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Paperback. Composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, this work is the narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. It is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main - bilingual edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571230419
- ISBN
- 9780571230419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.56
€ 16.99
€ 11.56
Paperback. Using the work of Dante as its critical focus, this study examines questions of truth, ideology and reality in poetry as they occur in a series of texts and in the relationship between those texts across time. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822311171
- ISBN
- 9780822311171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.00
€ 29.99
€ 27.00
Paperback. Taking up such issues as mainstreaming, the male gaze, and female masculinity, this book puts forward provocative readings of little explored texts and offers new insights into the contemporary representation of lesbians. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; D; JFSJ; PNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349374113
- ISBN
- 9781349374113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.62
€ 63.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 80.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Birch Brook Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780913559772
- ISBN
- 9780913559772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.55
€ 21.99
€ 17.55
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KKD0003429
- ISBN
- 9781853715570
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Offers an analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya. This book examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Translator(s): Berman, Daniel W. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114583
- ISBN
- 9780691114583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.95€ 64.49
€ 83.95
€ 64.49
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness. Editor(s): Zinn, Gesa; Stanley, Maureen Tobin. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 10. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339996
- ISBN
- 9780230339996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.83
€ 63.83
Paperback. A survey of the roots and origins of Isaac Bashevis-Singer's works. Biletzky also explores the relationship between Singer and Shalom Aleichem and I.L. Peretz, offering an analysis which synthesizes the Jewish and the Yiddish in Singer's thought and writing. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819198297
- ISBN
- 9780819198297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.55
€ 81.55
Paperback. This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin s The Speech of Miss Polly Baker in 1747 to The Joy Luck Club . Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470655429
- ISBN
- 9780470655429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.58
€ 46.99
€ 45.58
Paperback. Challenges the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history. This book seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. It shows how the poets, and scribes constructed Chaucer as the 'poet laureate' Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691029238
- ISBN
- 9780691029238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.47€ 41.28
€ 52.47
€ 41.28
Paperback. From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349321285
- ISBN
- 9781349321285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
paperback. Editor(s): Alam, M. Y.; Cropper, Anthony; Daley, Ian. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Route United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901927191
- ISBN
- 9781901927191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.11
€ 10.11
Paperback. This is the first edition for students and general readers of a pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Tamer of the Shrew' written in Shakespeare's lifetime . Co-edited by a feminist critic and a distinguished textual scholar, it makes clear why 'The Tamer Tamed' should be restored to the theatrical repertoire and the literary canon. Series Editor(s): Bevington, David. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 131 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719053672
- ISBN
- 9780719053672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.51
€ 20.51
Hardback. An annual narrative bibliography which aims to provide a comprehensive collection of theoretical essays with bibliographies for work published in a given year. Volume 7 covers work published in 1997. Editor(s): McGowan, Kate. Series: Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631219309
- ISBN
- 9780631219309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 255.89
€ 255.89
Paperback. Translator(s): Dillon, G. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 199 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1961
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226150772
- ISBN
- 9780226150772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.81
€ 25.99
€ 20.81
Hardback. Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092670
- ISBN
- 9780802092670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. This collection of 15 essays deals with the representations, theories, and problematics of homosexuality in French writing of the 19th and 20th centuries Editor(s): Fisher, Dominique D.; Schehr, Lawrence R. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729758
- ISBN
- 9780804729758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.67
€ 38.99
€ 35.67
paperback. Translator(s): Hacker, Marilyn (City College of New York). Series: Field Translation Series. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 177.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oberlin College Press United States
- Edition
- Trans. from the French ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780932440891
- ISBN
- 9780932440891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.29
€ 14.29
Hardback. In this biography, Lee Morgan tells the story of Henry Thrale, a successful but flawed and troubled businessman and Member of Parliament who was at the center of the life of the most famous man of letters of the eighteenth century, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Num Pages: 304 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761810308
- ISBN
- 9780761810308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.72
€ 128.72
paperback. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349510856
- ISBN
- 9781349510856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 195.46
€ 195.46
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- The Mercier Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KOG0005529
- ISBN
- 9780853423423
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; KCA; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 271.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349228973
- ISBN
- 9781349228973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.73
€ 121.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 6. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Perpetua Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870882194
- ISBN
- 9781870882194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.76
€ 7.76
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300164985
- ISBN
- 9780300164985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.50
€ 38.99
€ 28.50