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Paperback. The author was a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This book offers a collection of his letters. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141198323
ISBN
9780141198323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.30

Hardcover. Covering all aspects of human relationships, from passionate first love to fianl regret, this title includes poems by Shakespere, Donne, Dickinson, Lowell. Larkin, Herbet, Horace, Hardy, Rilke, Auden and Burns - and many more. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 107 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250. Keywords: "Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - General"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KHS0038098
ISBN
9781857157314
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.99
€ 22.52

Paperback. Editor(s): McClure, Judith; Collins, Roger. Translator(s): Colgrave, Bertram. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537235
ISBN
9780199537235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.34

Paperback. Named for a street in Sheffield, this title offers a collection that cherishes specificity: the particularity of names; the reflections the world throws back at us; the precise moment of a realisation. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 151 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780701186845
ISBN
9780701186845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.20

Paperback. Six strangers turn up in a rehearsal room and demand that their story be acted out by the assembled company. As the actors perform, the increasingly gruesome story becomes frighteningly real. Num Pages: 87 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
87
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854595317
ISBN
9781854595317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.01

Paperback. Unlike other readers, this book takes eight important literary texts and provides some of the most significant post-colonial readings of them published in the last fifteen years. Editor(s): Childs, Peter. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 26. Weight in Grams: 752.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748610686
ISBN
9780748610686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.10

Paperback. Suitable for recitation at festivals, this title includes 33 songs that were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. It features songs that recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear before mortals. Translator(s): Cashford, Jules. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140437829
ISBN
9780140437829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.44

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 177 x 26. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007902101
ISBN
9780007902101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.30

Paperback. John Donne's sense of form and arrangement, his psychological insight, his differences of mood and emphasis and his religious fervour should make this selection of ten sermons particularly interesting to the attentive reader familiar with Donne's poetry. Editor(s): Simpson, Evelyn M. Num Pages: 245 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; HRCL1; HRCX4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350. With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations. 245 pages. Editor(s): Simpson, Evelyn M. John Donne's sense of form and arrangement, his psychological insight, his differences of mood and emphasis and his religious fervour should make this selection of ten sermons particularly interesting to the attentive reader familiar with Donne's poetry. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DN; HRCL1; HRCX4. Dimension: 205 x 139 x 16. Weight: 294.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
245
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520239289
ISBN
9780520239289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.10

Paperback. Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present offers an authoritative overview of the development of Western literary theory and criticism. In clear, concise, and elegant prose, the acclaimed literary scholar M.A.R. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405160353
ISBN
9781405160353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.45

Paperback. Demonstrates how ideas stemming from complex literary theory can be found in even the most mainstream movies. This book aims to show, through specific examples, how once-arcane literary theory (deconstruction, post-Marxism, subject position, reader response) has infiltrated popular culture. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: APF; DSA; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242. How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies. 208 pages. Demonstrates how ideas stemming from complex literary theory can be found in even the most mainstream movies. This book aims to show, through specific examples, how once-arcane literary theory (deconstruction, post-Marxism, subject position, reader response) has infiltrated popular culture. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: APF; DSA; JFCA. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 12. Weight: 240.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826428936
ISBN
9780826428936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.66

Paperback. Tackles race, wealth and family as a young black man finds the American Dream dissolving around him. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 43. Weight in Grams: 416. Nice copy, with some shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KST0026763
ISBN
9781848872431
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Ecco
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780876858639
ISBN
9780876858639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.08

Paperback.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780571212583
ISBN
9780571212583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.44

Paperback. Eduardo Houth is the author's alter-ego. Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, the author achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity. The result is an exercise in self-description, partisan but without the shrill self-justification so common in authentic autobiography. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
118
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840027181
ISBN
9781840027181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.38

Paperback. A selection of the earliest poems in English comprising works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. This work contains natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles that are witty linguistic puzzles. Love elegies include emotional speeches from an abandoned wife and separated lovers. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140433784
ISBN
9780140433784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.76

Paperback. A collection of poems that are conceived and written in London, once the author's place of exile and now his permanent home. Translator(s): Holton, Brian; Chan, Agnes Hung-Chong; Petit, Pascale. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 220. 160 pages. A collection of poems that are conceived and written in London, once the author's place of exile and now his permanent home. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 8. Weight: 220. Translator(s): Holton, Brian; Chan, Agnes Hung-Chong; Petit, Pascale.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852248345
ISBN
9781852248345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 5. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781559362764
ISBN
9781559362764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.46

Hardcover. Set during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Reckless is a compelling novel of life in the shadow of impending nuclear war. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 42. Weight in Grams: 802.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781782066422
ISBN
9781782066422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Sophocles' "Electra" tells the story of the revenge Orestes and Electra take on their mother, Clytemnestra, for he murder of their father Agamemnon, after he returns from the Trojan War. This edition of the play is preceded by a critical introduction and is accompanied by explanatory notes. Translator(s): Carson, Anne. Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195049602
ISBN
9780195049602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.35

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