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Literary essays

Paperback. Editor(s): Lence, Ross M. Num Pages: 656 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HPC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865971035
ISBN
9780865971035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.54

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.18

Paperback. Shows the range and depth of Ruskin's work, and reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. This volume also shows that his work "Unto this Last" is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy. Editor(s): Wilmer, Clive. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140432114
ISBN
9780140432114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.89

Hardcover. Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137378231
ISBN
9781137378231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

Paperback. Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 111 x 7. Weight in Grams: 72.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141036700
ISBN
9780141036700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.27

Paperback. J.G.Ballard is the author of the novels "Crash", "Empire of the Sun" and "Rushing to Paradise". Throughout his career he has also been a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. This book collects together pieces of his journalism, grouped under themes including science and film. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006548218
ISBN
9780006548218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.76

Paperback. A collection of highly-informed essays offering fresh perspectives on cutting-edge writers, musicians and fimmakers. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJPR; 3JM; APB; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785350245
ISBN
9781785350245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.20

Paperback. Retraces John C. Fremont's five remarkable western expeditions (1842-53) and portrays wilderness on the brink of irreversible change. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; DNF; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 254 x 9. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570982606
ISBN
9781570982606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.59

Paperback. The only Latin art of war to survive, Vegetius' Epitome was for long a part of the medieval prince's military education. The core of his proposals, the maintenance of a professional standing army, was revolutionary for medieval Europe, while his theory of deterrence through strength remains the foundation of modern Western defence policy. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HBJD; HBLA; JWA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 207 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised, Subsequent
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853239109
ISBN
9780853239109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DNF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 198 x 11. Weight in Grams: 68.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241248874
ISBN
9780241248874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.80

Paperback. Editor(s): Brenkman, John. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140. Weight in Grams: 401. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
G&B Arts International
Number of pages
172
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
SKU
KEX0208395
ISBN
9789057013911
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856682537
ISBN
9780856682537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.54

Paperback. Originally published anonymously in 1844, "Vestiges" was the first attempt to connect the natural sciences to a history of creation. This volume includes Chambers's earliest works on cosmology, an essay on Darwin and an autobiographical essay. It also features a new introduction by James Secord. Num Pages: 312 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; PSAJ; RB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 37. Weight in Grams: 848.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226100739
ISBN
9780226100739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 37.50

Paperback. In this innovative book, now available in paperback for the first time, Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and Darwin's theories of evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230230309
ISBN
9780230230309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.57

Paperback. An English-language introduction to the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art history. Editor(s): Wood, Christopher S. Num Pages: 488 pages, 58 illus. BIC Classification: ACX; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Zone Books
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951153
ISBN
9781890951153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865970106
ISBN
9780865970106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.74

Hardcover. First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. The introduction discusses her ideas. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 188 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150865
ISBN
9781857150865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.13

Hardcover. Woolf responds passionately to those writers - past, present - who deal honestly with the reader, who express their own variations on the 'I am I' - the selective vision of the finite self. Editor(s): Kavenna, Joanna. Series: Classic Collection. Num Pages: 182 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907903922
ISBN
9781907903922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.45

Hardback. Virginia Woolf's Ethics of the Short Story aims at a synthetic appraisal of Woolf's short stories as a space of encounter and a site of resistance. It throws a new light on Woolf's short stories as foregrounding the ethical as well as the political and the aesthetic and shows how they participate fully in her creative process. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2009th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230227187
ISBN
9780230227187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.94

Paperback. Martin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780099461876
ISBN
9780099461876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. i>A Vital Rationalist brings together for the first time a selection of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from previously unpublished manuscripts and a critical biography by Camille Limoges. Editor(s): Delaporte, Francois. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 482 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 749.
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
482
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299731
ISBN
9780942299731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.76

Hardback. A selection of important yet previously untranslated and unpublished essays. Editor(s): Prenowitz, Eric. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639038
ISBN
9780748639038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.51
€ 111.49

Hardcover. Translator(s): Johnson, Samuel. Series: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Num Pages: 358 pages, illustrations, maps, index. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; DNF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 148 x 37. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300030037
ISBN
9780300030037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.16
€ 96.84

Paperback. This volume collects W.E.B. Du Bois' sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The selections include discussion on the conception of sociology and sociological research, especially as a tool in the struggle for racial justice along with an assessment of race relations before and after World War II. Series: Heritage of Sociology S. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; DNF; JFF; JFSL1; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226167602
ISBN
9780226167602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 31.03

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