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Paperback. Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. This book offers an examination of the many ways gardens evoke the human condition. It shows how the garden has served as a check against the destruction and losses of history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226317908
- ISBN
- 9780226317908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.59
€ 15.99
€ 13.59
Hardback. Contains various essays and reviews that W H Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full versions of his two illustrated travel books, "Letters from Iceland" and "Journey to a War". This book is intended not only for Auden's admirers, but those concerned with twentieth-century literature and culture. Editor(s): Mendelson, Professor Edward. Series: The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Num Pages: 880 pages, 116 halftones 7 line drawings 2 maps 4 tables. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 159 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 952
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691068039
- ISBN
- 9780691068039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.27€ 76.39
€ 101.27
€ 76.39
This elegant book traces the two major periods of Jane Austen's work in order to demonstrate the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on the later novels. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134149
- ISBN
- 9780231134149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.88
€ 81.88
Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- SKU
- KKD0000998
- ISBN
- 9780571212965
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. During its 250-year history, Columbia University has been home to and has produced an array of writers, poets, scientists, and statesmen - many of whom have written about their experiences at the university. Excerpting memoirs, novels, and poems, this work collects a range of these reminiscences into a collective portrait of the university. Editor(s): Green, Ashbel. Series: A Columbia University Publication. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 242 x 35. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134866
- ISBN
- 9780231134866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.37
€ 57.37
hardcover. An important contribution to the study of authorship and criticism, Regulating Readers adds to a growing body of scholarship by women that shows eighteenth-century women writers envisioning for themselves authoritative critical positions and roles in the public sphere. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611491906
- ISBN
- 9781611491906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.57
€ 113.57
Paperback. An exclusive short story for World Book Day from one of our bestselling authors Series: Quick Reads S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 5AX; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- Quick Reads edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007331444
- ISBN
- 9780007331444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.99€ 6.75
€ 6.99
€ 6.75
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801449314
- ISBN
- 9780801449314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.44
€ 69.44
Hardback. These essays by renowned feminist scholars re-think the methods and content of contemporary feminist history. The vibrant work of feminist literary historians in the last three decades has produced a new archive of knowledge on women's writing and new narratives of the cultrual past. But, these essays ask, where has this revisioning taken us? Editor(s): Binhammer, Katherine; Wood, Jeanne. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874138245
- ISBN
- 9780874138245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.71
€ 125.71
Paperback. aeo Will serve students as a readable introduction and useful reference volume throughout their Victorian studies. aeo Includes extensive bibliographies directing the student to further reading. aeo Examines Victorian literature in its cultural and historical context. Editor(s): Tucker, Herbert F. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 512 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 173 x 27. Weight in Grams: 834.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631218760
- ISBN
- 9780631218760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 52.66
€ 52.99
€ 52.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 111 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486201054
- ISBN
- 9780486201054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.53
€ 11.53
Paperback. Editor(s): Guran, Paula. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597808187
- ISBN
- 9781597808187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.63
€ 17.99
€ 17.63
Paperback. Clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- The Mercier Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0012821
- ISBN
- 9780853423416
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CF; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674379374
- ISBN
- 9780674379374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.14€ 62.84
€ 70.14
€ 62.84
Hardback. Underwriting the Accident shows how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels taught Americans to classify a wide range of modern injuries as blameless accidents, which in turn became a powerful rationale for new and more interdependent modes of social organization. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804775359
- ISBN
- 9780804775359
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.31
€ 95.31
Hardcover. Dealing with both adult and child aspects of Hans Christian Andersen's texts, this volume, consisting of papers read at the Odense Conference in 2005, endeavours to do justice to the whole of Andersen, whose immortal genius has a message for young and old all over the world. Editor(s): Mylius, Johan De; Jorgensen, Aage; Pedersen, Viggo Hjornager. Num Pages: 639 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 181 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 639
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788776742560
- ISBN
- 9788776742560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.84
€ 40.99
€ 28.84
Paperback. Suitable for those who enjoyed "The Story of Lucy Gault" and "Love and Summer", this title deals with themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168 231pp. The paperback edition of the latest excellent collection of short stories from one of the great Masters of the genre.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141032450
- ISBN
- 9780141032450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.71
€ 13.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book features a collection of his provocative and influential writings, and provides a look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history. Editor(s): Rabinowitz, Stanley J. Translator(s): Rabinowitz, Stanley J. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24 black-&-white illustrations in a gallery. BIC Classification: ASDL; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300164497
- ISBN
- 9780300164497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.87
€ 29.99
€ 21.87
Paperback. This powerful new collection combines Katie Donovan's unflinching insight into our human foibles with her exceptional descriptive gift. The years of her husband's throat cancer are charted in poems by turns tender, harsh and darkly humorous. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 8. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780373164
- ISBN
- 9781780373164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Hardback. An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology. Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844648
- ISBN
- 9781843844648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.45
€ 88.45
Paperback. This volume contains a selection of poetry from American Jesuit Daniel Berrigan. Beginning with selections written around bucolic themes, the books selections move to poems dealing with the struggle against war, some of them written from courtrooms and jail cells. Num Pages: 418 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 655.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823218226
- ISBN
- 9780823218226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Hardcover. This book examines Willa Cather's conceptions through her numerous works. Hively's study combines Cather's interest in the historians, the philosophers, and the mythographers, to examine nine of her novels on three levels. Num Pages: 212 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819194817
- ISBN
- 9780819194817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.97
€ 113.97
Paperback. Good copy with minor shelf wear. Ex-Libris with stamps and stickers, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0002184
- ISBN
- 9780140075687
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226092317
- ISBN
- 9780226092317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.47
€ 36.99
€ 28.47