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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. This book tells his story. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846143304
ISBN
9781846143304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the story of a young aristocrat who longs to devote her life to a cause. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DSB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The Modern Language Association of America
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873527903
ISBN
9780873527903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.41

Paperback. A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 49. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784783785
ISBN
9781784783785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.68

hardcover. Explores the function of the anarchist and anarchist rhetoric in the culture of late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain and the United States. The figure of the anarchist becomes an important symbol in discussions of social change, and anarchism becomes the germ of several aesthetic discourses of the early 20th century. Num Pages: 233 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838755259
ISBN
9780838755259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.56

Paperback. When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing. Editor(s): SparkNotes. Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSRC. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 211 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
SparkNotes
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Stg Rep
Condition
New
SKU
V9781411469709
ISBN
9781411469709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.26

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
92
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823253111
ISBN
9780823253111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.96

Hardback. Editor(s): Witt, Mary Ann Frese. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473759
ISBN
9781611473759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.09

Paperback. Studies the place of the feminine in Nietzsche's work, bringing together scholars in philosophy, feminism, comparative literature and German studies. Without dismissing his misogyny, the work argues that Nietzsche's many statements about women are ambivalent and cannot be labelled simply. Editor(s): Burgard, Peter J. Series: Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory S. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSBF; HPC; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813914954
ISBN
9780813914954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.05

Paperback. This collection includes Dear's earlier plays as well as his masterly adaptation for television of Henry James' chilling "The Turn of the Screw", which will be screened on ITV in Spring 2000. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571203932
ISBN
9780571203932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.41

Paperback. When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. Illustrator(s): Browne, Hablot K., (Phiz). Editor(s): Ford, Mark. Num Pages: 864 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
864
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435122
ISBN
9780140435122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135018
ISBN
9781571135018
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.00

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691624013
ISBN
9780691624013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.02

Paperback. At last-an illuminating and accessible edition of Isaac Newton's writings, intended for nonspecialist readers. I. Bernard Cohen and Richard S. Westfall have meticulously collected representative works from every major aspect of Newton's intellectual life. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 434 pages, illustrations, glossaries. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393959024
ISBN
9780393959024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.89

Paperback. Aims to recaptures the world of Paris-American journalists during the period in the 1920s and 1930s by concentrating on the lives of such figures as Ernest Hemingway, James Thurber, and Henry Miller, and on the life of the newspapers, including the "Herald" and the "Tribune". Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566637329
ISBN
9781566637329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.00

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

Paperback. Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual life for three decades in the middle of the 20th century, tells his own story and with it a history of contemporary American letters. Series: New York Classics. Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815604136
ISBN
9780815604136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.48

hardcover. Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, New Worlds from Old Texts explores ancient Greek perceptions of space, and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view. Editor(s): Barker, Elton; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Pelling, Christopher; Isaksen, Leif. Num Pages: 416 pages, 48 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HBTP; JFCD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 277 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780199664139
ISBN
9780199664139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.59

Paperback. Pollard looks to recent Caribbean poetry as a means of reassessing modernism's cosmopolitanism; in particular, his book redefines the cosmopolitan influence of T. S. Eliot's modernism by examining how his ideas have been transformed by the two leading Anglophone Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813922782
ISBN
9780813922782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.92

Hardback. This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geographically and chronologically, with the precise treatment of specific evidence extracted from the sources. This book opens up new worlds on the impact of books and images in the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480269
ISBN
9781611480269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.11

Paperback. Varieties of marriage in early American and British novels Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688320
ISBN
9781611688320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 36.70

Paperback. Tells about writers and their families. This book explores the often tense relationship between writers and their families. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141041766
ISBN
9780141041766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.73

Paperback. The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave. Num Pages: 214 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APF; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745633930
ISBN
9780745633930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 31.61

Hardback. The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; APF; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745633923
ISBN
9780745633923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.25

Hardback. The formation of Saudi Arabia in 1932, with the unification of the two Kingdoms of the Hejaz and Nejd, not only unified parts of the Arabian peninsula which had until then remained disparate, but also led to the development of a distinct Saudi Arabian literature. This title offers insight into the complex and enigmatic setting of Saudi Arabia. Editor(s): Al-Sebail, Abdulaziz; Calderbank, Anthony. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSK; FA; FYB; FYT; HBJF1; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780760995
ISBN
9781780760995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.89
€ 135.20

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