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On Murder by Thomas De Quincey
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.19'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and... -
China by Thomas De Quincey 9780371782125
RRP: $18.00Booksplease Price: $17.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371782125Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint -
Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey 9780461214925
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461214925Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint -
Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey 9780461213324
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461213324Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint -
Klosterheim: Or, the Masque by Thomas De Quincey 9780461172355
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461172355Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint -
Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey 9780461210316
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461210316Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint -
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey 9780099528593
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.49WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have... -
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey 9781551114354
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $19.56Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its author's most famous and frequently-read work and one of the period's central statements about both the power and terror of imagination. De Quincey... -
De Quincey's Writings: Caesars by Thomas De Quincey 9780461142099
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461142099Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint -
Thomas De Quincey's Consecration of Romanticism by Andrew Keanie 9781910996324
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996324Author Andrew KeanieFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint -
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle... -
The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the... -
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey 9781853260964 [USED COPY]
RRP: $3.23Booksplease Price: $3.17With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly... -
De Quincey's Writings: Theological Essays and Other Papers. 1854 by Thomas De Quincey 9780461248630
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461248630Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 307Imprint -
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar by Thomas De Quincey 9780371708101
Booksplease Price: $18.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371708101Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
The Lucy Poems: Including an Excerpt from 'The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey' by William Wordsworth 9781528716284
Booksplease Price: $12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528716284Author William WordsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint -
Psychogeography by Merlin Coverley 9780857302175
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Psychogeography. In recent years this term has been used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come... -
Letters of De Quincey, the English Opium-Eater, to a Young Man Whose Education Has Been Neglected by Thomas De Quincey 9780461234114
RRP: $18.00Booksplease Price: $17.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461234114Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 9781913097011
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein,... -
Selected Writings by Alan Shelston 9780141396767
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This... -
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08A far-ranging, invigorating and irrepressible collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between - from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Feel... -
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.00New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction,... -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson 9781408840139
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.41'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.' Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional... -
The Eerie Book Kirsty Logan 9781851246403
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.54This chilling anthology, first published in 1898, features classic gothic authors Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Thomas de Quincey and Hans Christian Andersen alongside well-known and influential... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont 9781804298480
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.19"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the... -
Selected Poems: Thomas Chatterton by Thomas Chatterton 9781857546927
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.79Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with... -
The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering an enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an... -
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Romantics and Victorians by Nicola J. Watson 9781849666244 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $3.11The second volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, introduces students to European romanticism and Victorian culture. Each period is discussed in... -
The Serpent Pool: The evocative and compelling cold case mystery Martin Edwards (Author) 9780749008796
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09The Lake District's cold case specialist, DCI Hannah Scarlett, is determined to uncover the truth behind Bethany Friend's apparent suicide in the Serpent Pool. Why would Bethany, so afraid of water,... -
The Manchester Compendium: A Street-by-Street History of England's Greatest Industrial City by Ed Glinert 9780141029306
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09In the same format as the successful London Compendium, the Manchester Compendium relates the remarkable and diverse history of England's second city. Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange... -
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The Serpent Pool: The evocative and compelling cold case mystery by Martin Edwards 9780749008796 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.55The Lake District's cold case specialist, DCI Hannah Scarlett, is determined to uncover the truth behind Bethany Friend's apparent suicide in the Serpent Pool. Why would Bethany, so afraid of water,... -
London Stories by 9781841596167
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.74London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare,... -
The Two Noble Kinsmen William Shakespeare 9780241200568
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43Considered by Thomas de Quincey to be 'perhaps the most superb work in the language', The Two Noble Kinsmen is set in Athens and was co-written by Shakespeare with John Fletcher. This Penguin... -
London in Poetry and Prose by Anna Adams 9781900564038
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $10.14This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: 'Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, oppressive,... -
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious,... -
Lives of Houses by Kate Kennedy
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.22Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers,... -
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern by Robert Morrison
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.85The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted during the earlier Regency period (1811-1820) when the profligate Prince of Wales-the future... -
On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance by Carlyn Zwarenstein
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user.Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and "compelling." In 2016, Carlyn... -
Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $17.12This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings-the group of Oxford writers that included C.S...