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  • This Is Shakespeare

    How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary MantelA genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Portable Magic

    A History of Books and Their Readers

    by Emma Smith ...
    A history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium—the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge literature lovers of all kinds as it illuminates the transformative power and eternal appeal of the written word.Stephen King once said that books are “a uniquely portable magic.” Here, Emma Smith takes ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Timon of Athens

    The New Oxford Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare, Emma Smith ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.' How should society treat its bankrupts? What are the ethics of debt collection? What does it mean to be rich, to be poor? And can you ever really buy friendship? In Timon of Athens, Shakespeare and Middleton pose these and other questions as they chart the dramatic downfall of an Athenian nobleman, exposing the corrosive ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Maidens' Trip

    by Emma Smith ...
    ______________'Wonderfully written, humorous and humane, and beautifully evocative of the time' - Independent Summer Reads'Smith's writing exudes wisdom and humour, and her descriptions ... are vividly drawn' - Times Literary Supplement'Hope and energy radiate from every sentence of this lovely volume as it emerges into the light after its long sojourn in the cemetery of forgotten books'</s... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Neurodivergence and Criminal Justice

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Tom Smith, Roxanna Dehaghani, Emma Smith, Leigh Anne McKingsley ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure
    This book offers an original perspective on neurodivergence in the context of criminal justice. Neurodivergence collectively describes a range of neurodevelopmental differences which primarily affect cognitive processes such as social communication, learning and memory and sensory processing. The way in which criminal justice systems, processes, and institutions engage with neurodivergent ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Macbeth

    The New Oxford Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare, Emma Smith ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?' Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a psychologically and supernaturally sinister work. Emma Smith's introduction considers the historical and contemporary contexts of the ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Far Cry

    by Emma Smith ...
    The Far Cry was the first book on MacGibbon & Kee's newly-launched list. This 'savage comedy with a vicious streak' (Elizabeth Bowen in the Tatler in 1949) describes the 'second passage to India' of 'Teresa, whose elderly, wilful father drags her off to spare her from the clutches of her mother…I can think of no writer, British or Indian, who has captured so vividly, with such intensity, the many ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

    by Emma Smith ...
    Are you studying Shakespeare and looking for a handy summary of plots, characters and interpretations? Or are you a keen theatregoer wanting essential background on the Shakespeare plays you see on stage? Ideal for students and theatre enthusiasts alike, this lively and authoritative guide presents key information, clearly set out, on all Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works, covering plots and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    by Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Read more

    $11.89 CAD

  • Julius Caesar

    The New Oxford Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare, Emma Smith ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war' Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition situates these questions within the historical framework of the play's early history in theatre and print, as well as within its long performance history up to and including ... Read more

    $10.19 CAD

  • The Great Western Beach

    by Emma Smith ...
    ______________'Emma Smith has written a book that should - and I hope does - endure as a classic among memoirs of childhood. I savoured every page'- Miranda Seymour, Evening Standard'A wonderful book, full of unexpected effects, and I suspect that it will become a classic of the genre ... so sincerely compassionate that I honestly can't read it without weeping' - Lynne Truss, Sunday Times'E... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD