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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1QDAG; DSBB; HPCA; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691176369
ISBN
9780691176369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159232
ISBN
9780691159232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.23

Hardcover. A collection of ten critical essays on the Prologue to Chaucer's well-known work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication. Num Pages: 226 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336. Fine in good illustrated cloth covers. Covers showing some shelf wear and previous owner's name to ffep, otherwise clean and remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
The Athlone Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0020700
ISBN
9780485610062
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. A collection of ten critical essays on the Prologue to Chaucer's well-known work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication. Num Pages: 226 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336. Lightly scored copy in original decorated covers. Covers showing some age and bumped to edges and corners. No dust wrapper. Remains a good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
The Athlone Press
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0006296
ISBN
9780485610062
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. It adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts have been rewritten by modern authors. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268029500
ISBN
9780268029500
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.57

Paperback. This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. It adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts have been rewritten by modern authors. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268029517
ISBN
9780268029517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138020580
ISBN
9781138020580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.49

Paperback. How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money - in other words, participating in the modern financial system - come to seem like routine activities of everyday life? This title addresses this question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Num Pages: 496 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DS; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 37. Weight in Grams: 804.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226675336
ISBN
9780226675336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo
Condition
New
SKU
V9788323330899
ISBN
9788323330899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.04

Paperback. Focuses on modernism as a global phenomenon. This work considers modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization; and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, and the gender-determined. Editor(s): Doyle, Laura; Winkiel, Laura. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253217783
ISBN
9780253217783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Hardback. By considering deconstructive theory and poetry in relation to the political radicalism of the Tel Quel group, this study argues that deconstruction presents greater possibilities for a reintegration of the political. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727600
ISBN
9780804727600
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DND; 1DST; 2ACSD; DSBH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 860.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772899268
ISBN
9788772899268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.86
€ 40.48

Paperback. Few writers have transformed literature and theater so dramatically. Based on Henry J. Schmidt's translations of The Hessian Messenger, Danton's Death, Lenz, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck. Editor(s): Smith, Matthew Wilson. Translator(s): Schmidt, Henry J. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 432 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393933512
ISBN
9780393933512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.57

Hardcover. Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as 'easily the prince of poets'. Num Pages: 380 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 162 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125364
ISBN
9781905125364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.46

Hardback. George Campbell Hay has been hailed as an important voice in Scottish literature and as a crucial figure in the renaissance of Gaelic poetry in the twentieth century. Editor(s): Byrne, Michel. Num Pages: 768 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AFS; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 2086.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Slipcase
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748610631
ISBN
9780748610631
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.54
€ 169.63

Paperback. * A fascinating insight into the contradictions between Eliot's private life and her writings Num Pages: 352 pages, Section: 8. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844084982
ISBN
9781844084982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Hardcover. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333281017
ISBN
9780333281017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.16
€ 55.36

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691608075
ISBN
9780691608075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.66

Paperback. Presents a biography of George Herbert (1593-1633), who was a Greek and Latin scholar, was fluent in modern languages, and an accomplished musician. "The Temple", Herbert's great structure of poems from which the present selection is drawn, first appeared in 1633, the year of his death. Editor(s): Shapcott, Jo. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 121 x 9. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571210398
ISBN
9780571210398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.20

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906075408
ISBN
9781906075408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.48

Hardback. In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown's work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the question of community. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748638123
ISBN
9780748638123
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.39
€ 108.53

Hardback. Series: Scottish Religious Cultures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DQ; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474411653
ISBN
9781474411653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.47
€ 102.72

Paperback. One of the most highly acclaimed biographies of 2006 -- now published in paperback Num Pages: 384 pages, 8pp b/w plate section. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
John Murray
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719566059
ISBN
9780719566059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. An intelligent and subtle biography of George Orwell (1903-1950), the author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM which between them have sold 40 million copies. Num Pages: 512 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349115511
ISBN
9780349115511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

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