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Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816634187
- ISBN
- 9780816634187
€ 24.99€ 24.92
€ 24.99
€ 24.92
Hardback. Series: ABC-CLIO Literary Companion S. Num Pages: 644 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1355.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 644
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874367577
- ISBN
- 9780874367577
€ 83.66
€ 83.66
Paperback. This practical approach to E.M. Forster's novels, shows how coherent criticism evolves from close reading of short extracts. The intention is to help students develop confidence in following their own ideas and assimilate skill in analysis. Series: Analysing Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JNZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333922545
- ISBN
- 9780333922545
€ 31.96
€ 31.96
Paperback. The untold story of Ireland's role, from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1x8pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTJ0051228
- ISBN
- 9780340637876
€ 12.99€ 10.10
€ 12.99
€ 10.10
Paperback. For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of John Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. This book offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789644
- ISBN
- 9780226789644
€ 31.26
€ 31.26
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746307472
- ISBN
- 9780746307472
€ 23.81
€ 23.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1993
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349226214
- ISBN
- 9781349226214
€ 137.58
€ 137.58
Hardcover. This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a diversity of experiences of excess. Comprising a variety of perspectives, this book offers unique insights into how politics and literature have been shaped by states of intoxication. Editor(s): Brennan, Eugene; Williams, Russell. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC; DSK; JMTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487650
- ISBN
- 9781137487650
€ 85.26€ 83.34
€ 85.26
€ 83.34
Hardcover. In art and literature, animals appear not only as an allegoric representation but as a reference which troubles the border between humanity and animality. This book aims to challenge traditional ways of confronting animality with humanity and to consider how the Darwinian turn has modified this relationship in postmodern narratives. Editor(s): Wrobel, Szymon. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF3; HPS; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631650394
- ISBN
- 9783631650394
€ 54.99€ 53.51
€ 54.99
€ 53.51
Hardback. This book explores the inter-relationships between Agatha Christie and her works to seek the wholeness in the Christie experience. The authors perceive an integration in personal experience and moral and aesthetic values between the woman and her art. Num Pages: 199 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879722159
- ISBN
- 9780879722159
€ 25.84
€ 25.84
Paperback. Beginning with a brief discussion of Charles Dickens's political reportage and his pamphleteering for prison reform, this study goes on to describe the earliest works. The novels - early, middle and late - are treated in detail. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 206 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Syracuse University Press ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815604754
- ISBN
- 9780815604754
€ 25.84
€ 25.84
Paperback. A full, post-glasnost critical biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). Series: Major European Authors Series. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521122467
- ISBN
- 9780521122467
€ 37.17
€ 37.17
Hardcover. C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of original, wide-ranging essays explores the past, present and future importance of The Chronicles of Narnia, providing the most current, and some of the most cutting-edge, research about this popular fantasy series. Editor(s): Abate, Michelle Ann; Weldy, Lance. Series: New Casebooks. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301245
- ISBN
- 9780230301245
€ 83.31
€ 83.31
Paperback. "Cadenus" is primarily concerned with the relationship between Swift and Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), "Swift's Most Valuable Friend" with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson). Both help to determine the precise nature of this triangle, and the impact it had on his writing and career. Illustrator(s): Brocquy, Louis Le. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; BGH; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136. . Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd Dublin
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0220095
- ISBN
- 9781843510178
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Series: Liber Primus. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781618114433
- ISBN
- 9781618114433
€ 118.57
€ 118.57
Paperback. In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Toibin investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Picador
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330491389
- ISBN
- 9780330491389
€ 11.99€ 11.37
€ 11.99
€ 11.37
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 252ill.(some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBR; AJCR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 177 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1120.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843510505
- ISBN
- 9781843510505
€ 30.00€ 26.99
€ 30.00
€ 26.99
Hardcover. Presents biographical sketches and analytical overviews of 145 of the best-known American and Canadian writers of long fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries, arranged alphabetically by name. This volume surveys the novelists, whose works are included in core curricula of high school and undergraduate literature studies. Num Pages: 1536 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; DSR; GBC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 184 x 140. Weight in Grams: 2910.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Salem Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587653933
- ISBN
- 9781587653933
€ 301.72
€ 301.72
Paperback. Identifies and explains a surprising affinity for medievalism and medieval studies among the leading figures of critical theory. This book contains original essays by Bataille and Bourdieu - translated English - that testify in various ways to the strange persistence of medievalisms in French postwar avant-garde writings. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226349749
- ISBN
- 9780226349749
€ 34.32
€ 34.32
Paperback. Editor(s): Larkin, Peter. Series: MIP Teams Middle English Texts Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 267 x 18. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Medieval Institute Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580442015
- ISBN
- 9781580442015
€ 26.99
€ 26.99
Paperback. From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Room, a book that explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447248170
- ISBN
- 9781447248170
€ 12.99€ 10.68
€ 12.99
€ 10.68
Paperback. Fanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of "Evelina", one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was also an incomparable diarist, witnessing both the madness of George III and the young Queen Victoria's coronation. This biography paints a portrait of the woman of great talent. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; BG; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- VINTAGE
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099590217
- ISBN
- 9780099590217
€ 13.99€ 11.40
€ 13.99
€ 11.40
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Press Porcepic,Ontario Canada
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888783929
- ISBN
- 9780888783929
€ 15.46
€ 15.46
Paperback. The text of this 1902 novel is again that of the fully corrected and annotated reprint of the New York Edition (1909), together with James's preface and the two frontispieces he commissioned for the New York Edition of The Wings of the Dove. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393978810
- ISBN
- 9780393978810
€ 19.04
€ 19.04