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Paperback. Malmstad has chosen materials drawn from the extraordinary Russian Literature collection assembled at the Houghton Library in a 1987 exhibition. Some eighty items were chosen, including books, letters and manuscripts that illuminated Puskin's life, career and the world influences and rivals that shaped Russia's important literary voice. Num Pages: 108 pages, 27halftones, 26line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AGR; AGC; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 217. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library United States
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
SKU
V9780974396378
ISBN
9780974396378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.64

Paperback. Proposing the novel concept of the "literary NGO," this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; GTF; HBTB; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349462537
ISBN
9781349462537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Paperback. This study examines selected aspects of John Donne's life and work in an historical context, emphasizing the relationship between his circumstances and his individuality. Thus his poetry and prose are examined as products of difficult times as opposed to mere aesthetic forms. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; BG; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Some sunning to spine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000823
ISBN
9780333422137
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Series: Masters of Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231143264
ISBN
9780231143264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.34
€ 52.31

Hardcover. Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 240 x 39. Weight in Grams: 746. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear, dustwrapper has some minor edge wear but remains good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007390
ISBN
9780007486960
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. Originally published in Italian as La traccia del modello, 1984 by Giardini editori estampatori in pisa. Translator(s): Marchesi, Ilaria. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Updated edition with a New Foreword and New After
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691161815
ISBN
9780691161815
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.36

Paperback. Traversing the themes of language, terror and representation, this is the first study to engage Coleridge through the sublime, showing him to have a compelling position in an ongoing conversation about finitude. Drawing on close readings of both hispoetry and prose, it depicts Coleridge as a thinker of 'the limit' with contemporary force." Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325931
ISBN
9781349325931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.39

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691605098
ISBN
9780691605098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.34

Paperback. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the centre of the Harlem Renaissance. This title provides biographical information about Nugent's life and situating his art in relation to the visual and literary currents that influenced him. Illustrator(s): Nugent, Richard Bruce. Editor(s): Wirth, Thomas H. Num Pages: 312 pages, 78 illustrations, including 16-pages in color. BIC Classification: 2ABM; AGB; DQ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822329138
ISBN
9780822329138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH5; HBJH; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349384914
ISBN
9781349384914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing a little age and shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is clear and remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd London
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0028184
ISBN
9780297767350
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 18.00

Hardcover. This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230300316
ISBN
9780230300316
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.12

Paperback. In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFSL4; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360636
ISBN
9780822360636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.48

Hardcover. This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 B.C. until 1000 A.D. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3D; 3F; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; HBLC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674005273
ISBN
9780674005273
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.44

Paperback. This book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"--Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)--that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804741675
ISBN
9780804741675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.49

Paperback. Editor(s): Tsuchiya, Kiyoshi. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HRC; HRCM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349259380
ISBN
9781349259380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vehicule Press Canada
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550652086
ISBN
9781550652086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.25

Paperback. A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides a fascintating overview of modern theatre. Innes has selected three writers, Ibsen, Chekhov and Bernard Shaw to exemplify the movement. A must for all students studying naturalist theatre. Editor(s): Innes, Christopher. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 black & white tables. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415152297
ISBN
9780415152297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.03

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

€ 37.99
€ 34.99

Paperback. Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to literature. Editor(s): Battaglia, Debbora. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; JFC; JHM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 27.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520087996
ISBN
9780520087996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.94

Paperback. Pairing close readings of Moliere's comedies with accounts of French social history and aesthetics, this book aims to show how Moliere perceived satire as a "public mirror" provoking dynamic exchange and conflict with audience members obsessed with their own images. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226591520
ISBN
9780226591520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.63

Hardcover. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 357 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137277848
ISBN
9781137277848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.59

Hardcover. Reconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings of some of the forgotten post-war women novelists. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 235 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662742
ISBN
9781855662742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.15

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Akron Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
70
Condition
New
SKU
V9781884836770
ISBN
9781884836770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.34

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