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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

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
€ 14.33

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

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

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
€ 14.33

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

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

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
€ 13.49

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
€ 13.53

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
€ 16.69

Hardcover. Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137365286
ISBN
9781137365286
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

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

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
€ 13.48

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
€ 20.36

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
€ 23.23

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

€ 16.29

Paperback. Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, the book suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly lines, Penn aims to discover what literature does for an imaginatively engaged reader. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349473724
ISBN
9781349473724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.56

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
€ 11.48

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
€ 11.48

Paperback. Offers the novice poet creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from poets to illustrate the methods and techniques of poetry. This title guides aspiring writers through such key skills as drafting voice imagery rhyme form theme. It includes interviews and conversations with successful poets. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CBV; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415461542
ISBN
9780415461542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.57

Paperback. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349383757
ISBN
9781349383757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 391 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
391
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611460377
ISBN
9781611460377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.38

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