Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
paperback. With profound insight and remarkable candor, the author tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSK; VSP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 88.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285571
- ISBN
- 9780099285571
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paperback. Explores the author's relationship with his father. This title also reflects on the life and legacy of the author's cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973 and was exhumed twenty years later from the basement of Frederick West, one of Britain's prolific serial murderers. Num Pages: 416 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285823
- ISBN
- 9780099285823
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paperback. A collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. It contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140081954
- ISBN
- 9780140081954
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paperback. Includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. Editor(s): Burrow, Colin. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140424447
- ISBN
- 9780140424447
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paperback. The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. This title contains four tragedies. Editor(s): Hunter, George; Spencer, T.; Muir, Kenneth; Hunter, G. K. Num Pages: 960 pages, notes, further reading list. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 648.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140434583
- ISBN
- 9780140434583
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€ 16.99€ 13.91
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paperback. A work that poses provocative questions about perception and reality. It is a parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. It provides an overview of this world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140435313
- ISBN
- 9780140435313
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€ 10.99€ 9.64
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paperback. Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, this work relates his ascent to the Mount of Purgatory. Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a better man. The second part of an epic poem, it is a Christian allegory of sin, redemption and enlightenment. Editor(s): Musa, Mark. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 428 pages, illustrations, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140444421
- ISBN
- 9780140444421
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paperback. Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive commentary, a glossary and bibliography, this translation seeks to clarify the theological themes and make Dante accessible to the English-speaking public. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140444438
- ISBN
- 9780140444438
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paperback. Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, the author gives us a true sense of 'the tragedies joining up with life, with all our lives; leading us into a perspective of possibilities that stretch forward and back in time, and in our total awareness of things. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140530193
- ISBN
- 9780140530193
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paperback. Covers different varieties of poetic practice in English. This book discusses the work of poets as wide ranging as W H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and Blake. Num Pages: 144 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141004396
- ISBN
- 9780141004396
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paperback. Gives definitions of technical terms (hamartia, iamb, zeugma) and critical jargon (aporia, binary opposition, intertextuality). This book explores literary movements (neoclassism, romanticism, vorticism) and schools of literary theory. It covers genres (elegy, fabliau, pastoral) and literary forms (haiku, ottava rima, sonnet). Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: DSR; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141047157
- ISBN
- 9780141047157
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€ 20.99€ 16.68
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mass_market. Tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. This book takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 162 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141398679
- ISBN
- 9780141398679
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paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; UMB; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141982489
- ISBN
- 9780141982489
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hardcover. This book-lover's Baedeker to more than 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe invites readers to meaningful travel experiences. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 209. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- National Geographic
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781426217807
- ISBN
- 9781426217807
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paperback. This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings. Num Pages: 344 pages, 30ill. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415913911
- ISBN
- 9780415913911
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paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 26 illus. Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Peter E. Randall Publisher United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780914339472
- ISBN
- 9780914339472
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paperback. Offers a perspective on J R R Tolkien's Medievalism. This book explores how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. Editor(s): Chance, Jane. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3H; DSBH; DSK; HBJD1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415473484
- ISBN
- 9780415473484
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Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett
Innes, C.D.; Marker, Frederick J.
Paperback. This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett. Editor(s): Innes, Christopher; Marker, Frederick J. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802082060
- ISBN
- 9780802082060
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€ 40.99€ 36.39
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paperback. How to get on well with people, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought. This biography of Montaigne relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099485155
- ISBN
- 9780099485155
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€ 15.99€ 12.53
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paperback. William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise. Editor(s): Wilmer, Clive. Num Pages: 480 pages, chronology, bibliographical notes. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140433302
- ISBN
- 9780140433302
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.07
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