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Paperback. Frontispiece and 7 colour plates. Original red cloth in dust-jacket. This edition includes a short biography of the author and plates by the illustrator John Austen (1886-1948). Keywords: Irish Literature - Goldsmith - Rare
Format
Paperback
Publisher
John Van Voorst Paternoster Row, London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHS0048549
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 51.60

Paperback. Focusing on Annie Ernaux's writing trajectory, this title provides an analysis of Ernaux's individual texts. It highlights the contradictions and nuances in her writing, and demonstrates the intellectual intricacies of her literary project. Series: Modern French Writers. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853235477
ISBN
9780853235477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.59

Hardback. "A Cultural History of Food presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers nearly 3,000 years of food and its physical, spiritual, social and cultural dimensions."-- Editor(s): Montanari, Professor Massimo (Universitites of Catania and Bologna.). Series: Cultural Histories. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBTB; JFCV; JHBT; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 653.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857850249
ISBN
9780857850249
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.69

Hardback. 329pp. Original typescript for the novel, Burning your Own, by Glenn Patterson. Author's inscription. Keywords: Family life, Irish original mss
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
SKU
KHS0032546
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 450.00

Hardback. A biography of one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 702.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748611850
ISBN
9780748611850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.29

Paperback. .
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486780764
ISBN
9780486780764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.40

Hardback. This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 117.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623051
ISBN
9780748623051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.08

Hardcover. An interdisciplinary study that explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748692958
ISBN
9780748692958
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.58

Hardback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138834422
ISBN
9781138834422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.53

Paperback. Using unusual narrative techniques to examine personal and political stories, Silence weaves together multiple storylines to raise questions of absence and loss; silence and noise; past and present; home and abroad, as the narrative switches between the 1990s and the present, and between Britain and Russia. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 198 x 7. Weight in Grams: 78.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408156568
ISBN
9781408156568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.34

Hardback. This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts from the 1940s to the present that experiment with both form and content. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 117.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624935
ISBN
9780748624935
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.08

Paperback. A cultural and literary history of London, looking at the capital's development from Roman times to its modern-day role, as financial and tourist metropolis. Series: Cities of the Imagination. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 b&w drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Signal Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904955214
ISBN
9781904955214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.56

Paperback. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KRA0009768
ISBN
9780007522958
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardback. This book explores the idea that modern, Western secular cultures have retained a belief in the concept of Hell as an event or experience of endless or unjust suffering.The wide range of texts discussed, include Primo Levi, W.G. Sebald, and Alasdair Gray. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617630
ISBN
9780748617630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.97

Paperback. Editor(s): Arden Shakespeare. Series: Arden Shakespeare. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Publisher
Thomson Learning
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408007754
ISBN
9781408007754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 43.75

Hardback. This is a new edition of Rob Roy. It is set in 1715-16, yet it concerns not the conduct of the Jacobite Rising, but the economic and social conditions which gave rise to it. Editor(s): Hewitt, David. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 612 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 38. Weight in Grams: 824.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
612
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748605699
ISBN
9780748605699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.88

Hardback. Al-Tanuki was a judge who was born in Basra and lived in Baghdad during the tenth century CE. During his life, he wrote three books which compiled poetry, stories, anecdotes and hadith. This introduction to his works and thought identifies the central theme of hardship and deliverance within narratives about love, generosity and the journey. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; 3F; DSBB; HBJF1; HBLC1; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848851177
ISBN
9781848851177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.51

Hardback. In 20th Century Britain, the literary landscape underwent a fundamental change. Aspiring authors included factory workers writing amid chaotic home lives, and married women joining writers' clubs in search of creative outlet. This work reveals the extraordinary history of 'ordinary' voices and reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 151 x 34. Weight in Grams: 582.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
334
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021778
ISBN
9780674021778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.55

Hardcover. Pharaoh Khufu is battling the Fates. At stake is the inheritance of Egypt's throne, the proud but tender heart of Khufu's beautiful daughter Princess Merensankh and Khufu's legacy as a sage, not savage ruler. Translator(s): Stock, Raymond. Num Pages: 206 pages, map. BIC Classification: DNF; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774248061
ISBN
9789774248061
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.99

Paperback. Explores the way Virginia Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. This book includes revisionary accounts of A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), and new readings of Woolf's major and less well-known novels, including The Pargiters, her failed 'essay-novel'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748694105
ISBN
9780748694105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.46

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