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Paperback. Covers three different genres and all the telling themes: Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. This title exposes the pomposities of male pride and public success in 1910 from the point of view of an ex-wife unexpectedly returned as her (be)knighted husband's typist. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 182 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781841950037
- ISBN
- 9781841950037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.01
€ 11.99
€ 10.01
Paperback. As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays, Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman Knows are shrewd and entertaining contributions to the politics of class and gender, while Mary Rose is one of the best ghost stories written for the stage. Editor(s): Hollindale, Peter. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537839
- ISBN
- 9780199537839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.91
€ 10.99
€ 9.91
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823253098
- ISBN
- 9780823253098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.73
€ 36.99
€ 36.73
Paperback. A collection of the author's literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099506140
- ISBN
- 9780099506140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.69
€ 20.99
€ 16.69
Paperback. An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in a war that involves the use of torture? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099516224
- ISBN
- 9780099516224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. A first volume of memoirs, revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, of a boy growing up in a small country town with a father he could not respect and a mother he adored. Coetzee evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood, in a world of unexplained rules he knew he must obey. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099268277
- ISBN
- 9780099268277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. Presents an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. In this book, they consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JM; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099598220
- ISBN
- 9780099598220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.12
€ 17.99
€ 14.12
Paperback. Editor(s): Soueif, Ahdaf; Hamilton, Omar Robert. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; BM; DNF; DNJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408884980
- ISBN
- 9781408884980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.57
€ 21.99
€ 17.57
Paperback. A collection of 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the giants of the 20th century, those who admire Coetzee as a novelist can also read his literary criticism. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099422624
- ISBN
- 9780099422624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.33
€ 17.99
€ 13.33
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099584223
- ISBN
- 9780099584223
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.49
€ 21.99
€ 17.49
Paperback. Focusing on the ways authors have traditionally responded to censorship, this is a collection of essays which attempt to understand the motives for censorship. It argues that a society bound by censorship engenders a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalating rivalry. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DNF; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226111766
- ISBN
- 9780226111766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.72
€ 31.99
€ 24.72
Paperback. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002866
- ISBN
- 9780099490623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. This text presents an analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. Seeking to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring, Coetzee focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226111742
- ISBN
- 9780226111742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.22
€ 41.99
€ 32.22
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140061109
- ISBN
- 9780140061109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.44
€ 16.99
€ 14.44
paperback. A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099289524
- ISBN
- 9780099289524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Very good clean copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Moytura Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0017201
- ISBN
- 9781871305180
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Published in Dublin by The Dolmen Press, 1971. 59pp. First Edition. Some Sonnets from Laura in Death is edited by Robin Skelton. The Italian versions were prepared for this edition by Helga Patrikios from the definitive text published by Sansoni, Flore. Keywords: Poetry.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Dolmen Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1971
- SKU
- KHS0081591
- ISBN
- 9780851051918
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 48.00
€ 48.00
Paperback. A murderer becomes the toast of the village as his charm negates his crime. A young countess saves her tenants from starvation, but only by selling her soul to the Devil. The sleepy parish of Nyadnanave sees a vision of a cockerel that dares the inhabitants to break the shackles of Church and State. Num Pages: 224 pages, music. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140188783
- ISBN
- 9780140188783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.96
€ 15.99
€ 13.96
Hardcover. Cloth spine on yellow boards. Italian and English on opposite pages. Original dustjacket, worn at top and bottom. A fine copy. Keywords: Poetry, Irish and Italian
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Dolmen Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1971
- SKU
- KHS0020888
- ISBN
- 9780851051918
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486275628
- ISBN
- 9780486275628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.17
€ 6.17
Paperback. Editor(s): Saddlemyer, Ann. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSK0000322
- ISBN
- 9780199538058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.17
€ 9.99
€ 8.17
paperback. Collects all of Synge's published plays, including The Playboy of The Western World, along with his Poetry and Translations, and the prose works that detail his travels in The Aran Islands, In Wicklow, In Kerry and In Connemara. Editor(s): Arrowsmith, Aidan. Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0022524
- ISBN
- 9781840221510
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.96
€ 5.96
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135520
- ISBN
- 9781571135520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.82
€ 130.82
Paperback. Makes the case that the plot of the "Odyssey" is represented within the narrative as a plan of Zeus, Dios boule, that serves as a guide for the performing poet and as a hermeneutic for the audience. This book proposes a "Zeus-centric" reading that offers perspectives on the tenor of interactions among the "Odyssey's" characters. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 165 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674028128
- ISBN
- 9780674028128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.20
€ 19.99
€ 18.20