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Paperback. Chosen from among the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Magazine Awards, this collection features a mixture of reviews, profiles, and reporting that caught both readers' and critics' attention. Editor(s): The American Society of Magazine Editors. Num Pages: 472 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 0 tables. BIC Classification: DNJ; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 672.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231147965
- ISBN
- 9780231147965
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.78
€ 17.99
€ 14.78
The Making of the State Reader. Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the R...
Dobrenko, Evgenii; Savage, Jesse M.
hardcover. This book is a history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet literature, for in Soviet culture the reader was never a "consumer of books" in the Western sense. According to the doctrine of Socialist Realism, the reader was a subject of education, to be reforged and molded. Translator(s): Savage, Jesse M. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 720.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728546
- ISBN
- 9780804728546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.85
€ 94.85
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403917270
- ISBN
- 9781403917270
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€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Hardcover. 403pp. Original boards, with title gilted on spine, showing light age and wear, remains a fine copy. Keywords: Irish literature, biography
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- L.H. Walker Galway
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0024076
- ISBN
- 9780950364100
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Paperback.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439909775
- ISBN
- 9781439909775
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€ 35.99€ 32.76
€ 35.99
€ 32.76
Hardcover. In this study of Yeats' poetry between 1902 and 1916, Greaves reacts to the tendency in literary criticism to categorize Yeats' work as "modernist". Instead, he offers a different way of looking at the transition in Yeats' work in this period, by examining the poems in the context of Yeats' life. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333749333
- ISBN
- 9780333749333
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Condition: New
€ 104.82
€ 104.82
Paperback. The modern era in the theatre is remarkable for the extraordinary role and influence of theoretical practitioners, whose writings have shaped our sense of the possibilities and objectives of performance. This study offers a critical exploration of the theoretical writings of modern practitioners. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANC; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333775424
- ISBN
- 9780333775424
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 38.72
€ 38.99
€ 38.72
Paperback. From Ulysses' Argo to Freud's Lun, these stories explore the mysterious and often intense relationship between human beings and dogs. Illustrating a broad knowledge of literary dog lovers, and elaborating on their insights, Grenier's volume abounds with humour and history. Translator(s): Kaplan, Alice. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226308289
- ISBN
- 9780226308289
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.59
€ 14.99
€ 13.59
Paperback. A valuable collection from an extraordinary writer, "The Convent of Pleasureand Other Plays raises important issues about women and gender. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801861000
- ISBN
- 9780801861000
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.73
€ 31.99
€ 26.73
Hardcover. Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Fiction - World - French,Subjects - Fiction - World - French"
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Pr
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHS0061252
- ISBN
- 9780906127223
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 152.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oberlin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780932440495
- ISBN
- 9780932440495
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 10.94
€ 15.99
€ 10.94
Paperback. This book studies how editors and readers of the sixteenth through the early nineteenth century successively remade Piers Plowman and its author according to their own ideologies of the Middle Ages. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBB; JFC; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 311.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349528769
- ISBN
- 9781349528769
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Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Paperback. The "Actors on Shakespeare" series draws on the contemporary relevance of, and enjoyment to be found in, Shakespeare. Each book provides an introduction to a particular play from an individual actor's perspective; here Simon Callow offers his view of Falstaff in "Henry IV, Part I" Editor(s): Nicholson, Colin. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; ANC; APB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 177 x 112 x 9. Weight in Grams: 72. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0006111
- ISBN
- 9780571214068
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. This title records the the details of the relationships W.B. Yeats had with important figures in the cultural and public life of his time and traces his prolific literary output, providing a vivid witness to an extraordinarily important, rich and crowded life. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 641.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333460061
- ISBN
- 9780333460061
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Condition: New
€ 124.12
€ 124.12
hardcover. A comprehensive and stimulating history of eleven centuries of Spanish literature, now in paperback. Editor(s): Gies, David Thatcher. Num Pages: 898 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 164 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 898
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521806183
- ISBN
- 9780521806183
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Condition: New
€ 190.28
€ 190.28
Paperback. A facsimile of Giambattista Bodoni's first type specimen, "Fregi e Majuscole" of 1771, two copies of which were given to the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Houghton Library by William Bentinck-Smith, Class of 1937. Num Pages: 76 pages. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 185. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library United States
- Number of pages
- 76
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780976492511
- ISBN
- 9780976492511
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Condition: New
€ 9.03
€ 9.03
Paperback. This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial and postcolonial cities they were born in: James Joyce and Dublin, and Salman Rushdie and Bombay. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463404
- ISBN
- 9781349463404
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Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Paperback. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725590
- ISBN
- 9780804725590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.25€ 55.11
€ 55.25
€ 55.11
Paperback. Includes William Langewiesche's probing investigation in Vanity Fair of the slaughter of 24 Iraqis in Haditha; C J Chivers' account in Esquire of the 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan, which killed 331 people; and Susan Casey's revelation in Best Life of a virtually unknown, Texas-sized garbage dump resting at the bottom of the Pacific ocean. Editor(s): The American Society of Magazine Editors. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231143912
- ISBN
- 9780231143912
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.17
€ 17.99
€ 17.17
Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Fawcett Crest
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000627
- ISBN
- 9780449242599
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Bringing two voices into the discussion - Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon - to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by US liberal ideology, the author revises important ideas in the debate over individualism and the political theory of liberalism. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326694
- ISBN
- 9780822326694
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.52
€ 31.99
€ 28.52
Paperback. Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples fromSir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James andRudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma." Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326150
- ISBN
- 9781349326150
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Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Paperback. A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poems discover the possibility of a new beginning in many subjects and circumstances. Private memories, classical scenes and humble domestic objects are endowed with talismanic significance and friends and relatives are invoked for their promise and steadfastness. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 194 x 149 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114 70pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571178223
- ISBN
- 9780571178223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? This title examines the role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146621
- ISBN
- 9780691146621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 28.18
€ 37.99
€ 28.18