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On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
Lectures On the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. by William Hazlitt. by William Hazlitt 9781425519308
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $39.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425519308Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint -
Selected Writings by William Hazlitt
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama, and painting, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. What... -
Liber Amoris by William Hazlitt 9781857548570
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $18.72In 1822 William Hazlitt, forty-four years old and married, was both tormented and enchanted by Sarah Walker, his landlady's nineteen-year-old daughter. "Liber Amoris" is the chronicle of that... -
The Spirit of Monarchy William Hazlitt 9781916809475
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $11.29"All we want is to aggrandize our own vainglory at second hand; and the less of real superiority or excellence there is in the person we fix upon as our proxy in this dramatic exhibition, the more... -
Metropolitan Writings by William Hazlitt 9781857547580
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $18.72William Hazlitt (1778-1830), that most engaging of English essayists, is provocatively and congenially at home in this new collection of his city essays that spark with urbane wit and gossip... -
The Round Table by William Hazlitt 9780461570458
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $30.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461570458Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint -
The Fight and Other Writings by William Hazlitt 9780140436136
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Hazlitt is one of the greatest masters of English prose style and this new selection demonstrates the variety and richness of his writing. The volume includes classic pieces of drama and literature... -
The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays by William Hazlitt
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets... -
The Miscellaneous Works of William Hazlitt by HardPress 9780371421178
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $30.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371421178Author HardPressFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint -
Lectures on the English Comic Writers by William Hazlitt 9780371698396
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $28.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371698396Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint -
Liber Amoris, Or, the New Pygmalion by William Hazlitt 9781605972367
RRP: $23.30Booksplease Price: $22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605972367Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackImprint -
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu 9780199588848
RRP: $34.11Booksplease Price: $30.30Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and... -
Table-Talk Essays on Men and Manners Volume I by William Hazlitt 9789367147337
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789367147337Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners, by W. Hazlitt and J.H.L. Hunt by William Hazlitt 9780461613926
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $30.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461613926Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint -
An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argument in Favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind by William Hazlitt 9780371623947
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $30.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371623947Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Essays on the Principles of Human Action; on the Systems of Hartley and Helvetius; and on Abstract Ideas. by the Late W. Hazlitt. Edited by His Son W. Hazlitt, the Younger by William Hazlitt 9780371699683
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371699683Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the... -
The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.34Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures... -
The Fastidious Assassins by Albert Camus
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing... -
We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End by Winston Churchill
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74'Wars are not won by evacuations''We can take it!''Westward look, the land is bright'This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous words on the... -
In Writing by Adam Phillips
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On KindnessA collection of literary essays like no other - exploring the deep connections between literature and psychoanalysis - from... -
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and... -
Miracles and Idolatry by Voltaire
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780141018829
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $9.54Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
Why Look at Animals? by John Berger
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the... -
Blood, Brawn, Brain and Broken Noses: Puglism, a Very British Art by Chris Sykes
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Blood, Brawn, Brains and Broken Noses explores the evolution of pugilism, better known as boxing, from its origins in Ancient Greece and Rome to the present day. In England, pugilism became a popular... -
The Busybody by Susannah Centlivre 9781913724672
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.62The Busybody is the most popular comedy by the eighteenth-century playwright Susanna Centlivre. The play centres on two couples trying to form a relationship against the wills of their guardians, and... -
Shakespeare: Measure for Measure by C. K. Stead 9780333008799
Booksplease Price: $69.15This detailed volume presents a selection of early comments on the play, reviews of post-war productions and modern critical studies. It includes contributions from a wide range of critics, including... -
Selected Prose by Charles Lamb
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.86This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers... -
Othello by William Shakespeare 9780141396514
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01'If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare' William HazlittA soldier of great standing and a newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet,... -
The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9780451526809
Booksplease Price: $10.08The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's black comedy.A complex play that combines pathos and humor, The Merchant of Venice also introduces one of Shakespeare's most memorable villains,... -
Celebrating Maidstone Naomi Dickins 9781398119598
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.78Maidstone is the county town of Kent. The medieval town grew as an agricultural and industrial centre alongside the River Medway and played a pivotal role in the Peasants' Revolt. Industries... -
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.06This Norton Critical Edition of Antony and Cleopatra is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The edition includes a preface, detailed explanatory annotations, two... -
Love's Bonfire by Tom Paulin
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Tom Paulin's first collection since The Road to Inver in 2004, Love's Bonfire sets poems about early life and marriage beside up-to-the minute and minutely registered perceptions of post-settlement... -
Dog-eared: Poems About Humanity's Best Friend by Duncan Wu
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.63Dogs are at once among the most ordinary of animals and the most beloved by mankind. But what we may not realize is that for as long as we have loved dogs, our poets have been seriously engaged with... -
Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent by Tom Paulin
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Comprised of pieces spanning five centuries, Crusoe's Secret explores the culture of English dissent, whether through canonical works - Paradise Lost, Robinson Crusoe, Clarissa - or moving between... -
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 9780393932638
Booksplease Price: $29.70This richly documented Norton Critical Edition of Julius Caesar is based on the 1623 First Folio text. It is accompanied by a note on the text, an introduction that sets the biographical and... -
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.25William Shakespeare's Henry VIII is a compelling history play, recreating a crucial moment in the Tudor dynasty, and the events that marked the beginning of the English Reformation. This Penguin...