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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. Series: BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO LITERA. Num Pages: 584 pages, NO. BIC Classification: DS. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1042.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118451625
ISBN
9781118451625
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 213.98

Paperback. The Cold War that has so often been linked to Orwell's novel ended with more of a whimper than a bang, but most of the issues of concern to him remain alive in some form today: censorship, scientific surveillance, power worship, the autonomy of art, the meaning of democracy, relations between men and women, and many others. Editor(s): Gleason, Prof. Abbott; Goldsmith, Jack L.; Nussbaum, Martha C. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691113616
ISBN
9780691113616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Exploring how adults mistreat children, this book focuses on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline young listeners. Num Pages: 332 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY; JFC; JFHF; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691000886
ISBN
9780691000886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Connell Guides United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907776922
ISBN
9781907776922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.27

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691629711
ISBN
9780691629711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 208.69

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631035
ISBN
9780691631035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.02

Paperback. This Reader's Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter's work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays from academics and the press, along themes such as Absurdism, politics and gender identity. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 152 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230299641
ISBN
9780230299641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.87

Hardback. Editor(s): Kerrigan, Anthony; Nozick, Martin. Series: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691629094
ISBN
9780691629094
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.85

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647586
ISBN
9780691647586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.47

Hardback. Richard Jefferies' After London is uncanny and intriguing, an adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science fiction. Editor(s): Frost, Mark. Series: Edinburgh critical editions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402392
ISBN
9781474402392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.51
€ 107.92

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636481
ISBN
9780691636481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 173.61

Hardcover. Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them is the third volume in The Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast. Series: The Poet's Chair: Writings from the Ireland Chair of Poetry. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906359911
ISBN
9781906359911
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.71

Hardcover. Offers information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DN; DSBB; HBLA1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 119 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996403
ISBN
9780674996403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. Simon Winchester turns his unrivaled talents to revealing the significance of the intriguing photograph whose subject inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; DSB; DSK; DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 157.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190614546
ISBN
9780190614546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.81

Hardback. Editor(s): Vete-Congolo, Hanetha. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319320878
ISBN
9783319320878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.91

Paperback. Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship. These pseudonymous volumes of Either/Or are the writings of a young man and of Judge William. Editor(s): Hong, Howard V.; Hong, Edna H. Series: Kierkegaard's Writings. Num Pages: 728 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DNF; DSBF; HPCF3; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 44. Weight in Grams: 842.
Edition
n Later printing
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
728
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691020419
ISBN
9780691020419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

Hardback. In selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, ranging from Plath to Roth, Ahlberg reads contemporary narratives, particularly "transatlantic literature", as it imagines and navigates today's virtual spaces. Ultimately, Ahlberg's argument empowers the reader to reimagine a future for narrative in the Information Age. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479211
ISBN
9781137479211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.45

Hardback. In seventeenth-century England, intellectuals of various kinds discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who investigated, named, and commanded the creatures. This title argues, that early modern scientists, poets, and pamphleteers claimed authority as both workers and 'public persons'. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 174 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1324.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
880
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674049062
ISBN
9780674049062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.63
€ 62.96

Paperback. Series: New Modernisms. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472590077
ISBN
9781472590077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.95

Hardcover. A remarkable work that recovers the songs Shakespeare's audiences actually heard and brings them to life through performance. Num Pages: 528 pages, 49 illustrations, 500 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC2; AVQS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 259 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1330.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
HAR/COM
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393058895
ISBN
9780393058895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.37

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 73 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; APT; DSB; JFD; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784994150
ISBN
9781784994150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.08

Hardback. Editor(s): Rooney, Paul Raphael; Gasperini, Anna. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 254 pages, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137587602
ISBN
9781137587602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.93

Hardcover. The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205--184BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Moliere to modern times. Twenty-one of his plays are extant. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 115 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996823
ISBN
9780674996823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.84

Paperback. Editor(s): Burian, Peter; Shapiro, Alan. Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 135 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195388800
ISBN
9780195388800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.53

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