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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
€ 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
€ 21.99€ 16.69
€ 21.99
€ 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
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
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€ 13.07
€ 16.99
€ 13.07
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€ 18.45
€ 26.99
€ 18.45
Hardcover. The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre offers a complete revision of established views of the structure and function of Elizabeth I's Revels Office, arguing that the revels essentially became a commercial enterprise, paid for by the ordinary Londoners. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 342
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198719670
- ISBN
- 9780198719670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.75
€ 165.75
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€ 22.98
€ 27.99
€ 22.98
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
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
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€ 11.38
€ 13.99
€ 11.38
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€ 11.38
€ 13.99
€ 11.38
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
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
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
€ 172.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; DSBH; JFD; UT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2005
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349517640
- ISBN
- 9781349517640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. Welcome to the Library. It's here that every story ever written is catalogued and monitored by a single man, who's begun to notice something strange: the books are rebelling. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FM; FXL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 260 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Image Comics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781534300224
- ISBN
- 9781534300224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.94
€ 11.99
€ 10.94
Paperback. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446209
- ISBN
- 9781349446209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Editor(s): Verhoeven, W. M. Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; HBJD; HBJK; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349999781
- ISBN
- 9781349999781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.84
€ 82.84
Paperback. Points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. This volume also deconstructs the whole question of lateness and the usefulness of periodization. It calls into question the "fact" of Derrida's turn to politics, law, and ethics and highlights continuities throughout his oeuvre. Editor(s): Mitchell, W. J. T.; Davidson, Arnold I. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJP; DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 99 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532578
- ISBN
- 9780226532578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.09
€ 25.99
€ 21.09
paperback. Essays examine the way stories are told, understood, and used to represent and make sense of the world. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532172
- ISBN
- 9780226532172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.89
€ 21.99
€ 18.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532271
- ISBN
- 9780226532271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.31
€ 19.99
€ 17.31
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Five Star
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KOC0003253
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- New Amsterdam Books United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781561310401
- ISBN
- 9781561310401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.28
€ 21.99
€ 21.28
Hardback. A volume of Auden and Chester Kallman's libretti, it includes historical and textual notes tracing the history of the production and revision of the works, and provides full texts of early scenarios, as well as abandoned and rewritten scenes. Editor(s): Mendelson, Professor Edward. Series: The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1314.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 823
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691033013
- ISBN
- 9780691033013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.61€ 82.78
€ 107.61
€ 82.78
Hardback. Editor(s): Mendelson, Professor Edward. Series: The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 243 x 41. Weight in Grams: 950.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691151717
- ISBN
- 9780691151717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.52€ 56.82
€ 72.52
€ 56.82