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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
€ 11.01

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.77

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
€ 14.28

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

€ 23.99
€ 17.66

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
€ 13.39

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099584223
ISBN
9780099584223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

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
€ 24.90

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

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
€ 32.69

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140061109
ISBN
9780140061109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.95

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

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

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

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

€ 16.99
€ 14.19

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

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

€ 6.24

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

€ 5.70

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

€ 132.63

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
€ 18.41

Paperback. Presents the Harlem Renaissance, exploring early challenges to the idea that race is a static category. Drawing on vernacular theories of African American literature from figures such as Henry Louis Gates Jr and Houston Baker, this book looks at the work of four fiction writers: James Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, and Jean Toomer. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323457
ISBN
9780822323457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardback. Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings. Editor(s): Munroe, Jennifer; Laroche, Rebecca. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JFFK; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
260
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115125
ISBN
9780230115125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.70

Paperback. Acts out its own subjects - dualities, ambiguities, boundaries - through physical dislocation, through patterns of interference, this is a collage of many voices: eager or dispassionate, unreliable or matter-of-fact - depending, as with everything else, on your angle of entry. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910702024
ISBN
9781910702024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. .
Publisher
CB Editions
Number of pages
68
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957326651
ISBN
9780957326651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New Impression
Publisher
Penguin London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
SKU
KDK0009288
ISBN
9780140027198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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