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Paperback. 200 pages. African delights is a unique literary journey through some critical moments in South African history. The journey begins in Sophiatown of the 1950s, one of the most definitive periods in South African urban culture. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DN; HBJH. Dimension: 211 x 138 x 18. Weight: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431402519
- ISBN
- 9781431402519
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.13
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Paperback. Gathering a range of traditional African myths, this collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. All the narratives found here concern origins - whether of the universe, peoples or families. Editor(s): Belcher, Stephen. Num Pages: 544 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449457
- ISBN
- 9780140449457
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.13
€ 17.99
€ 13.13
Paperback. Explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226304755
- ISBN
- 9780226304755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.12
€ 34.99
€ 27.12
Paperback. Translator(s): McLeish, Kenneth. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780948230653
- ISBN
- 9780948230653
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.26
€ 26.99
€ 23.26
Paperback. An introduction to Irish literature from the 1920s onwards. The title suggests the immense influence Yeats and Joyce have had on the styles, stances, and preoccupations of 20th-century Irish literature. Authors from Kinsella and Beckett to William Trevor, Seamus Heaney and Mary Lavin are included. Series: OPUS. Num Pages: 206 pages, further reading list, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004234
- ISBN
- 9780192892317
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784785925
- ISBN
- 9781784785925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.08
€ 21.99
€ 20.08
Paperback. Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190068
- ISBN
- 9780141190068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.37
€ 15.99
€ 12.37
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803222731
- ISBN
- 9780803222731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.42
€ 21.42
Paperback. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572410312
- ISBN
- 9781572410312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.17
€ 34.99
€ 25.17
Hardcover. Tacitus (c. 55 c. 120 CE), renowned for concision and psychology, is paramount as a historian of the early Roman empire. "Agricola" includes Agricola s career in Britain. "Germania" is a description of German tribes as known to the Romans. "Dialogus" concerns the decline of oratory and education. Translator(s): Hutton, M. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 374 pages, 2M. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 174 x 111 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Loeb
- Number of pages
- 374
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1914
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674990395
- ISBN
- 9780674990395
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.07
€ 32.99
€ 30.07
Paperback. Contemplates the contradictions of individual identity from within a human body adapting to and living within a collective national culture. The author delves into issues such as canon formation, poetic theory, and the rhetoric of the body in American popular culture. Editor(s): Wiegman, Robyn. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JFFH2; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822319733
- ISBN
- 9780822319733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.80
€ 29.99
€ 26.80
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856687440
- ISBN
- 9780856687440
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.34
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Hardback. This volume contains the shorter books and monographs of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include "Complete Poems", "Lucky Poet", "Contemporary Scottish Studies" and "Scottish Eccentrics". Editor(s): Riach, Alan. Series: Lives & letters: MacDiarmid 2000. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 33. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857542332
- ISBN
- 9781857542332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 40.03
€ 46.99
€ 40.03
Hardback. A brand new collection of essays exclusively commissioned by Notting Hill Editions. Iain Sinclair writes in his luminous introduction, the contributors try to explain their impulse to write 'by way of personal anecdote, revelation, or hopeful punt in the dark'. Num Pages: 4 Full Colour. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB; VXWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 193 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910749166
- ISBN
- 9781910749166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.17
€ 19.99
€ 18.17
Paperback. Translator(s): Debreczeny, Paul. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804718004
- ISBN
- 9780804718004
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.72
€ 44.99
€ 39.72
Hardcover. A selection of Tocqueville's writings on America together with letters and sketches from his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont. Editor(s): Zunz, Oliver. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 784 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DNF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930626
- ISBN
- 9780813930626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.61
€ 101.61
Hardback. At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. This title includes journals that collectively tell the story of Kazin's journey from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighbourhood to his position as a dominant figure in twentieth-century cultural life. Editor(s): Cook, Richard M. Num Pages: 512 pages, 9 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1060.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300142037
- ISBN
- 9780300142037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.73
€ 45.99
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Paperback. Originally published in French: Paris: Gallimard, 1958. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; GTB; HBJD; HBJH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416758
- ISBN
- 9780674416758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.07
€ 23.99
€ 21.07
Paperback. Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings. Editor(s): Fiamengo, Janice; Lynch, Gerald. Series: Reappraisals: Canadian Writers. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; DNF; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Ottawa Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780776624334
- ISBN
- 9780776624334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.56
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Paperback. 'An extraordinarily diverse collection; pure Walker, fresh-eyed and sassy' NEW YORK TIMES Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753819586
- ISBN
- 9780753819586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
€ 11.99
€ 10.05