Literature
Results 10249 - 10272 of 27875
Literature
Paperback. Includes an introduction, annotation to each poem, and a fresh glossary. This title contains devotional writing; the poet makes agile use of demanding stanza forms to ensure that human beings are left in no doubt as to their failings. It brings out the political significance of poems and also their place in the tradition of devotional writing. Editor(s): Barr, Helen. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898171
- ISBN
- 9780859898171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.83
€ 43.99
€ 39.83
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Valley Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908853691
- ISBN
- 9781908853691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 15.08
€ 40.99
€ 15.08
Hardcover. Num Pages: 246 pages, 1port. BIC Classification: 1DFA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929497327
- ISBN
- 9780929497327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.77
€ 46.99
€ 33.77
paperback. An exploration into the "strange science of writing" in which the author reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for "great" writing: the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration; the importance of depth; and the notion of death. Translator(s): Cornell, Sarah E. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 264. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures S. 162 pages. An exploration into the "strange science of writing", in which the author reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for "great" writing: the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration; the importance of depth; and the notion of death. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight: 250. Translator(s): Cornell, Sarah.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 162
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231076593
- ISBN
- 9780231076593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.47
€ 29.99
€ 22.47
Hardback. Clean copy, light shelfwear. Good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1956
- SKU
- KST0020271
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors including Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, and Pier-Paolo Pasolini offer the delight of exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. Essential reading for anyone who has been to Rome or dreams of going there. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Translator(s): Shankland, Hugh. Num Pages: 320 pages, twenty black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; DQ; FA; FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199572465
- ISBN
- 9780199572465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.45
€ 16.99
€ 13.45
Paperback. Renowned translator Helen Craig McCullough has selected representative portions of these two major classical Japanese works with a view to shaping the abridgments into coherent, aesthetically acceptable wholes. Translator(s): McCullough, Helen Craig. Num Pages: 500 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 500
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804722582
- ISBN
- 9780804722582
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.32
€ 42.99
€ 38.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages. Dimension: 202 x 133. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811225502
- ISBN
- 9780811225502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.42
€ 21.42
Paperback. The Malarkey is Helen Dunmore's first poetry book since Glad of These Times (2007). Its title poem won the National Poetry Competition in 2010. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 5. Weight in Grams: 124. 72 pages. The Malarkey is Helen Dunmore's first poetry book since Glad of These Times (2007). Its title poem won the National Poetry Competition in 2010. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 140 x 215 x 5. Weight: 122.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 72
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249403
- ISBN
- 9781852249403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.63
€ 11.99
€ 10.63
Paperback. New collection by prizewinning poet and novelist: poems about mortality, illness, being alive and the borderline between the living human world and the underworld. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780373584
- ISBN
- 9781780373584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.46
€ 13.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. A powerful drama about a clash between organised religion and personal faith, full of intrigue and danger, ruthless ambitions and illicit desire. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848424937
- ISBN
- 9781848424937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Published alongside the West End transfer of the hit RSC production. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848426665
- ISBN
- 9781848426665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.40
€ 13.99
€ 13.40
Paperback. Presents the tale of Mary Shelley - and how she came to write one of the greatest stories ever told, aged just 19. This title explores Shelley's remarkable life: her controversial philosopher father, her scandalous elopement aged 16 and how she wrote a novel, and more. Num Pages: 125 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 202 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 125
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848422575
- ISBN
- 9781848422575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.08
€ 18.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. This play is the first new work after a break of six years from Helen Edmundson, the writer of "The Clearing", "Anna Karenina" and "The Mill on the Floss". Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854597007
- ISBN
- 9781854597007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.55
€ 18.99
€ 17.55
Paperback. Second book from Farish, whose debut collection, Intimates (Cape, 2005), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. This is a thematic collection of poems exploring the lives and love of Chopin and French novelist George Sand. Num Pages: 72 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 6. Weight in Grams: 124. The Decade of Chopin and Sand. 72 pages, Illustrationsstrations. Second book from Farish, whose debut collection, Intimates (Cape, 2005), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. This is a thematic collection of poems exploring the lives and love of Chopin and French novelist George Sand. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 6. Weight: 124.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 72
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249410
- ISBN
- 9781852249410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.63
€ 11.99
€ 10.63
Paperback. Helen Farish's third collection is preoccupied with narratives from the past. The dog of memory roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens - and people, but also the landscape of literature itself. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780373188
- ISBN
- 9781780373188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.48
€ 13.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. These poems usher in a new and exciting voice to British poetry a third woman to add to the successful Next Generation Poets list thrillingly tender and erotic, attuned to the nerve-endings of love and loss." Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- First edition. Paperback.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224072793
- ISBN
- 9780224072793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Hardcover. A fascinating study of one of the greatest German woman writers of the twentieth century Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSBH; DSK; HBTB; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472112159
- ISBN
- 9780472112159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.96
€ 94.96
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- SKU
- KHN0000164
- ISBN
- 9780140280098
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Seven centuries of verse, from 1250 to 1950. Dame Helen Gardner reflects the critical consensus of the day in broadening her choices beyond those of Quiller-Couch's lyrical tastes. The anthology balances poems dealing with public events and historic occasions, poems of private life, and religious, moral. Editor(s): Gardner, Helen. Series: Oxford Books of Verse. Num Pages: 992 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 147 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1182.
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198121367
- ISBN
- 9780198121367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.30
€ 50.99
€ 36.30
Hardcover. This book examines how the interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which reading, viewing and dreaming generate moving images in the mind. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748669486
- ISBN
- 9780748669486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.67€ 109.28
€ 111.67
€ 109.28
Hardback. Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? This title explores the history of invented encounters between the poet and the Queen, and examines how and why the mythology of these two charismatic and enduring cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128061
- ISBN
- 9780691128061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.78€ 47.04
€ 58.78
€ 47.04
Paperback. The author reveals that the hysterical female character of the 19th-century novel is more than just a literary "femme fatale", and contends, using readings from Balzac, Eliot and others, that these narratives are sources for understanding hysterical states of mind. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris London
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- SKU
- KRS0019043
- ISBN
- 9781860641879
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Series: Plays. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABU; BG; DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Gazelle Distribution Trade
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780868196053
- ISBN
- 9780868196053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08