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Hardback. Translated shortly before 1400, the Bible became the most popular medieval book in English. Scholars call it the Wycliffite Bible, attributing it to followers of the heretic John Wyclif, and say that it was banned in 1407. Henry Ansgar Kelly disagrees, arguing that it was a nonpartisan effort, and never the object of any prohibition. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRCG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248340
- ISBN
- 9780812248340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.81
€ 101.81
Paperback. Sidney Keyes was killed in action in Tunisia in 1943. He was 20 years old. With Keith Douglas and Alun Lewis he is one of the oustanding poets of World War II. His dramatic monologues, his poems of landscape, of the weird and macabre, his mastery of blank verse, set him apart. Series: Poetry Pleiade. Num Pages: 180 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857545807
- ISBN
- 9781857545807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.03
€ 26.99
€ 23.03
Hardback. This text presents over 1000 Oscar Wilde quotations on subjects from absinthe to Zola. In addition, it includes selections from Wilde's personal letters remarking on his life and on the human condition, and aims to capture the witticisms at which Wilde excelled. Editor(s): Beckson, Karl. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CB; DNF; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104562
- ISBN
- 9780231104562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.54
€ 52.54
Paperback. Nice copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Veritas Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0002727
- ISBN
- 9781853904813
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their relationship to their political and cultural context. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories. Editor(s): Cavanagh, Dermot; Hampton-Reeves, Stuart; Longstaffe, Stephen. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719070754
- ISBN
- 9780719070754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.43
€ 35.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 81 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 6. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Currency Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925005141
- ISBN
- 9781925005141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.46
€ 19.99
€ 14.46
Paperback. Here at last is a single volume that reveals the bright thread of gay literature throughout the Western tradition. With hundreds of works by authors ranging from Ovid to James Baldwin, from Plato to Oscar Wilde, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature presents a wide range of poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography that depict love, friendship, intimacy, desire, and sex between men. Editor(s): Fone, Byrne R.S. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; DQ; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231096713
- ISBN
- 9780231096713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.78€ 40.44
€ 51.78
€ 40.44
Paperback. A study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, this book demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena. It argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. Num Pages: 436 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228188
- ISBN
- 9780823228188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 44.47
€ 49.99
€ 44.47
Paperback. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Seren
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781722466
- ISBN
- 9781781722466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.67
€ 18.99
€ 16.67
Paperback. A memoir of the author's early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571203963
- ISBN
- 9780571203963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.13
€ 14.99
€ 11.13
Hardback. Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405141536
- ISBN
- 9781405141536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.38
€ 97.38
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Tachyon Publications United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781892391315
- ISBN
- 9781892391315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.99
€ 16.99
€ 15.99
Since its publication by Odyssey Press in 1935, Hughes's richly annotated edition--revised in 1962--emains the preferred text of many instructors. Editor(s): Hughes, Merritt Y. Num Pages: 384 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 143 x 29. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872206731
- ISBN
- 9780872206731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.62€ 39.60
€ 50.62
€ 39.60
Hardcover. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to an Arabic mirror, this study evokes the mentality of the distinctive environment - the border region. It covers the literary, cultural, political and historical contexts and their confluence in Pseudo Mawardi's Nasihat al muluk. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSK; HPDC; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748696987
- ISBN
- 9780748696987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.97
€ 117.97
Paperback. Reassessing the relationship between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare and Webster, the author shows that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power. Num Pages: 424 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226061542
- ISBN
- 9780226061542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.55
€ 36.99
€ 28.55
paperback. A groundbreaking effort to find the "common language" between two of the most important philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century, Forms in the Abyss promises to be one of the most significant contribution to our critical understanding of western thought in recent memory. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 585. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592134403
- ISBN
- 9781592134403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.66
€ 36.99
€ 32.66
Paperback. Series: The history of literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1983rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780333271391
- ISBN
- 9780333271391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 42.75
€ 43.99
€ 42.75
Hardback. Examines why a woman who was firmly labeled an unbeliever would take up the cause of Judaism and its promise of nationhood and statehood. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Encounter Books,USA United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594032516
- ISBN
- 9781594032516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.77
€ 27.99
€ 24.77
Paperback. The story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent, abusive marriage and a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her powerless. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182. Clean copy, with some light shelfwear. Good to very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KST0017164
- ISBN
- 9780749395995
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A study of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government's multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to post-modern constructions of ethnicity. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554580644
- ISBN
- 9781554580644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.69
€ 53.69
paperback. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Josef Weinberger Plays United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856762345
- ISBN
- 9780856762345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.92
€ 14.99
€ 13.92
Paperback. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002866
- ISBN
- 9780099490623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823239252
- ISBN
- 9780823239252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Paperback. The description for this book, English Poetry of the First World War, will be forthcoming. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691625034
- ISBN
- 9780691625034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52