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Hardcover. The "Metamorphoses" ("The Golden Ass") of Apuleius (born c. 125 CE) is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the sensations of a bird, but by pharmaceutical accident becomes an ass. The bulk of the novel recounts his adventures as an animal, but Lucius also recounts many stories he overhears, including that of Cupid and Psyche. Translator(s): Hanson, J.A. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 115 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Harvard UP
- Number of pages
- 286
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674994980
- ISBN
- 9780674994980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.99
€ 33.99
€ 28.99
Hardcover. Apuleius (born ca. 125 AD), one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was a prominent figure in Roman Africa best known for his picaresque novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass. This edition, new to the Loeb Classical Library, contains Apuleius' other surviving works that are considered genuine. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 16 x 10. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674997110
- ISBN
- 9780674997110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.96
€ 33.99
€ 32.96
Paperback. Is "Cupid and Psyche" a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream? This book provides a translation of this best known section of "Apuleius' Golden Ass". Translator(s): Relihan, Joel C. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209725
- ISBN
- 9780872209725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.54
€ 17.99
€ 14.54
hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823233557
- ISBN
- 9780823233557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Hardcover. This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230248137
- ISBN
- 9780230248137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. Desperate to get away from her family and from a culture where everybody knows everything about everybody, Edie moves out but can she ever manage to move on? Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 8. Weight in Grams: 85. Paperback in good to very condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KRF0020456
- ISBN
- 9780571203550
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover
Apple, Max; Brouwer, Joel. Ed(S): Martone, Mi...
paperback. Do Midwesterners have a peculiar way of looking at the world? Is there something not quite right about the way they see things? For such a normal place, the heartland has produced some writers who take an individual approach to storytelling. This book contains 33 tales that showcase the wonderful vision of some of the region's best-known writers. Editor(s): Martone, Michael. Series: Quarry Books. Num Pages: 328 pages, 21 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 527.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Quarry Books United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253210227
- ISBN
- 9780253210227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.21
€ 24.99
€ 23.21
Paperback. Editor(s): Richardson, John. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 192 pages, text, translation and commentary. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856687204
- ISBN
- 9780856687204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.36
€ 34.99
€ 31.36
Paperback. Uncle Petros is a family joke - an ageing recluse in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and gardening. His young nephew soon discovers his uncle was once a celebrated mathematician who staked all on solving the problem of Goldbach's Conjecture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571205110
- ISBN
- 9780571205110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Wolkow have produced an accurate and elegant translation accompanied by rich commentary. Translator(s): Athanassakis, Apostolos N.; Wolkow, Benjamin M. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408828
- ISBN
- 9781421408828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.63
€ 31.99
€ 30.63
Paperback. "This translation first published 1959"--T.p. verso. Translator(s): Rieu, E. V. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1959
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140440850
- ISBN
- 9780140440850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107636750
- ISBN
- 9781107636750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.55
€ 37.55
Paperback. Dimension: 131 x 196 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143106869
- ISBN
- 9780143106869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. A retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, one of the oldest extant Greek myth. Translator(s): Green, Peter. Num Pages: 474 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: DCF; DN; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 686. 474 pages, 5 maps. A retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, one of the oldest extant Greek myth. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DCF; DN; DSBB; DSC. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 35. Weight: 686.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 474
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253933
- ISBN
- 9780520253933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.40
€ 36.99
€ 32.40
Paperback. Contains the English translations of Apollodorus' "Library" and Hyginus' "Fabulae" - the two important surviving 'handbooks' of classical mythography. This work discusses the issues of authorship, aim, and influence. It also includes an index of people and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers. Translator(s): Trzaskoma, Stephen M.; Smith, R. Scott. Num Pages: 328 pages, maps, geneal. tables. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 247
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208209
- ISBN
- 9780872208209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.92
€ 24.99
€ 18.92
Hardcover. This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105461
- ISBN
- 9780230105461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardback. This short introduction to the work of an essentially modern writer includes four curious poems apparently suppressed from the first edition and reprints of the Raoul Dufy woodcuts published in the 1911 edition. Illustrator(s): Dufy, Raoul. Translator(s): Kennedy, X. J. Num Pages: 96 pages, 31, 31 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400068
- ISBN
- 9781421400068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.43
€ 61.43
Paperback. Offers an insight into manners and roles. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1967
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Underlining
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803253506
- ISBN
- 9780803253506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Paperback. Announcing a new series of Drama Classic Collections. Editor(s): Griffiths, Trevor. Series: Drama Classic: Collections S. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854598486
- ISBN
- 9781854598486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540204
- ISBN
- 9780199540204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89