Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This collection of annotated newspaper articles and memorials by Dorothea Dix provides a forum for the mid-19th-century humanitarian and reformer to speak for herself. An introduction to each document places it in social and historical context, and the editor considers Dix's ongoing impact. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; HBTB; JFFA; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809321636
- ISBN
- 9780809321636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.73
€ 36.73
Paperback. From Instruction to Delight is an anthology that traces the development of the genre of children's literature from its earnest beginnings to the dawn of its Golden Age. Editor(s): Demers, Patricia. Num Pages: 432 pages, 189 photos. BIC Classification: DQ; DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199010882
- ISBN
- 9780199010882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.52
€ 53.52
hardcover. Num Pages: 2080 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 2080
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138751224
- ISBN
- 9781138751224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.81
€ 59.81
hardcover. Num Pages: 2080 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 2080
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138751248
- ISBN
- 9781138751248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.81
€ 59.81
hardcover. Num Pages: 2080 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 2080
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138751255
- ISBN
- 9781138751255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.81
€ 59.81
paperback. Translator(s): Dankoff, Robert; Leiser, Gary. Num Pages: 496 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2FMC; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415665124
- ISBN
- 9780415665124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.67
€ 71.67
paperback. The writer Giuseppe Prezzolini said that Italian immigrants left behind tears and sweat but not words, making their lives in America mostly in silence, their memories private and stories untold. This title offers the study of a largely ignored legacy - the autobiographies written by immigrants. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 222 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226016
- ISBN
- 9780823226016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.51
€ 41.99
€ 37.51
paperback. Num Pages: 267 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231057752
- ISBN
- 9780231057752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 40.83
€ 46.99
€ 40.83
hardcover. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815623052
- ISBN
- 9780815623052
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.02
€ 36.02
paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 143 x 33. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- SEVEN STORIES PRESS United States
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781888363371
- ISBN
- 9781888363371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.02
€ 26.99
€ 25.02
paperback. Num Pages: 345 pages, 10 b/w ilulus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271028521
- ISBN
- 9780271028521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.24
€ 56.24
paperback. An accessible, entertaining guide to literary Dublin and the writers associated with it, from Swift to the present day. Illustrated throughout with period photographs and new photography showing places, events and people related to literary Dublin today. Num Pages: 224 pages, 100 colour illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DS; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ8038979
- ISBN
- 9781847172488
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.17
€ 4.17
paperback. Presents an account of the author's Irish rural upbringing that describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. This title includes tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time salmon-poaching. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ8039130
- ISBN
- 9780141184203
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ8039314
- ISBN
- 9781843510475
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Omeros is considered the masterwork of Caribbean-born poet and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. McGarrity, an expert on Joyce and Caribbean literature, has written a definitive and needed high-quality reading guide for this important piece of postcolonial Caribbean literature. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813061009
- ISBN
- 9780813061009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.45
€ 81.45
Paperback. Takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more "disturbing," and thus better than the remakes. David Roche assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. Num Pages: 335 pages, 78 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFX; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781496802545
- ISBN
- 9781496802545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.72
€ 39.72
Conversations with John le Carre (Literary Conversations)
. Ed(S): Bruccoli, Matthew J.; Baughman, Judi...
paperback. Editor(s): Bruccoli, Matthew J.; Baughman, Judith S. Num Pages: 277 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578066698
- ISBN
- 9781578066698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 505 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; DSB; HBJF; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789814459884
- ISBN
- 9789814459884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.14
€ 56.14
paperback. A biography of one of the most popular Urdu and Persian poets. Series: Oxford India Paperbacks. Num Pages: 404 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; 2BMU; 2BXF; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- OUP India India
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- V9780195635065
- ISBN
- 9780195635065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.86
€ 29.86
Paperback. Combines essays by a diverse group of medievalists to consider the multiple ways in which readers approach texts and manuscripts as part of various communities of readers and scholars. Each work is embedded in a variety of contexts and derives its meaning in part from the intersection of those contexts in the reader's experience of the text. Editor(s): Mann, Jill; Nolan, Maura. Num Pages: 264 pages, 31 halftones & 5 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268034962
- ISBN
- 9780268034962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.81
€ 43.99
€ 38.81
hardcover. Following a literary analysis of "Animal Farm", this text then examines the historical, political and literary issues raised by the novel to basic tenets of Marxism, the Russian Revolution and Josef Stalin, and the relation of George Orwell's life to the writing of the novel. Series: The Greenwood Press Literature in Context. Num Pages: 256 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Greenwood United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313302015
- ISBN
- 9780313302015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.30
€ 73.30
paperback.
This long overdue American and British anthology of detective fiction is filled with award-winning short stories, inside information on the authors who wrote them, discussions about the evolution of the genre, and significant literary criticism.
Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSK; FF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Pearson United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780321195012
- ISBN
- 9780321195012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.34
€ 80.34
paperback. Dag Norberg's analysis and interpretation of medieval Latin versification, which was published in French in 1958 and remains the standard work on the subject, appears in here English, with a detailed, scholarly introduction by Jan Ziolkowski that reviews developments since its initial publication. Editor(s): Ziolkowski, Jan M. Num Pages: 30 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 3H; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Catholic University America Pr United States
- Number of pages
- 30
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813213361
- ISBN
- 9780813213361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.00
€ 40.00
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691651514
- ISBN
- 9780691651514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.77
€ 122.77