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Paperback. In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Seamus Heaney selects W.B. Yeats. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 120 x 12. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571222964
- ISBN
- 9780571222964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Hardback. 46pp. Second Edition. 8vo. For all practical purposes, this is the first edition because all except for 4 copies of the first printing were destroyed by Yeats' wife. Clean and attractive in the original blue wrappers. Cover is worn and detached. Cover design by Jack B Yeats. Keywords: Irish Literature
- Publisher
- The Cuala Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- KHS0044459
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 295.00
€ 295.00
Hardcover. Reprint, original green cloth, sme very light foxing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Macmiillan & Co. Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1926
- SKU
- KTK0094346
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 75.00
€ 75.00
Hardback. Designs by Gordon Craig. Uncut. binding slightly loose. some light foxing. 224pp
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- A.H. Bullen
- Publication date
- 1911
- SKU
- KTK0000557
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 475.00
€ 475.00
Hardcover. Lhamon's reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness and how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow's sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by all ordinary people. Num Pages: 478 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DQ; DSBF; DSG; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 167 x 38. Weight in Grams: 900.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010628
- ISBN
- 9780674010628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.75€ 75.09
€ 82.75
€ 75.09
Paperback. Clean copy with covers dulled and showing some shelf wear. Previous owner's name to inside front cover. Remains a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1967
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0007582
- ISBN
- 9780140026474
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
mass_market.
- Publication date
- 1920
- Publisher
- Bantam Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780553213928
- ISBN
- 9780553213928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.33
€ 9.33
Paperback. Part autobiographical, part confessional, this title contains Somerset Maugham's observations, confidences, experiments and jottings, from 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286820
- ISBN
- 9780099286820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. In his day, W Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright. This collection of his most popular plays manifests the breadth of his ability. It includes the noirish mystery The Sacred Flame, the hilarious satires The Circle, The Constant Wife, and Our Betters, and the sharp-witted drama Sheppey. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 34. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872120
- ISBN
- 9781784872120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.63
€ 23.99
€ 16.63
Hardcover. 137pp. 'Jubilee Edition.' Number 941 of a Signed Ltd Edition of 1000. Dustjacket covered in a protective mylar jacket. Includes an ALS to Mrs. Rhonda C. Kearney. Spine is slightly sunned, but otherwise an excellent copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1947
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- SKU
- KHS1015380
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 950.00
€ 950.00
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286790
- ISBN
- 9780099286790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. Presents an avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, and also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286899
- ISBN
- 9780099286899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. Features essays ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story. This title presents the views and opinions of this eminent writer. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099288909
- ISBN
- 9780099288909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099288701
- ISBN
- 9780099288701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. A guide that studies the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286783
- ISBN
- 9780099286783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- VINTAGE (RAND)
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099289609
- ISBN
- 9780099289609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
€ 17.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Showcases the range of W Somerset Maugham's talent as a playwright. In this title, the satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered, and Maugham's tense colonial drama The Letter. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872137
- ISBN
- 9781784872137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.63
€ 23.99
€ 16.63
Paperback. Presents a collection of poems that feature nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory as central themes. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781852248543
- ISBN
- 9781852248543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.58
€ 12.58
Paperback. WS Merwin is an influential American poet. This book contains a selection of his poems which cover over five decades of his poetry, from "The Dancing Bears" (1954) to "Present Company" (2005). It draws its contents from his American retrospective, "Migration". Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852247690
- ISBN
- 9781852247690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.16
€ 16.99
€ 13.16
paperback. From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works of the late 1970s, W. S. Graham has given us a poetry of intense power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best Romantic poetry of the twentieth century. Graham died in 1986 with much of his work gathered in Collected Poems 1942-1977. Editor(s): Francis, Matthew. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571209897
- ISBN
- 9780571209897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.34
€ 26.99
€ 18.34
Paperback. With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, this book offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as it focuses on the "somber and nourishing fictions" in Vergil's poem. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 90 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226252230
- ISBN
- 9780226252230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.17
€ 27.99
€ 23.17
Paperback. This edition of great classic of Middle English romances gives the original text side by side with a modern translation, which aims to offer some of the brilliant surface texture of the original poem. Also supplied are revised/updated introduction and notes for A-level students and undergraduates. Editor(s): Barron, W. R. J. Series: Manchester Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719055171
- ISBN
- 9780719055171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.21
€ 16.21
Paperback. 'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272. Remix. 160 pages. 'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight: 272.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Remix
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249694
- ISBN
- 9781852249694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. 'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 274. Alternative Text. 160 pages. 'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight: 270.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Alternative Text
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249625
- ISBN
- 9781852249625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45