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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space. This Very Short Introduction presents this lively literary world by focusing on texts (epics, novels, plays, poems, screenplays) that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 120 x 9. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199568727
- ISBN
- 9780199568727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Hardcover. Presents the systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century. This book tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons themselves to the Victorians, serving as a myth of origins for the English people, their language, and more. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118943328
- ISBN
- 9781118943328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.16
€ 89.16
Hardback. This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Editor(s): Niles, John D. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220565
- ISBN
- 9780631220565
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.28
€ 93.28
Paperback. This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 244 x 19. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220572
- ISBN
- 9780631220572
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Condition: New
€ 41.07
€ 41.07
Paperback. A new selection of John Donne's verse, prepared by the editor of The Oxford Authors edition, with full notes and a useful introduction. John Donne is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre. Editor(s): Carey, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539062
- ISBN
- 9780199539062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Donne's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by rarely published letters and extracts from Donne's sermons - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537945
- ISBN
- 9780199537945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.54
€ 14.99
€ 12.54
Paperback. John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered in 1601. He entered the Church in 1615, and become Dean of St Paul's. His first volume of poetry was published posthumously in 1633. This book deals with John Donne. Editor(s): Muldoon, Paul. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 119 x 198 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571230891
- ISBN
- 9780571230891
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.57
€ 10.99
€ 8.57
Paperback. Editor(s): Drew, John; Agnew, Hazel; Winyard, Ben. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 224 x 29. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Buckingham Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908684202
- ISBN
- 9781908684202
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.16
€ 37.99
€ 27.16
Paperback. Integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language. This book sets the poetry in the whole context of the poet's life and times, so that the reader can understand the frame of mind and kind of society which produced it. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141043401
- ISBN
- 9780141043401
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.03
€ 19.99
€ 15.03
Hardcover. Editor(s): Frost, William; Dearing, Vinton A. Num Pages: 840 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 57. Weight in Grams: 971.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 840
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520021204
- ISBN
- 9780520021204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.52€ 72.77
€ 94.52
€ 72.77
Hardcover. Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume V contains The Pastorals and The Georgics in their entirety; the first six books of The Aeneid is contained as well. Editor(s): Frost, William; Dearing, Vinton A.; Roper, Alan. Series: Works of John Dryden. Num Pages: 584 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 44. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520021211
- ISBN
- 9780520021211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.52€ 72.77
€ 94.52
€ 72.77
Paperback. Malmstad has chosen materials drawn from the extraordinary Russian Literature collection assembled at the Houghton Library in a 1987 exhibition. Some eighty items were chosen, including books, letters and manuscripts that illuminated Puskin's life, career and the world influences and rivals that shaped Russia's important literary voice. Num Pages: 108 pages, 27halftones, 26line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AGR; AGC; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 217. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library United States
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780974396378
- ISBN
- 9780974396378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.85
€ 34.99
€ 29.85
Paperback. Series: Writers of Wales. Num Pages: 100 pages, 1port. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 241 x 23. . Rare. Text in English and Welsh. Testun yn Gymraeg a Saesneg. Good clean copy showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0025039
- ISBN
- 9780708311011
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813552750
- ISBN
- 9780813552750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.42
€ 38.42
Hardback. The first biography of this remarkable figure Num Pages: 384 pages, 77. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445638904
- ISBN
- 9781445638904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.65
€ 34.65
Paperback. Editor(s): Andrews, John F (Shakespeare Guild USA). BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 249 x 27. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138852716
- ISBN
- 9781138852716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.98
€ 49.98
Hardback. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Editor(s): Miller, John F.; Newlands, Carole E. Series: HCRZ - Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 252 x 30. Weight in Grams: 968.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444339673
- ISBN
- 9781444339673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 224.60
€ 224.60
Hardcover. Professor Richards's work is based on part of a manuscript in the British Library concerned with the revenues and administration of the later Mughal Empire, and datable to the reign of the Emperor Bahadur Shah I (AD 1708-1712). Editor(s): Richards, John F. Num Pages: 195 pages, p. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 2BXF; 3JF; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780906094143
- ISBN
- 9780906094143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.80€ 74.81
€ 76.80
€ 74.81
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 645.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801444104
- ISBN
- 9780801444104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801474064
- ISBN
- 9780801474064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
paperback. What goes into the translating of a poem? Taking as a text Pablo Neruda's prophetic sequence Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1945), the author re-creates the entire process of translation, from his first encounter with the poem to the last shaping of a phrase that may never come right in English. Num Pages: 284 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 2ADS; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804713276
- ISBN
- 9780804713276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.86
€ 33.99
€ 30.86
Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916458164
- ISBN
- 9780916458164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.68
€ 24.99
€ 21.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714510156
- ISBN
- 9780714510156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.33
€ 11.33
Paperback. One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principal themes and styles of the work of Samuel Beckett. It also places it in the context of modern theatre, and includes a select bibliography. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 175 x 114 x 13. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber London
- Number of pages
- 256
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571197781
- ISBN
- 9780571197781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74