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Paperback. The Lives of the Poets is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most diverting. This is the only one-volume paperback edition to make available Johnson's most substantial Lives in unabridged form. Texts are drawn from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition, and introduced by John Mullan. Editor(s): Lonsdale, Roger. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199226740
- ISBN
- 9780199226740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.23
€ 17.99
€ 14.23
Paperback. Editor(s): Boswell, Marshall. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628924534
- ISBN
- 9781628924534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.18
€ 30.18
Paperback. Series: Anglo-Amerikanische Studien - Anglo-American Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631558621
- ISBN
- 9783631558621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.23
€ 55.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 217 x 2. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231179690
- ISBN
- 9780231179690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.62
€ 26.99
€ 24.62
Hardcover. Alternating between vignettes of John Banville's own past, and present-day historical explorations of the city, Time Pieces is a vivid evocation of childhood and memory, that 'bright abyss' in which 'time's alchemy works'. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; DSK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 242 x 24. Weight in Grams: 734. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper.First edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- SKU
- KEX0303340
- ISBN
- 9781473619043
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Hardcover. Celebrated American literary critic Harold Bloom turns his attention to the writers of his own national literary tradition, from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville to William Faulkner and Hart Crane. The distillation of a lifetime of criticism, it is one of Bloom's most profoundly personal books to date. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 159 x 47. Weight in Grams: 818.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198753599
- ISBN
- 9780198753599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.32
€ 30.99
€ 22.32
![[Margaret Kelleher, ed] - Making it New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus - 9781901866469 - KTJ0049811](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9781901866469.jpg "[Margaret Kelleher, ed] - Making it New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus - 9781901866469 - KTJ0049811")
Paperback. This collection of essays examines core authors and texts. Written by scholars from a range of Irish third-level institutions, these essays provide introductions to less familiar authors and open up critical readings of established texts. Editor(s): Kelleher, Margaret. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4PCR; CF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 215 x 136. . Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KTJ0049811
- ISBN
- 9781901866469
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 8.06
€ 8.06
Paperback. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 278 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. 278 pages, Ill. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 16. Weight: 410.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231096287
- ISBN
- 9780231096287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.20
€ 37.99
€ 33.20
Paperback. Features translations of "The Woman From Andros"; "The Mandrake"; and "Clizia", a work inspired by Plautus' "Casin". This work explores English plays whose racy vernacular language, subtle characterisation, and innovative dramatic construction preceded Shakespeare's establishment of English-speaking theatrical comedy by more than a half century. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209015
- ISBN
- 9780872209015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.03
€ 24.99
€ 23.03
Hardcover. One of our most acclaimed translators of Chinese drama and a specialist of Ming period literature translates one of the greatest Chinese tragedies of the first half of the seventeenth century, available for the first time in English. Translator(s): Birch, Cyril. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227798
- ISBN
- 9780231121682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. The main part of Polybius' history covers the years 264--146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domination of the Greek world. For this edition, W. R. Paton's excellent translation has been thoroughly revised, and explanatory notes and a new introduction added. Translator(s): Paton, W. R. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; DB; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996588
- ISBN
- 9780674996588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.77
€ 26.99
€ 26.77
Paperback. The heart-warming, true story of a young woman, her single father, and the books they shared as he read to her every night of her childhood, from Harry Potter to Alice in Wonderland. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 201 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444715262
- ISBN
- 9781444715262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Editor(s): Maunder, Eliot (North London Collegiate School, UK). Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 4KL; DB; DSBB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474266062
- ISBN
- 9781474266062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.69
€ 17.69
Paperback. A volume that introduces new areas of critical thinking which go beyond the standard 'isms': Literary Reading in a Digital Age; Critical Making in the Digital Humanities; Thing Theory; Memory Work and Criticism; Body, Objects, Technology; Criticism and 'The Animal'; and, Multimodality and Linguistic Approaches to Literary Study. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748699643
- ISBN
- 9780748699643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.10
€ 31.10
Hardcover. Includes poetry from every period in life, dealing with all the topics closest to author's heart: love, death, old age, ambition, the poet's craft, and of the history and destiny of Ireland. Num Pages: 870 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 136 x 45. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Number of pages
- 870
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151039
- ISBN
- 9781857151039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.35
€ 24.99
€ 17.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781623569310
- ISBN
- 9781623569310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.19
€ 30.19
Hardcover. Collected in one spellbinding volume for the first time, these are the digressive, exuberant, rip-roaringly funny diaries of one of Britain's best writers and heaviest smokers Num Pages: 864 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1074.
- Publisher
- Granta
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847088482
- ISBN
- 9781847088482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.10
€ 33.99
€ 22.10
Paperback. Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- William Collins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007486984
- ISBN
- 9780007486984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.40
€ 14.99
€ 11.40
Paperback. Editor(s): Logan, Professor Robert A. Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 308. A Critical Reader. Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. 288 pages. Editor(s): Logan, Robert A. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Dimension: 199 x 132 x 17. Weight: 304.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441110794
- ISBN
- 9781441110794
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.11
€ 28.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; BGH; DSBH; DSK; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408831236
- ISBN
- 9781408831236
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.00
€ 11.00
Paperback. The darkly graceful poems in Mark Doty's seventh collection explore the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire. Acutely attentive, insistently alive, this is a book of 'fierce vulnerability'. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224075183
- ISBN
- 9780224075183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.62
€ 16.99
€ 12.62
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780715636688
- ISBN
- 9780715636688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.43
€ 36.43
Paperback. Brings to life the rich variety of pre-modern Arabic social and cultural life, where secular texts happily coexisted with religious ones Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814738269
- ISBN
- 9780814738269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.35
€ 27.99
€ 26.35
Paperback. This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama. Num Pages: 251 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; AN; DSBF; DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 251
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300065534
- ISBN
- 9780300065534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.38
€ 31.99
€ 30.38