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Paperback. The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde's greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play's relation to the author's homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde's imprisonment just months after the play's London opening in 1895. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 282 x 24. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674048980
ISBN
9780674048980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.66

Paperback. With detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight into the world of English Literature. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UA) A / AS level; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405861793
ISBN
9781405861793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.36

Hardback. The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited, heralding the end of a repressive era. Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, Wilde's uncensored typescript is published here for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition. Editor(s): Frankel, Nicholas. Num Pages: 304 pages, 78 color illustrations, 1 color map. BIC Classification: 2AB; 5S; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 239 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Annotated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057920
ISBN
9780674057920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.36
€ 50.58

Hardback. Explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400662
ISBN
9781421400662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.67
€ 71.79

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155073
ISBN
9781903155073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.29

Paperback. Offers a fresh way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. The author argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148663
ISBN
9780691148663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. What did it mean to be a 'half caste' in early twentieth-century North America? This collection of short works ranges from magazine romance to story melodrama and provides an introduction to a unique literary personality - Onoto Watanna. It includes nineteen - thirteen stories and six essays - intended to show the versatility of her writing. Editor(s): Moser, Linda Trinh; Rooney, Elizabeth. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBC; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252070945
ISBN
9780252070945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.98

Paperback. This exploration of the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers reveals in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347774
ISBN
9780822347774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.47

Hardcover. Num Pages: 284 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; HBG; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 253 x 174 x 30. Weight in Grams: 778.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772893570
ISBN
9788772893570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.59
€ 43.95

Paperback. Several critics have been intrigued by the gap between late Victorian poetry and the more 'modern' poetry of the 1920s. This book aims to get to grips with the watershed by analysing one school of poetry and criticism written in the first decade of the 20th century until the end of the First World War. Num Pages: 193 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776742836
ISBN
9788776742836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.06

Paperback. Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. Opening with his impoverished childhood in Algiers, this biography presents the historical context, focusing on Camus' later agonising conflict between sympathy for the working class Algerians and for the French colonials with a stake in their adopted land. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2AHA; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 36. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099749110
ISBN
9780099749110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.67

Hardback. Arguing that Palestine has come to signify the colonial, broadly conceived, in the decolonizing world, this book offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years. Editor(s): Harrison, Olivia. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804794213
ISBN
9780804794213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. "The essays, poems, and artwork included in this anthology--by the likes of Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Albert Memmi, Etel Adnan, Sembene Ousmane, Renae Depestre, and Mohamed Melehi--offer a unique window into the political and artistic imaginaries of writers and intellectuals from the Global South." Editor(s): Harrison, Olivia; Villa-Ignacio, Teresa. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HB; DQ; DS; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804796156
ISBN
9780804796156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Aims to reveal how the novels of Jane Austen illuminate English history in the quarter century between 1792 and 1817. The book builds a picture of Austen's life and personality and of the social and political world she inhabited in the period during and immediately after the Napoleonic Wars. Num Pages: 198 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300054491
ISBN
9780300054491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.78

Paperback. This drama text is one of a series of important English plays. It includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of date and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of She Stoops to Conquer"." Editor(s): Ogden, James. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 144 pages, c 5 photographs/line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713667943
ISBN
9780713667943
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 bw illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350038462
ISBN
9781350038462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, the author offers advice to actors, directors and drama students on a variety of scenes, characters, speeches and individual lines from Shakespeare's plays. He takes us through the process of Preparation, Rehearsal and Performance. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; ANC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854597816
ISBN
9781854597816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.51

Paperback. Olga M. Davidson's major reassessment of the classical Persian epic the Shahnama argues that its poet is actually a character in the work who coexists with the heroes and kings celebrated in the poem. Documenting the text's oral performance tradition, Davidson shows that the heroic style of the Shahnama stems from ancient Indo-European traditions. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073210
ISBN
9780674073210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.61

Paperback. Olga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. She focuses on the eleventh-century ce epic Shahnama and its relationship to other genres embedded in it, including forms of verbal art originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women's laments. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073203
ISBN
9780674073203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.52

Paperback. Glorifies the spectacular achievements of Iranian civilization from its mythologized beginnings to the time of the Arab Conquest. This book takes a fresh look at the reception of Ferdowsi's poetry, especially in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 8. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674726802
ISBN
9780674726802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.54

Paperback. A study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue of Penelope and Odysseus ("Odyssey 19"). It makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication important for the interaction between the two speakers. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053359
ISBN
9780674053359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.60

Hardcover. Explores the literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic Jews Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 175 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253356727
ISBN
9780253356727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.39

Paperback. The study places Ukrainian Futurism within the context of other major Ukrainian literary movements of the time, and examines its relationship to Russian and West European Futurism. It includes critical analyses on the major works of the leading figures within the Ukrainian movement. Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Num Pages: 432 pages, 11 halftones, 11 colour illustrations, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 2AGR; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 700.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916458591
ISBN
9780916458591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.54

Hardcover. The study places Ukrainian Futurism within the context of other major Ukrainian literary movements of the time, and examines its relationship to Russian and West European Futurism. It includes critical analyses on the major works of the leading figures within the Ukrainian movement. Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 11 halftones, 11 colour illustrations, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 2AGR; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 890.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916458560
ISBN
9780916458560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.74

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