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Paperback. Translator(s): McLeish, Kenneth. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780948230653
- ISBN
- 9780948230653
€ 21.79
€ 21.79
Paperback. `Written with elegance and irony, the book is a searching enquiry into realism in the novel..' Leon Edel . Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 34. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195007275
- ISBN
- 9780195007275
€ 36.34
€ 36.34
Paperback. A biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), which re-evaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was as famous among the surrealists for his independence of mind as for his elaborate "automatic" drawings and his brilliant oral and written performances during the incubational period of the group. Num Pages: 282 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218413
- ISBN
- 9780803218413
€ 25.99€ 23.89
€ 25.99
€ 23.89
Paperback. The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature is at once a literary history, an introduction to various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, a review of genres, and a selection of original, cutting-edge, and interdisciplinary critical essays on canonical and popular works for children in the Anglo-American tradition. Editor(s): Mickenberg, Julia L.; Vallone, Lynne. Series: Oxford Handbooks of Literature. Num Pages: 608 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 247 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1022.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199938551
- ISBN
- 9780199938551
€ 63.66
€ 63.66
Paperback. The second volume of Max Saunders's magisterial biography sees the publication of Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, and the founding of the Transatlantic Review, the influential literary magazine that published Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and Picasso. It also documents Ford's marriage to Janice Biala, with whom he lived until his death in 1939. Num Pages: 720 pages, 8 pages of black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 230 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1046. Volume II
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199668359
- ISBN
- 9780199668359
€ 39.29
€ 39.29
Paperback. Charts the rewards and struggles of the author's literary career, and reveals the often reluctant celebrity behind the outward success. This volume marks a writer's continuing quest for wisdom and self-understanding. It provides an insight into the creative background of his novels, as well as the writer's inner life and preoccupations. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099443438
- ISBN
- 9780099443438
€ 17.99€ 14.27
€ 17.99
€ 14.27
Paperback. This book is a major study of child readers and their reading habits in the period when children's literature first became established. Num Pages: 338 pages, 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107449268
- ISBN
- 9781107449268
€ 43.45
€ 43.45
Paperback. A tightly focused study of the ubiquity of Indian objects in Victorian novels Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472051342
- ISBN
- 9780472051342
€ 33.16
€ 33.16
Paperback. Includes "A Month in the Country", "A Provincial Lady" and "A Poor Gentleman". Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571245543
- ISBN
- 9780571245543
€ 19.75
€ 19.75
Paperback. The first collection from one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation of poets Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 148. Very good copy with some neat newsclippings about the author.Poetry
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0303583
- ISBN
- 9780330350594
€ 10.00
€ 10.00
Hardcover. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 413 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403903013
- ISBN
- 9781403903013
€ 133.52
€ 133.52
Paperback. 8vo. Good copy.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0289474
- ISBN
- 9780140075687
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Here is a rich collection of work from five books by one of America's most controversial poets. Marilyn Hacker's poems have been praised for their technical virtuosity, forthright feminism, political acuity, and unabashed eroticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270. Good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0303703
- ISBN
- 9780393313499
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Paperback. Already read but good clean copy.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Edition
- Abridged edition
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- 9780060928339
- ISBN
- 9780060928339
€ 4.64
€ 4.64
Hardcover. Drawing on ideas from linguistics, logic, and sociology about the grammar of conversations, the author considers the rhetoric of conversation in Dicken's novels. Series: AMS Studies in the Nineteenth-century. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Ams Pr Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780404644703
- ISBN
- 9780404644703
€ 125.75
€ 125.75
Hardcover. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to an Arabic mirror, this study evokes the mentality of the distinctive environment - the border region. It covers the literary, cultural, political and historical contexts and their confluence in Pseudo Mawardi's Nasihat al muluk. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSK; HPDC; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748696987
- ISBN
- 9780748696987
€ 82.19
€ 82.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816629336
- ISBN
- 9780816629336
€ 26.99€ 26.49
€ 26.99
€ 26.49
Paperback. A study of the interrelationship of the Victorian novel with other forms of writings, arguing that the whole literary culture was concerned with the production of Victorian values, including novels, an active part in the compromise between aristocratic and middle class cultures in this period. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1989
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349197705
- ISBN
- 9781349197705
€ 45.81
€ 45.81
Paperback. The second volume in the City Lights Spotlight series--experimental poems by innovative New York poet and former St. Mark's Poetry Project director. Series: City Lights Spotlight. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142. 100 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DC. Dimension: 178 x 139 x 9. Weight: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872865020
- ISBN
- 9780872865020
€ 15.99€ 14.71
€ 15.99
€ 14.71
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486295848
- ISBN
- 9780486295848
€ 5.08
€ 5.08
Paperback. Shows that, under the influence of the popular geography of the eighteenth century, an increasing number of literary works began to make use of actual topographical data. The author demonstrates that the kinship between geographical and literary representations of topography went further: they underwent parallel developments. Num Pages: 233 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD; HBLH; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034312578
- ISBN
- 9783034312578
€ 59.77
€ 59.77
Paperback. Much anticipated in poetry circles, this debut poetry collection by the well-known younger poet and critic rises to the occasion, at once bold and tender, experimental and clear. Jean Valentine writes: "New consciousnesses shine here in delicate, angry, ecstatic, funny, heartbroken play: the forked lightning of true poetry." Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 157.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Wave Books United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780972348713
- ISBN
- 9780972348713
€ 11.81
€ 11.81