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Hardcover. In publisher richly decorated cloth. Spine in gilt. Covers are like new. ffep has a very small tear. With slipcase which has some light shelfwear. Illustrated with frontispeice
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- FOLIO FIRST EDN.
- SKU
- KST0020343
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. Features Leonardo da Vinci's character and the nature of his genius. This book explores his sexuality - 'why did da Vinci depict the naked human body the way he did?' and 'What of his tendency to surround himself with handsome young boys that he took on as his pupils? Translator(s): McLintock, David. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: AGB; BGH; DNF; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182377
- ISBN
- 9780141182377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.60
€ 14.99
€ 11.60
Paperback. This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 b&w illustrations, 1 colour illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; HRQX; VXQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719055614
- ISBN
- 9780719055614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.36
€ 26.99
€ 26.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Omnidawn Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890650063
- ISBN
- 9781890650063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.52
€ 11.99
€ 11.52
paperback. The oral and written traditions of the Africans of South Africa have provided an understanding of their past and the way the past relates to the present. This book offers the study of how Africans used oral traditions as a means of survival against European domination. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DSB; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821419229
- ISBN
- 9780821419229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.24
€ 36.99
€ 33.24
Paperback. A play about an intelligent young girl and her relentless refusal of the establishment. When suddenly a people's revolution breaks out and a mercenary soldier intrudes the family home, the conflict between the regime and the unconquered girl is revealed. Series: Oberon Modern Plays. Num Pages: 95 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 95
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840027235
- ISBN
- 9781840027235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.20
€ 12.20
Hardback. In the 1930s, Ayn Rand was asked to adapt her first novel, We the Living, for the theatre. Her first statement against communism, it sold over 3 million copies. This edition contains two unpublished versions of the play (the latter entitled The Unconquered), and is the first substantial piece of Rand's fiction to publish in over twenty years. Editor(s): Mayhew, Professor Robert. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428738
- ISBN
- 9781137428738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.31
€ 55.31
Paperback. The topic of 'the unconscious' has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the existence of the unconscious in a variety of ways Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415192095
- ISBN
- 9780415192095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary, ' and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the better place for a realistic writer to express the important truths of life Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HBTB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349469703
- ISBN
- 9781349469703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.36
€ 63.36
Hardcover. In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary,' and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the better place for a realistic writer to express the important truths of life. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353474
- ISBN
- 9781137353474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Paperback. Intended to serve as a resource for introductory material on 300 writers from 39 countries. All entries are annotated in this book; and each writer is from the late 19th or 20th century, with the notable exception of Olaudah Equiano (an eighteenth-century African whose slave narrative is generally considered the first work of African literature). Series: Author Research Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591581161
- ISBN
- 9781591581161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.33
€ 38.99
€ 33.33
Paperback. Covering some 150 authors who write or wrote primarily in Arabic, this volume is a guide to Internet resources and includes historians, geographers and philosophers as well as literary authors. Among those included are Najib Mahfuz, Nawal Sadawi, and the great physician Avicenna. Series: Author Research Series. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591581185
- ISBN
- 9781591581185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.35
€ 41.99
€ 34.35
Hardback. This is an analytical study of "The Phantom of the Opera" in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the 21st century. It reveals the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each major adaptation. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; AN; APF; DSBF; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293468
- ISBN
- 9780312293468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.24
€ 123.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DS; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 433.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349634101
- ISBN
- 9781349634101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.90
€ 122.90
Paperback. A touching and sometimes comic story of five friends' journey into the Irish countryside to scatter the ashes of a friend who died of AIDS. Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Publisher
- Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870259873
- ISBN
- 9781870259873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.20
€ 13.99
€ 13.20
hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. Dimension: 218 x 150. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Edition
- 1. Ausgabe.
- SKU
- V9780393293050
- ISBN
- 9780393293050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.57
€ 26.99
€ 23.57
Hardback. Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative of the 'underworld descent.' Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620469
- ISBN
- 9780230620469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
The Undiscover'd Country: W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel (Studi...
Markus Zisselsberger (Ed.)
Paperback. W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 406 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Zisselsberger, Markus. The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight: 560.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Number of pages
- 404
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135667
- ISBN
- 9781571135667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.32
€ 43.99
€ 36.32
Hardback. For more than a quarter century, William Logan has delivered clear-eyed and razor-sharp assessments of contemporary and classic poetry. Combining the sensibilities of poet and critic, Logan vividly conveys what he finds most memorable and most damning in a poet's work. Poets discussed include Shakespeare, Whitman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, and Czeslaw Milosz. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231136389
- ISBN
- 9780231136389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.53€ 78.02
€ 102.53
€ 78.02
Hardcover. Melek Ortabasi reassesses the influence of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), a folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. Only the second book-length English-language study of Yanagita, this book moves beyond his pioneering work in folk studies to reveal the full range of his contributions as a public intellectual. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; BGL; DSB; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492004
- ISBN
- 9780674492004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.04
€ 53.99
€ 45.04
Hardcover. The Undressed is a poetry collection inspired by a cache of antique nude photographs of women. King studied the photographs ranging from the 1840s to the 1930s and attempted to return voices to these mostly anonymous women lost to history. Num Pages: 100 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909844803
- ISBN
- 9781909844803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.20
€ 13.99
€ 13.20
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Samuel French Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780573014673
- ISBN
- 9780573014673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.61
€ 17.61
paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KIN0036482
- ISBN
- 9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 384
- SKU
- KKD0009969
- ISBN
- 9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95