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Antiquity Matters by Frederic Raphael
RRP: $47.25Booksplease Price: $43.22A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing... -
Darling by Frederic Raphael 9781448213634
Booksplease Price: $29.90First published in 1965, this is a tale of the face that has launched a thousand billboards. Diana Scott is "The Happiness Girl" in ads plastered all over the country, and she's hunting... -
Last Post by Frederic Raphael 9781800173033
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.85A The Tablet Book of the Year. Last Post has a double life; it both sounds for the gallant fallen and recalls what spurred freelance journalists, in all those yesterdays before e-mail, to get... -
The Great Philosophers Frederic Raphael 9780753811368
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and... -
California Time by Frederic Raphael 9781448213658
Booksplease Price: $31.98Victor England, the great film director, returns to Hollywood to finalise arrangements for his next production. Everything seems propitious: he has a firm contract with a studio that owes him a... -
Coast to Coast by Frederic Raphael 9781448213641
Booksplease Price: $31.98Marion and Barnaby Pierce are an American couple who are about to sell the New England house in which they have raised what seems to be a happy family. They are leaving on a trip across America in a... -
There and Then: Personal Terms 6 by Frederic Raphael 9781847771407
Booksplease Price: $42.32"We had been instructed to start promptly at six, since the hall was needed again at eight. We pushed through the curtained doorway, like instrumentalists without instruments, and onto the stepped... -
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The Great Philosophers by Frederic Raphael 9780753811368 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $4.85The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and... -
Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths: Poems by Frederic Raphael 9781557286284
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, Sholeh Wolpe's third collection of poems, is a surreal journey of sorrows and sins, of love, ghosts, and Saudi princes, of banishment inside one's own skin. Wild in... -
The World's Game: Reflections on Western Culture Frederic Raphael 9781837933389
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $48.26In the twelfth century, Pope Clement III declared: 'The Pope is resolved to be the lord and master of the world's game.' Yet history has proven to be much more complex.In this epic narrative,... -
A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus by Mr Frederic Raphael 9780307456359
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $37.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307456359Author Frederic RaphaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
Smile to Your Wish by Frederick Raphael
Booksplease Price: $16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800741706Author Frederick RaphaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher... -
Greek Tragedy: Three Plays by Euripides 9781854598479
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.46Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations. This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections... -
Satyrica by Petronius Arbiter 9781857547832
Booksplease Price: $37.13Petronius lived during the reign of the notorious emperor Nero, a writer in a decadent empire, and in Frederic Raphael he finds a translator who brings his words vividly alive. Petronius' Rome is not... -
Backstory 4: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s by Patrick McGilligan 9780520245181
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $62.71Continuing Patrick McGilligan's highly acclaimed series on Hollywood screenwriters, these engrossing, informative, provocative interviews give wonderfully detailed and personal stories from veteran... -
PN Review 264 by Michael Schmidt
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98The March-April 2022 issue; Major interview with American poet Carl Philips; Nuash Sabah, editor of Poetry Birmingham, in conversation; Frederic Raphael writes to Wittgenstein; Isobel Williams adds... -
PN Review 254 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: $18.56The July-August 2020 issue. Robyn Marsack celebrates Edwin Morgan's centenary. Frederic Raphael's polemic about the pandemic. Kirsty Gunn on Lockdown. Interviews with the great American poet Douglas... -
PN Review 252 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: $18.56The March-April 2020 issue New sequence of poems about climate change from New Zealand’s greatest living poet, Bill Manhire Frederic Raphael, (Eyes Wide Shut, screenwriter) discusses being a Jewish... -
PN Review 263 by Michael Schmidt 9781800172821
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98The January-February 2022 issue. Major essay by Alberto Manguel on translating Dante. Sasha Dugdale's radical new translation of Osip Mandelstam, with an important commentary by Andrew Kahn. ... -
Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections by David Brauner 9781349409693
Booksplease Price: $190.18In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility... -
Bacchae by Euripides 9781854594112
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.83Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of... -
Carmina Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781847772596
