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Paperback. Covers traditional metres, sound patterns and forms, but strongly emphasizes the more difficult questions of the rhythm, sound and shape of contemporary poetry. It discusses poetry's content and scope, and poetry in society - both in Britain and, by way of contrast, revolutionary Nicaragua. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KLCN; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333542071
ISBN
9780333542071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 42.74

paperback. The fourth volume in a series of translations of a Chinese classical novel known as "The Water Margin". This volume contains chapters 63-90 of the original and can be divided into four main sections. It ends with an encounter foreshadowing the campaign against Tian Hu in the next volume. Translator(s): Dent-Young, John; Dent-Young, Alex. Series: Marshes of Mount Liang. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Chinese University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9789622019898
ISBN
9789622019898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.23

Hardback. For information on similar titles, please visit www.rlpgbooks.com. Num Pages: 671 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1121.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
671
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480955
ISBN
9781611480955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 197.13

Paperback. Paperback in good to very condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books
Edition
Reissue
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF0020458
ISBN
9780452282155
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648514
ISBN
9780691648514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.57

Paperback. Gregoire Le Roy was at school with Maeterlinck and Van Leberghe, and grew up in the same atmosphere of intellectual ferment. His first published collection pre-dates Maeterlinck's Serres chaudes. This is the first edition since their original publication of the three collections of poems by a significant member of the Belgian Symbolist school. Editor(s): Bales, Richard. Series: Exeter Textes Litteraires. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859897297
ISBN
9780859897297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.83

Paperback. A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780393353426
ISBN
9780393353426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.96

Paperback. This collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 --1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period. Editor(s): Pearsall, Derek. Series: Blackwell Critical Readers. Num Pages: 720 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; 3JB; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631199373
ISBN
9780631199373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.54

Hardcover. A sequel to the author's collection of stories "Two Jews on a Train". Through twenty-nine tales, it spins stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of daily life, while painting a portrait of a world of unassimilated Jewish life. Translator(s): Tihanyi, Catherine. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226052175
ISBN
9780226052175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.48

Paperback. The Berlin wall has been pulled down. A man arrives at his grandmother's flat with questions about the past. Meanwhile, a generation later, in Bethlehem, the Israeli security barrier is going up. Played out by a company of actors, this play brings the past and present together in an exploration of destiny and the potency of memory itself. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854599742
ISBN
9781854599742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.94

Paperback. Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang revitalizes the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AVGM; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9781559362221
ISBN
9781559362221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.60

Paperback. A generous volume of new and selected poems by Christopher Howell encompassing three decades of his distinguished work Series: Pacific Northwest Poetry Series. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295992877
ISBN
9780295992877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.13

Hardback. This volume offers a new kind of reading and thinking experience as it tells the life and travel stories of fascinating women and examines women's physical mobility in a culture of gendered, postcolonial space that restricts their movement. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 400 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 665.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732925
ISBN
9780804732925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, 3 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JMQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837618419
ISBN
9783837618419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.31

Paperback. This study examines the social, political and theological issues that were brought to the late medieval stage. Examining plays, urban pageant cycles and travelling 'miracles' and morality plays, dating to the 14th and 15th centuries, Ruth Nisse explores how these translated contemporary issues and especially vernacular theology through performance. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268036027
ISBN
9780268036027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.87

hardcover. By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the physician had supplanted the clergyman as the nation's most esteemed professional, as the body had seemingly replaced the soul as a person's most prized possession. Stephanie Browner looks at this era of change. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812238259
ISBN
9780812238259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.26

Paperback. This bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Almereyda's Hamlet to the BBC 'Shakespea(Re)-Told' season, from Radford's The Merchant of Venice to Babakitis' Henry V. Editor(s): Burnett, Mark Thornton; Wray, Ramona. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; APT; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 302 x 2. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748623518
ISBN
9780748623518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.05

Paperback. "Agenda" was established in 1959 by William Cookson in response to a suggestion by Ezra Pound. This anthology is divided into antecedents, modern poetry, criticism, memoirs and polemics. Editor(s): Cookson, William. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DCQ; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 134. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Carcanet P. United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857543025
ISBN
9781857543025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.65

Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear, wear to front cover. ffep torn out but remains good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
The Mercier Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0001080
ISBN
9780853424666
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) has been acknowledged by writers as diverse as Harold Bloom, Adrienne Rich and R.S. Thomas as one of the central poets of the 20th century. Justin Quinn offers a fundamental reassessment of Stevens's work and the connections it makes between nature, community and art. Num Pages: 208 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004410
ISBN
9781900621663
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Usually considered to be John Marston's masterpiece, "The Malcontent" is one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre - complex in genre, structure and language. This edition has notes designed for modern undergraduate use. Editor(s): Hunter, George K. Series Editor(s): Bevington, David. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 131 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719053641
ISBN
9780719053641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.83

Paperback. Translator(s): Larkin, Edward T. Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 7. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411388
ISBN
9781572411388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.75

Paperback. An affectionate and unabashed celebration of Englishness from one of the nation's most popular poets Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Murray Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848540927
ISBN
9781848540927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Here at last is a single volume that reveals the bright thread of gay literature throughout the Western tradition. With hundreds of works by authors ranging from Ovid to James Baldwin, from Plato to Oscar Wilde, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature presents a wide range of poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography that depict love, friendship, intimacy, desire, and sex between men. Editor(s): Fone, Byrne R.S. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; DQ; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231096713
ISBN
9780231096713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.78
€ 40.44

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