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Hardback. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 198 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY; YNM; YQE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810854789
ISBN
9780810854789
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time. Series Editor(s): Edmondson, Paul; White, Martin. Series: Revels Plays Companion Library. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719088247
ISBN
9780719088247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.31

Paperback. Reassesses better-known works and themes in the field of Lydgate studies, including Lydgate's unofficial laureateship, his relationship to his patrons, and his relationship to Chaucer. This book makes an important contribution to medieval scholarship and it will be welcomed by scholars and students alike. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry; Simpson, James. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268041168
ISBN
9780268041168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardcover. Reassesses better-known works and themes in the field of Lydgate studies, including Lydgate's unofficial laureateship, his relationship to his patrons, and his relationship to Chaucer. This book makes an important contribution to medieval scholarship and it will be welcomed by scholars and students alike. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry; Simpson, James. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268041151
ISBN
9780268041151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632460103
ISBN
9781632460103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.59

Hardcover. A host of newly-discovered documents enable us to re-examine one of the most intriguing events in British intellectual history, the Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles in 1830-1. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3 maps, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DSE; 2AB; 3JH; DSB; DSBF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 796.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137384461
ISBN
9781137384461
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Hardback. Features a contemporary poet who selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the author offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. Editor(s): Motion, Sir Andrew. Series: Faber Nature Poets. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 205 x 16. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571328765
ISBN
9780571328765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Hardback. John Irving and Cultural Mourning offers a chronological survey of his eleven novels, examining his prose via thematically focused chapters on postmodernism, the sixties, fatherhood, narcissism, mourning and finally self-redemption. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739137932
ISBN
9780739137932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.95

Hardback. Essays shedding fresh and significant light on Gower's poetry, major and minor, as it was received, read, and re-produced in England and in Iberia from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Saez-Hidalgo, Ana; Yeager, R. F. Series: Publications of the John Gower Society. Num Pages: 347 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843207
ISBN
9781843843207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843504
ISBN
9781843843504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813118321
ISBN
9780813118321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.21

Hardcover. Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century including W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter. The press ceased operations in 1992, but remains an excellent example of the unique qualities associated with the small press movement in England. Editor(s): Roberts, Ryan. Num Pages: 160 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851243235
ISBN
9781851243235
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.04

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611471731
ISBN
9781611471731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.43

Paperback. 270 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 17. Weight: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871551587
ISBN
9781871551587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.57

Hardback. This volume, a celebration of the tercentenary of Dryden's death, examines the impact of his work through a range of essays by leading Dryden scholars. These essays pay attention to two aspects of his work: the politics of his plays, and Dryden's position as a poet poised between ancient and modern influences. Editor(s): Rawson, Hardbackaude; Rawson, Claude; Santesso, Aaron. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874138429
ISBN
9780874138429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.58

Paperback. This study examines selected aspects of John Donne's life and work in an historical context, emphasizing the relationship between his circumstances and his individuality. Thus his poetry and prose are examined as products of difficult times as opposed to mere aesthetic forms. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; BG; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Some sunning to spine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000823
ISBN
9780333422137
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of John Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. This book offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226789637
ISBN
9780226789637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 78.69

Paperback. For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of John Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. This book offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226789644
ISBN
9780226789644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Paperback. A facsimile edition of fourteen autograph letters of John Donne. It features letters dating from February and March 1602, which relate to Donne's clandestine marriage to Anne More and are addressed to his father-in-law, Sir George More, and to Sir Thomas Egerton, the lord keeper, who was also Donne's employer. Editor(s): Hester, M. Thomas; Sorlien, Robert Parker; Flynn, Dennis. Num Pages: 112 pages, 45 color illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; HBG; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 304 x 228 x 9. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295985107
ISBN
9780295985107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.91

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

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

paperback. Series: Greenwood Guides to Shakespeare. Num Pages: 90 pages, bibliography, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange United Kingdom
Number of pages
90
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871551235
ISBN
9781871551235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.44

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691649771
ISBN
9780691649771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.37

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 8.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 90 pages, 8 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Five Leaves Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910170298
ISBN
9781910170298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.34

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