Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. "The Great Gatsby" (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This guide sets "The Great Gatsby" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Series: A Reader's Guides. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 200. Series: Reader's Guides. 176 pages. "The Great Gatsby" (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This guide sets "The Great Gatsby" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826490117
- ISBN
- 9780826490117
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Condition: New
€ 37.55
€ 37.55
paperback. Designed to meet the instructional needs of advanced German courses, this volume combines a number of pedagogically proven foreign language teaching and learning strategies, primarily the communicative approach and the three-stage reading strategy. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: AB; CJ; DSBH; DSBH5; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 273 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433126390
- ISBN
- 9781433126390
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Condition: New
€ 69.79
€ 69.79
Paperback. Providing directions for storytelling, this book offers examples, and step-by-step plans for choosing stories to tell. It also features practice activities, and techniques that guide the teller through each of the major telling problems and catastrophes that can be encountered. Series: Crash Course. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY; GLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 217 x 7. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591583998
- ISBN
- 9781591583998
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Condition: New
€ 60.72
€ 60.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256. 210 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; GTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 12. Weight: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Africa World Pr
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592210565
- ISBN
- 9781592210565
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Condition: New
€ 27.01
€ 27.01
paperback. Traces four hallmarks of Mark Twain's humour that are especially significant today. Twain's Brand highlights the modern relationship among humour, commerce, and culture that were first exploited by Mark Twain. Num Pages: 226 pages, 25|8 black & white, 17 color. BIC Classification: DS; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628461763
- ISBN
- 9781628461763
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Condition: New
€ 44.77
€ 44.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780930336
- ISBN
- 9781780930336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.07
€ 44.07
paperback. Editor(s): Phelps, Christopher. Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- V9780312400378
- ISBN
- 9780312400378
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.72
€ 44.99
€ 39.72
Paperback. Precociously brilliant in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by a sense of failure and a romatic yearning to recover a lost Eden. His two great books, "The Unquiet Grave" and "Enemies of Promise", are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism and merciless self-knowledge. Num Pages: 672 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712666350
- ISBN
- 9780712666350
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.54
€ 24.99
€ 18.54
paperback. Presents a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. This book creates the text's varied metre and rhyme and also its diverse tones and styles - dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. Translator(s): Greenberg, Martin. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 30. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300189698
- ISBN
- 9780300189698
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.36
€ 23.99
€ 17.36
paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780940322127
- ISBN
- 9780940322127
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.29
€ 19.99
€ 15.29
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604734201
- ISBN
- 9781604734201
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Condition: New
€ 34.76
€ 34.76
Paperback. Includes bibliographical references and index. Num Pages: 1264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US) United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 1264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780134053325
- ISBN
- 9780134053325
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Condition: New
€ 122.15
€ 122.15
Paperback. Jane Alison, the critically acclaimed author of The Love Artist, now takes on an equally demanding and in some ways more rigorous challenge: translating substantial portions of the Metamorphoses, Ovid's great epic of universal change, into elegant and remarkably faithful blank verse, along with selections from the Amores. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199941650
- ISBN
- 9780199941650
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Condition: New
€ 60.36
€ 60.36
Hardcover. Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. Num Pages: 416 pages, figures. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 182 x 19. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Pearson
- Edition
- 5th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780205175482
- ISBN
- 9780205175482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.71
€ 203.71
Paperback. Presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's novel in several illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary. This book contains a chronology coordinating the author's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century. Series: Longman Cultural Editions. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US) United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780321399533
- ISBN
- 9780321399533
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Condition: New
€ 52.50
€ 52.50
Paperback. Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press ELT
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472085408
- ISBN
- 9780472085408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.93
€ 34.99
€ 31.93
Paperback. In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette challenges our traditional understanding of modernism by situating the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBH; DSC; HPN; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 171 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition.
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773512436
- ISBN
- 9780773512436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.14
€ 46.99
€ 42.14
paperback. A translation of "Beowulf" that captures the rhythm and movement of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid Modern English style and relatively simple vocabulary. It provides an approximation of the acoustic features - and power - of the original and is suitable for reading either silently or aloud. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780872208933
- ISBN
- 9780872208933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.35
€ 18.99
€ 15.35
hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611481051
- ISBN
- 9781611481051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.02
€ 85.02
paperback. Hopkins is now recognized as a major nineteenth-century poet. His poetry reveals his sense of vocation as both priest and poet, his love of beauty, and his search for a unifying sacramental view of creation. This selection includes many of his best-known poems, including 'The Windhover' and 'Felix Randall'. Editor(s): Phillips, Catherine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199537297
- ISBN
- 9780199537297
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.12
€ 13.99
€ 10.12
Hardback. Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset. Num Pages: 2424 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 2424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138750524
- ISBN
- 9781138750524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.35
€ 117.35
paperback. Ferguson traces the development of two accounts of the sublime, Berkean empiricism and Kantian formalism, to argue that they have been definitive for subsequent discussions on the significance of aesthetics, including deconstructive criticism. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSBD; DSBF; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415905497
- ISBN
- 9780415905497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
paperback. Presents annotations to Joyce's classic that can inform any reading of "Ulysses". This volume includes annotations that gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, and explain religious nomenclature and practices. Num Pages: 694 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 180 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520253971
- ISBN
- 9780520253971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 28.87
€ 44.99
€ 28.87
paperback. This book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read s essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and themes, including art, literature, religion and philosophy. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers. " Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138913981
- ISBN
- 9781138913981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.44
€ 56.44