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James Joyce by Patrick Parrinder 9780521283984
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $91.64James Joyce holds a unique position in literature. No writer has a higher reputation, none attracts more ardent devotees, and none poses so many difficulties for the first-time reader. This book is... -
Science Fiction Patrick Parrinder 9780415291316
Booksplease Price: $191.35First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the... -
H.G. Wells Patrick Parrinder 9780415852050
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $96.47This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. ... -
Alien Invasion Short Stories Patrick Parrinder 9781786647689
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.05Visitors from other planets have long obsessed us. H.G. Wells' War of Worlds spawned a huge wave of speculative fiction but the roots of such fears run deep in our literature, where the mysteries of... -
The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe by Patrick Parrinder 9781441112996
Booksplease Price: $85.43H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and... -
New Directions in the History of the Novel by Patrick Parrinder 9781137026972
Booksplease Price: $97.19New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research. A re-examination of the nature of prose fiction in English and its study... -
Science Fiction: A Critical Guide Patrick Parrinder 9780582489295
Booksplease Price: $121.91First published in 1979. What do we mean by Science Fiction? What does it do, and why do so many people read it? What are its characteristic values, attitudes and procedures? Is it a creative force... -
Science Fiction: A Critical Guide Patrick Parrinder 9780367756390
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $62.60This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range... -
New Directions in the History of the Novel by Patrick Parrinder 9781349439461
Booksplease Price: $98.15New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research. A re-examination of the nature of prose fiction in English and its study... -
Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching Patrick Parrinder 9780367749422
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $62.60This book, first published in 1980, examines issues such as the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. In order to work... -
Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching by Patrick Parrinder 9780367749392
Booksplease Price: $216.70This book, first published in 1980, examines issues such as the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. In order to work... -
Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers) by Patrick Parrinder
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $19.40An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the theme of Exploration in Space. New, emerging,... -
Shadows of the Future: H G Wells, Science, Fiction and Prophecy by Patrick Parrinder 9780853234494
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $54.45H. G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase 'the Shape of Things to Come' described his life's work as one of 'critical anticipation'. Shadows of the Future identifies... -
Nation and Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day by Patrick Parrinder 9780199264858
RRP: $82.93Booksplease Price: $67.60What is 'English' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel's profound differences from poetry and drama affect its... -
Utopian Literature and Science: From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond by Patrick Parrinder 9781137456779
Booksplease Price: $190.18Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the... -
George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed by Martin Ryle
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.13Once seen as a relatively marginal figure, George Gissing (1857-1903) persists in sparking interest among new generations of radical critics who continue to be inspired by his work and to develop... -
Science Fiction by 9780415869157
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $50.00First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the... -
The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 2 by H. G. Wells
Booksplease Price: $206.12This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both... -
The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 1 by H. G. Wells
Booksplease Price: $206.12This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both... -
The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 4 by H. G. Wells
Booksplease Price: $206.12This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both... -
H.G. Wells Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.05H.G. Wells, one of the founding fathers of science fiction created a rich universe of short stories, many of which are collected here in this special deluxe edition. The Star, The Time Machine, The... -
The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 3 by H. G. Wells
Booksplease Price: $206.12This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel by Deirdre David 9781107005136
RRP: $195.30Booksplease Price: $187.11In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel by Deirdre David
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $48.13In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel... -
Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction by Damien Broderick 9780415097895
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.Damien Broderick explores the postmodern... -
H. G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine by George Slusser 9780820350622
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $67.89Acclaimed as a work of genius when first published in 1895, The Time Machine represents a revolution in storytelling. H. G. Wells's first--and greatest--novel has been recognized worldwide as a... -
Future Wars: The Anticipations and the Fears by David Seed 9781846317552
Booksplease Price: $249.92The subject of this timely book is that body of fiction which speculates in narrative form about the nature of wars likely to break out in the near or distant future. Although earlier instances... -
Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule by Elana Gomel 9781137367624
Booksplease Price: $97.19Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and... -
Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule by Elana Gomel 9781349474530
Booksplease Price: $98.15Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and... -
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... -
James Joyce: Texts and Contexts by Len Platt 9781441113337
Booksplease Price: $237.53This title introduces the work of James Joyce, the literary, historical and political contexts in which he wrote and his critical reception up to the present day. James Joyce stands at the forefront... -
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 9780141441030
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01'The classic tale of alien invasion, and still the best' The TimesThe first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of... -
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 9781551113531
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $28.56H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, the first story to speculate about the consequences of aliens (from Mars) with superior technology landing on earth, is one of the most influential science... -
Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siecle Periodical Press by Will Tattersdill 9781316507872
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $74.91In this revisionary study, Will Tattersdill argues against the reductive 'two cultures' model of intellectual discourse by exploring the cultural interactions between literature and science embodied... -
Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siecle Periodical Press Will Tattersdill (University of Birmingham) 9781107144651
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $112.10In this revisionary study, Will Tattersdill argues against the reductive 'two cultures' model of intellectual discourse by exploring the cultural interactions between literature and science embodied... -
The Open Heart: Stories & Poetry of Catherine Wells Catherine Wells 9781835622551
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.14Catherine Wells (1872-1928) was the wife of H.G. Wells and the author of short stories, poems and an unfinished novella, The Open Heart, a haunting study of a woman's sense of unfulfilment that adds... -
A Clockwork Orange: A Norton Critical Edition by Anthony Burgess 9780393928099
Booksplease Price: $50.09A terrifying tale about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom, A Clockwork Orange became an instant classic when it was published in 1962 and has remained so ever since. Anthony Burgess... -
Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia by Andrew Milner 9783039118267
RRP: $102.17Booksplease Price: $92.21Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, "the British Sartre", as The Times put it. He was a central... -
The History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts 9781137569561
RRP: $146.98Booksplease Price: $79.21This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to... -
The History of Science Fiction A. Roberts 9780230546912
Booksplease Price: $202.21The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative...