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Recreating Benjamin Franklin's words in the way that his contemporaries would have read and understood them, the author chronicles Franklin's use (and abuse) of humor for commercial, diplomatic, and political purposes. The author samples Franklin's apologues on the necessity of living reasonably even when life's circumstances may seem absurd. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; DSK; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813123714
- ISBN
- 9780813123714
Condition: New
€ 37.83
€ 37.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 68 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Josef Weinberger Plays
- Number of pages
- 68
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856761300
- ISBN
- 9780856761300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.92
€ 14.99
€ 13.92
Paperback. Bottom Edge Back Cover Snipped, Otherwise Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- Scholastic Book Services
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KDK0013860
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
paperback. "What David Slavitt does, as the early Roman poets did, is to take a poem as his 'model' and make it his own by creating in late twentieth-century English an appropriate equivalent of the ancient poem. His Oresteia is the most lively and readable version known to me."-Gordon Williams Series: Penn Greek Drama Series. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 145 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780812216271
- ISBN
- 9780812216271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
hardcover. The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback. Editor(s): Wells, Stanley W. Series: Shakespeare Survey. Num Pages: 210 pages, 12 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 22. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521550307
- ISBN
- 9780521550307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.72
€ 96.72
Paperback. The executive director of an insurance company, Harold, and his doctor wife, Claudia, for whom violence could never be a means of solving personal conflict, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do a mother and a father owe a son who has committed this unimaginable horror? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0004885
- ISBN
- 9780747542575
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This thought-provoking combination of social history and intellectual art criticism opens this powerful moment in history to renewed and dynamic interpretation and sharper discussion. Editor(s): Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894619
- ISBN
- 9780801894619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.69
€ 37.99
€ 31.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 163 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811670
- ISBN
- 9781554811670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.18
€ 21.18
Paperback. Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Translator(s): Holden, George. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KKD0007667
- ISBN
- 9780140442632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Arguing for Harlem as a crossroads between writers and the image, this book explores its power for canonical writers, whose work was profoundly responsive to the changing meanings and uses of photographs. It opens possibilities for understanding the entangled histories of literature and the photograph. Num Pages: 376 pages, 73 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691130873
- ISBN
- 9780691130873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.84€ 46.24
€ 59.84
€ 46.24
Paperback. "Paul Giles .. describes episodes of literary exchange between Britain and America not as case studies in reproduction or disavowal but as moments of 'transnational convergence.'.. A rich and reasoned understanding of what these influences may be and of the often inspired anxiety the produce." -Modern Language Quarterly Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812217674
- ISBN
- 9780812217674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.82
€ 38.99
€ 34.82
Hardback. Vols. 8-27 have various assistant and associate editors. Num Pages: 685 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1135.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 685
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231089265
- ISBN
- 9780231089265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.30
€ 186.30
Paperback. More than two hundred columns, articles, essays, speeches, and letters, tracing ER's development from timorous columnist to one of liberalism's most eloquent and outspoken leaders. From My Day columns on Marian Anderson, excerpts from Moral Basis of Democracy and This Troubled World, to speeches and articles on the Holocaust and McCarthyism. Editor(s): Black, Allida M. Num Pages: 360 pages, 30 photos. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JFSJ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231111812
- ISBN
- 9780231111812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.26
€ 46.26
Hardback. Editor(s): Callus, Ivan; Herbrechter, Stefan. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483109
- ISBN
- 9781611483109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.78
€ 125.78
Hardback. Editor(s): Holdeman, David. Series: The Cornell Yeats. Num Pages: 352 pages, 104. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 168 x 5. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801440342
- ISBN
- 9780801440342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.92
€ 136.92
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874134711
- ISBN
- 9780874134711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.49
€ 125.49
paperback. This collection of essays aims to present a translation from the medium of choreography to the written text. They investigate the possibilities of written language as invention, and use text as a means to illustrate specific tenets or describe choreographic projects. Series: Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ASD; CFA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 273.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9789057010828
- ISBN
- 9789057010828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.47
€ 53.47
Hardback. Studies the role of mourning in Fitzgerald's work Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910468
- ISBN
- 9781575910468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.15
€ 116.15
Paperback. The first beguiling Quirke Dublin mystery Series: Quirke Mysteries. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main Market
- SKU
- 9780330445320
- ISBN
- 9780330445320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.47
€ 10.99
€ 10.47
Paperback. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016620
- ISBN
- 9780674016620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.64
€ 30.99
€ 25.64
Hardback. The book provides a lucid and systematic theory of the work of literature and its major aspects. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 tables, 22 figures. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804755146
- ISBN
- 9780804755146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.31
€ 123.31
Hardcover. Editor(s): Jacobsen, Eric. Translator(s): Hogel, Christian; Fischer, Peter. Num Pages: 128 pages, facsms. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772891446
- ISBN
- 9788772891446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.17
€ 36.99
€ 27.17
Paperback. John Gabriel Borkman, wealthy, powerful, revered, sacrificed love for success and was handsomely rewarded. Now, disgraced and destitute after financial scandal and a jail sentence, he paces out each day alone, planning his comeback. Downstairs, his wife, Gunhild, lives a parallel existence, plotting for their son to restore family's reputation. Translator(s): McGuinness, Frank. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0017358
- ISBN
- 9780571273300
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In South Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Ireland's many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. This novella is set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbey's foundation. It aims to evoke the textures and rhythms of this medieval religious settlement. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 6. Weight in Grams: 91. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001685
- ISBN
- 9780946640379
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95