Booksplease Price: $58.02Catullus is a companion of lovers and of those whom love has disappointed. He is also a satirical and epigrammatic writer who savagely consoles with laughter. Carmina captures in English both the... -
Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections by David Brauner 9780333740354
Booksplease Price: $190.18In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility... -
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard 9780826468536
Booksplease Price: $192.55Develops a global theory of culture through the paradox of violence and exclusion serving a social function.About the AuthorRene Girard is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language,... -
The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly... -
Memoirs Of A Fortunate Jew Dan Vittorio Segre 9781870015691
RRP: $8.40Booksplease Price: $7.73"Taut and illuminating? memorable? written with the humility of he who confesses himself and with the honesty of he who bore witness." ... -
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Aeschylus Plays: v. 2: "The Oresteia", "Agamemnon"," The Libation-bearers" and "The Eumenides" by Aeschylus 9780413654809
Booksplease Price: $39.65Four of Aeschylus' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series Includes the Oresteia trilogy, a key sequence of plays within the Western dramatic tradition - widely studied... -
Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945 by Bryan Cheyette 9780521558778
RRP: $86.10Booksplease Price: $84.19Bryan Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis, and new historicism with close readings of work by Arnold, Trollope and George Eliot, Buchan and Kipling, Shaw and Wells, Belloc and... -
Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey Roger Scruton 9781844131068
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $45.34Roger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, whose often provocative views never fail to stimulate debate. In Modern Philosophy he turns his attention to the whole of... -
In Love by Alfred Hayes 9781805331070
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.48An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New York In a hotel bar, a disenchanted writer tells a beautiful stranger the story of his latest doomed love affair. Sipping... -
Under Cover: A Poet's Life in Publishing by Jeremy Robson 9781785904097
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $32.13As an independent publisher, Jeremy Robson always punched above his weight with a roster of authors that have been the envy of many large publishers. As a poet, he has been at the centre of the... -
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Six Greek Tragedies: "Persians", "Prometheus Bound", "Women of Trachis","Philoctetes","Trojan"," Women", "Bacchae" by Aeschylus 9780413772565
Booksplease Price: $56.49A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and... -
Drawings by Sarah Raphael 9781857546620
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $46.77Sarah Raphael (1960-2001) died young: preparing a show for New York, she contracted pneumonia and never recovered. Her work, large- and small-scale, is now represented in all the leading British... -
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Plays: v.1: "The Persians", "Prometheus Bound", "The Suppliants" and "Seven Against Thebes" by F. Raphael 9780413651907
Booksplease Price: $38.18Classic plays reissued in the new Methuen Greek Classics series in a new distinctive style The Persians; based on the destruction of the Persian invaders in 480BC, breaks with the Greek tradition of... -
The Complete Fables by Aesop
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.40A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables, to convey his key points. This Penguin Classics... -
Speak Well of Me: The Authorised Biography of Sir Ronald Harwood W. Sydney Robinson 9781350254305
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $45.78Sir Ronald Harwood (1934-2020) was one of the most prolific playwrights and screenwriters of his generation. His acclaimed play, The Dresser, has been constantly revived since its premiere in 1980... -
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale 9780007204632
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.74The masterpiece of Britain's leading Renaissance scholar. Winner of the Time-Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award. 'A superb evocation of the Europe of the "long... -
Four Jews on Parnassus-a Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schoenberg by Carl Djerassi 9780231146548
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $56.76This book features a CD of rarely performed music, including a specially commissioned rap by Erik Weiner of Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History." Theodor W. Adorno was the... -
The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems & Prose by C.P. Cavafy
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $31.46A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Review 31 Book of the Year 2020. With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly... -
The Hundred Years War: Divided Houses: Pt. 3 by Jonathan Sumption 9780812221770
Booksplease Price: $154.81Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 The Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, and, most dramatically, drawn out struggle that laid the framework for the national...