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Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda 9780156033855
Booksplease Price: £11.78This is not your father's list of classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books. Writing with affection as... -
Notes on Reading and Life by Michael Dirda 9780805083385
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805083385Author Michael DirdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda 9780691164120
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian... -
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books by Michael Dirda
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded... -
Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment by Paul Kleber Monod 9780300123586
Booksplease Price: £35.42The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which... -
Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age by Ann M. Blair 9780300165395
Booksplease Price: £22.93The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of "information overload," yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says... -
A Word or Two Before I Go: Essays Then and Now by Arthur Krystal 9780813950624
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Lauded by the critics Dana Gioia, Morris Dickstein, Edward Mendelson, Christopher Hitchens, Joseph Epstein, and Michael Dirda alike, Arthur Krystal has written for publications as varied as Harper's,... -
Tales of Adventures and Medical Life by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes some of his best short fiction outside of the Sherlock Holmes canon. As... -
Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic by Sophus Helle
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.39A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace "Sophus Helle's new translation . . . [is] a thrilling,... -
Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death by Christopher Frayling 9780816646838
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.75Sergio Leone is a singular figure among Italian filmmakers of the postwar years; his films grow in reputation year after year. Groundbreaking westerns such as his Dollars trilogy and the... -
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by Laurie King 9781783298433
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.05The follow-up to A Study in Sherlock - a stunning new volume of original stories from award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur... -
Pushkin's Button by Serena Vitale 9780226857718
Booksplease Price: £29.44Pushkin's Button recreates the four months of Pushkin's life leading up to the fatal duel in the snow on January 27, 1837. Many theories have been advanced about the death of one of Russia's greatest... -
The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women by Dick Davis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An incredible collection of verse by women poets writing in Persian, many translated into English for the first timeFrom Iran and India, to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, from princesses and... -
Lord Darcy by Randall Garrett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Welcome to a world where the Plantagenet kings survived, the laws of magic were discovered and the physical sciences never pursued. In the resulting Anglo-French Empire, a detective like Lord Darcy... -
Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.09It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future... -
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An unintentional suicide survivor, the unexpected gift of life returned... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780393427936
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin's blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a "smoothly readable, accurate,... -
Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve Our Schools, Second Edition With a Curriculum for Today's Students by Robert E. Proctor
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34"Think of this as 'The Thinking Man's Bloom' or 'The Thinking Woman's Closing of the American Mind.' It takes up debates about education and reasons about them, where Bloom often only blasted away. ... -
Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals by Mark Edmundson
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.29An ARTery Best Book of the YearAn Art of Manliness Best Book of the YearIn a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme,... -
The Book of Hours Rainer Maria Rilke 9781324123460
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.65Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision-where clarity of diction meets unexpected... -
ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound 9780811218931
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.15This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound's aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9781847493507
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.32Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the... -
Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text by Roy Blount, Jr. 9780374533373
Booksplease Price: £14.99No man of letters savers the ABC's, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from ad hominy to zizz, is hearty, full bodied, and out to please discriminating... -
Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser 9781841593258
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05For George MacDonald Fraser the bully Flashman was easily the most interesting character in Tom Brown's Schooldays, and imaginative speculation as to what might have happened to him after his... -
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos 9780871403179
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.28This delirious 1925 Jazz Age classic introduced readers to Lorelei Lee, the small-town girl from Little Rock, who has become one of the most timeless characters in American fiction. Outrageous and... -
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 9781474477529
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £112.80The first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes including a detailed introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus and explanatory notes First new annotated edition for... -
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition by Gretchen Schultz 9780691191416
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.00A new collection of subversive French fairy talesThe wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live... -
Told Again: Old Tales Told Again by Walter de la Mare 9780691196299
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.00An enchanting retelling of nineteen fairy tales, introduced by popular fantasy writer Philip PullmanOriginally published in 1927, Told Again is an enchanting collection of elegant fairy tales,... -
The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison 9780691191447
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.00An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readersThe Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging collection of fairy... -
History of My Life: Volumes 5 and 6 by Giacomo Casanova
Booksplease Price: £42.66In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a... -
After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet by Julie Dobrow 9780393249262
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.47Emily Dickinson may be the most widely read American poet but the story behind her work's publication in 1890 is barely known. After Emily recounts the extraordinary lives of Mabel Loomis Todd and... -
The Book of Hours Rainer Maria Rilke 9781324074960
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.44Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision-where clarity of diction meets unexpected... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9780575099609
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Brilliant, driven Victor Frankenstein has at last realised his greatest ambition. The scientist has succeeded in creating intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, Frankenstein realises he... -
Werewolf of Paris: A Novel by Guy Endore 9781605984575
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £16.06The werewolf is one of the great iconic figures of horror in folklore, legend, film, and literature. And connoisseurs of horror fiction know that The Werewolf of Paris is a cornerstone work. Endore's... -
History of My Life: Volumes 7 and 8 by Giacomo Casanova
Booksplease Price: £42.66In volumes 7 and 8, Casanova is now close to forty. His various manipulations of the credulous rich have made him rich in turn. His travels take him to France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In... -
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably... -
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.30From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably... -
History of My Life: Volumes 9 and 10 by Giacomo Casanova
Booksplease Price: £42.66Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and... -
Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness Mark Aldridge 9780008522698
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.24A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple. In Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on... -
Galateo: Or, the Rules of Polite Behavior by Giovanni Della Casa
Booksplease Price: £14.88Galateo is a treatise on polite behavior written by Giovanni Della Casa (1503-56) for the benefit of his nephew, a young Florentine destined for greatness. In the voice of a cranky yet genial old...