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Paperback. The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Besides the tale of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", this title includes an introduction to the works of the Gawain poet. Illustrator(s): Kredel, Fritz. Translator(s): Gardner, John. Num Pages: 218 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226283289
- ISBN
- 9780226283289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.57
€ 21.99
€ 18.57
Paperback. This landmark bilingual Dutch-English anthology introduces women's writing in the Low Countries from 1200 to 1875 through a variety of texts characterised by the religious, social, political and feminist engagement of their authors, as well as their extraordinary artistic achievement. Dutch and Flemish female writers produced work of ardent religio Editor(s): Poel, Dieuwke van der; Marion, Olga van; Gemert, Lia van; Joldersma, Hermina; Schenkeveld-van der Dussen, Riet; Schenkeveld-van der Dussen, Margaretha. Series: Amsterdam Anthologies. Num Pages: 624 pages, 56 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 224 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089641298
- ISBN
- 9789089641298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 93.89
€ 93.89
Hardback. This book studies the retraction and its uses by Petrarchan poets of the Italian and English Renaissance, delineating the characteristics of the palinode as a genre and exploring its impact upon Renaissance lyric poetry. Num Pages: 261 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480764
- ISBN
- 9781611480764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.72
€ 128.72
Paperback. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141041742
- ISBN
- 9780141041742
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Editor(s): McNair, Wesley. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEN; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608932986
- ISBN
- 9781608932986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.74
€ 19.99
€ 18.74
paperback. Presents a comic drama, where four international experts converge at a luxurious Cardiff hotel to each bid to save a language on the verge of extinction. As personalities clash and opposites attract, the decision on which language should be saved becomes impossible to make. Num Pages: 87 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 87
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902638799
- ISBN
- 9781902638799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.98
€ 10.99
€ 10.98
hardcover. Explores the possibility of providing literary interpretations of inconsistencies in five Roman epics. Series: Roman Literature and Its Contexts. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521641395
- ISBN
- 9780521641395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.68
€ 82.68
Hardback. Perros, is best remembered for the autobiographical poems, vignettes, short prose narratives, occasional diary-like notations, critical remarks, and personal essays. This title presents a selection of short texts alongside numerous maxims, a genre in which Perros excelled. Translator(s): Taylor, John. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857422293
- ISBN
- 9780857422293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.33
€ 24.99
€ 20.33
paperback. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0020376
- ISBN
- 9780140239393
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. Num Pages: 128 pages, facsim. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 104. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0003801
- ISBN
- 9780571244591
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Renowned for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the poems of Catullus, Martin brings the perspective of history to bear on the stuff of contemporary life. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 222 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801899744
- ISBN
- 9780801899744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.66
€ 36.99
€ 30.66
Paperback. Editor(s): Pollard, Arthur. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865977587
- ISBN
- 9780865977587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.25
€ 16.25
Paperback. Editor(s): Malcolm, Claire; Wilkinson, Margaret. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- n/a
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781873226841
- ISBN
- 9781873226841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.98
€ 10.99
€ 10.98
Hardcover. Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Num Pages: 234 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521761727
- ISBN
- 9780521761727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.83
€ 104.83
paperback. Series: American Culture. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816621897
- ISBN
- 9780816621897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.59
€ 32.99
€ 29.59
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 4. Weight in Grams: 60.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486287621
- ISBN
- 9780486287621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.74
€ 5.74
Hardback. Presents a philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's "Othello". This book opens with a portrait of Iago, and considers the nature and moral significance of the evil that he represents. It addresses the boundaries dividing normality and pathology. Translator(s): Lob, Ladislaus. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 28.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691137339
- ISBN
- 9780691137339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.29
€ 45.99
€ 32.29
Hardback. A powerful new volume from the National Book Award finalist that demonstrates how the lyric is essentially elegiac. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393253948
- ISBN
- 9780393253948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.38
€ 27.99
€ 23.38
Paperback. Bog/Paperback 46 lch. Bhronn an Foras Cultúir Ghael-Mheiriceánach an duais do litríocht na Gaeilge ar Ó Siadhail. Is mar fhile Béarla is fearr aithne inniu air. Poems by the renowned scholar whose poetry in English has gained him a wide following. Ina phrioc ó do sheanbhiodach scine/De sciotán thríom d’imigh pian do mhasla./Santaím aríst nimh an díoltais . . .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- "An Clóchomhar,"
- Edition
- An Chéad Chló
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781906882310
- ISBN
- 9781906882310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.61
€ 20.99
€ 18.61
paperback. Beautifully illustrated, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 line drawings, 75 b&w photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415912136
- ISBN
- 9780415912136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.14
€ 50.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 5. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547726
- ISBN
- 9781857547726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.29
€ 20.99
€ 18.29
Paperback. The author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This title recounts her lifelong obsession with books. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111 x 11. Weight in Grams: 110. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0017521
- ISBN
- 9780140283709
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 14.99€ 10.53
€ 14.99
€ 10.53
Paperback. Examines the ways in which Shakespeare used the law for dramatic effect and incorporated the passion for justice into his great tragedies and comedies, and considers the modern legal relevance of his work. This is a study in the field of literature and the law. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780803278219
- ISBN
- 9780803278219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.19
€ 21.99
€ 21.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 35 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1905
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 35
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780918016058
- ISBN
- 9780918016058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.72
€ 34.72