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Paperback. Vivian Bearing, a specialist in the Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to Donne: probing and rational. During the course of her illness, she reassesses her life and work with profundity and wry humour. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 5. Weight in Grams: 82.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854594587
ISBN
9781854594587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.58

Hardback. The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman, covering all varieties of the British rural and urban landscape. This book presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions and periods. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148 x 31. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500514931
ISBN
9780500514931
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.27

Hardcover. In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. The author offers a comprehensive study of all the names of people and places - real and imaginary. It offers a fresh understanding of Austen's technique of creative anachronism. Num Pages: 440 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 45. Weight in Grams: 844.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226157832
ISBN
9780226157832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.74

Hardcover. Offers an introduction to the works of a Cajun writer who finds optimism in his blue-collar tales. This book presents a study of the Louisiana storyteller, who injects a seldom heard Cajun voice into Southern literature and offers a optimistic vision among other contemporary writers of the hardscrabble American South. Series Editor(s): Bruccoli, Matthew J. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570038594
ISBN
9781570038594
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 220 x 13. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493283
ISBN
9781611493283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 96.20

Paperback. 8vo Very good copy. First edition. Irish Poetry. Anthology
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KEX0288119
ISBN
9780856405846
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Editor(s): Cohen, Margaret; Prendergast, Christopher. Series: Cultural Politics S. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816625215
ISBN
9780816625215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.52

Paperback. Analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Walter Benjamin's post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. This title argues that Breton's surrealist Marxism played a formative role in shaping postwar French intellectual life. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520201507
ISBN
9780520201507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.84

Paperback. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 328 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691155982
ISBN
9780691155982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.11

Paperback. Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACSX; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842798
ISBN
9781843842798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. Poems chronicling the contemporary self's fluctuating desire between near-obliterating connectedness and panoptical self-surveillance in the social media age. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552452790
ISBN
9781552452790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.55

Paperback. A collection of poems that looks at our primal appetite for attachment through the modern norms of codependency and co-existence, understanding that the postmodern digital era has created an atmosphere where the vulnerability and tenderness of the individual is both profanely exposed and brazenly reinvented in the arrival of virtual identity. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 199.
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552452042
ISBN
9781552452042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.54

Paperback. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112879
ISBN
9781551112879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.81

hardcover. Romancing the Novel examines the ways in which romance forms the characteristic "boys' books"--as exemplified in the novels of Scott, Dumas, Verne, and Stephenson--influence narratives not generally put in the same category, both in psychoanalytic accounts of the psyche and in novels by George Eliot, Ursula Le Guin, Joseph Conrad, and W.G. Sebald. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482522
ISBN
9781611482522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.75

Paperback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487520267
ISBN
9781487520267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Suitable for all writers and readers, this volume builds on the success and acclaim of the first two editions. Series: The Paris Review. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847671134
ISBN
9781847671134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.59

paperback. It stirs depths that Cat's Eye did not reach, and grants deeper stronger powers to women's friendship in distress' MARINA WARNER An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 38. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
A Virago Book
Condition
New
SKU
9781853817229
ISBN
9781853817229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.20

Paperback. Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then ruthlessly hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571239498
ISBN
9780571239498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.59

Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0006565
ISBN
9780860689966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Margaret Atwood's fascinating account of her lifelong relationship with science and speculative fiction. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844087556
ISBN
9781844087556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.90

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