Literary essays
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Literary essays
Paperback. Suitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Editor(s): Heath, Malcolm. Translator(s): Heath, Malcolm. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446364
- ISBN
- 9780140446364
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. This edition includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading. Translator(s): Young, David. Num Pages: 129 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780915145973
- ISBN
- 9780915145973
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.11
€ 16.99
€ 14.11
Paperback. A selection of 19th-century Barbary Coast captivity narratives. The accounts range from 1798 to 1904 and tell the stories of enslaved white Americans, whose plight became fodder for pro- and anti-slavery writers. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226034041
- ISBN
- 9780226034041
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.51
€ 27.99
€ 22.51
Paperback. This work tells the story of the author's six-week journey by skiff along the Ohio river. He covered 1000 miles from Redstone, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Ilinois, where the Ohio river meets the Mississippi. This edition is a reprinting of the original 1897 edition. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 395. Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press Illinois
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KEX0212370
- ISBN
- 9780809322688
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Editor(s): Dutta, Shomit; Goldhill, Simon. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439365
- ISBN
- 9780141439365
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.57
€ 14.99
€ 11.57
Hardcover. Translator(s): Grube, G. M. A. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Second Edition,2
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872201378
- ISBN
- 9780872201378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.34
€ 48.99
€ 35.34
Paperback. Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's 'will to power'. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 7. Weight in Grams: 64.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141036687
- ISBN
- 9780141036687
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.28
€ 10.99
€ 9.28
Paperback. Features Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) devastating short satire on how to solve a famine. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 161 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141398181
- ISBN
- 9780141398181
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Condition: New
€ 5.95
€ 5.95
Paperback. Talks about the country dweller, who sees his or her world eroded by the wishy-washy liberal commands of Blairite do-gooders, who sit in North West London pontificating about the needs of country people. This book also deals with the devastations of the foot and mouth crisis that showed how the great divide between town and country dwellers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JFSF; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240. On Settling. 192 pages. Talks about the country dweller, who sees his or her world eroded by the wishy-washy liberal commands of Blairite do-gooders, who sit in North West London pontificating about the needs of country people. This book also deals with the devastations of the foot and mouth crisis that showed how the great divide between town and country dwellers. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JFSF; WND. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 14. Weight: 240.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826490919
- ISBN
- 9780826490919
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.80
€ 18.99
€ 14.80
paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442267
- ISBN
- 9780140442267
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.59
€ 19.99
€ 15.59
Paperback. Collects essays by Levinas encompassing every aspect of his thought: the early phenomenological studies; the fully developed ethical critique of such totalizing philosophies; and the pioneering texts on the moral dimension to aesthetics. Editor(s): Hand, Sean. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631164470
- ISBN
- 9780631164470
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Condition: New
€ 51.06
€ 51.06
Paperback. This is the third volume in a series of translations of a Chinese classical novel generally known as "The Water Margin". In this volume, the company of outlaws on Mount Liang continues to grow. Lu Zhishen, the Flowery Monk, and his companions from Twin Dragon Peak reappear and join the company. Translator(s): Dent-Young, John; Dent-Young, Alex. Series: Marshes of Mount Liang. Num Pages: 404 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789622018471
- ISBN
- 9789622018471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.92
€ 33.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816617432
- ISBN
- 9780816617432
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.18
€ 24.99
€ 23.18
Paperback. Focusing on the ways authors have traditionally responded to censorship, this is a collection of essays which attempt to understand the motives for censorship. It argues that a society bound by censorship engenders a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalating rivalry. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DNF; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226111766
- ISBN
- 9780226111766
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.35
€ 30.99
€ 24.35
Paperback. This selection presents the best of the popular science writing of Sir Peter Medawar. He was not only a prize-winning immunologist, but also a noted writer about science and scientists. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF; PD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192861931
- ISBN
- 9780192861931
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Condition: New
€ 33.77
€ 33.77
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.97
€ 32.99
€ 23.97
Paperback. Tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book ranges from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, and highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 halftones. 2 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691122601
- ISBN
- 9780691122601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Hardback. James Hogg's Jacobite Relics - originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817 - is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg. Editor(s): Pittock, Professor Murray. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 584 pages, bibliography, glossary. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; AVGC; DNF; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1055.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 584
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748615926
- ISBN
- 9780748615926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.49€ 159.50
€ 166.49
€ 159.50
Hardback. Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick Shepherd Editor(s): Mack, Douglas S.; Hughes, Gillian. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748607464
- ISBN
- 9780748607464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.08€ 105.73
€ 109.08
€ 105.73
Paperback. Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. This bilingual edition features the translations of Labe's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the rhymed translation of Labe's elegies in their entirety. Editor(s): Baker, Deborah Lesko. Translator(s): Finch, Annie. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Bilingual edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226467153
- ISBN
- 9780226467153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.65
€ 41.99
€ 32.65
Paperback. Presents the experiences of Scottish soldiers during the Second World War in their own words. This book includes descriptions ranging from the brutal hardships suffered by General Slim's 'forgotten' 14th Army as it fought its way through Burma to the large scale onslaught of the D-Day landings to the deprivations of the Siege of Malta. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752437101
- ISBN
- 9780752437101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.19
€ 23.99
€ 21.19
Paperback. Siegfried Kracauer was one of the 20th century's major cultural critics, a prolific scholar and a theorist of film. In this volume his writings on modern society are translated into English. Written in the 1920s and early 1930s, these essays examine the everyday world of the masses. Num Pages: 416 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674551633
- ISBN
- 9780674551633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.05
€ 53.99
€ 45.05
Hardcover. Pharaoh Khufu is battling the Fates. At stake is the inheritance of Egypt's throne, the proud but tender heart of Khufu's beautiful daughter Princess Merensankh and Khufu's legacy as a sage, not savage ruler. Translator(s): Stock, Raymond. Num Pages: 206 pages, map. BIC Classification: DNF; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774248061
- ISBN
- 9789774248061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.99
€ 24.99
€ 22.99
Hardback. This is a new edition of Rob Roy. It is set in 1715-16, yet it concerns not the conduct of the Jacobite Rising, but the economic and social conditions which gave rise to it. Editor(s): Hewitt, David. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 612 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 38. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 612
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748605699
- ISBN
- 9780748605699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.91
€ 177.91