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Literary essays
Paperback. Gerard de Nerval was a poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer. This selection of his works includes "Aurelia", the memoir of his madness; the novella of love and memory "Sylvie"; the hermetic sonnets of "The Chimeras"; as well as Nerval's experimental fictions and selections from his correspondence. Translator(s): Sieburth, Richard. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2AHA; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446012
- ISBN
- 9780140446012
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.64
€ 19.99
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Hardcover. The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 107 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857157215
- ISBN
- 9781857157215
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.18
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Hardcover. Series: Natural Law & Enlightenment Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCD; HPS; JPA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 34. Weight in Grams: 808.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865973190
- ISBN
- 9780865973190
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€ 25.99€ 20.08
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Paperback. Series: Natural Law & Enlightenment Classics. Num Pages: 405 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCD; HPS; JPA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 148 x 29. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 405
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865973206
- ISBN
- 9780865973206
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.45
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Paperback. A selection of the works of the author taken from the period between 1905 and 1936, when he was engaged in an astounding number of still-surprising literary experiments, whose innovations continue to influence various arts. Editor(s): Retallack, Joan. Series: Poets for the Millennium S. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520248069
- ISBN
- 9780520248069
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.97
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Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: AC; DNF; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 249 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837635171
- ISBN
- 9783837635171
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Condition: New
€ 102.82€ 76.88
€ 102.82
€ 76.88
Hardback. Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim Parks Translator(s): Parks, Tim. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCD; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300186338
- ISBN
- 9780300186338
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€ 50.48€ 40.33
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Hardcover. Brings together Manetti's famous biographies of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca, which remained the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period. Translator(s): Baldassarri, Stefano U.; Bagemihl, Rolf. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGH; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011342
- ISBN
- 9780674011342
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.07
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Hardback. Num Pages: 381 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 381
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231051040
- ISBN
- 9780231051040
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Condition: New
€ 129.63€ 98.62
€ 129.63
€ 98.62
Paperback. A collection of Gilbert White's letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant - White's intellectual lifelines from his country-village home. This title presents an evocation of the lives of the flora and fauna of eighteenth-century England. Editor(s): Mabey, Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages, notes, maps, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140431124
- ISBN
- 9780140431124
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.55
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Paperback. Num Pages: 101 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 101
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559053
- ISBN
- 9781875559053
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Condition: New
€ 16.75
€ 16.75
Paperback. Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony. Translator(s): Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Num Pages: 176 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJP; DNF; DSB; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Zone Books United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951177
- ISBN
- 9781890951177
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.07
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Paperback. Translator(s): Causa-Steindler, Mariangela; Mauch, Thomas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226062761
- ISBN
- 9780226062761
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.35
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3226 x 4852 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Thieme Publishing Group Germany
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9783132411364
- ISBN
- 9783132411364
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€ 33.99€ 32.57
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Hardback. These hard-to-find writings afford an inside look at the emergence of Girard's scapegoat theory from his pioneering analysis of rivalry and desire. Girard unbinds the Oedipal triangle from its Freudian moorings, replacing desire for the mother with desire for anyone--or anything--a rival desires. Editor(s): Anspach, Mark R. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747790
- ISBN
- 9780804747790
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Condition: New
€ 138.95
€ 138.95
Hardcover. Editor(s): Glancey, Jonathan. Num Pages: 48 pages, b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DB; DNF; WGF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 105 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 48
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413776129
- ISBN
- 9780413776129
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.13
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Paperback. This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena. Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and cultural texts. Editor(s): Goldie, Matthew Boyd. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631231486
- ISBN
- 9780631231486
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€ 56.36
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Paperback. A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author's work. It is divided into three sections: State of the Art , which covers literature; State of the Union , which deals with politics and public life; and State of Being , which gives his personal responses to people and events. Num Pages: 1312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 65. Weight in Grams: 882.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349105246
- ISBN
- 9780349105246
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.18
€ 21.99
€ 16.18
Paperback. The best work of a profoundly influential German wartime writer. Translator(s): Paisey, David. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847771506
- ISBN
- 9781847771506
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.94
€ 33.99
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Paperback. Contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. This title covers subjects ranging from Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282679
- ISBN
- 9780099282679
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.13
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Paperback. This is a translation of the first 20 distinctions of "The Decretum" or "Concordance of Discardant Canons", a compilation of extracts from Church councils, Church fathers and other ecclesiastical authorities, composed in the 12th century by Gratian, a Camaldolese monk. It offers a treatise on law. Translator(s): Thompson, Augustine; Gordley, James. Series: Studies in Mediaeval & Early Modern Canon Law. Num Pages: 157 pages, 1 col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; HBLC; HRCG; HRCX1; LAFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 178 x 5. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press United States
- Number of pages
- 157
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813207865
- ISBN
- 9780813207865
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Condition: New
€ 32.74
€ 32.74
Hardcover. Greek mathematics from the sixth century BCE to the fourth century CE is represented by the work of, e.g., Pythagoras; Proclus; Thales; Democritus; Hippocrates of Chios; Theaetetus; Plato; Eudoxus of Cnidus; Aristotle; Euclid; Eratosthenes; Apollonius; Ptolemy; Heron of Alexandria; Diophantus; Pappus. Translator(s): Thomas, I. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 693 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 117 x 35. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 693
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1941
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674993990
- ISBN
- 9780674993990
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.97
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Hardcover. Greek mathematics from the sixth century BCE to the fourth century CE is represented by the work of, e.g., Pythagoras; Proclus; Thales; Democritus; Hippocrates of Chios; Theaetetus; Plato; Eudoxus of Cnidus; Aristotle; Euclid; Eratosthenes; Apollonius; Ptolemy; Heron of Alexandria; Diophantus; Pappus. Translator(s): Thomas, I. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 521 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; PB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 170 x 119 x 30. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 521
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1939
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674993693
- ISBN
- 9780674993693
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.93
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Paperback. Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of the dependency and offers a brilliant disquisition on the psychopathology of addiction. Translator(s): Calleja, Jen. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DNF; VFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781910695074
- ISBN
- 9781910695074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.63
€ 15.99
€ 11.63