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Paperback. The growth of industrialism, the rise of professionalism and the decline of slavery led to debates in 19th-century America about the concept of work. This book examines the literary view of this debate, arguing that many writers felt an affinity between the mental labour of writing and manual work. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; HBTB; JFC; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226075556
- ISBN
- 9780226075556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.35
€ 38.99
€ 30.35
Hardcover. The first complete collection of extant Medieval French Lays. Lays are short (typically 600-1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry. Series: Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 300 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781383360
- ISBN
- 9781781383360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.52
€ 135.52
Paperback. A Syriac historiographical work dating from the end of the eighth century. It is written from the point of view of a religious dissident, a Monophysite, whose personal experience as a persecuted monk in his native Mesopotamia, as well as his later life in Constantinople, make the History an interesting and unusual source. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; DNF; HBG; HBJF; HBLA; HBLC; HRCC1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853237600
- ISBN
- 9780853237600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.25
€ 35.99
€ 32.25
Paperback. John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. This title collects 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. Editor(s): Swift, Daniel. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 33. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780374534554
- ISBN
- 9780374534554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.08
€ 23.99
€ 21.08
Paperback. Clean copy with shelf wear and yellowing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- 2nd revised
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KOC0016836
- ISBN
- 9780140014846
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration. 28 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Dimension: 164 x 119 x 4. Weight: 50.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Number of pages
- 28
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555975456
- ISBN
- 9781555975456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.22
€ 9.22
paperback. Illustrator(s): Sandford, Ron. Num Pages: 72 pages, 27 b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Ambit Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900055065
- ISBN
- 9780900055065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.91
€ 13.99
€ 12.91
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0003110
- ISBN
- 9780571207152
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 4.99
€ 11.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. A multi- and interdisciplinary collection of essays addressing ethical, political and aesthetic questions raised in the ten-film cycle Decalogue (1989) by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski. Editor(s): Badowska, Eva. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DS; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823267101
- ISBN
- 9780823267101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.59
€ 105.59
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 582 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 582
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691627373
- ISBN
- 9780691627373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 103.10
€ 103.10
Paperback. Keywords: "Subjects - Music, Stage & Screen - Performing Arts - Plays & Drama - Bestsellers,Subjects - Music, Stage & Screen - Performing Arts - Plays & Drama - 16th to 18th Century,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Cr"
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHS0046006
- ISBN
- 9780713631517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801473500
- ISBN
- 9780801473500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.76
€ 36.99
€ 32.76
An anthology of poems about the landscape and ecology of the eastern United States. Editor(s): Reece, Erik. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124971
- ISBN
- 9780813124971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.70
€ 21.70
African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez (Ed.)
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pambazuka Press
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857490209
- ISBN
- 9780857490209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.09
€ 21.99
€ 20.09
Hardback. This is the only full-length critical study of James Patterson and his best-selling detective fiction. Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313320859
- ISBN
- 9780313320859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 47.83
€ 48.99
€ 47.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Expanded
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216097
- ISBN
- 9780812216097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Translator(s): Daly, Padraig J. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 6. Weight in Grams: 109. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Waxwing Poems
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0004832
- ISBN
- 9780954977115
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Examines the saga of the Grail. Exploring the legend's Gnostic roots, this book considers how the legend of the Grail related to fertility rites with the lance and the cup serving as sexual symbols. It traces its origins to a Gnostic text that served as a link between ancient vegetation cults and the Celts and Christians who embellished the story. Editor(s): Segal, Robert A. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691021072
- ISBN
- 9780691021072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.25
€ 45.99
€ 32.25
Paperback. 8vo. Good copy.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st UK Paperback Edition
- SKU
- KEX0289490
- ISBN
- 9780006531159
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Commissioning organisation: Translated by Ali Cungu. 146 p. 19 cm. Paperback. Fine copy. Keywords: "Albanian literature , Albanian literature"
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- Naim Frashëri State Pub. House
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0075882
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 60.54€ 4.99
€ 60.54
€ 4.99
Hardback. Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history. Translator(s): Guberman, Ross. Series: European Perspectives. Num Pages: 432 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102506
- ISBN
- 9780231102506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.43
€ 136.43
Paperback. From the upheaval of the 1916 Rising to the Spanish Civil War, to the horrors of WW2, Earth Voices Whispering gathers together a wide range of voices that charts the human experience of war. Featuring AE, W.B Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and many more. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 33. Weight in Grams: 538. 412pp. Irish Poetry, Irish Military History
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Blackstaff Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780856408212
- ISBN
- 9780856408212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 6.23
€ 13.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Including selections of Chinese literature from the beginnings to 1919, this anthology is arranged according to genre rather than chronology. It interprets 'literature' very broadly to include literary fiction, poetry, and drama, and also folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and more. Editor(s): Mair, Victor H. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 704 pages, map. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 147 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1112.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119993
- ISBN
- 9780231119993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.58
€ 62.58
Hardback. Editor(s): Sowerby, Robin. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483307
- ISBN
- 9781611483307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.83
€ 125.83