×


 x 

Shopping cart

Literature

Results 1 - 24 of 28845

Literature

Paperback. The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses this oversight by examining key detective series of the 1930s and 1940s to explore their contributions to the detective genre. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; D. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349367672
ISBN
9781349367672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1000.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9783898215718
ISBN
9783898215718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349512928
ISBN
9781349512928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear, remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Picador
Edition
First Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0029239
ISBN
9780330339445
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 79.00

Paperback. Series: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 91.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887483240
ISBN
9780887483240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance of monetary policy and economic debate to the culture and literature of Britain during the age of Romanticism. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349451005
ISBN
9781349451005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback. Above all, Goodman shows that novels of manners are central to American literature, and that these novels speak in a large cultural way about who and what composes America. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801868245
ISBN
9780801868245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 45.40

Hardcover. This book traces the profound influence that Russian literature, which was tied inseparably to the political victory of the Russian revolution, had on China during a period that saw the collapse of imperial rule and the rise of the Communist Party. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230623491
ISBN
9780230623491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 43.49

Paperback. Intended to serve as a resource for introductory material on 300 writers from 39 countries. All entries are annotated in this book; and each writer is from the late 19th or 20th century, with the notable exception of Olaudah Equiano (an eighteenth-century African whose slave narrative is generally considered the first work of African literature). Series: Author Research Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591581161
ISBN
9781591581161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSP; DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780816691586
ISBN
9780816691586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.48

Paperback. The first book-lengthlook atchildhood in Edwardian fiction, this book challengesassumptions that the Edwardian period was simply a continuation of the Victorian or the start of the Modern. Exploring both classics and popular fiction, the authors provide a a compellingpicture of the Edwardian fictional cult of childhood." Editor(s): Gavin, A.; Humphries, Andrew F. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349307159
ISBN
9781349307159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Series: Classic Irish Novels S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138. Weight in Grams: 384. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Appletree Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New
SKU
KSG0022206
ISBN
9780862814434
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691096810
ISBN
9780691096810
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.63
€ 46.37

Hardcover. Philip Larkin, one of England's greatest and most popular twentieth-century poets, is nonetheless widely regarded as a misanthropic, provincial recluse. This volume re-examines that critical view and argues that Larkin's poetry, far from demonstrating his misanthropy, highlights his profound awareness of and concern for readers. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 226 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230237780
ISBN
9780230237780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CF; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379374
ISBN
9780674379374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.72
€ 62.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349210671
ISBN
9781349210671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 143 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811215268
ISBN
9780811215268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.88

Paperback. The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 459.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349372355
ISBN
9781349372355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319302874
ISBN
9783319302874
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.77

Paperback. Offers us a glimpse into the life and mind of Medieval England. This is a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. Translator(s): Coghill, Nevill. Num Pages: 528 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364. Clean copies in quarter leather over boards. Frontispieces and all prints present. Remain fine in slip case. Slip case has minor wear and discolouring but remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KOG0007325
ISBN
9780140424386
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 40.00

Paperback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724647
ISBN
9780804724647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.74

Hardback. * A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. * Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. * Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Editor(s): Brown, Peter. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 688 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 179 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
688
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631219736
ISBN
9780631219736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 205.70

Paperback. This is the story of Yindi, a beautiful young bride who marries the blind, bedridden son of a rich and noble family. Yindi is pressed beneath the weight of an existence that offers no hope of change and she experiences the slow suffocation of passion, moral strength and physical vitality. Num Pages: 185 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 206 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520210875
ISBN
9780520210875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.07

Hardcover. A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels. 358 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 32. Weight: 678.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609803490
ISBN
9781609803490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 14.77

Page 1 of 1202

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!