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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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