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Paperback. Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then ruthlessly hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571239498
- ISBN
- 9780571239498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.14
€ 12.99
€ 10.14
Paperback. Celebrates Shakespeare's influence on American culture. This book contains essays which explore Shakespeare's influence on America's cultural history from a variety of perspectives. It includes essays from the colonial period, to the adoption of Shakespeare as an "American genius" in the nineteenth century, to twentieth-century musical comedy. Editor(s): Vaughan, Prof. Virginia Mason; Vaughan, Alden T. Num Pages: 192 pages, 88 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7128 x 5499 x 14. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987156
- ISBN
- 9780295987156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.13
€ 33.99
€ 31.13
Hardback. Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility, allegorically, at a given time. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 200 pages, 8 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732505
- ISBN
- 9780804732505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.01
€ 128.01
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, glossary, notes. BIC Classification: 2AGR; CJBR; DSK; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585100583
- ISBN
- 9781585100583
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.55
€ 27.99
€ 20.55
Paperback. Series: Fyfield Books. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780856356216
- ISBN
- 9780856356216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.76
€ 16.99
€ 13.76
Hardcover. Consists of ten essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, and genre, to the fascination with Caxton's books. This book suggests that the first century of print production is defined less by transition or break, than by a dynamic transformation in literary production itself. Editor(s): Kuskin, William. Num Pages: 368 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; TDPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033088
- ISBN
- 9780268033088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.12
€ 165.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415758963
- ISBN
- 9780415758963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Presents translations selected from the five volumes of work by poets of modern Greece. This book contains poems that translate successfully into English and which are representative of the best work of the original poets. Editor(s): Keeley, Edmund; Sherrard, Philip. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691013824
- ISBN
- 9780691013824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.46
€ 49.46
Hardcover. First published together in Latin in 1623, these two tracts present descriptions of the hermetic cosmology and the alchemical work. The introduction provides a biographical note on d'Espagnet and traces the influence these works had on later generations. Translator(s): Everard, John; Ashmole, Elias. Series: English Renaissance Hermeticism. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBD; HBG; HBLH; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780824075422
- ISBN
- 9780824075422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.53
€ 160.53
Hardback. Fresh study of the intricate roles played by gender, visibility, and the idea of romance in Malory's Morte. Series: Arthurian Studies. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842422
- ISBN
- 9781843842422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.48
€ 82.48
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691650616
- ISBN
- 9780691650616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.33
€ 139.33
Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes, this title includes general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser. Editor(s): Stoll, Abraham. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208025
- ISBN
- 9780872208025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.97
€ 46.99
€ 32.97
Paperback. An exploration of the relationship between US political and social thought and literary consciousness in the early post-war years in which the author analyzes the efforts by writers to reshape their "old" liberalism into a "new" sceptical liberalism that recognized the persistence of human evil. Series: History of American Thought & Culture S. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JPFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004273
- ISBN
- 9780299128449
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume. Editor(s): Mair, Victor H. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 1376 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DQ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 234 x 63. Weight in Grams: 1952.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 1376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231074292
- ISBN
- 9780231074292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.29€ 65.47
€ 80.29
€ 65.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- CavanKerry Press United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933880426
- ISBN
- 9781933880426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.91
€ 16.99
€ 14.91
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- SIGNATURE BOOK REPRESENTATION
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597093224
- ISBN
- 9781597093224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.64
€ 13.99
€ 12.64
Paperback. Examines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as those who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry. Based on research of manuscripts and documents, this study reveals the importance of professional, urban classes as cultivators of early Italian poetry. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041229
- ISBN
- 9780268041229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.87
€ 38.99
€ 34.87
Paperback. In today's world poetry is often regarded as particularly impenetrable, written in obscure and willfully difficult language: Invitation to Poetry opens the door to this rich art form, and teaches the serious student and the novice alike how to 'speak poetry'. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405131643
- ISBN
- 9781405131643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 36.94
€ 37.99
€ 36.94
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Akron Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781884836565
- ISBN
- 9781884836565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.70
€ 16.99
€ 14.70
paperback. Num Pages: 86 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Josef Weinberger Plays United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856762727
- ISBN
- 9780856762727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.92
€ 14.99
€ 13.92
Hardcover. Though Alexander the Great lived more than 17 centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. This title shows that the story of Alexander sowed the seeds of Iberian empire and foreshadowed the decline of Spanish influence. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226037363
- ISBN
- 9780226037363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.35€ 48.48
€ 57.35
€ 48.48
Paperback. Tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian-American playwrights. In this title, the author argues that playwrights produce a different conception of "Asian-America" in accordance with their unique set of sensibilities. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 241 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AN; DD; DSG; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781566396370
- ISBN
- 9781566396370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.61
€ 35.99
€ 31.61
Paperback. "Stems from a thesis presented to the Department of English of Harvard University in 1950." Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 490 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 490
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691625904
- ISBN
- 9780691625904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 86.56
€ 86.56
Paperback. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed by the author
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Merlin Publishing
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0281115
- ISBN
- 9780863270574
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00