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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€ 32.78
€ 41.99
€ 32.78
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140061109
- ISBN
- 9780140061109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.31
€ 17.99
€ 15.31
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
€ 16.99€ 14.72
€ 16.99
€ 14.72
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
€ 7.52
€ 7.52
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; JFCD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440303
- ISBN
- 9781137440303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.84
€ 116.84
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
€ 134.56
€ 134.56
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351602
- ISBN
- 9781349351602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137007056
- ISBN
- 9781137007056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
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€ 18.64
€ 19.99
€ 18.64
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
€ 32.99€ 25.44
€ 32.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; DSBH; HPJ; HRAB; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349606122
- ISBN
- 9781349606122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This text describes Hopkins's family and early education. It illustrates the working life of the priest-poet whose work was not made public until more than 30 years after his death, and also includes sections on the religious and political background to his work. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333661956
- ISBN
- 9780333661956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
Paperback. Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examineshow she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form." Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313587
- ISBN
- 9781349313587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349516469
- ISBN
- 9781349516469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
paperback. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 1997
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312164904
- ISBN
- 9780312164904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.52
€ 126.52