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Hardback. Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-years-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. This narrative reveals that Wilde was underselling himself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066960
ISBN
9780674066960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.34

Hardcover. Editor(s): Andrist, Debra D. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; AB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845198367
ISBN
9781845198367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.45

Paperback. Presents the original text of the translation of the Homeric hymns. This title also includes epigrams and poems attributed to Homer and known as "The Lesser Homerica," as well as his famous "The Battle of Frogs and Mice." Translator(s): Chapman, George. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DB; DCF; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136769
ISBN
9780691136769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.40

Paperback. Editor(s): Baumbach, Nico; Young, Damon R.; Yue, Genevieve. Num Pages: 140 pages, 17. BIC Classification: DSA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 170 x 10. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822368472
ISBN
9780822368472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.39

Paperback. Editor(s): Hirsch, Marianne; Miller, Nancy K. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231150910
ISBN
9780231150910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.36

Hardback. A new edition of RLS's poetry, including many previously unpublished pieces. Editor(s): Lewis, Roger C. Series: The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Num Pages: 672 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1294.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
672
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748615575
ISBN
9780748615575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.95

Hardback. Editor(s): Minton, Gretchen. Series: Arden Shakespeare the State of Play. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474280372
ISBN
9781474280372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.55
€ 103.50

Hardback. By complicating the views of gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, this exciting new scholarship will stimulate further debates in classical studies and literary criticism with its fresh perspectives. Editor(s): Ancona, Ronnie; Greene, Ellen. Series: Arethusa Books. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801881985
ISBN
9780801881985
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.94

Paperback. Suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. This work analyzes constructions of characters' minds in the fictional texts of a wide range of authors, from Aphra Behn and Henry Fielding to Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Pynchon. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803218352
ISBN
9780803218352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, and government documents including texts by Frederick Douglass and freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo explicates the growing interrelatedness of people of African descent through the Americas in the nineteenth century. Series: Rethinking the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH5; JFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223231
ISBN
9780812223231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.06

Hardback. Num Pages: 195 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253018007
ISBN
9780253018007
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.71

Paperback. Companion to the work of one of the most admired of English writers and artists. Editor(s): Eaves, Morris. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 328 pages, 36 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 328 pages, 36 b/w illus. Editor(s): Eaves, Morris. Companion to the work of one of the most admired of English writers and artists. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight: 504.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521786775
ISBN
9780521786775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845198220
ISBN
9781845198220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.68

Paperback. What does philosophy think about literature? And what does literary theory tell us about philosophy? Find out how philosophy addresses the questions of the nature and value of literature, and how literary analysis shows that philosophy's attempts at persuasion conflict with its image of pure and untainted reason. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748610228
ISBN
9780748610228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.74

Hardback. Humanist Tragedies offers a sampling of Latin drama from the Tre- and Quattrocento. These five tragedies--Ecerinis, Achilleis, Progne, Hyempsal, and Fernandus servatus--were nourished by a potent amalgam of classical, medieval, and pre-humanist sources. Humanist tragedy testifies to momentous changes in literary conventions during the Renaissance. Translator(s): Grund, Gary R. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057258
ISBN
9780674057258
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.07

Paperback. One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villain in Western literature, in Othello and Desdemona he gave us our most tragic and unforgettable lovers. Editor(s): Raffel, Professor Burton (Distinguished Arts and Humanities,Professor of English, University of Louisiana). Series: The Annotated Shakespeare. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300108071
ISBN
9780300108071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.85

Hardcover. No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180 220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280." Translator(s): Idema, Wilt L.; West, Stephen H. Num Pages: 501 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 798.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
501
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603848145
ISBN
9781603848145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.43
€ 70.61

Paperback. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? This title deals with these questions. Num Pages: 360 pages, 18 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159546
ISBN
9780691159546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.70

Hardcover. A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field. Editor(s): Brozgal, Lia Nicole; Kippur, Sara. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781382639
ISBN
9781781382639
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.00

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

€ 49.07

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