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Literary essays
Hardcover. 8 masterly essays by great French thinker: "Of Friendship," "Of Books," "Of Cruelty," "Of Repentance," four more. Classic Charles Cotton translation. Translator(s): Atkinson, James B.; Sices, David. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 410
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603845960
- ISBN
- 9781603845960
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.89
€ 52.99
€ 37.89
Paperback. Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, and the importance of sleep. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 10. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141043852
- ISBN
- 9780141043852
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.27
€ 10.99
€ 9.27
Paperback. Translator(s): Ariew, Roger; Grene, Marjorie. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872206793
- ISBN
- 9780872206793
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€ 19.99€ 15.86
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€ 15.86
Paperback. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write. This title discusses Montaigne's themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, and coaches and cannibals. Editor(s): Screech, M. A. Translator(s): Screech, M. A. Num Pages: 480 pages, index, summary of the symbols. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446029
- ISBN
- 9780140446029
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.89
€ 13.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Revealing the author's thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes, this work includes titles such as: "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience". Translator(s): Cohen, John M. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140178975
- ISBN
- 9780140178975
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Containing various essays, this work discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. Translator(s): Screech, M. A. Num Pages: 1360 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DNF; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 151 x 58. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446043
- ISBN
- 9780140446043
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.17
€ 29.99
€ 20.17
Hardcover. "The Frame translation of the complete essays was initially published in 1957 in The complete works of Montaigne."--T.p. verso. Editor(s): Frame, Donald M. Translator(s): Frame, Donald M. Num Pages: 908 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 100 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1375.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804704854
- ISBN
- 9780804704854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.38
€ 202.38
Paperback. 8 masterly essays by great French thinker: "Of Friendship," "Of Books," "Of Cruelty," "Of Repentance," four more. Classic Charles Cotton translation. Translator(s): Atkinson, James B.; Sices, David. Num Pages: 410 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 410
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603845953
- ISBN
- 9781603845953
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.38
€ 19.99
€ 19.38
Paperback. "The Frame translation of the complete essays was initially published in 1957 in The complete works of Montaigne."--T.p. verso. Editor(s): Frame, Donald M. Translator(s): Frame, Donald M. Num Pages: 908 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5766 x 3887 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1225.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press Stanford, CA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 906
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804704861
- ISBN
- 9780804704861
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.08
€ 51.99
€ 46.08
Paperback. Offers a selection of essays from a master of the genre exploring the contradictions inherent to human thought, words and actions. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141397221
- ISBN
- 9780141397221
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Condition: New
€ 5.46
€ 5.46
Paperback. Editor(s): Greenblatt, Stephen; Platt, Peter. Translator(s): Florio, John. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590177228
- ISBN
- 9781590177228
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 18.96
€ 27.99
€ 18.96
Hardback. An interdisciplinary study of William Wordsworth's poetry and prose, combining literature, sociology, and geography, in which the author seeks to demonstrate Wordsworth's participation in the major social and political controversies in post-French Revolutionary England. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC; HBTB; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333718902
- ISBN
- 9780333718902
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Condition: New
€ 122.83
€ 122.83
Paperback. In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. This is an essay about his cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. Num Pages: 248 pages, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226790046
- ISBN
- 9780226790046
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.18
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Paperback. Michael Parkinson on Cricket represents the best and most humorous of the author's journalism on his favourite sport. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 48. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340825082
- ISBN
- 9780340825082
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.20
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854251060
- ISBN
- 9781854251060
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.17
€ 13.99
€ 13.17
Paperback. In this presentation of William Manning's writings, early American political debates over "republicanism" and "liberalism" come to life. The writings offer a grass-roots view of the rise of democratic opposition in the new nation and also shed light on the popular culture of the epoch. Editor(s): Merrill, Michael; Wilentz, Sean. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JPA; JPFF; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Text is Free of Markings
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674502888
- ISBN
- 9780674502888
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.28
€ 41.99
€ 34.28
Hardcover. Presents one man's personal view of the world around us, and the universe within each of us. Containing Michael Jackson's personal writings and over one hundred photographs, drawings, and paintings from his own collection, this book is suitable for all fans of an incredible, inspiring man who died as he lived - dancing his dream. Num Pages: 160 pages, Full colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 220 x 16. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385403689
- ISBN
- 9780385403689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.50
€ 33.99
€ 22.50
Hardback. Offering essays, this book explores a panoply of subjects from the mastery of translation to the best day job for a poet. It is a journey with literature's most irresistible flaneur. It is a story of love between a reader and his treasured books. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571323661
- ISBN
- 9780571323661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 25.46
€ 38.99
€ 25.46
Paperback. Explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226304755
- ISBN
- 9780226304755
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.12
€ 34.99
€ 27.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 280 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681772585
- ISBN
- 9781681772585
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.72
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Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781605988443
- ISBN
- 9781605988443
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.24
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€ 22.24
Paperback. Michael Davitt's "Jottings in Solitary" consists of his drafts on many topics, written while a prisoner in solitary confinement in Portland Convict Prison, 1881-2. Published here for the first time, they contain an autobiographical fragment and a frankly annotated list of Irish MPs of the time. Series: Classics of Irish History S. Num Pages: 288 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; DNF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JPVH3; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 123 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press
- Edition
- (reprint).
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900621915
- ISBN
- 9781900621915
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.18
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Paperback. A collection of essays on books and why they matter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0296031
- ISBN
- 9780007289875
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Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated. Editor(s): Swanton, Michael. Num Pages: 388 pages, 20, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Phoenix Press
- Number of pages
- 388
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842120033
- ISBN
- 9781842120033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.73
€ 25.99
€ 17.73