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Biography: literary
hardcover. This volume brings together the complete correspondence dating from the last nineteen months of Conrad's life. Editor(s): Karl, Frederick R.; Davies, Laurence; Moore, Gene M. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad. Num Pages: 498 pages, 11 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 498
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521561976
- ISBN
- 9780521561976
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.94
€ 194.94
hardcover. This volume completes the Cambridge edition of the correspondence of Joseph Conrad. Editor(s): Davies, Laurence; Knowles, Owen; Moore, Gene M.; Stape, J. H. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521881890
- ISBN
- 9780521881890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.94
€ 194.94
hardcover. The standard autorised edition now complete and available as a nine-volume set. Editor(s): Davies, Laurence. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad. Num Pages: 5000 pages, 84 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 177. Weight in Grams: 8800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 5000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521881906
- ISBN
- 9780521881906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 1,546.30
€ 1,546.30
Paperback. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, this title illuminates the author's works from his first novel "Poor Folk" to "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" by setting them in their personal, historical, and ideological context. Num Pages: 984 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1418.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 984
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- With a New preface by the author
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155999
- ISBN
- 9780691155999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.48
€ 38.99
€ 28.48
Hardcover. Series: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts. Num Pages: 144 pages, 100 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; AN; BGL; DSGS; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 130 x 17. .
- Publisher
- Rydon Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910821060
- ISBN
- 9781910821060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.69
€ 13.99
€ 10.69
Paperback. An unforgettable portrait of the Austro-Hungarian author of The Radetzky March, this biography in letters - selected here for the first time by Michael Hofmann - is classic European literature at its finest Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847083418
- ISBN
- 9781847083418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00€ 12.56
€ 15.00
€ 12.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413777157
- ISBN
- 9780413777157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.09
€ 14.99
€ 14.09
Hardback. Few books explore in such a comprehensive fashion the political, economic, ideological, diplomatic, and technological dimensions of this defining moment in world history. Num Pages: 448 pages, 6, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; BGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897696
- ISBN
- 9780801897696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.14
€ 42.99
€ 36.14
Hardback. Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-years-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. This narrative reveals that Wilde was underselling himself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066960
- ISBN
- 9780674066960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.08
€ 30.99
€ 26.08
Hardcover. A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of the 90th birthday of Judith Kerr, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AN; BGL; YNL. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 307 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1332.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007513215
- ISBN
- 9780007513215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 25.05
€ 38.99
€ 25.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, photos. BIC Classification: BGL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Pelican Publishing Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455620944
- ISBN
- 9781455620944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.75
€ 31.99
€ 28.75
Paperback. A family memoir, an exchange with the author's brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099523741
- ISBN
- 9780099523741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.57
€ 14.99
€ 11.57
Paperback. When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He also reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; HPX; HRAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 8. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872601
- ISBN
- 9781784872601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.81
€ 5.81
Paperback. Gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, it gives us the story of author's own grief, unflinchingly observed. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099584537
- ISBN
- 9780099584537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.15
€ 11.99
€ 9.15
Paperback. This is an absorbing account of the life and work of one of Russia's most inventive and exuberant novelists and playwrights. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 208 pages, 25 black and white. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780237411
- ISBN
- 9781780237411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00€ 13.77
€ 15.00
€ 13.77
Hardcover. A double biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, best-selling Regency poet known to her contemporaries as 'the female Byron', and her husband George Maclean, British administrator on the Gold Coast, known as the Father of Modern Ghana. Num Pages: 282 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 233 x 21. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194208
- ISBN
- 9781845194208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.10
€ 46.10
Paperback. * Abacus reissue of Juliet Barker's unrivalled biography of the Bronte sisters, revised for this edition Num Pages: 1184 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 52. Weight in Grams: 834.
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349122427
- ISBN
- 9780349122427
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.99€ 18.53
€ 22.99
€ 18.53
Hardcover. Brilliant portrait of a time and place that launched American Bohemia and liberated the genius of Walt Whitman Series: A Merloyd Lawrence Book. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16 pages of b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306822261
- ISBN
- 9780306822261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.92
€ 29.99
€ 25.92
Hardback. Series: Major Figures in Spanish and Latin American Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 360 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADP; BGL; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 31. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300180824
- ISBN
- 9780300180824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.33€ 44.55
€ 56.33
€ 44.55
Paperback. Japan's most beloved memoir, from the early 20th century, "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood" (Howard Hibbett). Translator(s): Sato, Hiroaki. Num Pages: 208 pages, B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJC; BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stone Bridge Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611720198
- ISBN
- 9781611720198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.80
€ 26.99
€ 22.80
paperback. This replaces ISBN 9780720618464 Num Pages: 358 pages, 20 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 216 x 28. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Peter Owen Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Third edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780720618594
- ISBN
- 9780720618594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.56
€ 19.99
€ 15.56
Paperback. Dr Johnson is often thought of as a strident, overbearing conversationalist, a man who famously asserted that 'Women have all the liberty they should wish to have'. The author argues that it is time to consider how Johnson lived his life, not just what he said. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845951863
- ISBN
- 9781845951863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.17
€ 21.99
€ 16.17
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748681457
- ISBN
- 9780748681457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 44.18
€ 48.99
€ 44.18
Paperback. A new edition of a wonderful Birmingham working-class childhood. As memorable as William Woodruff's Nab End series. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083022
- ISBN
- 9781844083022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00€ 12.95
€ 15.00
€ 12.95