Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. For the last century, the tastes and preferences of readers of fiction have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an engaging look through the lists to reveal what we have been reading - and why. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 115 x 33. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199214891
- ISBN
- 9780199214891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. Maintains that the representation of social and political others as animals can be mitigated but never finally abolished Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823245215
- ISBN
- 9780823245215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.49
€ 31.49
Hardcover. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 124 x 26. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679601227
- ISBN
- 9780679601227
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.58
€ 27.99
€ 22.58
Paperback. An anthology of poems which attempts to give readers the possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. Num Pages: 1008 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 954.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780060540425
- ISBN
- 9780060540425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.62
€ 19.99
€ 12.62
Paperback. A sparkling collection of new plays easy to perform with small groups, much used in schools, colleges and youth theatres. Editor(s): Setren, Phil. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Aurora Metro Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780951587782
- ISBN
- 9780951587782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.57
€ 17.99
€ 16.57
Paperback. Editor(s): Hemon, Aleksandar. Series: Best European Fiction. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564785435
- ISBN
- 9781564785435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.53
€ 18.53
Hardback. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490794
- ISBN
- 9781611490794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.37
€ 125.37
Hardcover. Beryl Bainbridge is best known as a prolific writer of novels that ranged from black comedies of contemporary life, often autobiographical in inspiration, to idiosyncratic reimaginings of historical events and characters. This book offers a highly personal, chronological account of Beryl's life and work both her writing and her painting. Num Pages: 208 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; ACXJ; AFC; AGB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500516515
- ISBN
- 9780500516515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 5.80
€ 25.99
€ 5.80
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746312209
- ISBN
- 9780746312209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.69
€ 25.99
€ 23.69
Paperback. Detailed analysis of Brecht's extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 362 pages, black & white illustrations. Detailed analysis of Brecht's extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 25. Weight: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571134738
- ISBN
- 9781571134738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 41.99
€ 44.99
€ 41.99
Paperback. PMContents: Introduction: Tumbles and Leaps; Beginning in Wisdom; Towards a Rhetoric of Destitution; Excellence and Loss; History and Seduction; Defeats and Dreams; Notes and References; Index Num Pages: 114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349090181
- ISBN
- 9781349090181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.60
€ 67.60
Hardback. Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543554
- ISBN
- 9781137543554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.30€ 26.79
€ 71.30
€ 26.79
Hardback. This book reveals the genuity of Shaw's totalitarianism by looking at his material - articles, speeches, letters, etc but is especially concerned with analyzing the utopian desire that runs through so many of Shaw's plays; looking at his political and eugenic utopianism as expressed in his drama and comparing this to his political totalitarianism. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330192
- ISBN
- 9781137330192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.08
€ 124.08
Hardcover. Drawing on extensive archival materials held in England, the United States, and Canada, Bernard Shaw and the BBC presents a vivid portrait of many contentious issues negotiated between Shaw and the public broadcaster. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802089205
- ISBN
- 9780802089205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.96
€ 54.96
hardcover. Series: Contemporary Irish Writers. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483017
- ISBN
- 9781611483017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.63
€ 124.63
This is the first book-length study on the Anglo-Jewish writer Bernard Kops, who became famous as part of the new wave of British drama with the production of his play The Hamlet of Stepney Green in 1958. Num Pages: 168 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611476569
- ISBN
- 9781611476569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.71
€ 115.71
Paperback. Presents the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End. This book focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child, a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one. It tells about the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of the metropolis. Translator(s): Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJC; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022225
- ISBN
- 9780674022225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.56
€ 25.99
€ 22.56
Hardback. Translator(s): Anderson, James. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857424426
- ISBN
- 9780857424426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.33
€ 23.99
€ 19.33
Paperback. How do we live with our parents after their death? How do we tell their story when they are gone? This book addresses these questions. It recreates a common experience - the loss of a father or a mother - and exposes the often tortuous paths of mourning and attachment that we follow in the wake of loss. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 b&w photos, 4 figures. BIC Classification: DSB; VFJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253213792
- ISBN
- 9780253213792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.72
€ 20.72
Paperback. This new poetic translation brings the earliest extant English poem closer to the modern reader. Kennedy offers a translation in alliterative verse, based on Klaeber's text, of the Old English Beowulf, and provides a brief critical introduction which reviews literary and cultural discussions of the poem. Editor(s): Kennedy, Charles W. Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195024357
- ISBN
- 9780195024357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.50
€ 25.50