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The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross
RRP: €18.59Booksplease Price: €13.67The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and... -
A Double Thread by John Gross 9780099422266
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.99John Gross was the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of WW2. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet... -
The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross 9780199639373
RRP: €14.99Booksplease Price: €12.61Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and... -
The Oxford Book of Aphorisms by John Gross 9780192804563
Booksplease Price: €29.59This anthology demonstrates to the full just how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and just how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence... -
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse by John Gross 9780199561612
RRP: €18.59Booksplease Price: €16.32From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all... -
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The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross 9780199548828 [USED COPY]
RRP: €25.19Booksplease Price: €2.94Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and... -
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The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross 9780199639373 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.99Booksplease Price: €2.88Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and... -
The Dangers and Defences of New York: Addressed to the Hon. J.B. Floyd, Secretary of War by John Gross Barnard 9780371172933
RRP: €14.34Booksplease Price: €13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371172933Author John Gross BarnardFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama 9780006861362
RRP: €42.00Booksplease Price: €31.98This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. ... -
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The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780330458436 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €3.13Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius? The Genius... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' ... -
Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-200 by Asa Briggs 9780300082630
Booksplease Price: €19.32As we approach the new millennium, we find ourselves reassessing the past and looking forward to the future. Has the prospect of a new century always provided a "sense of an ending"? In this timely... -
Harold Nicolson by Norman Rose 9780712668453
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.79Harold Nicolson was a man of extraordinary gifts. A renowned politician, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster and gardener, his position in society and politics... -
The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939 by Richard Overy
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.92Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of... -
Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age by Roger Kimball 9781566634304
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.86Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the... -
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11With an introduction by Simon CallowJudgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity... -
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel 9780300151305
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.59A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire,... -
Over The Hills And Far Away by Candida Lycett Green 9780552777162
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96From her early childhood, when her inspirational mother would take her on trips along her beloved Ridgeway in a horse-drawn cart, Candida Lycett Green has retained a love of green lanes and tracks,... -
Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era Paul Pierson 9780226845630
RRP: €19.20Booksplease Price: €17.70A provocative exploration of how America's democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and today's nationalized, partisan politics. The ground beneath American...