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Paperback. The author was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This book includes selections of his work that follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. Editor(s): Erskine-Hill, Howard; Damrosch, Leo. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140423501
ISBN
9780140423501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.29

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 82.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486280530
ISBN
9780486280530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.25

Paperback. A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors..Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature. Illustrator(s): Beardsley, Aubrey. Num Pages: 96 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 98. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0004801
ISBN
9780099511526
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Written in 1727, "The Art of Sinking in Poetry" was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496928
ISBN
9781847496928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.40

Paperback. A series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions expressed in prefaces, offers insights into the poets' own work as well as providing an introduction to some of the greatest poets of literature. Editor(s): Fuller, John. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 121 x 10. Weight in Grams: 92.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
9780571230709
ISBN
9780571230709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Rogers, Pat. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537600
ISBN
9780199537600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.12

Paperback. This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Pope's poetry and prose - the major poems in their entirety, together with translations, criticism, letters and other prose - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Editor(s): Rogers, Pat. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 768 pages, one map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 46. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
768
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537617
ISBN
9780199537617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.37

Hardcover. 1729. 205pp. Index. Appendix. The Dunciad is a landmark literary satire by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times. The first version (the "three book" Dunciad) was published in 1728 anonymously. The second version, the Dunciad Variorum was published anonymously in 1729. The New Dunciad, in four books and with a different hero, appeared in 1743. The poem celebrates the goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the kingdom of Great Britain. This copy is the second version. Full calf. Title in gilt on spine. Embossed. Cover is slightly worn. Child's drawings on endpapers. Some notes in pen throughout. Hole burnt in title page. Overall very good considering age of the book. Binding is tight and text is clear and bright. Keywords: 18th Century Poetry, British Poetry, Rare and Antiquarian Books
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Printed and Reprinted for the Booksellers in Dublin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KON0826965
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 395.00

Hardback. What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? This title explores this question. Num Pages: 312 pages, 68 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 724.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251861
ISBN
9780520251861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.99
€ 64.67

Paperback. For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This title provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428. Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. 294 pages. For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This title provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB; HPC. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight: 406.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
294
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224902
ISBN
9780520224902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.21

Paperback. In early l868, the last Tokugawa Shogun was toppled from power by rebels with the help of Thomas Blake Glover. This is a biography of this man who is famed in Japan for his contribution to the birth of modern Japan and for his connection with the Madame Butterfly legend. Num Pages: 272 pages, two 8page b&w insets on text paper. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857866158
ISBN
9780857866158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.50

Paperback. Imagination is unruly. It creates the mind's world, linking the sensory realm to the realm of the intellect by oscillating between mind and body, self and world, ideal and real. This title demonstrates that this ambivalence in conceptions of imagination informs fundamental philosophical and aesthetic projects of European modernity. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 344 pages, n/a bw photos, n/a color photos, n/a line drawings, n/a maps, n/a tables. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988931
ISBN
9780295988931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816639038
ISBN
9780816639038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.08

Hardcover. 223 pp.Previous owner signature on ffep
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Eveleigh Nash
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1914
SKU
KNW0000036
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 28.00

Paperback. Readers of Herodotus' Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams. This book represents an examination of signs and their interpreters, as well as the terminology Herodotus uses to describe sign transmission, reception, and decoding. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
298
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055889
ISBN
9780674055889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.76

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 2PGP; DSBB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1963
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226323985
ISBN
9780226323985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.20

Hardback. Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices -- this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773928
ISBN
9780804773928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.89

Paperback. Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s." Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773935
ISBN
9780804773935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. This book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745651309
ISBN
9780745651309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.47

Hardback. Editor(s): Burry, Alexander (Ohio State University); White, Frederick H (Utah Valley University). Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DQ; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474411424
ISBN
9781474411424
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.47
€ 102.41

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