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Paperback. Includes a poem that tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year. Editor(s): Foley, Helene P. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 halftones 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691014791
- ISBN
- 9780691014791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 38.56
€ 53.99
€ 38.56
Paperback. Editor(s): Weinberger, Eliot. Series: New Directions Bibelot. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 122 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811213493
- ISBN
- 9780811213493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. A matchless close reading of Remembrance of Things Past and a lesson in how to read the great books profitably and pleasurably. Bowie asserts that Proust's novel is one of the great exercises in speculative imagining in the world's literature and that its originality lies first in the quality of Proust's textual invention -- line after line, page after page. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231114912
- ISBN
- 9780231114912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.25
€ 43.25
Spivak demonstrates how critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers new interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. The book offers close readings of texts not only in English, French, and German, but also in Arabic and Bengali. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231129442
- ISBN
- 9780231129442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 104.63
€ 104.63
Hardback. Editor(s): Hodgkins, Christopher. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490886
- ISBN
- 9781611490886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.85
€ 147.85
Hardcover. After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born c. 484 BCE) gives us in his famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find. Translator(s): Godley, A.D. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 418 pages, 3M. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 121 x 169 x 32. Weight in Grams: 420. LOEB
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1922
- Publisher
- Loeb
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780674991330
- ISBN
- 9780674991330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.16
€ 29.99
€ 20.16
Hardback. Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the "working girl" heroines of western Canada's poetry, prose, and fiction. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814553
- ISBN
- 9780774814553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.78
€ 116.78
Paperback. Filled with provocative new assessments and new facts, this biography presents the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , and one of the great figures of modern literature. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815411123
- ISBN
- 9780815411123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.75
€ 20.75
Paperback. "Rich's poetry itself is a mirror, reflecting the truths about humanity this discerning poet has come to understand."-Booklist Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 89
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393342789
- ISBN
- 9780393342789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.43
€ 16.99
€ 15.43
Hardback. Offers a postmodern interpretation of the great mystics and their writing. This title argues that extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested on a mistake - the belief that their can be meaningful experience prior to language. Series: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA; HRLK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631207634
- ISBN
- 9780631207634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.69
€ 139.69
paperback. September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. The letters, however, are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He holds a secret deep within him. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 300. Paperback, cover has a small tear otherwise in good condition.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- BLACK SWAN
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRF2233623
- ISBN
- 9780552775403
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 12.99€ 9.55
€ 12.99
€ 9.55
Hardback. The newest entry in the feline literary canon is here.. so pee on this, cat poet wannabes Num Pages: 96 pages, 50 color photographs. BIC Classification: DCF; WH; WNGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781581574289
- ISBN
- 9781581574289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.62
€ 16.99
€ 15.62
Paperback. The poems gathered here "established T.S. Eliot decisively as the voice of a disillusioned generation". Num Pages: 96 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571097128
- ISBN
- 9780571097128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 10.23
€ 19.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. Editor(s): Bodley, Dr Lorraine Byrne. Num Pages: printed music items. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 289 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Carysfort Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0002999
- ISBN
- 9781904505310
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759113
- ISBN
- 9780804759113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Paperback. She was looking for domestic perfection and she found it .. perfect chaos Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 20 x 129 x 197. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAK0011052
- ISBN
- 9780340950838
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989464
- ISBN
- 9780295989464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.76
€ 36.99
€ 32.76
Hardcover. This collection of essays focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of authorship in Greece and Rome. The volume looks at what generic rules were observed by the classical writers, how genres were classified and the role of authors in developing generic context. Editor(s): Depew, Mary; Obbink, Dirk. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674003385
- ISBN
- 9780674003385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.92€ 81.44
€ 91.92
€ 81.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Hansen, Hans Lauge. Num Pages: 246 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CJA; CJBG; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772899404
- ISBN
- 9788772899404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.97
€ 46.99
€ 32.97
paperback. This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Editor(s): Fulton, Helen. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 586 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780470672372
- ISBN
- 9780470672372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.99€ 35.78
€ 69.99
€ 35.78
Hardcover. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Editor(s): Browne, Ray B. Series: Masterworks of Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780808400189
- ISBN
- 9780808400189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.17
€ 58.17
Paperback. 342pp. Index. Illustrated
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Robinson
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KHS1015074
- ISBN
- 9780094658202
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 18.00
€ 18.00
Hardback. First full-length treatment of the Trojan legend in medieval Scottish literature, showing the various uses for, and the ways in, which it was deployed. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843641
- ISBN
- 9781843843641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.15
€ 88.15
hardcover. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739145531
- ISBN
- 9780739145531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.10
€ 141.10