 20th century. Alongside Rilke he is... -
Rethinking Therapeutic Reading: Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot by Kelda Green 9781785273810
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09'Rethinking Therapeutic Reading' uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for personal thinking. It... -
Rubble Flora: Selected Poems Volker Braun 9780857427144
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.30Rubble Flora is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long career of German poet Volker Braun. Born in the former East Germany, Braun is a humane, witty, brave, and disappointed... -
Rethinking Therapeutic Reading: Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot by Kelda Green 9781839985317
Booksplease Price: £25.71'Rethinking Therapeutic Reading' uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for personal thinking. It... -
Selected Poetry: including Hoelderlin's Sophocles Friedrich Hoelderlin 9781780374017
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Friedrich Hoelderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new... -
A Bird Called Elaeus: poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology David J. Constantine 9781780377223
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The Greek Anthology, marvellous salvage from the vast shipwreck of the Ancient World, is a collection of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years by about 300 authors, a colossal... -
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former... -
Swift by 9780856464430
Booksplease Price: £11.88In Jennie Feldman's second collection, the earth-shy bird of the title flies high above the territorial rivalries of its region. From the Middle East, "Swift" ranges across Europe to Scotland, always... -
Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Chevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. Embarking on an affair with the lovely Rosette to ease his... -
Paris Tales by Helen Constantine
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £10.17Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by specific locations in this most visited of capital cities. The twenty-two stories -...