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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
€ 21.05

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
€ 20.11

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

€ 52.15
€ 44.97

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

€ 109.04
€ 82.56

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
€ 16.43

Paperback. Challenges the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history. This book seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. It shows how the poets, and scribes constructed Chaucer as the 'poet laureate' Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691029238
ISBN
9780691029238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.34
€ 42.11

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691639321
ISBN
9780691639321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.43

Paperback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804754194
ISBN
9780804754194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754187
ISBN
9780804754187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.25

Hardcover. Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137411532
ISBN
9781137411532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.14

Hardback. Very rare, First Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
Publisher
J. Duffy & Co
Publication date
1926
SKU
KLN0004416
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 125.00

Hardcover. 124pp. With a frontispiece by John Keating. Original brown boards, dampstained and bumped. Pages and text very clear. Keywords: Irish literature, short stories
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Talbot Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1920
SKU
KHS1010467
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 35.00

Hardback. 13pp. 8/100, signed and numbered by the author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The Orwell Press
Publication date
1929
SKU
KHS1003942
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 275.00

Hardcover. First edition. Keywords: "Literature, prose, collection of short stories, Fiction"
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Dublin: The Talbot Press,
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1946
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KHS0081913
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 45.00

Hardcover. "First edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fifteen essays - on the Irish National Theatre, Goldsmith, Joseph Campbell, Seumas O'Connolly, Orrery on Swift, his first book etc. Rubbing and minor chipping to the extremities of the dust jacket." Keywords: Rare books - Irish Literature
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Dublin: The Talbot Press,
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1946
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KHS0014379
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 36.00

Hardcover. 39pp. Quarter cloth with green boards. Very good condition. Foxing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Maunsel & Company Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1918
SKU
KHS1003940
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 195.00

Hardback. First edition, very good copy in dustwrapper
Publisher
The Talbot Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
SKU
KTK0094361
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

Hardback. In publisher's cloth. Spine in gilt. D.J. has some light wear and soiling. Remains good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Talbot Press Dublin
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1946
SKU
KST0024465
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. 8vo. good copy in worn dustwrapper
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Dublin: The Talbot Press,
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1946
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KEX0274695
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 45.00

Hardback. 5pp. 37/100. Privately printed. Inscribed. Being a selection from the notebooks of the late J. H. Orwell, made by his friend Seumas O'Sullivan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1937
SKU
KHS1003941
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 275.00

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