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Paperback. The stories of Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) are wonderful evocations of ordinary Italian life, focusing in particular on his native, Sicily. In an original and dynamic prose style, he portrays such eternal human themes as love, honour and adultery with rich and colourful language. Translator(s): McWilliam, G.H. Num Pages: 272 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2ADT; 2AHA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447415
- ISBN
- 9780140447415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.80
€ 16.99
€ 13.80
Hardback. Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, this book argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138145
- ISBN
- 9780691138145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.91€ 54.68
€ 69.91
€ 54.68
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349674084
- ISBN
- 9781349674084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691602691
- ISBN
- 9780691602691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 28.04
€ 37.99
€ 28.04
Paperback. Instead of an isolated genius living in retreat from the world, George Herbert appears in this book as a man writing public verse, active within an important social circle and committed to nationalistic Protestantism. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 175 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: BG; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 109 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333669792
- ISBN
- 9780333669792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.84€ 29.27
€ 50.84
€ 29.27
Hardcover. How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230290952
- ISBN
- 9780230290952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- SKU
- KCW0017878
- ISBN
- 9780140621921
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. This text is a theoretically informed and empirically grounded study of the social process through which the credibility of expert advice is produced, challenged, and sustained. The author analyzes science advice as a form of performance, examining how advisory bodies work. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJP; DSG; JH; JP; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736459
- ISBN
- 9780804736459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.60
€ 122.60
Paperback. "A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text" -Jeremy Adler, Times Literary Supplement Translator(s): Corngold, Stanley. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393343571
- ISBN
- 9780393343571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.95
€ 14.99
€ 13.95
Paperback. Gathers together some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian era. This work includes works by Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, A E Housman, and William Butler Yeats. Editor(s): Cunningham, Valentine; Wu, Duncan. Series: Blackwell Essential Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 120 x 15. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631230762
- ISBN
- 9780631230762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.16
€ 38.16
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Arc Publications
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906570880
- ISBN
- 9781906570880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.16
€ 14.99
€ 12.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349505425
- ISBN
- 9781349505425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition reprints the original 1850 text of Dickens' most autobiographical novel, and his own personal favorite, including all of the line drawings by Phiz. Editor(s): Buckley, Jerome Hamilton. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 864 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- Norton Critical
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393958287
- ISBN
- 9780393958287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.91
€ 16.99
€ 15.91
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226404172
- ISBN
- 9780226404172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.48
€ 23.99
€ 19.48
Hardcover. 'Michel Faber addressed these love poems to his wife after her death. They are lucid, tender and wise, and they pulse with this fine writer's intelligence' - Ian McEwan Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 286 x 20. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782118541
- ISBN
- 9781782118541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.99
€ 23.99
€ 16.99
Hardcover. * Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis * Develops a timely and provocative arguement about literature and trauma * Relates U.S. writing since 9/11 to crucial social and historical changes in the U.S. and elsewhere * Places U.S. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470657928
- ISBN
- 9780470657928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.49
€ 39.49
Paperback. This study concerns itself with a now-forgotten religious group, Spiritualists, and how their ensuing discussions of Shakespeare's meaning, his writing practices, his possible collaborations, and the supposed purity and/or corruption of his texts anticipated, accompanied, or silhouetted similar debates in Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 269 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349448531
- ISBN
- 9781349448531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.60
€ 67.60
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- James Currey United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010131
- ISBN
- 9781847010131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81
€ 93.81
Paperback. This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349299232
- ISBN
- 9781349299232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, 18 black & white halftones, 22 black & white line drawing. BIC Classification: CF; DS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138809765
- ISBN
- 9781138809765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear. Ex library, mylar dustjacket.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Town House
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRF0015351
- ISBN
- 9781860591723
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Translator(s): Egan, Charles. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DCQ; DSC; HREZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231150392
- ISBN
- 9780231150392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 28.10
€ 37.99
€ 28.10
paperback. Editor(s): Shapiro, Norman R. Translator(s): Shapiro, Norman R. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 208 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226750521
- ISBN
- 9780226750521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.00
€ 31.99
€ 25.00
Paperback. This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s. In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious theatre directors to the mainstream Musical Theatre and it is the first book to offer a dual Anglo-American perspective on this subject." Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; AV; D; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349370689
- ISBN
- 9781349370689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84