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Hardback. "The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press"--Rear cover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638133
- ISBN
- 9780691638133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.53
€ 193.53
Paperback. Series: Focus Classical Library. Num Pages: 420 pages, maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography, notes. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585100644
- ISBN
- 9781585100644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.17
€ 31.99
€ 23.17
Paperback. This concise guide to staging an Ayckbourn play includes information on: plot breakdown, hints on production, details of female and male characters, where to apply for permissions and music, and much more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 19. Weight in Grams: 165.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571214921
- ISBN
- 9780571214921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.16
€ 10.99
€ 9.16
Paperback. Series: Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DB; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784533304
- ISBN
- 9781784533304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.58
€ 25.99
€ 22.58
Hardback. The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. It presents the history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 175 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691096742
- ISBN
- 9780691096742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.26
€ 110.26
Paperback. This work argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. It explores texts ranging from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost. Num Pages: 444 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226015170
- ISBN
- 9780226015170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.76
€ 32.99
€ 25.76
Paperback. A collection, in which, the author traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the essay 'The Red Notebook' itself, he reflects upon his own work, on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571226412
- ISBN
- 9780571226412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.48
€ 15.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. 'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.' From the point of view of his life now, the author moves you through the events of his life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571283248
- ISBN
- 9780571283248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.54
€ 15.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. 'One day there is life .. And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins the author's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. This book also includes a section 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', that reveals the author's memories and feelings after the death of his father. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571288328
- ISBN
- 9780571288328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.54
€ 15.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, this title opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571249527
- ISBN
- 9780571249527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and pulsing with the energy of the author's previous novel Invisible, this title is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571258802
- ISBN
- 9780571258802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.10
€ 13.99
€ 10.10
paperback. Written by the celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, this book presents a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 133 x 50. Weight in Grams: 587.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571218486
- ISBN
- 9780571218486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.71
€ 21.99
€ 15.71
Paperback. Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 123 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571276622
- ISBN
- 9780571276622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.65
€ 13.99
€ 10.65
Paperback. Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book suggests that different areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. Num Pages: 240 pages, 23, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; GTR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415765
- ISBN
- 9781421415765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.06
€ 35.99
€ 30.06
Paperback. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813929804
- ISBN
- 9780813929804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.23
€ 34.23
hardcover. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813929798
- ISBN
- 9780813929798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.13
€ 72.13
Paperback. A selection of 19th-century Barbary Coast captivity narratives. The accounts range from 1798 to 1904 and tell the stories of enslaved white Americans, whose plight became fodder for pro- and anti-slavery writers. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226034041
- ISBN
- 9780226034041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.71
€ 33.99
€ 26.71
Paperback. The Primacy of Semiosis provides a semiotic that subverts the opposition between realism and idealism; one in which what have been called 'nature' and 'culture' interpenetrate in an expanding collective of human and non-human. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442626980
- ISBN
- 9781442626980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Paperback. First book of essays on a maverick figure in late 20th century British poetry. Editor(s): Batchelor, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249885
- ISBN
- 9781852249885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.08
€ 16.99
€ 13.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSB; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761809647
- ISBN
- 9780761809647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.81
€ 77.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGL; DSYC; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219425
- ISBN
- 9780300219425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.81
€ 23.99
€ 17.81
Paperback. Twenty-nine writers, poets, scientists, and scholars testify on behalf of darkness and against light pollution s diminishment of the night." Editor(s): Bogard, Paul. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874173284
- ISBN
- 9780874173284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.53
€ 38.53
Hardback. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. This book collects the music criticism that Bowles published between 1935 and 1946 as well as an interview conducted by Irene Herrmann shortly before his death. Editor(s): Mangan, Timothy; Herrmann, Irene. Num Pages: 310 pages, 1 music example. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236554
- ISBN
- 9780520236554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.15€ 64.94
€ 84.15
€ 64.94
Paperback. This volume offers an illuminating look at the St Lucian, Nobel prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Num Pages: 340 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KJW; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226074276
- ISBN
- 9780226074276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.29
€ 42.99
€ 33.29