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Paperback. This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349456703
ISBN
9781349456703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Gina and Laurence have been best friends. Now, Gina is married to Fergus and Laurence to Hilary. Then, with elegant disdain, Fergus announces that he is leaving Gina and their daughter. Gina turns for emotional support to Laurence. And as Laurence gives comfort, so his own marriage and the stability of his children edges towards destruction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228. 316pp. Signed by previous owner
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KLN0008518
ISBN
9780552996433
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. This study of eighteenth-century French playwriting and playwrights reviews individual authorial strategies for "self-fashioning" and the playwrights' intellectual, social, and institutional contexts, using research in original sources and analysis of the contentious historiography and competing analytic contructs in cultural theory and criticism. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 41. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
387
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231124607
ISBN
9780231124607
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.67
€ 59.66

Hardback. A play, that can be read as an homage to German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. It features Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, who are mounted on their beasts of burden, Rocinante and the Mule, and Ali has them ride into the twenty-first century, where they are confronted by old, familiar vices: war, greed, disappointed love, and economic crisis. Num Pages: 200 pages, 30 colour plates. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422095
ISBN
9780857422095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 23.51

Paperback. More than two hundred columns, articles, essays, speeches, and letters, tracing ER's development from timorous columnist to one of liberalism's most eloquent and outspoken leaders. From My Day columns on Marian Anderson, excerpts from Moral Basis of Democracy and This Troubled World, to speeches and articles on the Holocaust and McCarthyism. Editor(s): Black, Allida M. Num Pages: 360 pages, 30 photos. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231111812
ISBN
9780231111812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 27.48

Paperback. A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. * An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel. Editor(s): Backscheider, Paula R.; Ingrassia, Catherine. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 570 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1006.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
570
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405192453
ISBN
9781405192453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.07

Paperback. "Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience"-- Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349319497
ISBN
9781349319497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. As the end of the 20th century approaches, many predict that it will mirror the 19th-century decline into decadence. The author of this text finds a closer analogy with the culture wars of France in the 1690s - a battle of the books known as the "Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns". Num Pages: 236 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; HBA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226141381
ISBN
9780226141381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 39.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
CavanKerry Press United States
Number of pages
90
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933880310
ISBN
9781933880310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.99

Hardcover. The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230276659
ISBN
9780230276659
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.45
€ 40.13

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688874
ISBN
9780856688874
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.52

Paperback. Matt Groening returns to his music journalism roots in the fourth volume of Da Capo's highly acclaimed series Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVG; DNF; GBCY. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Edition
2003 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306812361
ISBN
9780306812361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.28

Paperback. The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a world still besieged by genocide and atrocity. Editor(s): Roth, J.; Simon, Jules. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSA; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349378630
ISBN
9781349378630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . As new
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0220723
ISBN
9780863222153
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 6.23

Hardback. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 215 pages, 11 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 268 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319410029
ISBN
9783319410029
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.94
€ 98.23

Paperback. Editor(s): Wilcox, Leonard. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349225118
ISBN
9781349225118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 157.17

Paperback. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, and a consumate musician. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 400. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Paperback Edition
SKU
KKD0011027
ISBN
9780749397548
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

hardcover. An account of three thousand years of Chinese literature accessible to non-specialist readers as well as scholars and students. Editor(s): Chang, Kang-i Sun; Owen, Stephen. Num Pages: 1704 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 86. Weight in Grams: 2756.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
1704
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521116770
ISBN
9780521116770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 279.11

Hardback. Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887484001
ISBN
9780887484001
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 23.97

paperback. Letters by Jane Austen, from 1796 to 1817, published for the first time in 1884, with biographical commentary. Editor(s): Lord Brabourne, Baron Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies. Num Pages: 774 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 70. Weight in Grams: 1290.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge Library Collection United Kingdom
Number of pages
774
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Edition
Reissue
SKU
V9781108003384
ISBN
9781108003384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.78

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631490927
ISBN
9781631490927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99

Hardback. Bruns, University of Notre Dame; Leslie Hill, University of Warwick; Michael Holland, St Hugh's College, Oxford; Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, University of Strasbourg; Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp; Jill Robbins, Emory University, and the editors. Editor(s): Hart, Kevin; Hartman, Geoffrey H. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801879623
ISBN
9780801879623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.56
€ 49.82

Hardcover. This study re-examines Morgan le Fay in early medieval and contemporary Arthurian sources, arguing that she embodies the concerns of each era even as she defies social and gender expectations. Hebert uses leFay as a lens to explore traditional ideas of femininity, monstrousness, resistance, identity, and social expectations for women and men alike. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137022646
ISBN
9781137022646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.18
€ 47.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
95
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571314383
ISBN
9781571314383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.99

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