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Literary essays

Paperback. Taken from the columns of the "Irish Press", "Hibernia", "The Crane Bag" and "Irish University Review", this gathering of prose, essays and reviews focuses on Joyce, Kavanagh, O'Casey, Behan, Bowen, Gregory, Shaw and Wilde, as well as on Irish drama and Paul Valery. The author brings a continental sensibility to bear on his literary milieu. Editor(s): McFadden, Hugh. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. . Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0017928
ISBN
9781843510666
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Grafton, John. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486408941
ISBN
9780486408941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.60

Paperback. A collection of pieces in which Barbara Kingsolver, author of the novel "Pigs in Heaven", explores her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world. The topics include Kentucky, housework, promiscuity, health clubs, the Canary Islands, rock and roll, space rockets, and Thoreau. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571179503
ISBN
9780571179503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.14

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393974645
ISBN
9780393974645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. Originally published in 1529, this work argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they have long been excluded. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 142 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DNF; JFFJ; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
142
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226010595
ISBN
9780226010595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. This text gathers together the many interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews that were omitted from "Required Writing". Taken together the collection fills in a consistent but sometimes unexpected portrait of Philip Larkin - mordant, intolerant, generous, but always himself. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571216147
ISBN
9780571216147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.16

Paperback. Features that illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, this essays create a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183060
ISBN
9780141183060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.56

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. Editor(s): Chapman, R. W. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 1536 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1182. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
1536
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000131
ISBN
9780199540211
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 32.99
€ 20.55

Hardcover. Provides Delarivier Manley's contribution to the literary and theatrical milieu of the late 17th century. This book includes a epistolary novella, letters; a commendatory poem 'To the Author of Agnes de Castro'; a comedy, 'The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband', a tragedy, 'The Royal Mischief'; and two commemorative poems. Series Editor(s): Cullen, Professor Patrick; Prescott, Ms. Anne Lake; Travitsky, Dr. Betty S. Series: The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780754606406
ISBN
9780754606406
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.82

Paperback. Comprises texts from the American colonial period, which bear witness to the extraordinary diversity of writing at this time. Editor(s): Radzinowicz, Mary Ann. Series: Cambridge English Prose Texts. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001057
ISBN
9780521286800
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. English Renaissance Studies Presented to Dame Helen Gardner in honour of her seventieth birthday Num Pages: 312 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear and some sunning to spine
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000837
ISBN
9780198120933
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. A selection reflecting the enthusiasms of A.S. Byatt, this work sweeps from the Romantics and Victorians to modern British writers, from the art of Van Gogh to the poems of Sylvia Plath. Two sections trace Byatt's fascination with the complex links between the symbolic and the real. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 595. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear, sunning to page edges and some edgewear to DW
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001689
ISBN
9780701138479
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. English critics were brilliant initiatiors and exploiters of Biblical criticism. This book provides the only available collection of Biblical criticism from this important period of critical enquiry, the 18th and 19th centuries. It features excerpts from critics like Coleridge, Blake and Arnold. Editor(s): Drury, John. Series Editor(s): Storey, Graham. Series: Cambridge English Prose Texts. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear and sunning to spine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001002
ISBN
9780521338707
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780684818450
ISBN
9780684818450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BJ; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Anchor
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780804171441
ISBN
9780804171441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DNF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 209 x 15. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555977597
ISBN
9781555977597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.55

Paperback. A companion to British literature explores the political, social, intellectual, and cultural history and background of English poetry, fiction, prose, and drama and analyzes the changing conditions of literary activity. Num Pages: 640 pages, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 40. Weight in Grams: 700. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0002840
ISBN
9780393303438
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

hardcover. This volume reconstructs F. Scott Fitzgerald's planned volume of personal essays. Editor(s): West, James L. W., III. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Num Pages: 366 pages, 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780521402392
ISBN
9780521402392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.43

Hardcover. Addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? This title explores the sensual happiness of the flesh; covers the difficulties of the modern world's obsession with consumption; and, finally the consolation and sympathy provided by art and literature. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 116 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0014614
ISBN
9780701187118
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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