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Hardback. A reflection of the American psyche as revealed in US literature and politics, this study guides the reader through two centuries of American literary history. It examines the emerging American nation and the theme of new beginnings used by American writers in their search for a national identity. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Printing
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231070508
ISBN
9780231070508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.11
€ 79.73

Hardcover. 47pp. With a foreword by C A Joyce
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Mitre Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1971
Edition
1st ed.
SKU
KHS1004041
ISBN
9780705101141
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 65.00

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Samuel French Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
57
Condition
New
SKU
V9780573020254
ISBN
9780573020254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.57

paperback. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
CavanKerry Press United States
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933880075
ISBN
9781933880075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.51

Hardback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442637238
ISBN
9781442637238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.77

Paperback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442627000
ISBN
9781442627000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.00

Hardcover. Focusses on the years that Eca de Queiros lived in Paris and shows how the periodicals he conceived and edited were modeled on dozens of Victorian and American publications. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 241 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662681
ISBN
9781855662681
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSP; DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780816691586
ISBN
9780816691586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.45

Paperback. The story of an unpopular and unloved classics master at a public school in the 1940s. Deserted by his wife and on the verge of retirement, Crocker-Harris finds a form of redemption in an unexpected parting gift from a previously unregarded pupil. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854597106
ISBN
9781854597106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.52

Paperback. This text consists of two linked one-act plays set in a run-down hotel in Bournemouth. In one, a divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In the other, a repressed young spinster offers moral support to a fake major accused of importuning women. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854594242
ISBN
9781854594242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.57

Paperback. Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order. Series: Drama Classics S. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854594679
ISBN
9781854594679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. First seen in 1939 but then largely ignored until a 1994 BBC production, After the Dance is regarded as one of the great, lost plays of the 20th century. As interest in Rattigan has revived so too has the play's reputation and it is now considered by many to be one of the great works of a master dramatist. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854592170
ISBN
9781854592170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of Rattigan's birth. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848421639
ISBN
9781848421639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.46

Paperback. Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it. The play opens with the failed suicide of Hester Collyer who has deserted her husband for the charms of an ex-fighter pilot. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854594235
ISBN
9781854594235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 12.50

Paperback. 1942. At the Falcon Hotel, on the Lincolnshire coast, Teddy a young RAF bomber pilot celebrates a reunion with his actress wife Patricia. They are thrown into upheaval when Peter, Patricia's ex lover and Hollywood heartthrob, arrives and an urgent bombing mission over Germany is ordered. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848421875
ISBN
9781848421875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.99

Paperback. Publication coincides with a swelling tide of revivals to celebrate Rattigan's centenary. This edition also includes "Less Than Kind." Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 285.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848421646
ISBN
9781848421646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.56

Paperback. In "French Without Tears" play, a group of 'bright young things' are attempting to learn French on the Riviera, and in fact doing anything but. Featuring this play, this book contains an introduction and chronology by Dan Rebellato. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
118
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854592125
ISBN
9781854592125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. A double bill by Terence Rattigan, featuring two plays of striking contrast that display his astonishing range as a writer. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425415
ISBN
9781848425415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. A classic drama based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury who was tried with her 18-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Cause Celebre was Terence Rattigan's last play. Published alongside a production at the Old Vic during the centenary year of Rattigan's birth. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854592071
ISBN
9781854592071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.47

Paperback. Publication coincides with a swelling tide of revivals to celebrate Rattigan's centenary. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848421653
ISBN
9781848421653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

Paperback. Lydia is shielding her husband, Sebastian, from the knowledge that she is dying from leukaemia. But Sebastian does know and is seeking to spare her. She dies without either of them openly acknowledging their true feelings. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854594648
ISBN
9781854594648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.51

Paperback. Terence Rattigan's epic and probing drama about the man immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425781
ISBN
9781848425781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Hardback. The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Government College Umuahia and argues for a re-assessment of this influential group of Nigerian writers in relation to the literary culture fostered by the school and its tutors. Series: African Articulations. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
James Currey
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847011091
ISBN
9781847011091
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.88

Paperback. This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It focuses on contemporary practice, looking at how it is responding to a new cultural politics of gender and creating a critical language for understanding the performing of gender in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. Series: Shakespeare in Practice. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS; JFSJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 1. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137408525
ISBN
9781137408525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.95

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