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Paperback. Many events of the divided society from Elizabeth I to Charles I were taken as an unmistakable sign that the world was entering its last days. This text shows how pervasive was this pessimistic mood and how powerfully it affected English writing from Shakespeare to Milton. Num Pages: 398 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349097722
ISBN
9781349097722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349079001
ISBN
9781349079001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.14

Hardback. This study of Victorian literature and culture begins with the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her proclamation as Empress of India in 1877. It is a time of growing national self-confidence and of industrial, scientific and literary achievements, yet also an age marked by uncertainty. Num Pages: 561 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
561
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333468111
ISBN
9780333468111
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 188.80

Hardback. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333282977
ISBN
9780333282977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.87

Paperback. Who are the invisible kings? Why do two bears follow them round Britain? And what happens when a gypsy's curse comes miraculously to life? This book reveals extraordinary worlds where the real and imagined converge in stories and charms, just this side of science and magic. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857549058
ISBN
9781857549058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.85

Paperback. In myths of origin and the natural world, the terrible chronicles of history and the saving power of folk wisdom, the poet weaves spells of Romany and circus language, invents forms and shapes, drawing his readers into a 'lit circle' magical and true. Num Pages: 78 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
78
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847770622
ISBN
9781847770622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.67

Paperback. An award-winning poet, critic and teacher reimagines a real life encounter between the poet John Clare and a gypsy named Wisdom Smith. Num Pages: 78 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
78
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771247
ISBN
9781847771247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.38

Hardback. Examines the debate about the meaning of the Falklands War. Using literary critical methods, this book examines how the Thatcherite reading of the war as a myth of British greatness reborn was developed through political speeches and journalistic writing. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MTASF; 3JJPN; DSBH; HBJM; JFC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333655818
ISBN
9780333655818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.80

Hardcover. A leading literary critic's innovative study of how the Nobel Prize-winning author turned life into art. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780393246872
ISBN
9780393246872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 7.00

Hardcover. Num Pages: 213 pages, 20 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: CBV; CBW; DCF; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 213 x 21. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
New, Expanded
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872866508
ISBN
9780872866508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.22

Paperback. An autobiographical masterpiece by a prominent Beat poet, who Ferlinghetti has deemed "one of the greats." Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Num Pages: 135 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
135
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872865167
ISBN
9780872865167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.58

Paperback. This volume is a comprehensive investigation into Forster's relationship to Modernism. It advances the argument that Forster's fiction embodies an important strand within modernism and in doing so makes the case for a new definition and interpretation of "modernism." Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349431489
ISBN
9781349431489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.90

Hardcover. This volume is a comprehensive investigation into Forster's relationship to Modernism. It advances the argument that Forster's fiction embodies an important strand within modernism and in doing so makes the case for a new definition and interpretation of "modernism". Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 459.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2002nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333987827
ISBN
9780333987827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.91

paperback. Toward the end of James's career, Charles Scribner's Sons offered to publish his collected work under the overall title The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James. This book is the first comprehensive effort to apprehend the full complexity of James's self-performance there. Editor(s): McWhirter, David. Num Pages: 352 pages, 29 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 555.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735186
ISBN
9780804735186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.98

Hardback. A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift's the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others. Num Pages: 229 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874133691
ISBN
9780874133691
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.49

Paperback. Fine copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Number of pages
111
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KST0011287
ISBN
9781908836052
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 12.00
€ 11.72

paperback. Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2013
SKU
V9781349442218
ISBN
9781349442218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.51

Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137035356
ISBN
9781137035356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. Pop culture sonnets as a midlife-crisis confessional. Li'l Bastard covers the three poetic Bs: baseball, beer, and Barnaby Jones. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 199.
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552452486
ISBN
9781552452486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.12

Paperback. Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, this book is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. A collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets, it begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself through antic turns and lyric flips to demimondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of "Hawaii Five-O". Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552451885
ISBN
9781552451885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.06

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