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Paperback. A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived "in accordance with nature", Stoicism called for restraint of animal instincts and severing of emotional ties. Seneca's contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into an inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind. Editor(s): Campbell, Robin. Translator(s): Campbell, Robin. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140442106
ISBN
9780140442106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. Editor(s): Fitch, John G. Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 492 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
492
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801475719
ISBN
9780801475719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.45

paperback. Dramas by the classical playwright and philosopher are accompanied by a modern work to demonstrate the Roman's impact on the development of the tragedy. Translator(s): Watling, E.F. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1966
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140441741
ISBN
9780140441741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

Hardcover. Marking Roy Foster's retirement from the Carroll Professorship of Irish history at the University of Oxford, and recognising his extraordinary career as a historian, literary critic, and public intellectual, this essay collection charts Foster's career while reflecting on developments in the field of Irish history writing, teaching, and research. Editor(s): Paseta, Senia. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 243 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198748274
ISBN
9780198748274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.14

Paperback. Editor(s): Bodley, Dr Lorraine Byrne. Num Pages: printed music items. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 289 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carysfort Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0002997
ISBN
9781904505310
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Bodley, Dr Lorraine Byrne. Num Pages: printed music items. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 289 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carysfort Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0002998
ISBN
9781904505310
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Bodley, Dr Lorraine Byrne. Num Pages: printed music items. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 289 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carysfort Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0002999
ISBN
9781904505310
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. 486pp.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1963
SKU
KHS1004089
ISBN
9780814901076
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 85.00

Paperback. Bog/Paperback 156 lch.
Publisher
"An Clóchomhar,"
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1962
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781906883072
ISBN
9781906883072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 198 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472528391
ISBN
9781472528391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 5.04

Paperback. An anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey that captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and displacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country literally at the border of the West and the East that is recovering from military coups. Editor(s): Erincin, Serap. Translator(s): Erincin, Serap; Ventura, Mark. Series: In Performance. Num Pages: 270 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: DD; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 192 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420015
ISBN
9780857420015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.80

Hardcover. Explores the relationship between Judaism and writing in the works of four twentieth-century Italian writers: Umberto Saba, Natalia Ginzburg, Giorgio Bassani, and Primo Levi. This book examines the different ways in which each author's work responds to Judaism and the notion of Jewish identity. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 232 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815631989
ISBN
9780815631989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.11

hardcover. An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802090317
ISBN
9780802090317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.70

Paperback. Drawing on Korean and Japanese texts ranging from critical essays to short stories produced in the colonial and post-colonial periods, this book analyzes the ways in which Japanese colonial and Korean nationalist discourse pivoted on such concepts as language, literature, and culture. Series: Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSA; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 63.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520289857
ISBN
9780520289857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.82

Hardback. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; DS; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088412
ISBN
9780674088412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.43

hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; 3JD; 3JF; DSB; HBJD; HBLL; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226278285
ISBN
9780226278285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 35.92

Paperback. Discusses Greek poetic traditions, analyzes the themes of the Iliad, and looks at the portrayal of Achilles, Hektor, and the gods. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
275
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520056268
ISBN
9780520056268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.13

Hardback. Presents a history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. The author describes the differences between English and American usage and, the link between regional dialect and race, class, and gender. He discusses contact with foreign languages, the Internet, and e-mail continue to shape English for future generations. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137942
ISBN
9780231137942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.88

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198736288
ISBN
9780198736288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.53

Paperback. Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. This book charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". Num Pages: 396 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
396
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226473017
ISBN
9780226473017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.80

Hardcover. "A child is a man in small letter," wrote Bishop John Earle in the seventeenth century. "His father hath writ him as his own little story." In this title, the writer acknowledges the author of his story while simultaneously reminding us that we all confront the blank page of life on our own, as authors of our lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226014418
ISBN
9780226014418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 19.87

Hardcover. Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. This book charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". Num Pages: 352 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226473000
ISBN
9780226473000
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.46
€ 44.35

Hardback. Examining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot to Paul de Man, this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, emigres, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric, literary criticism and literary theory. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; DSA; HBT; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231123723
ISBN
9780231123723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.60
€ 81.45

Paperback. Rooted in the age-old problem of the fraught relationship between fathers and sons, this title is about the power of books and theater, the excitement of stories in a young man's life, and the transformative magic of words and performance. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226142234
ISBN
9780226142234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.14

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