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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Presents a biography of Robert Lowell (1917-77). His work "Life Studies", was a watershed in American poetry, initiating an autobiographical project, and shaped poetry on both sides of the Atlantic. His other works include "For The Union Dead" (1964), and "Day By Day" (1977), and "Collected Poems" (2003). Editor(s): Hofmann, Michael. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 120 x 9. Weight in Grams: 98.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571230402
ISBN
9780571230402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Hardback. Num Pages: 226 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; CFP; DSB; HP; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674728691
ISBN
9780674728691
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.45
€ 49.70

Paperback. Explores the author's Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P G Wodehouse to Graham Greene) and the perils of basing fictional characters on real people. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141182933
ISBN
9780141182933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Hardback. By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on postcolonial rural spaces. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230298903
ISBN
9780230298903
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. An accessible biography of C S Lewis, his life and the friendships that shaped him Num Pages: 256 pages, 8pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Lion UK
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745955872
ISBN
9780745955872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been underrated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, now available for the first time in paperback, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
284
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
2005 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230223608
ISBN
9780230223608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.37

Hardback. 194pp. Corners very slightly bumped. Keywords: Novels & Novelists This study, first published in 1986, examines the many facets of Mallarmes relationship to the visual arts. Series: Cambridge Studies in French. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Dimension: 247 x 174. Weight in Grams: 595
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
194
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KHS0069145
ISBN
9780521305709
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 91.56

Paperback.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
327
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841952789
ISBN
9781841952789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 205, 205 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; ACK; AKL; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 306 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1622.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801478307
ISBN
9780801478307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.32
€ 52.21

Paperback. Douglas Mack argues that non-elite, 'subaltern' Scottish writers actively challenged the elite's Imperial Grand Narrative and demonstrates that Scottish fiction was active and influential both in shaping and in subverting the assumptions that underpinned the Empire. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1QDB; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748618149
ISBN
9780748618149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

Paperback. Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the eighteenth century. * Brings together original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets. Editor(s): Gerrard, Christine. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 954.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118702291
ISBN
9781118702291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.51

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099507895
ISBN
9780099507895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

Hardback. This collection presents a retrospective and comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland's greatest living writer, John Banville. Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012's 'Ancient Light'. There are radio plays, as well as a selection of his essays and reviews. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 242 x 46. Weight in Grams: 812.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447214724
ISBN
9781447214724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.98

Paperback. A biography full of romanticism, exoticism, glamour and fantasy Num Pages: 384 pages, 2 x 8pp bw. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
John Murray General Publishing Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719565472
ISBN
9780719565472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BGH; DSBH; DSC; HBJD1; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 134 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953478095
ISBN
9780953478095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.47

Hardback. The third of the Waverley Novels is dominated by two old men, Jonathan Oldbuck (the Antiquary of the title) and the beggar Edie Ochiltree. Editor(s): Hewitt, David. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 542 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 33. Weight in Grams: 778.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
542
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748605378
ISBN
9780748605378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.96
€ 109.40

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300218329
ISBN
9780300218329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Editor(s): Collins Edwards, Leslie. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 280 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1048.
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
3rd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585101757
ISBN
9781585101757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.97

Paperback. An original theory that connects the development of coinage to the origins of rational philosophy in ancient Greece. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560. Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy. 384 pages. An original theory that connects the development of coinage to the origins of rational philosophy in ancient Greece. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 23. Weight: 596.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521539920
ISBN
9780521539920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.33

Paperback. Unlike the rigidly chronological approach of many introductions to children's literature, this title presents a genre-based approach which ensures that all the principal genres are covered in detail such as: fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, school stories and children's poetry. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748649020
ISBN
9780748649020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.93

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