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Hardcover. The stage portrayal of the Victorians in recent times is a key reference point in understanding notions of Britishness, and the profound politicisation of that debate over the last four decades. This book throws new light on works by canonical playwrights like Bond, Edgar, and Churchill, linking theatre to the wider culture at large. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298897
- ISBN
- 9780230298897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
Paperback. This compelling examination of the relationship between theatre and empire begins with potential definitions and theories of empire, suggesting how we might think of these two notions together and how we might see empire itself as theatre. A variety of case studies are then used to explore theatre in light of both cultural and economic imperialism. Series: Theatre and. Num Pages: 88 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH5; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 5. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443069
- ISBN
- 9781137443069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.20
€ 11.20
Paperback. The first full length translation into English of Peret's Le Grand Jeu (The Big Game, first published in 1928). Benjamin Peret (1899-1959) was one of the founders of Surrealism (with Andre Breton and Louis Aragon). The Big Game was Peret's best known work of the time and is still in print in France 80 years later. Translator(s): Kallet, Marilyn. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Black Widow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780981808864
- ISBN
- 9780981808864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.51
€ 23.99
€ 22.51
Paperback. A concise guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated The Story of the Eye. Series: Modern European Thinkers. Num Pages: 176 pages, notes, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745315874
- ISBN
- 9780745315874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 31.02
€ 38.99
€ 31.02
Paperback.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KNW0007122
- ISBN
- 9780571233328
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 168 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016644
- ISBN
- 9780674016644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.24
€ 30.99
€ 26.24
Paperback. The evening beyond each chain-lit match seemed to crouch in the shapes of houses, then rose to play havoc in a veil of dogwoods. Based on a logic that considers the atomic symbol an improvised phoneme, this book is keenly attuned to the qualities of voice and concerned with how these improvisations fall on the listening ear. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226096193
- ISBN
- 9780226096193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.87
€ 23.99
€ 19.87
Hardcover. Editor(s): Keatinge, Benjamin; Woods, Aengus. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 646. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0003209
- ISBN
- 9780716529101
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. This book is a collection of seminal essays on major aspects of Jewish culture: Yiddish and Hebrew literature, Europe, America and Israel, transformations of Jewish history, the Holocaust, and the formal traditions of Hebrew verse. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804755122
- ISBN
- 9780804755122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.79
€ 80.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 117 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- NYRB Poets
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590179000
- ISBN
- 9781590179000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.31
€ 15.99
€ 14.31
Paperback. Disraeli vividly depicts the appalling conditions of the poor-their pitiful wages, their miserably overcrowded tenements, and their exploitation by the new breed of powerful industrialists-as an indirect plea for social and political reform and for the fulfilment of his dream of a new, more democratic England. Editor(s): Shrimpton, Nicholas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198759898
- ISBN
- 9780198759898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.08
€ 15.99
€ 13.08
Hardcover. Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past in the long eighteenth century. The essays investigate a diverse range of subjects including art history, biography, historical poetry, and novels, as well as addressing more conventional varieties of historical writing. Editor(s): Dew, Benjamin; Price, Fiona. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332639
- ISBN
- 9781137332639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. An examination of how women's writings, over two hundred centuries, shaped public opinion and morality. Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History. Num Pages: 300 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Royal Historical Society
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861933433
- ISBN
- 9780861933433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.77
€ 101.77
Paperback. From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349321285
- ISBN
- 9781349321285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251083
- ISBN
- 9780230251083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Paperback. The fourth Quirke mystery from John Banville writing as Benjamin Black: now a major TV series starring Gabriel Byrne Num Pages: 311 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 22. Weight in Grams: 282. T
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330509152
- ISBN
- 9780330509152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.61
€ 11.99
€ 9.61
Paperback. "She looked at him and smiled sadly. 'You've lived too long among the dead, Quirke', she said. He nodded. 'Yes, I suppose I have'. She was not the first one to have told him that, and she would not be the last. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447202196
- ISBN
- 9781447202196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.09
€ 17.99
€ 16.09
Paperback. The second captivating Quirke Dublin mystery Series: Quirke Mysteries. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Picador
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330454087
- ISBN
- 9780330454087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.10
€ 17.99
€ 16.10
Paperback. The first beguiling Quirke Dublin mystery Series: Quirke Mysteries. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main Market
- SKU
- 9780330445320
- ISBN
- 9780330445320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.47
€ 10.99
€ 10.47
Paperback. In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his singular detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic detectives in crime fiction. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447236702
- ISBN
- 9781447236702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.42
€ 13.99
€ 11.42
Paperback. Commissioned as a high profile serial by the New York Times Magazine, The Lemur is a stylish new thriller from a rising star of literary crime Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160
- Edition
- Main Market
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330456746
- ISBN
- 9780330456746
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his singular detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic detectives in crime fiction. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402. Very minor wear, but remains excellent
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Air Iri OME
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- 9781447238041
- ISBN
- 9781447238041
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 15.99€ 6.75
€ 15.99
€ 6.75
Hardback. The final decades of the sixteenth century brought tumultuous change to England. The Time is Out of Joint situates the work of four skeptics-Reginald Scot, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare-within the context of religious and social change. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 169 x 17. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492620
- ISBN
- 9781611492620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.03
€ 126.03
Hardcover. Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Holderlin, Verlaine, George, Morike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. This study delves into the irresolvable conflict between a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis. Num Pages: 212 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381873
- ISBN
- 9781137381873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74