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Paperback. What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? This book explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287587
- ISBN
- 9780520287587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.29
€ 20.99
€ 20.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages. Dimension: 211 x 142. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781631492228
- ISBN
- 9781631492228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.02
€ 19.99
€ 19.02
Paperback. First UK edition of one of Brazil's leading poets. Translator(s): Watson, Ellen Dore. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 163 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780372402
- ISBN
- 9781780372402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.16
€ 16.99
€ 13.16
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- SKU
- KAK0007626
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Penguin Books 1997
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007386
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition
- Trade PB
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAK0007708
- ISBN
- 9780140265989
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSB; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929497051
- ISBN
- 9780929497051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.68
€ 34.99
€ 25.68
Paperback. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572410312
- ISBN
- 9781572410312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.77
€ 34.99
€ 25.77
Paperback. "Victims of a Map" presents fifteen translated poems by each poet. It includes thirteen poems by Darwish never before published in book form, even in Arabic, and a long work by Adonis written during the 1982 siege of Beirut, also published here for the first time. Translator(s): al-Udhari, Abdullah. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Saqi Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863565243
- ISBN
- 9780863565243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.62
€ 13.99
€ 12.62
Paperback. Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T S Eliot's on English-language verse. This title presents a comprehensive survey of Adonis' work. Translator(s): Mattawa, Khaled. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 194 x 25. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300181258
- ISBN
- 9780300181258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.88
€ 23.99
€ 17.88
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801449734
- ISBN
- 9780801449734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.45
€ 66.45
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198337485
- ISBN
- 9780198337485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.30
€ 50.30
Paperback. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929497143
- ISBN
- 9780929497143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.72
€ 34.99
€ 25.72
Hardcover. Presents an interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JF; DSBD; HPCD; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226136936
- ISBN
- 9780226136936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.13
€ 52.99
€ 41.13
Hardcover. Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and his age, featuring in this volume a special section on the poetics of space in the Goethezeit. Series: Goethe Yearbook. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSBF; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139771
- ISBN
- 9781571139771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.15
€ 92.15
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135988
- ISBN
- 9781571135988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.15
€ 92.15
Paperback. The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most feared critic Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753824412
- ISBN
- 9780753824412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.72
€ 13.99
€ 11.72
Paperback. An attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form. This anthology features Roger McGough's work, alongside that of Brian Patten and Adrian Henri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 456 x 14. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189260
- ISBN
- 9780141189260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. As part of Wakefield's centenary celebrations in 1988, the author was commissioned to do a modern adaptation of the Wakefield Medieval Mystery Plays. Simple vernacular speech is retained, spanning the Creation to the Resurrection. The music is by Andy Roberts. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413662101
- ISBN
- 9780413662101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.28
€ 18.28
Paperback. Adrian Kenny's memoir is many things: diary of a frustrated young writer and lover; portrait of bohemian social life in 1970s Dublin; and an intimate history of the rising Catholic middle class, the advanced guard of the Celtic Tiger. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Lilliput Pr Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901866377
- ISBN
- 9781901866377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.30
€ 10.30