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Hardback. At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. This title includes journals that collectively tell the story of Kazin's journey from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighbourhood to his position as a dominant figure in twentieth-century cultural life. Editor(s): Cook, Richard M. Num Pages: 512 pages, 9 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1060.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300142037
- ISBN
- 9780300142037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
€ 45.99
€ 32.93
Paperback. Elie Wiesel is a rare master storyteller with the ability to use storytelling as a form of activism. This work contains an essay that examines Wiesel's roots in Jewish storytelling traditions; influence from religious, folk and secular sources; education; Yiddish back ground; Holocaust experience; and writing style. Editor(s): Horowitz, Rosemary. Num Pages: 236 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- McFarland & Co Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786428694
- ISBN
- 9780786428694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.55
€ 44.55
Paperback. A lyrical document of growing up in a quiet but fast-changing corner of Scotland caught at various stages in the last decades of the twentieth century. As with the acclaimed "Lucky Day", this collection is particularly sensitive to the nuances of family relationships. Num Pages: 114 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857549201
- ISBN
- 9781857549201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.63
€ 19.99
€ 17.63
Paperback. One of the epics in Western literature, "The Iliad" recounts the story of the Trojan wars. In his introduction, the author observes that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace. Translator(s): Fagles, Robert. Num Pages: 704 pages, illustrations geneal. table, maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 153 x 46. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140275360
- ISBN
- 9780140275360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 14.45
€ 21.99
€ 14.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DD; DSB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845196240
- ISBN
- 9781845196240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.46
€ 51.99
€ 46.46
Hardcover. Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030351
- ISBN
- 9781137030351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Paperback. Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement-Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi-Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125314
- ISBN
- 9780231125314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
€ 38.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KRF0023202
- ISBN
- 9780099604303
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Contents: a packet for Ezra Pound; stories of Michael Robartes and his friends: an extract from a record made by his pupils; phases of moon; great wheel; completed symbol; soul in judgment; great year of ancients; dove or swan; all soul's night, an epilogue. With many figures and illustrations. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1962
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1962
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349005116
- ISBN
- 9781349005116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.04
€ 122.04
hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473971
- ISBN
- 9781611473971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.78
€ 130.78
paperback. This up-to-date selection of the most important published work lays out the principles of reception study and its major theoreticians. Editor(s): Machor, James L.; Goldstein, Philip. Num Pages: 367 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415926508
- ISBN
- 9780415926508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.07
€ 63.07
Hardback. Editor(s): MacKay, Marina; Stonebridge, Lyndsey. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403986429
- ISBN
- 9781403986429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15
Hardcover. This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389206
- ISBN
- 9781137389206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardback. This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719066528
- ISBN
- 9780719066528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.03€ 88.64
€ 99.03
€ 88.64
Paperback. This version of the Iliad is ideal for readings and performances. Translator(s): McCrorie, Edward. Series: Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity. Num Pages: 552 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421406428
- ISBN
- 9781421406428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.30
€ 33.99
€ 28.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375711619
- ISBN
- 9780375711619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.22
€ 20.99
€ 18.22
Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pushcart Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781888889758
- ISBN
- 9781888889758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.87
€ 23.99
€ 21.87
Hardcover. Presents an interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JF; DSBD; HPCD; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226136936
- ISBN
- 9780226136936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 40.28
€ 51.99
€ 40.28
Hardback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271064871
- ISBN
- 9780271064871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.17€ 65.77
€ 79.17
€ 65.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403916082
- ISBN
- 9781403916082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
paperback. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2BXK; DSB; HBJF1; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138883871
- ISBN
- 9781138883871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Book. Used Copy. Very Good
- Publication date
- 1961
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Australia
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KDK0014210
- ISBN
- 9780451516855
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. "Reading this excellent, thought-provoking biography, one is all too easily reminded of Camus's 1942 novel, The Stranger."-Philip Kerr, Wall Street Journal Num Pages: 368 pages, 8 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; BGH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871407405
- ISBN
- 9780871407405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.10
€ 17.99
€ 16.10
Hardback. This is a study of Friel's entire oeuvre, relating his work to the problems of subjectivity, representation, history and the body, with a view to offering some placement of Friel in relation to both postmodernism and traditional humanism. Central to the study is Friel's concept of "translation". Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333600757
- ISBN
- 9780333600757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.70
€ 186.70