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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Editor(s): Arias, Martin; Hadis, Martin. Translator(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780811222747
ISBN
9780811222747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.57

Hardcover. A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: ACV; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
2nd Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393080995
ISBN
9780393080995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.74

Hardcover. The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine. Num Pages: 464 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 820.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393240030
ISBN
9780393240030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.77

Paperback. Num Pages: Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; BGH; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1967
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780811201896
ISBN
9780811201896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.51

Paperback. "A highly readable, sensitive, and lively Werther. Corngold is both faithful to the German and true to the demands of a modern English text" -Jeremy Adler, Times Literary Supplement Translator(s): Corngold, Stanley. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393343571
ISBN
9780393343571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.46

Paperback. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists and writers were devastated though not entirely surprised. To many, Brautigan was shrouded in enigma, erratic and unpredictable in his habits and presentation. This title offers portraits of a man destroyed by his genius. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 181 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1588.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Counterpoint United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
864
Condition
New
SKU
V9781619021051
ISBN
9781619021051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.88

Paperback. Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Penguin Edition
SKU
KSS0000121
ISBN
9780140063837
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. Situating Shakespeare's representations of marriage firmly within the ideologies and practices of Renaissance culture, Lisa Hopkins argues that Shakespeare anatomizes marriage much as he does kingship, and finds it similarly indispensable to the underpinning of society. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0000234
ISBN
9780333647325
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomethings whose debuts startled critics and audiences with their heady mix of sex, violence and street-poetry. This title studies this outburst of creative self-expression. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571200498
ISBN
9780571200498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 202 x 4. Weight in Grams: 76.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1968
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811200455
ISBN
9780811200455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.33

Hardcover. Num Pages: 306 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838639184
ISBN
9780838639184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.28

Paperback. This analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Translator(s): Tarnowski, Andrea. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734271
ISBN
9780804734271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFSL4; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360636
ISBN
9780822360636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441157706
ISBN
9781441157706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.98

Paperback. Series: Public Worlds Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
First edition
SKU
V9780816638406
ISBN
9780816638406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as 'the greatest living Irishwoman' -- Augusta Gregory. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGH; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Picador London
Condition
New
Edition
Main Market
SKU
9780330419932
ISBN
9780330419932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.74

Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001792
ISBN
9780140285376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Thimble Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001865
ISBN
9780903355476
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The third volume in Soyinka's series of memoirs, the sequel to "Ake and Isara". In a mixture of fact and fiction - to protect the innocent and nail the guilty and shape an often intolerable reality - it tells of the coming of age of a writer and political activist; and of a nation's betrayal. Num Pages: 397 pages, 1 b&w line. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DNF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002011
ISBN
9780413744203
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The memoirs of Ireland's acclaimed author and playwright, Hugh Leonard. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Methuen
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
New
SKU
KKD0002182
ISBN
9780413771681
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

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