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Paperback. Provides an annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. Series: Princeton Library of Asian Translations. Num Pages: 720 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1060.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126197
ISBN
9780691126197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

hardcover. Treating poverty not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves, Rimstead adopts the notion of a common culture to include ordinary voices in national culture, in this case the national culture of Canada. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSK; JFFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802044945
ISBN
9780802044945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.61

hardcover. Addresses the dilemma of the female subject in these three twentieth-century British women novelists. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 165. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910222
ISBN
9781575910222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.57

hardcover. This volume offers the first translation into English of two seminal works by the seventeenth-century French woman author, Marie-Catherine Desjardins, better known as Madame de Villedieu. Editor(s): Lalande, Roxanne Decker. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473100
ISBN
9781611473100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.71

Paperback. Series: Modern Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813939230
ISBN
9780813939230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.87

hardcover. Series: Modern Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813939223
ISBN
9780813939223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.46

Paperback. .
Publisher
Steve Savage Publishers Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904246329
ISBN
9781904246329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. Offers a vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can be read as rich with homo-erotic suggestiveness. Drawing from work in queer and feminist theory, this book argues that the most fruitful approach to James is one that ignores the elitist portrait of the formalist master. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321477
ISBN
9780822321477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.35

Hardback. This collection of 14 essays asks how Georges Perec has continued to influence of Media and Communication at us after his death. Swinburne University ofTechnology. What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies?. Editor(s): Wilken, Rowan; Clemens, Justin. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; HPN; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401241
ISBN
9781474401241
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.95
€ 102.41

Hardcover. A remarkable work that recovers the songs Shakespeare's audiences actually heard and brings them to life through performance. Num Pages: 528 pages, 49 illustrations, 500 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC2; AVQS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 259 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1330.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
HAR/COM
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393058895
ISBN
9780393058895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.37

Paperback. Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than novelist Philip Roth? This book examines Roth's 'mature immaturity' in its depth and richness. It lets readers to reconsider the narrow categories into which Roth has often been slotted - laureate of Newark, New Jersey; junior partner in the firm Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, and Malamud. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138435
ISBN
9780691138435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, port. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781896300443
ISBN
9781896300443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.43

Hardback. This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus' work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Series: Erasmus Studies. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA; HPCB; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 38. Weight in Grams: 796.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487500610
ISBN
9781487500610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.33

Hardcover. This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of the discipline, it explores their legacy and provides scholars of today with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had. Editor(s): Wyles, Rosie; Hall, Edith. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 496 pages, 28 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 227 x 33. Weight in Grams: 692.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198725206
ISBN
9780198725206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 198.47

Hardback. Covering definitions of key terms, important debates about literature and the world and the many forms of literature today, this is a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the study of literature, criticism and theory. Editor(s): Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl; Kjaeldgaard, Lasse Home; Moller, Lis; Ringgaard, Dan; Rosing, Lilian Munk; Simonsen, Peter. Num Pages: 464 pages, 5 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 169. Weight in Grams: 927.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474271974
ISBN
9781474271974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.76

Hardback. This book presents a selection of the writings of Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959), one of the leading bibliographers of the 20th century and, along with R. B. McKerrow and A. W. Pollard, the founder of the New Bibliography that dominated 20th-century textual studies. Series: Great Bibliographers S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810833999
ISBN
9780810833999
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.67

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647906
ISBN
9780691647906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.35

Paperback. Examines the changing representations of "home" in 20th-century English literature. The text argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home". Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520220126
ISBN
9780520220126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489938
ISBN
9780801489938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 18. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801442964
ISBN
9780801442964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.21

Hardback. London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city of London over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honor. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists. Editor(s): Gray, Rosemary. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; DQ; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 104 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Illustrated, Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509827688
ISBN
9781509827688
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.49

Hardback. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481037
ISBN
9781611481037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.92

Paperback. * A major account of the life and work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge* Author an authority on Anglo--German cultural connections in the 19th century -- so this book is particularly strong and very accessible too on the German philosophical and literary background. . Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 488 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
NULL
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631207542
ISBN
9780631207542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.44

Hardback. Presents Samuel Taylor Coleridge - poet, critic, thinker, plagiarist, cultural omnivore, enchanting companion, feckless husband, fabled conversationalist, guilt-ridden opium addict - in his complexity. This biography shows how Coleridge's writings in verse and prose are especially directly expressive of his opinions and emotions. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 488 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631187462
ISBN
9780631187462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.20

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