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George Steiner: A Reader by George Steiner 9780195050684
Booksplease Price: €33.18As an incisive and provocative critic of literature, language, and culture, George Steiner has acquired an international reputation and a devoted following. "He scatters bright ideas everywhere,"... -
Antigones by George Steiner 9780192819345
Booksplease Price: €46.66The Antigone myth in Western literature, art and thought.Book InformationISBN 9780192819345Author George SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint -
Martin Heidegger by George Steiner 9780226772325
Booksplease Price: €31.75With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy... -
Lessons of the Masters by George Steiner 9780674017672
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €27.70When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is... -
The Death of Tragedy by George Steiner 9780300069167
Booksplease Price: €44.55"This book is important-and portentous-for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . . . The book is bound to start controversy. . . . The very passion and insight with... -
Reading George Steiner by Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
RRP: €30.35Booksplease Price: €23.61George Steiner's accomplishments in criticism, in theory of literature, and in the history of ideas have made him a central figure on the contemporary intellectual scene. He is as widely known for... -
My Unwritten Books George Steiner 9780753825693
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02George Steiner, the eminent professor of English at Cambridge and Geneva universities, has outlined seven books he has never written, but has always wanted to write, in seven sections.In this... -
Granta 2: The Portage Of San Cristobal 9780140145762
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140145762Format PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta BooksPublisher -
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation by George Steiner 9780192880932
RRP: €19.62Booksplease Price: €15.66`Translation has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found a scholar who is a match for the task.' Sunday Times First published in 1975, After Babel constituted the first... -
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan by George Steiner (Churchill College, Camridge) 9780811219457
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €26.32With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture, staking out his claim for the... -
Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner by Robert Boyers 9781942134886
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €16.93This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status—Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner... -
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan George Steiner (Churchill College, Camridge) 9780811221856
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64With his hallmark discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great style. Steiner spans the... -
Disenchantment: George Steiner and Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz by Catherine D. Chatterley 9780815609605
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €24.20George Steiner has enjoyed international acclaim as a distinguished cultural critic for many years. The son of central European Jews, he was born in France, fled from the Nazis to New York in 1940,... -
Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought by George Steiner 9780300069150
Booksplease Price: €40.60According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by... -
Darling, Yours Always: The WWII Letters of Peggy and George Steiner, Algeria 1943-1944 by Art Mendoza-Ballesteros 9781735565903
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735565903Author Art Mendoza-BallesterosFormat PaperbackPage Count 412 -
Darling, Yours Always: The WWII Letter of Peggy and George Steiner, Italy 1944-1945, Volume III by Art Mendoza-Ballesteros 9781735565934
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €17.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735565934Author Art Mendoza-BallesterosFormat PaperbackPage Count 330 -
The Teaching of Geometry at the Pre-College Level: Proceedings of the Second CSMP International Conference Co-Sponsored by Southern Illinois University and Central Midwestern Regional Educational Laboratory by Hans-Georg Steiner 9789401756389
Booksplease Price: €55.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Springer Book ArchivesBook InformationISBN 9789401756389Author Hans-Georg SteinerFormat Paperback -
Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality by Vered Amit 9780745329031
Booksplease Price: €39.87Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole? This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses... -
Granta 36: Vargas Llosa President 9780140152067
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.11The novelist's personal account of his campaign for the presidency of Peru. Plus: Alvaro Vargas Llosa as his father's press officer, Sergio Ramirez on the end of the Sandinistas, George Steiner on... -
The Old Testament by 9781857151756
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.06The King James Bible of 1611 has been one of the richest sources for English language and literature for nearly four centuries and is itself a work of the greatest poetic beauty. This beautifully... -
The New Testament by John Drury
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.16The single most important book in the history of all Christian literature is presented here in the Authorized Version which has exerted such a profound influence on both spiritual life and the... -
Roman Odes, Elegies & Epigrams by Peter Washington
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a... -
Mozart's Journey to Prague Eduard Morike 9781847495112
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the grounds of a stately home. But when the resident family find out who they... -
Granta Ian Jack 9780903141079
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70This collection of essays features the theme of what people wanted as children. The contributing writers include: Doris Lessing, Paul Auster, Brian MacKinnon and Nell Stroud. There are also pieces by... -
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective by Richard Gaskin
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to... -
The Great Haydn Quartets: Their Interpretation by Hans Keller 9780460861076
RRP: €102.34Booksplease Price: €101.20Hans Keller offers his interpretation of 45 of Haydn's quartets which is aimed at bringing insight to all who seek to deepen their understanding of these works. The book also contains examples of the... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.97An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz 9780691229195
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.28An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
The Koran in English: A Biography by Bruce B. Lawrence 9780691155586
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.19The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English Koran For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad... -
Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments by Sophocles 9780691130248
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.65Sophocles' tragedies--from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus--are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of... -
The Translation Studies Reader by Lawrence Venuti 9780367235970
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €58.46The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first... -
Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition by Stuart Y. McDougal 9780691619361
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.53The world of the troubadours of medieval Provence--of Bertran de Born, Arnaut de Mareuil, and Peire Bremon lo Tort--always fascinated Ezra Pound and, as Stuart McDougal shows, provided both themes... -
Nabokov's Otherworld by Vladimir E. Alexandrov 9780691602424
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59A major reexamination of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov as "literary gamesman," this book systematically shows that behind his ironic manipulation of narrative and his puzzle-like treatment of detail... -
The Koran in English: A Biography by Bruce B. Lawrence
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.74The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English KoranFor millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in... -
This Craft of Verse Jorge Luis Borges 9780674302457
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €17.79"A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading." -Steven Poole, The GuardianSix incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries... -
Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music by Michael P. Steinberg
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.88This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth... -
Alexandria Still: Forster, Durrell, and Cavafy by Jane Lagoudis Pinchin 9780691616599
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully written book describes the profound influence exerted by the spirit of... -
The Theatre of the Holocaust v. 2; Six Plays by Robert Skloot 9780299162740
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €22.56This second volume of ""The Theatre of the Holocaust"", when combined with the first, represents an international collection of plays on the Shoah. Editor Skloot presents and comments on six plays... -
Hymns and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorRichard Sieburth teaches French and comparative literature at New York University.ReviewsRichard Sieburth,... -
Perspectives On The Holocaust: Essays In Honor Of Raul Hilberg by James S Pacy
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27This volume brings together original historical, literary, and philosophical analyses of the Holocaust by some of the world's leading scholars, including Yehuda Bauer, Christopher R. Browning, George...