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Paperback. The must-read novel of the summer.' Guardian Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THE SLAP is the most talked-about novel of 2010, and looks set to be the most read book of 2011. 'Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium.' John Boyne Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 38. Weight in Grams: 356. The must-read novel of the summer.' Guardian Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THE SLAP is the most talked-about novel of 2010, and looks set to be the most read book of 2011. 'Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium.' John Boyne Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 38. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KIN0035896
- ISBN
- 9781848873568
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170. 88 pages. Fire the Bastards! is a scorching attack on the book-review media using the critical reception of William Gaddis's 1955 novel The Recognitions as a case study. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 227 x 139 x 9. Weight: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Edition
- 2 Reprint
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564786098
- ISBN
- 9781564786098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.41
€ 14.99
€ 13.41
paperback. Num Pages: 125 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Barzan Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 125
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780954970161
- ISBN
- 9780954970161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.91
€ 13.99
€ 12.91
Paperback. This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master. Editor(s): Dalsgaard, Inger H.; Herman, Luc; McHale, Brian. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 10. Weight in Grams: 340. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 212 pages. Editor(s): Dalsgaard, Inger H.; Herman, Luc; McHale, Brian. This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 10. Weight: 348.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780521173049
- ISBN
- 9780521173049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.11
€ 31.99
€ 31.11
Paperback. The theme of Euripides' Alcestis blends the primitive folk-tale of the self-sacrificing bride, Alcestis, and of Heracles' heroic struggles with the ogre Death, with a morality tale of "virtue rewarded", in this case twice rewarded. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856682353
- ISBN
- 9780856682353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
This collection of essays redefines what gothic has become in the contemporary world, examining the idea of an emerging gothic that is inextricable from the broader global context in which it circulates. Globalgothic expands the horizons of the genre in diverse new and exciting ways. Editor(s): Byron, Glennis. Series Editor(s): Bronfen, Elisabeth; Bruhm, Steven; Gelder, Ken; Hogle, Jerrold E.; Horner, Avril; Hughes, William. Series: International Gothic. Num Pages: 240 pages, Halftones, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; ABA; APF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087950
- ISBN
- 9780719087950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 172.23
€ 172.23
Paperback. 23pp. Disbound. Lacks half-title page. Slight dust soiling. With illustrated engraving by C. Grignion after painting by S. Wale on title page. Keywords: Poetry - Early published material
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1770
- Publisher
- Printed for T Carnan and F New
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHS0071155
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 196.00
€ 196.00
Paperback. The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 176 x 34. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 15th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801869594
- ISBN
- 9780801869594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.11
€ 40.99
€ 34.11
Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813218854
- ISBN
- 9780813218854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.68
€ 86.68
Paperback. 'Polyphony' is concerned with voices: the local, the foreign, the native, the acquired - and the strange hybrids that come into being when the language of home is crossed with that of abroad. Editor(s): Constantine, David J.; Constantine, Helen. Series: Modern Poetry in Translation, Third Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Modern Poetry in Translation United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955906459
- ISBN
- 9780955906459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.91
€ 13.99
€ 12.91
Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0012915
- ISBN
- 9781901866780
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H. T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749386429
- ISBN
- 9780749386429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.34
€ 16.99
€ 11.34
Paperback. Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114705
- ISBN
- 9780691114705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.37€ 43.19
€ 54.37
€ 43.19
Paperback. Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez argues that the writing of the Peurto Rican diaspora should be considered an integral field of study. The story of an American community of colour, "Boricua Literature" is also about contemporary critical race and gender studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780814731475
- ISBN
- 9780814731475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Featuring National Magazine Awards' winning and finalist pieces, this anthology includes stories that cover a variety of subjects from Elizabeth Kolbert's investigation into global warming in the "New Yorker" and James Bamford's look at the PR campaign behind the Iraq War in "Rolling Stone" to Chris Heath's profile of Merle Haggard in "GQ". Editor(s): The American Society of Magazine Editors. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139939
- ISBN
- 9780231139939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.84
€ 19.99
€ 19.84
Paperback. Series: Master Guides. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 216 x 6. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333413777
- ISBN
- 9780333413777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.49
€ 25.49
Paperback. A collection of ninety-one short-shorts, which range from the mundane to the sublime and illuminate various things from humanist ideals to traditional virtues to the material benefits of a commercialized society. Editor(s): Mu, Aili; Chiu, Julie; Goldblatt, Howard. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 272 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138499
- ISBN
- 9780231138499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.16
€ 38.16
Hardback. Editor(s): Davis, Lloyd. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492149
- ISBN
- 9781611492149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.84
€ 143.84
Hardcover. Very good copy in good dustwrappers. DW has light shelf wear. In Mylar, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1946
- Publisher
- Constable
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0016198
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484223
- ISBN
- 9780801484223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.12
€ 43.99
€ 39.12
The Symbolic Design of Windsor-Forest. Iconography, Pageant, and Proph...
Rogers, Pat; Rosenberg, Marvin
Hardback. A study of one of the earliest major poems by Alexander Pope, this text reveals how he used the artistic conventions of the Stuart court - masque, architecture and heraldry - to create the last great Renaissance poem in English. The text shows the centrality of ?Windsor-Forest? in Pope's career and the centrality of Pope in the debates of his time. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874138375
- ISBN
- 9780874138375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.64
€ 133.64
Paperback. This analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Translator(s): Tarnowski, Andrea. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 177.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734271
- ISBN
- 9780804734271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.22
€ 27.99
€ 26.22
Hardback. "Order and Disorder", the first epic poem by an Englishwoman, has never before been available in its entirety. David Norbrook has attributed the work to the republican, Lucy Hutchinson. In this volume, he provides a wealth of editorial matter, along with the full version of "Order and Disorder". Editor(s): Norbrook, David. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220602
- ISBN
- 9780631220602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.18
€ 140.18
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Iron Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956572554
- ISBN
- 9780956572554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.71
€ 10.99
€ 9.71