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Paperback. A collection of poems that offer a fresh perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves. It also includes odes to the women who dared to break new ground - from Miss Jemima Morrell to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784740641
- ISBN
- 9781784740641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.36
€ 17.99
€ 12.36
Paperback. This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. It takes stock of an ever-expanding field of knowledge and opens up possible new modes of inquiry within it, identifying new theoretical pathways, innovative thinking and productive motifs. Series Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin; Kingston University. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748655090
- ISBN
- 9780748655090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.06
€ 31.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Deals with the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, this title brings together essays on a range of writers from different parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar al-Kharrat, Sa'd Allah Wannus, Najib Mahfuz, Rabi' Jabir, and Salim Matar. Editor(s): Deheuvels, Luc; Michalak-Pikulska, Barbara; Starkey, Paul. Series: Durham Modern Language Series. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719081897
- ISBN
- 9780719081897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.67
€ 36.67
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908980151
- ISBN
- 9781908980151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.99
€ 32.99
€ 27.99
Paperback. This book draws on the author's column in The Guardian, 'Elements of Fiction'. Using examples from well-known recent novels, it examines the techniques by which fiction works. It will widen the vocabulary of anyone interested in contemporary fiction, not least by showing where it has elements in common with classic novels of the past. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199281787
- ISBN
- 9780199281787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.59
€ 11.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910974230
- ISBN
- 9781910974230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.26
€ 15.26
Paperback. A collection of five plays (one of them, "The Coat", published for the first time in the UK) drawing on black urban experience, conceived by the author in active collaboration with people from the townships of South Africa. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192829252
- ISBN
- 9780192829252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.11
€ 15.99
€ 13.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 106 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553213485
- ISBN
- 9780553213485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.89
€ 9.89
Paperback. Translator(s): Monges, L.D.; Moore, V. Num Pages: 116 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 134 x 203 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Anthroposophic Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 116
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880101547
- ISBN
- 9780880101547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.08
€ 19.99
€ 18.08
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 350
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763503860
- ISBN
- 9788763503860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.02€ 51.30
€ 66.02
€ 51.30
Paperback. The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910695159
- ISBN
- 9781910695159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.26
€ 14.99
€ 11.26
Paperback. Editor(s): Gardner, Brian. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 222
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413595706
- ISBN
- 9780413595706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.20
€ 14.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. A piano prodigy reeling from the death of his younger sister flees to New York City. Taking uneasy refuge in books, he reinvents himself as a writer. Across the following fifteen years he tries to cope with the ramifications of the tragic accident that tore his family apart and shattered their small American dream. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571244713
- ISBN
- 9780571244713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 4.99
€ 9.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bruhn, Jorgen; Lundquist, Jan. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772896014
- ISBN
- 9788772896014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.72
€ 37.99
€ 27.72
Hardback. The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship between history and fiction plays out in contemporary African and Australasian writing. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450081
- ISBN
- 9781137450081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. This title contains four tragedies. Editor(s): Hunter, George; Spencer, T.; Muir, Kenneth; Hunter, G. K. Num Pages: 960 pages, notes, further reading list. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 960
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140434583
- ISBN
- 9780140434583
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.67
€ 19.99
€ 14.67
Paperback. A bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by writers from England, exploring the various identities of a nation that is at once traditional, nationalistic and multicultural. Editor(s): Sierz, Aleks. Series: Play Anthologies. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472587985
- ISBN
- 9781472587985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.02
€ 37.02
Paperback. This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351305
- ISBN
- 9781349351305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is one of the best known poems in the English language. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784536596
- ISBN
- 9781784536596
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.92€ 53.29
€ 57.92
€ 53.29
Paperback. 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. This title covers this surviving texts that consists of fragmented body of lyric poetry. Translator(s): Poochigian, Aaron. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455571
- ISBN
- 9780140455571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
€ 11.99
€ 10.05
Paperback. New essays on the works and themes of Hesse, one of the most perennially relevant and widely-read German authors. Editor(s): Cornils, Ingo. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 450 pages, 8, 8 black & white illustrations, 8 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- BOYE6
- Number of pages
- 450
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135810
- ISBN
- 9781571135810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.18
€ 36.99
€ 31.18
Paperback. Clean copy In good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- SKU
- KTJ0006069
- ISBN
- 9780140430424
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. In The Literate Eye, Rachel Teukolsky analyzes the vivid archive of Victorian art writing to reveal the key role played by nineteenth-century authors in the rise of modernist aesthetics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 54 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; ABA; DSBF; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199739233
- ISBN
- 9780199739233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.87
€ 33.87
Paperback. A collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. It contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140081954
- ISBN
- 9780140081954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82