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Paperback. This study examines selected aspects of John Donne's life and work in an historical context, emphasizing the relationship between his circumstances and his individuality. Thus his poetry and prose are examined as products of difficult times as opposed to mere aesthetic forms. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; BG; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Some sunning to spine
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000823
- ISBN
- 9780333422137
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 184 x 32. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270866
- ISBN
- 9780823270866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.78
€ 38.99
€ 34.78
Paperback. Editor(s): Scholder, Amy. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Avalon Travel Publishing United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802136718
- ISBN
- 9780802136718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.94
€ 16.99
€ 15.94
paperback. Investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. This book documents the extent to which economics influenced literature and philosophy and the surprising degree to which literature and philosophy participated in the creation of modern economic paradigms. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; HPCD; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295988375
- ISBN
- 9780295988375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.28
€ 39.28
Paperback. For over seven centuries, Dante and his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, have held a special place in Western culture. The poem is at once a vivid journey through hell to heaven, a poignant love story, and a picture of humanity's relationship to God. It is so richly imaginative that a first reading can be bewildering. Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion. Num Pages: 200 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 186 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405130523
- ISBN
- 9781405130523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.36
€ 33.36
Paperback. Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in the principal texts of English Romanticism, this text argues that this figuring is an ideological activity that reveals a deep social and political investment. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 14. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728621
- ISBN
- 9780804728621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.62
€ 33.99
€ 23.62
Hardback. In 1580, Montaigne presented a new literary project to the public - a collection of essays with himself as the subject. This study discusses how Montaigne revealed his "mind in motion" and examines how his task of introspection included the formulation of a view of humanity and its ethics. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; HPCB; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 607.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823215508
- ISBN
- 9780823215508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.17
€ 68.17
Paperback. This augmented edition of Patsy Stoneman's pioneering Elizabeth Gaskell presents the original 1987 text unchanged (apart from bibliographical updating) together with an extensive new 'Afterword' surveying Gaskell criticism over the last twenty years. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719074479
- ISBN
- 9780719074479
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Condition: New
€ 32.73
€ 32.73
Paperback. A complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salome wrote between 1895 and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of Andreas-Salome's significance as a thinker and writer, above all with regard to her literary contribution to modern feminism and the principles of women's emancipation. Translator(s): Whitinger, Raleigh. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803259522
- ISBN
- 9780803259522
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.41
€ 29.99
€ 26.41
Paperback. Editor(s): Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios; Roilos, Panagiotis. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 736.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674017924
- ISBN
- 9780674017924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 36.40
€ 44.99
€ 36.40
Development of the Income Smoothing Literature, 1893-1998
Buckmaster, Dale A.. Ed(S): Previts, Gary J.;...
Hardback. This volume describes the development of accounting thought during the 20th century by focusing on a relatively narrow and long-lived issue, income smoothing. A chronological review of English-language literature referring to income smoothing behaviour is conducted that covers 1893 to 1998. Editor(s): Previts, Gary J.; Bricker, Robert. Series: Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; KFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762308040
- ISBN
- 9780762308040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 215.96
€ 215.96
Hardback. Two-Timing Modernity integrates queer, feminist, and narratological approaches to show how key works by Japanese male authors in the early twentieth century encompassed both a straight future and a queer past by staging tensions between Japan's newly heteronormative culture and the recent memory of a male homosocial past now read as perverse. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067127
- ISBN
- 9780674067127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 40.44
€ 48.99
€ 40.44
Paperback. Cornwall - pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874) - published his first poems in the Literary Gazette in late 1817. This book explores the central question of how Cornwall's racy and politically subversive poetry managed to establish a broad readership where Keats' publications met with review hostility and readerly indifference. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318139
- ISBN
- 9781846318139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.99
€ 24.99
€ 22.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170. 88 pages. Fire the Bastards! is a scorching attack on the book-review media using the critical reception of William Gaddis's 1955 novel The Recognitions as a case study. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 227 x 139 x 9. Weight: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Edition
- 2 Reprint
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564786098
- ISBN
- 9781564786098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.41
€ 14.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. Editor(s): Ebbesen, Sten. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2AB; 2ADL; DSB; HPCB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763504768
- ISBN
- 9788763504768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.17
€ 37.99
€ 27.17
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135466
- ISBN
- 9780300135466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.62
€ 42.99
€ 30.62
Hardback. This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405160230
- ISBN
- 9781405160230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.59
€ 98.59
The autobiographical novel and final work of one of the Communist Party's youngest, most popular, and most intellectual members is both an astonishing personal testament and a panoramic view of Russia on the eve of a revolution that transformed the twentieth century. Translator(s): Shriver, George H. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 photos. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231107303
- ISBN
- 9780231107303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.58
€ 136.58
Paperback. A compilation of 19th-century French "haunting" tales. Featuring such authors as Balzac, Merimee, Dumas, Verne, and Maupassant, this book offers readers some of the more memorable stories in the genre. Editor(s): Kessler, Joan C. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226432083
- ISBN
- 9780226432083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.34
€ 46.99
€ 36.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 9. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838203089
- ISBN
- 9783838203089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.14
€ 50.14
hardcover. A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855663138
- ISBN
- 9781855663138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.28
€ 88.28
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643809
- ISBN
- 9780691643809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.66
€ 134.66
Paperback. Editor(s): Hallberg, Robert Von. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 22. Weight in Grams: 537. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press Journals
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0002044
- ISBN
- 9780226864945
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Books VIII &IX are crucial to the structure of the Iliad, and, while both of them have been extensively discussed in the Unitarian/Analyst debate, neither has perhaps received the attention that their fine literary qualities deserve. Editor(s): Wilson, C. H. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856686276
- ISBN
- 9780856686276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.12
€ 135.12