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Hardback. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 206 x 38. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241198957
- ISBN
- 9780241198957
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
€ 21.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear. Some wear and tear to cover but remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0000609
- ISBN
- 9780140621082
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Liu Yuan's "Lingyan ge", a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. This book presents a study that examines the dialogues created among the texts and images in "Lingyan ge" from multiple perspectives. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 218 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JD; AKLB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032804
- ISBN
- 9780674032804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.34€ 55.14
€ 60.34
€ 55.14
paperback. In this collection, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation', an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us', an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definitions? Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224079266
- ISBN
- 9780224079266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.57
€ 23.99
€ 16.57
Paperback. Lets us join G as he travels with his friend and lover 'Sad' (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran, and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the sombre house where G's mother must face her death. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224097574
- ISBN
- 9780224097574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.17
€ 18.99
€ 14.17
Paperback. A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 "tangos" of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224061308
- ISBN
- 9780224061308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.84
€ 20.99
€ 15.84
paperback. Features 'Short Talks' that are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing to walking backwards. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224051170
- ISBN
- 9780224051170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.03
€ 19.99
€ 15.03
Paperback. Geryon is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles - a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. Geryon retreats ever further into the world created by his camera, until that glass house is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by Herakles' return. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224059732
- ISBN
- 9780224059732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 50 color and black-and-white prints. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 66. Weight in Grams: 1246.
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811218702
- ISBN
- 9780811218702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.10
€ 52.99
€ 44.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AFS; DCF; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2/27/00
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375708428
- ISBN
- 9780375708428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.50
€ 20.99
€ 15.50
Paperback. * The definitive and ONLY complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844080816
- ISBN
- 9781844080816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.72
€ 24.72
Paperback. Offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? This work reveals the two poets' striking commonalities. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691091754
- ISBN
- 9780691091754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Editor(s): Bartlett, Anne Clark; Bestul, Thomas H. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DNF; DQ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484551
- ISBN
- 9780801484551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.64
€ 45.99
€ 40.64
Paperback. This volume addresses the multiplicity of issues concerning the presentations to students of post-colonial literature. This collection focuses upon specific strategies for teaching post-colonial literature within particular political environments. Editor(s): Collett, Anne; Jensen, Lars; Rutherford, Anna. Series: Dolphin S. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772883786
- ISBN
- 9788772883786
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.37
€ 10.37
Hardback. This book supports the claim that David Mamet is possibly the first true verse dramatist by examining in detail his celebrated use of language as dramatic action. Five of Mamet's best known plays are studied in detail: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre, Edmond, and Glengarry Glen Ross. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470895
- ISBN
- 9781611470895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.75
€ 116.75
Hardback. Beyond Maximus shows how field poetics influenced the construction of the public voices of five Black Mountain poets (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Ed Dorn) in order to explain their association in the 1950s and 60s as well as their break-up as a result of the political and poetic crises of the Vietnam War era. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756471
- ISBN
- 9780804756471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.42
€ 89.42
Paperback. From the Orange- and Whitbread-shortlisted author of Buddha Da Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841955193
- ISBN
- 9781841955193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. 8vo .Good Copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0261830
- ISBN
- 9781841954516
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women. Num Pages: 326 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894015
- ISBN
- 9780801894015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.01
€ 38.99
€ 33.01
Paperback. This anthology of primary materials-the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women." Editor(s): Boyd, Anne E. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801892752
- ISBN
- 9780801892752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.25
€ 45.99
€ 38.25
Hardcover. In this new memoir, Anne Edwards-bestselling author of biographies on Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, and Ronald Reagan-turns the spotlight on herself, chronicling her 20-year exile from the United States from the 1950s until the early 1970s. Num Pages: 320 pages, 42 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; BGL; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810881990
- ISBN
- 9780810881990
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.11
€ 32.99
€ 28.11
Hardback. Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444318
- ISBN
- 9781137444318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.50
€ 64.50
Paperback. The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story. Editor(s): Enright, Anne. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847082558
- ISBN
- 9781847082558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.46
€ 19.99
€ 14.46
Paperback. Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Ascuncion. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099436942
- ISBN
- 9780099436942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02