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Paperback. Showcases the range of W Somerset Maugham's talent as a playwright. In this title, the satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered, and Maugham's tense colonial drama The Letter. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872137
ISBN
9781784872137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.65

Paperback. From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
VINTAGE (RAND)
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099289609
ISBN
9780099289609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. A guide that studies the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286783
ISBN
9780099286783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.48

Paperback. Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099288701
ISBN
9780099288701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.82

Paperback. Features essays ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story. This title presents the views and opinions of this eminent writer. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099288909
ISBN
9780099288909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Presents an avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, and also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286899
ISBN
9780099286899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286790
ISBN
9780099286790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Hardcover. 137pp. 'Jubilee Edition.' Number 941 of a Signed Ltd Edition of 1000. Dustjacket covered in a protective mylar jacket. Includes an ALS to Mrs. Rhonda C. Kearney. Spine is slightly sunned, but otherwise an excellent copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
William Heinemann Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1947
Edition
Limited Edition
SKU
KHS1015380
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 950.00

Paperback. In his day, W Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright. This collection of his most popular plays manifests the breadth of his ability. It includes the noirish mystery The Sacred Flame, the hilarious satires The Circle, The Constant Wife, and Our Betters, and the sharp-witted drama Sheppey. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 34. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872120
ISBN
9781784872120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.65

Paperback. Part autobiographical, part confessional, this title contains Somerset Maugham's observations, confidences, experiments and jottings, from 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286820
ISBN
9780099286820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

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Publication date
1920
Publisher
Bantam Classics
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780553213928
ISBN
9780553213928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.58

Paperback. Clean copy with covers dulled and showing some shelf wear. Previous owner's name to inside front cover. Remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1967
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0007582
ISBN
9780140026474
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Includes novels and stories such as The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs Craddock, The Magician, "Rain," "Mackintosh," "The Pool," and "The Fall of Edward Barnard." Num Pages: 676 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
676
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628737844
ISBN
9781628737844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.54

Hardcover. Lhamon's reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness and how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow's sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by all ordinary people. Num Pages: 478 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DQ; DSBF; DSG; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 167 x 38. Weight in Grams: 900.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
478
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010628
ISBN
9780674010628
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.88
€ 75.52

Hardback. Uncut. Binding slightly loose. Some light foxing. 224pp
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Hardback
Edition
First edition
Publisher
A.H. Bullen London & Stratford-Upon-Avon
Publication date
1911
SKU
KTK0000557
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 275.00

Hardcover. Reprint, original green cloth, some very light foxing. Keywords: W.B. Yeats, poetry
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Macmiillan & Co. Ltd London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1926
SKU
KTK0094346
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 75.00

Hardback. 46pp. Second Edition. 8vo. For all practical purposes, this is the first edition because all except for 4 copies of the first printing were destroyed by Yeats' wife. Clean and attractive in the original blue wrappers. Cover is worn and detached. Cover design by Jack B Yeats. Keywords: Irish Literature
Publisher
The Cuala Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
SKU
KHS0044459
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 295.00

Paperback. In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Seamus Heaney selects W.B. Yeats. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 120 x 12. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571222964
ISBN
9780571222964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.95

paperback. This volume includes all of Yeats's published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics by which he is still best remembered, to the later work which some argue put beyond question his status as one of the foremost poets of his age. Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Hertfordshire
Condition
New
SKU
KCW0018393
ISBN
9781853264542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. During the 1860s, W.D. Howells was the American consul in Venice. This text is his humorous portrait of the city. He swam in the Grand Canal, dined with the rich and mingled with the humble. Howells tells his story with wit and curiosity. Illustrator(s): Pennell, Joseph. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; BGHA; DNF; HBJD; HBLL; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Marlboro Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810160859
ISBN
9780810160859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.90

Paperback. When the author travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during his years in England. In this book, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Translator(s): Catling, Jo. Num Pages: 224 pages, With 4x 4pg. full-colour insets and b/w integrated photographs throughout. BIC Classification: DSB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141037011
ISBN
9780141037011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. A selection of poetry by W G Sebald. It brings together poems from throughout W G Sebald's life as well as additional works found after his death. It is arranged chronologically, from his student days in the 1960s to the longer narratives he worked on in the 1980s. Translator(s): Galbraith, Iain. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141044866
ISBN
9780141044866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.93

paperback. Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, this book, in each of its three distinct parts, gives centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being W G Sebald himself. Translator(s): Hamburger, Michael. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141003368
ISBN
9780141003368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

paperback. In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. This title explores German writers' strange silence about a moment of mass destruction. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DSBH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JW; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140298000
ISBN
9780140298000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.40

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