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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Shakespeare's Binding Language is an innovative, substantial but highly readable study exploring the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other verbal and performative acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198757580
- ISBN
- 9780198757580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.28
€ 99.28
Paperback. Provides an intimate portrait of Walter Benjamin, venturesome at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought. This English-language edition features a section of supplementary materials - drawn from Benjamin's essays, letters and sketches - relating to hashish use, as well as a reminiscence by his friend Jean Selz. Editor(s): Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 195 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022218
- ISBN
- 9780674022218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.87
€ 34.99
€ 29.87
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781856495578
- ISBN
- 9781856495578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.26
€ 110.26
paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719038273
- ISBN
- 9780719038273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.93
€ 33.99
€ 32.93
Hardback. Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. They deepen our understanding of attitudes toward miracles and display the remarkable range of registers in which Greek could be written during the Byzantine period. Translator(s): Talbot, Alice-Mary; Johnson, Dr. Scott Fitzgerald. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HRCC2; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 210 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674059030
- ISBN
- 9780674059030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.07
€ 40.99
€ 34.07
Hardback. Editor(s): Silver, Brenda R. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 326 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFFE2; JFSJ1; JKV; LNAA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231072663
- ISBN
- 9780231072663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.43€ 90.18
€ 118.43
€ 90.18
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 245
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107400344
- ISBN
- 9781107400344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.40
€ 56.40
Paperback. This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. Editor(s): Russell, D. A.; Winterbottom, Michael. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199549818
- ISBN
- 9780199549818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816630233
- ISBN
- 9780816630233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Paperback. Talks about the grand hotel life. In this story, you can meet the girl-hungry hotel Magician, Kalakobe the African cook, Mr Sigsag, Monsieur Victor, Mespoulet, and an unforgettable cast of down but not yet out hotel employees. Num Pages: 320 pages, 60. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGHA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091887872
- ISBN
- 9780091887872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.63
€ 23.99
€ 16.63
Paperback. Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, teaches the young Stephen Dedalus how he can grow and mature as an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city streets. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571242559
- ISBN
- 9780571242559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.03
€ 17.99
€ 13.03
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198717577
- ISBN
- 9780198717577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143128625
- ISBN
- 9780143128625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.66
€ 10.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are part of the canon of Irish and world literature. This book brings together McGahern's surviving essays, reviews and speeches. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 32. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571245123
- ISBN
- 9780571245123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; AN; DSB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166508
- ISBN
- 9780231166508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
Hardback. A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 242 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1208.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300222715
- ISBN
- 9780300222715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107655768
- ISBN
- 9781107655768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.50
€ 32.99
€ 31.50
Hardback. Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444318
- ISBN
- 9781137444318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.50
€ 64.50
Hardcover. MawlanaJalal al-Din Rumi's poem, the Mathnawi, is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscript, including the earliest, dated 1278, and preserved in the Mawlana Museum at Qonya. Editor(s): Nicholson, Reynold A. Num Pages: 373 pages, 373 & 474 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DCQ; DSBB; DSC; HRH; HRLK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 158 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1397.
- Publisher
- Gibb Memorial Trust
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780906094280
- ISBN
- 9780906094280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.98€ 74.81
€ 76.98
€ 74.81
Paperback. Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of his past relationships. One of these an ill-fated marriage to the charming and beautiful Maggie, who went from operating a switchboard to become a self-destructive star - a singer everyone wanted a piece of. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189994
- ISBN
- 9780141189994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02