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Hardback. American Georgics takes as its primary problem the question of the human place in nature. By extending our understanding of what counts as environmental literature back before Thoreau, Sweet shows that early texts, while not necessarily "green" in contemporary terms, can offer important insights into our relationship to the environment. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; DS; GTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812236378
ISBN
9780812236378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.92

Hardback. Presents seven works from the Armenian stage. This book aims to explore such themes as science and religion, socioeconomic injustice, women's emancipation, and political reform through the medium of various European dramatic genres. It provides an introduction to the history of Armenian drama, giving an overview of its development. Editor(s): Cowe, S. Peter. Num Pages: 480 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 169 x 31. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231116305
ISBN
9780231116305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.69

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413773630
ISBN
9780413773630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.52

The poems of Du Fu (712-77) had a diverse range of subject matter, from personal detail to historical fact, expressed with a richness of language that stretched from the elegant to the colloquial, and from the allusive to the direct. This selection includes both famous and lesser-known works. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231128285
ISBN
9780231128285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 116.42

Hardback. Editor(s): Reeser, Todd W.; Seifert, Lewis C. Num Pages: 289 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490909
ISBN
9781611490909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.11

Paperback. Marking a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a modern consciousness, this play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly. Editor(s): Gladden, Samuel Lyndon. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551116945
ISBN
9781551116945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.85

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801447082
ISBN
9780801447082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Hardback. This book focuses on the meaning and function of George Herbert's poetic form from a psychohistorical perspective, demonstrating what close attention to prosody can contribute to critical discussions about the devices of self-representation, the dynamics of the self-other relation, and the depths of self-transformation in The Temple. Num Pages: 270 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874136791
ISBN
9780874136791
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.50

Hardback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Penguin Book
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
SKU
KSS0000294
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Presents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: "The Dream Vision" poetry, "Troilus and Criseyde", and "The Canterbury Tales". Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217121
ISBN
9780631217121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 52.66

Paperback. This succinct, yet comprehensive account of William Faulkner's literary career, novels, and key short stories offers an imaginative topography of his efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop his own modernist method. Series: Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470672402
ISBN
9780470672402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 35.78

paperback. Having expanded far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye, Snyder has produced a wide-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture and his commitment to the environment. Num Pages: 640 pages, ports. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 886.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Counterpoint United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9781582430799
ISBN
9781582430799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.81

hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1900
Publisher
George Braziller
Edition
First American Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0026788
ISBN
9780807610459
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 24.00

Hardback. Walker reads conjugality as the compulsory ground of modern identity, an Enlightenment legacy we still grapple with today, and offers new perspectives on Austen, Wordsworth and other Romantics of the Regency period through theories of marriage in Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and, in our time, Adam Phillips and Stanley Cavell. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804760928
ISBN
9780804760928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.19

Paperback. Series: Classica et Mediaevalia - Revue Danoise de Philologie et D'Histoire. Num Pages: 299 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772896052
ISBN
9788772896052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.55
€ 50.38

Paperback. Republication of the pioneering classic study of modern Chinese fiction. Num Pages: 776 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 43. Weight in Grams: 832.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
776
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253213112
ISBN
9780253213112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.99

Hardback. Examines many and varied ways that the story of Joseph has been interpreted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300151565
ISBN
9780300151565
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 34.33

Hardback. An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature. Num Pages: 356 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844365
ISBN
9781843844365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.48

Hardcover. Series: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 335 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
335
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379343
ISBN
9780674379343
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.08
€ 55.99

Paperback. A collection of articles, stories, poems and drawings that poke fun at the institution of higher education. Included are writings by Woody Allen, Steve Martin, Ogden Nash, Andy Rooney, and John Bart, with artwork from Henry Martin, Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau. Editor(s): Ebersole, Mark C. Num Pages: 322 pages, drawings. BIC Classification: DNF; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823213849
ISBN
9780823213849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.70

Paperback. Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes between them that it will test to the limits Joe's scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife and drive him to the brink of murder and madness. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099276586
ISBN
9780099276586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Hardcover. Includes a classified, annotated, interdisciplinary bibliography in English of articles, books, chapters, theses, and dissertations concerning all aspects of Chinese drama from its shamanistic origins to 1985, as well as references both to Chinese plays in English translation and to commentary. Num Pages: 535 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSG; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 758.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
535
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810823471
ISBN
9780810823471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 190.96

Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0003098
ISBN
9780905169293
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The writings of the Marquis de Sade have attained notoriety in the canon of world literature. Sade himself is often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual rights and a giant of philosophical thought. In this detailed work, Laurence Bongie tests these claims. Num Pages: 348 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DNF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226064215
ISBN
9780226064215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.01

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