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Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all... -
The Age of Shakespeare Sir Frank Kermode 9780753819951
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays.Shakespeare made his unique... -
Shakespeare's Language by Professor Frank Kermode 9780374527747
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Not Entitled: A Memoir by Professor Frank Kermode 9780374525927
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525927Author Professor Frank KermodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272 -
Shakespeare: King Lear by Frank Kermode 9780333533574
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Concerning E.M. Forster by Frank Kermode 9780753823361
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Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet by Frank Kermode
Booksplease Price: £16.75Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic. "Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art... -
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Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode 9780140285925 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.31The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all... -
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The Age of Shakespeare by Sir Frank Kermode 9780753819951 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays.Shakespeare made his unique... -
Life.After.Theory: Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, Toril Moi, Christopher Norris by Michael Payne 9780826465658
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Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction',... -
Local Hero: The Making of a Scottish Classic by Jonathan Melville
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99'It's not a high concept movie, there's actually no story there really. It's what happens in between the story that's important' - Bill Forsyth The story of an American businessman sent to buy the... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like.How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did... -
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Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780141015866 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.07Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like.How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.73In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile by David M. Bethea 9780691605586
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention by Paul John Eakin
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.30Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an... -
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster 9780141441696
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This... -
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the... -
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The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope 9780140433920 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.25The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with an introduction and notes by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics... -
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Vendler 9780674945753
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens's short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of... -
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope 9780140433920
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.53The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with an introduction and notes by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics... -
He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Anthony Trollope's story of one man's obsessive self-deception pitted against against the enduring power of his wife's love, He Knew He Was Right is edited with an introduction by Frank Kermode in... -
Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings, some of them dating... -
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and... -
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace 9780330453325
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'The intense story of the pre-historical moment when stone yielded to bronze . . . Crace is a virtuoso' Frank Kermode, New York Times A coastal community live prosperously crafting fine stone tools... -
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Reading the Old Testament by John Barton 9780232522013 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £2.81Reading the Old Testament is intended for students who have already learned some of the techniques of biblical study, and would like to explore the wider implications and aims of all the various... -
Resistance To Theory by Paul De Man 9780816612949
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Explores reasons why the theoretical enterprise is blind to, or "resists," the radical nature of reading, in six essays that offer a new level of critical and cultural understanding in reference to... -
Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Sidney's poetry... -
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, historian Robin Lane Fox takes an uncompromising look at the historical proof - or refutation - of biblical events. The Bible is... -
The Major Works by Robert Browning
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.76This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning's poetry... -
The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad by F. R. Leavis 9780571243624
Booksplease Price: £16.22'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising... -
The Major Works by William Wordsworth
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.25This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry... -
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems... -
Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Boris Pasternak
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.62TRANSLATED BY MAX HAYWARD AND MANYA HARARIBanned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian... -
Lord Byron - The Major Works by Lord George Gordon Byron
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.36This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Byron's poetry and... -
The Major Works by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Johnson's poetry and... -
Brooke-Rose Omnibus: For Novels - out, Such, Between, Thru by Christine Brooke-Rose 9781857548846
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67"The Brooke-Rose Omnibus" brings together four unexpected novels: "Out", a science-fiction vision of a world surviving catastrophe; "Such", in which a three-minute heart massage is developed into a... -
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works by Gerard Manley Hopkins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together all Hopkins's poetry and a generous...