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Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 229 x 38. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926455754
- ISBN
- 9781926455754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.00€ 18.53
€ 23.00
€ 18.53
Paperback. Includes ardent pieces on writers from the author's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W G Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. This work shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. It explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190211
- ISBN
- 9780141190211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.69
€ 18.99
€ 13.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926455846
- ISBN
- 9781926455846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.20
€ 20.99
€ 15.20
Paperback. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 8. Weight in Grams: 72.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Number of pages
- 112
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141023977
- ISBN
- 9780141023977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.19
€ 10.99
€ 9.19
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€ 25.00
€ 38.99
€ 25.00
Paperback. Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584351689
- ISBN
- 9781584351689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.96
€ 21.99
€ 15.96
Paperback. The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fellow historian, gathers together important essays from the span of his career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; HBLW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593430
- ISBN
- 9780099593430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.44
€ 19.99
€ 14.44
Hardcover. This collection of 28 tales are arranged by subjects and themes, such as: Bouki and Malice; stepmothers; animals; kings and princes; ghost, zonbi and tonton makout; and love and courtship. Liliane Nerette Louis includes a variety of traditional recipes and some historical background information. Series: World Folklore Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, colour and b&w photographs, line drawings. BIC Classification: DNF; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 185 x 17. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Libraries Unlimited
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563085796
- ISBN
- 9781563085796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.62
€ 73.62
Hardback. This collection Mark Twain's writing aims to capture the essence of the author's work - the dark humour, the wry observations, and the keen insight into social and political realities, both specifically American and broadly human. Editor(s): Collins, Brian. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CB; DNF; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104982
- ISBN
- 9780231104982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.38
€ 48.38
Paperback. Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, sets out his vision of 'an ethical Republic' in a collection of his speeches. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DNS; JFM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786691255
- ISBN
- 9781786691255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.81
€ 10.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. * From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD and HOME comes this, a collection of wonderful, heart-warming essays about reading Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087723
- ISBN
- 9781844087723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.48
€ 14.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 294. 368 pages. A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DNJ. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight: 296.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408822425
- ISBN
- 9781408822425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.09
€ 14.99
€ 13.09
Hardback. Editor(s): Kernan, Alvin B. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; DNF; H; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631943
- ISBN
- 9780691631943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.49
€ 134.49
Paperback. Covering everything from criminology to spaghetti sauce to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about ourselves and our world. The author explores the underdogs, the overlooked, the curious, the miraculous and the disastrous, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an incredible story. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141044804
- ISBN
- 9780141044804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.58
€ 14.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. With topics ranging from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese people do Christmas shopping or have swimming pools, this book offers a Chinese woman's perspective on the connections and differences between the lives of British and Chinese people. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Editiion First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099501527
- ISBN
- 9780099501527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.41
€ 20.99
€ 16.41
Paperback. This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 390
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574231052
- ISBN
- 9781574231052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.46
€ 13.99
€ 10.46
Paperback. Features essays that are as much a portrait of the elegant thought processes of an unconventional and virtuoso mind as they are inquiries into their subjects, which range from meditations on how we see and treat the earth to the relationship between literature and religion. Num Pages: 496 pages, Black and White Photos Throughout. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061923913
- ISBN
- 9780061923913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.80
€ 17.99
€ 17.80
Paperback. "What is what was" combines Richard Stern's fiction and non-fiction work into one miscellany. His essays include philosophy, criticism, reportage and autobiography, all worked within the theme of actuality made and remade in description. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 115 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226773261
- ISBN
- 9780226773261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.30
€ 31.99
€ 25.30
Paperback. During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. He considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, although he perceived the question of art to be a religious one. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; ABA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446425
- ISBN
- 9780140446425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.44
€ 13.99
€ 11.44
Paperback. "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."-Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; DNJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393325829
- ISBN
- 9780393325829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.82
€ 17.99
€ 16.82