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Hardback. A volume of Auden and Chester Kallman's libretti, it includes historical and textual notes tracing the history of the production and revision of the works, and provides full texts of early scenarios, as well as abandoned and rewritten scenes. Editor(s): Mendelson, Professor Edward. Series: The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1314.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
823
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691033013
ISBN
9780691033013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.91

paperback. Aphorisms are not witticisms or epigrams, but general truths succinctly stated. This anthology contains 3000 quotations from a wide variety of aphorists ranging from Heraclitus to Ogden Nash, as well as Jane Austen, Pascal, Freud, Goethe, the Duke of Wellington, Shaw, Jean Cocteau and many more. Editor(s): Auden, W. H.; Kronenberger, Louis. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 0. . Good clean copy with a little age & shelf wear. Ownership details tippexed out on half title. Lightly toned pages, text is clear and remains a good reading copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSG0039091
ISBN
9780571095193
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 7.43

Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Five Star
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KOC0003253
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

hardcover. The period between Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce was a critical force in the development of modernist literature in the origins of Protestant Ascendancy ideology. This study uncovers the origins of Ascendancy and traces its cultural significance by means of a series of detailed critiques of central texts and concepts. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTS0037012
ISBN
9780198128069
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532271
ISBN
9780226532271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.98

paperback. Essays examine the way stories are told, understood, and used to represent and make sense of the world. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532172
ISBN
9780226532172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.96

Paperback. Welcome to the Library. It's here that every story ever written is catalogued and monitored by a single man, who's begun to notice something strange: the books are rebelling. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FM; FXL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 260 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Image Comics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781534300224
ISBN
9781534300224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.45

Paperback. 'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272. Remix. 160 pages. 'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight: 272.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Remix
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249694
ISBN
9781852249694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.24

Paperback. This edition of great classic of Middle English romances gives the original text side by side with a modern translation, which aims to offer some of the brilliant surface texture of the original poem. Also supplied are revised/updated introduction and notes for A-level students and undergraduates. Editor(s): Barron, W. R. J. Series: Manchester Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719055171
ISBN
9780719055171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.76

Paperback. With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, this book offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as it focuses on the "somber and nourishing fictions" in Vergil's poem. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 90 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226252230
ISBN
9780226252230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.51

Hardcover. The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre offers a complete revision of established views of the structure and function of Elizabeth I's Revels Office, arguing that the revels essentially became a commercial enterprise, paid for by the ordinary Londoners. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
342
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198719670
ISBN
9780198719670
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.71

Hardcover. Essays discuss poetry, Thomas McGrath, Hayden Carruth, Edwin Muir, Minor White, Lee Friedlander, restorations, and the interrelationships between the arts. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Triquarterly
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810150515
ISBN
9780810150515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Triquarterly
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810150522
ISBN
9780810150522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.15

paperback. From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works of the late 1970s, W. S. Graham has given us a poetry of intense power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best Romantic poetry of the twentieth century. Graham died in 1986 with much of his work gathered in Collected Poems 1942-1977. Editor(s): Francis, Matthew. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571209897
ISBN
9780571209897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.85

Paperback. WS Merwin is an influential American poet. This book contains a selection of his poems which cover over five decades of his poetry, from "The Dancing Bears" (1954) to "Present Company" (2005). It draws its contents from his American retrospective, "Migration". Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852247690
ISBN
9781852247690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.04

Hardcover. Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137365286
ISBN
9781137365286
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.22

paperback. Showcases the range of W Somerset Maugham's talent as a playwright. In this title, the satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered, and Maugham's tense colonial drama The Letter. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872137
ISBN
9781784872137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.59

paperback. From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099289609
ISBN
9780099289609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

paperback. A guide that studies the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Vintage Classics United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286783
ISBN
9780099286783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

paperback. Features essays ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story. This title presents the views and opinions of this eminent writer. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Vintage Classics United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099288909
ISBN
9780099288909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66