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Paperback. Surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare. This book describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas that include The Spanish Tragedy", "Mucedorus", "Edward II", "Doctor Faustus" and "Titus Andronicus". Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415489010
ISBN
9780415489010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.90

hardcover. The third volume of "Letters.." covers years in which Christina Rossetti lost several important family members, including her mother, her brother Dante, and a young nephew, Michael. In the face of her loss, she turned increasingly to religion and wrote works of devotional prose. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919294
ISBN
9780813919294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.30

Paperback. Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggle led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Here, Sarah Gordon shows a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820325200
ISBN
9780820325200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.50

hardcover. This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the male-authored canon of philosophy and political thought. Recently, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women's literary writing and their role in salon society. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472409539
ISBN
9781472409539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 192.69

paperback. With profound insight and remarkable candor, the author tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSK; VSP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 88.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099285571
ISBN
9780099285571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Explores the author's relationship with his father. This title also reflects on the life and legacy of the author's cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed twenty years later from the basement of Frederick West, one of Britain's prolific serial murderers. Num Pages: 416 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099285823
ISBN
9780099285823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. A collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. It contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140081954
ISBN
9780140081954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. Editor(s): Burrow, Colin. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140424447
ISBN
9780140424447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

paperback. The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. This title contains four tragedies. Editor(s): Hunter, George; Spencer, T.; Muir, Kenneth; Hunter, G. K. Num Pages: 960 pages, notes, further reading list. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140434583
ISBN
9780140434583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.91

paperback. A work that poses provocative questions about perception and reality. It is a parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. It provides an overview of this world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
9780140435313
ISBN
9780140435313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.64

paperback. Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, this work relates his ascent to the Mount of Purgatory. Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a better man. The second part of an epic poem, it is a Christian allegory of sin, redemption and enlightenment. Editor(s): Musa, Mark. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 428 pages, illustrations, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
9780140444421
ISBN
9780140444421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive commentary, a glossary and bibliography, this translation seeks to clarify the theological themes and make Dante accessible to the English-speaking public. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140444438
ISBN
9780140444438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, the author gives us a true sense of 'the tragedies joining up with life, with all our lives; leading us into a perspective of possibilities that stretch forward and back in time, and in our total awareness of things. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780140530193
ISBN
9780140530193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. Covers different varieties of poetic practice in English. This book discusses the work of poets as wide ranging as W H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and Blake. Num Pages: 144 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141004396
ISBN
9780141004396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Gives definitions of technical terms (hamartia, iamb, zeugma) and critical jargon (aporia, binary opposition, intertextuality). This book explores literary movements (neoclassism, romanticism, vorticism) and schools of literary theory. It covers genres (elegy, fabliau, pastoral) and literary forms (haiku, ottava rima, sonnet). Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: DSR; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141047157
ISBN
9780141047157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.68

mass_market. Tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. This book takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 162 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141398679
ISBN
9780141398679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.99
€ 5.59

paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; UMB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141982489
ISBN
9780141982489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

hardcover. This book-lover's Baedeker to more than 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe invites readers to meaningful travel experiences. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 209. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
National Geographic
Condition
New
SKU
9781426217807
ISBN
9781426217807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.21

paperback. This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings. Num Pages: 344 pages, 30ill. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415913911
ISBN
9780415913911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.74

paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 26 illus. Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Peter E. Randall Publisher United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914339472
ISBN
9780914339472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.03

paperback. Offers a perspective on J R R Tolkien's Medievalism. This book explores how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. Editor(s): Chance, Jane. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3H; DSBH; DSK; HBJD1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415473484
ISBN
9780415473484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.90

Paperback. This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett. Editor(s): Innes, Christopher; Marker, Frederick J. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
1st
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802082060
ISBN
9780802082060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.39

paperback. How to get on well with people, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought. This biography of Montaigne relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099485155
ISBN
9780099485155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

paperback. William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise. Editor(s): Wilmer, Clive. Num Pages: 480 pages, chronology, bibliographical notes. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140433302
ISBN
9780140433302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.07

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