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Paperback. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141041742
- ISBN
- 9780141041742
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Previously unpublished plays and writings by one of today's foremost satirical authors. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 312 pages, 30 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584350903
- ISBN
- 9781584350903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.21
€ 18.99
€ 18.21
paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ziggurat Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900439046
- ISBN
- 9781900439046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.91
€ 13.99
€ 12.91
paperback. Fresh, accessible and engaged, this is the most comprehensive introduction available to Stowe's work. Editor(s): Weinstein, Cindy. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DS; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- First Edition - Softcover
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521533096
- ISBN
- 9780521533096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.09
€ 42.99
€ 38.09
Paperback. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) is here offered facing the brilliant Tudor English translation of David Rowland of Anglesey (1586). Ostensibly a racy autobiography of a young rogue and his succession of masters, in reality it is a comical and caustic expose of sixteenth century Spanish society, and especially the Church. Translator(s): Rowland, David. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, text, translation, notes, commentary. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 10. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- SKU
- V9780856687280
- ISBN
- 9780856687280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Griffith Institute United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900416873
- ISBN
- 9780900416873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.84
€ 130.84
Paperback. Famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. Num Pages: 128 pages, facsim. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 104. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0003801
- ISBN
- 9780571244591
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women. Num Pages: 326 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894015
- ISBN
- 9780801894015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.69
€ 37.99
€ 31.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 455 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MBN; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Victoria University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780864734631
- ISBN
- 9780864734631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.07
€ 37.07
Hardcover. His Greatest Plays Seen in the Light of Sacred Art. 200 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 244 x 167 x 25. Weight: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Quinta Essentia
- Edition
- 3rd
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870196154
- ISBN
- 9781870196154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.70
€ 25.99
€ 22.70
Paperback. Good clean copy. Previous owner's name to half title page. Newspaper reviews pasted inside front cover. Showing some age and shelf wear, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd., London London
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSG0028638
- ISBN
- 9780099180708
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them. It portrays those qualities that cohere about women in the poem. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; HRGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031982
- ISBN
- 9780674031982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.77
€ 27.99
€ 23.77
Paperback. Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of an array of twentieth-century writers ranging from realists to wildly inventive postwar writers. This book puts forward an argument that fiction yields rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130330
- ISBN
- 9780691130330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.12
€ 38.99
€ 28.12
paperback. Gathers Whitman's autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study. Editor(s): Grier, Edward F. Series: The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 20. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794371
- ISBN
- 9780814794371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.78
€ 38.99
€ 34.78
Hardback. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: AVQ; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 200 x 21. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393020496
- ISBN
- 9780393020496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.20
€ 32.99
€ 27.20
Paperback. Ibsen's political comedy in a crisp and satirical version by Andy Barrett. Translator(s): Barrett, Andy. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848421882
- ISBN
- 9781848421882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.95
€ 12.95
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1ST
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393072419
- ISBN
- 9780393072419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.35
€ 29.99
€ 26.35
Hardback. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854113627
- ISBN
- 9781854113627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.86
€ 42.99
€ 35.86
Paperback. In 1970s Ireland the British establishment conducted its struggle with the IRA in the "dirty war". This novel, set around the real-life figure of Captain Nairac, recreates the intrigue, loyalism and violence of a time when friend could turn foe overnight and nothing was ever quite as it seemed. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 195. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0017360
- ISBN
- 9780571221752
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Offers readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803238466
- ISBN
- 9780803238466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.01
€ 19.99
€ 19.01
Paperback. Plays with caricatures in reverse by making "gringos" and "WASPs", rather than Latin Americans, the objects of ridicule. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DD; JFFN; JFSC; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Talon Books,Canada Canada
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889227057
- ISBN
- 9780889227057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.14
€ 17.99
€ 16.14
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001615
- ISBN
- 9780007120031
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The difficulties that students face when tackling Joyce's works are addressed by focusing on plot, implying that the "real" books are hidden behind the author's complex language and style. This book demystifies Joyce's style, demonstrating that everything students need to know in order to read his works may be discovered in the books themselves. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631227021
- ISBN
- 9780631227021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 40.57
€ 41.99
€ 40.57
paperback. A collection of eighteen articles by Henry James on the social and political issues of his day. This title deals with British imperial politics and crises in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and South Africa. It focuses on questions of gender and manners and complements the work resulting from James' 1904-5 tour of the United States. Editor(s): Walker, Pierre A. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803276192
- ISBN
- 9780803276192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.15
€ 21.99
€ 21.15