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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds. Editor(s): Griffin, Benjamin; Smith, Harriet E.; Fischer, Victor; Frank, Michael B.; Goetz, Sharon K.; Myrick, Leslie Diane. Series: Mark Twain Papers. Num Pages: 776 pages, 37 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 183 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1728.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 736
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272781
- ISBN
- 9780520272781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 36.08
€ 49.99
€ 36.08
Paperback. A testament of living through the thirties by a young writer. It presents a record of the author's emotional and intellectual experience during those months, the trivia of everyday living set against the events of the world outside, the settlement in Munich and slow defeat in Spain. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 196 x 9. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571234387
- ISBN
- 9780571234387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 halftones, 10 line art illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816646869
- ISBN
- 9780816646869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.99
€ 24.99
€ 22.99
Paperback. "Portions of many of these essays were given as papers over the years at regional, national, and international meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies"--Pref. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268042370
- ISBN
- 9780268042370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.36
€ 40.99
€ 36.36
Paperback. "Atlas Shrugged" presents a view of man and man's relationship to existence and manifesting the essentials of an entire philosophical system - metaphysics, epistemology, politics and ethics. This companion serves as an exploration of this monumental work of literature. Editor(s): Younkins, Edward W. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754655497
- ISBN
- 9780754655497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.61
€ 58.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811211666
- ISBN
- 9780811211666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.75
€ 25.99
€ 22.75
Paperback. Contains stories such as "Baby Doll" and "Something Unspoken". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190297
- ISBN
- 9780141190297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Paperback. Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. Num Pages: 448 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812220223
- ISBN
- 9780812220223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.49
€ 41.99
€ 37.49
Paperback. Editor(s): Usandizaga, Aranzazu; Monnickendam, Andrew. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268044527
- ISBN
- 9780268044527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. Features several interviews, giving detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. Looking at how movies get made, this work offers a different perspective on many of the great movies, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties. Editor(s): McGilligan, Patrick. Num Pages: 434 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245181
- ISBN
- 9780520245181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.28
€ 40.99
€ 29.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BGH; DSB; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679263
- ISBN
- 9780816679263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. Turning the tables on the pornography debate, this is an analysis of taboo-shattering fiction, film and performance art. It investigates the role of fantasy in art, politics and popular culture and shows how technological advances in science and medicine have altered concepts of the human body. Num Pages: 324 pages, 36 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: A; DSBH; JFC; JFD; JFMP; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210325
- ISBN
- 9780520210325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.65
€ 35.99
€ 26.65
Paperback. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and thinkers are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's energetic cultural constellation. This book teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness. Editor(s): Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337973
- ISBN
- 9780822337973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. 224 pages. Assesses and contrasts the reading styles of two major French philosophers, Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 13. Weight: 332.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748649051
- ISBN
- 9780748649051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.12
€ 38.99
€ 35.12
paperback. Editor(s): Morson, Gary Saul. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- y First printing
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226541334
- ISBN
- 9780226541334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.94
€ 19.99
€ 16.94
Hardback. This text presents an advanced introduction to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism and historicism. It examines the impact of the historical context in the Soviet Union and to the importance of his own dialogic mode of discourse. Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; DSA; DSBH; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313295263
- ISBN
- 9780313295263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Hardback. Baldo is a descendant of French royalty who starts out as something of a juvenile delinquent. This poem narrates episodes that include imprisonment; battles with local authorities, pirates, shepherds, witches, and demons; and a journey to the underworld. It provides the English translation of this ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance. Translator(s): Mullaney, Ann E. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 480 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 143 x 34. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031241
- ISBN
- 9780674031241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.96
€ 40.99
€ 33.96
Hardcover. Just as the art of the table became a centrepiece of French mores, Balzac used it as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing. This title describes the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honore de Balzac's writings. Translator(s): Hunter, Adriana. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSRC; JFCV; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907973222
- ISBN
- 9781907973222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. This up-to-date account of the composition, structure, and achievement of Balzac's novel provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing 19th-century expectations of what novels should be like. Series Editor(s): Stern, J. P. Series: Landmarks of World Literature. Num Pages: 116 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003900
- ISBN
- 9780521316347
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages, illus. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195809
- ISBN
- 9781845195809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.45
€ 72.45