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DEATH OF A SALESMAN: CERTAIN PRIVATE CON
MILLER ARTHURCurrent price €12.50Original price €12.80Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examinati...
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Roberto Bolaño''s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
Chris AndrewsCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature...
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The Handmaid''s Tale
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The Ring Legends of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Rings in Tolkien''s World, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
David DayCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful...
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Weird Realism Lovecraft and Philosophy
Graham HarmanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was o...
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Facets of Wuthering Heights: Selected Essays
Graeme TytlerCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several different facets of Emily Bronte''...
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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
Antonia FraserCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about...
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Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming''s Jamaica
Matthew ParkerCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing' William Boyd'The big bang of Bond books... Beautiful, bri...
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John le Carré: The Biography
Adam SismanCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional worl...
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Oxford Student Texts: Songs of Innocence and Experience
William BlakeCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...
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The World of Jane Austen
Brenda WilliamsCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99Through the novels of Englands foremost woman writer, we explore the Regency world at the time of the Napoleonic wars, its manners, fashion and sty...
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Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Othello
Pete BuntenCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Exam Board: AQA A, AQA B, Edexcel, CCEALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Enable stu...
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The Sonnets
William ShakespeareCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, th...
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The Voynich Manuscript
Yale University PressCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzleFor the first time, a complete reproduction ...
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Seneca''S Letters from a Stoic
Lucius SenecaCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50As chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame der...
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Metamorphoses
OvidCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These ...
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Isabel Allende
Salem Press IncCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99The border between fact and fiction has always been a porous one for Isabel Allende. Her acclaimed first novel, The House of the Spirits, began as ...
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Marina WarnerCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the cha...
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Francine ProseCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour o...
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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
Katie RoipheCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching deathKatie Roiphe's extraordinary...
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Save 10% The Cambridge History of the British Essay
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99From ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolon...
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Save 13% The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Bucknell University PressU.S.Current price €60.89Original price €69.99The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...
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Save 13% The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Bucknell University PressU.S.Current price €128.75Original price €147.99The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...
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Save 10% Approaches to Teaching The Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus)
Modern Language Association of AmericaCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chine...
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Save 13% Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father''s Journey
Evan Dalton SmithCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99Andy Griffith (1926-2012) was one of North Carolina's most beloved exports for decades, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalt...
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Save 10% Holmes and the Ripper: Versus Narratives
Lucyna Krawczyk-ywkoCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99In versus narratives Sherlock Holmes is fighting or otherwise engaging Jack the Ripper. These texts pit the archetypal detective against the archet...
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Save 10% We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition
Sarah HernandezCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99Current price €108.89Original price €120.99Save 10% -
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Eve Out of Her Ruins
Ananda DeviCurrent price €13.76Original price €16.99Two girls: Eve, whose body is her only weapon and source of power; Savita, Eve's best friend and the only one who loves her selflessly, planning to...
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Save 10% Joyce: The Return of the Repressed
Triumph BooksCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Did James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian subject? Or was he a supreme example of a modern man forever di...
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Save 10% The Medieval Pig
Dolly JørgensenCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eat...
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Save 10% The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data
Conrad SteelCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99Since the start of the twentieth century, poets have been irresistibly drawn to the image of the poem as a kind of data-handling, a way of mediatin...
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Save 10% The Puritan Literary Tradition
Oxford University PressCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99What is meant by the puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of puritan literature, as distinct from puritan beliefs and practices, come ...
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Save 10% Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water
Ursula KluwickCurrent price €100.79Original price €111.99Victorians views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people...
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Save 10% A Modern Eve: The Typist in T.S. Eliot''s The Waste Land
Alep PressCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99This first book of a series concentrates on the typist of Part III of The Waste Land, and how she is linked with Eve, Sappho and Aphrodite. Shows t...
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Save 10% Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the B...
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Save 10% Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism
Oxford University PressCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attenti...
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Save 10% Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
Amanda AndersonCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seductionthe Victorian fallen woman represents a complex array o...
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Save 10% Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American
Rachel GordanCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roose...
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Rachel GordanCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roose...
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Save 13% Autistic-Coded Representation and Autism Stereotypes: Looking for the Spectrum
Martin BrickCurrent price €79.16Original price €90.99Current price €79.16Original price €90.99Save 13% -
Save 10% Central American Counterpoetics: Diaspora and Rememory
Karina AlmaCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99Current price €108.89Original price €120.99Save 10% -
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Save 10% The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry
Annette DeboCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future Poets are lyric historians, proclaimed Langston Hughes. T...
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Save 10% The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology and the Unconscious
Nathan GorelickCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature Nathan Gorelicks The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between...
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Save 10% Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon
Delphine RumeauCurrent price €107.99Original price €119.99The reception of the American poet Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. It is central to the history of modern poetry, but it goes beyond lit...
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Save 10% Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon
Delphine RumeauCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The reception of the American poet Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. It is central to the history of modern poetry, but it goes beyond lit...
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