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Paperback. A piano prodigy reeling from the death of his younger sister flees to New York City. Taking uneasy refuge in books, he reinvents himself as a writer. Across the following fifteen years he tries to cope with the ramifications of the tragic accident that tore his family apart and shattered their small American dream. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571244713
- ISBN
- 9780571244713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 4.99
€ 9.99
€ 4.99
This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society. Series Editor(s): Smith, Alexander. Series: New Ethnographies. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; JHM. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719084546
- ISBN
- 9780719084546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 151.42
€ 151.42
Paperback. Series: Palgrave Histories of Literature. Num Pages: 546 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 36. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137569592
- ISBN
- 9781137569592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.31
€ 49.31
Paperback. Includes a history of science fiction, and the ways in, which the genre has been used and defined. This book provides explanations of key concepts in science fiction criticism and theory. It introduces the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist, and Cyberpunk science fictions. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415366687
- ISBN
- 9780415366687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.50
€ 31.99
€ 30.50
Hardback. Riddles are threaded through The Hobbit, and are key to Tolkien's creative imagination. The Riddles of The Hobbit situates this novel and the rest of Tolkien's writing in the context of Old English riddling culture, and more modern day examples; it sets out to solve the many riddles of the novel in original and often surprising ways. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373632
- ISBN
- 9781137373632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.79
€ 37.79
Paperback. For most of modern history, Roman Catholics in Britain were a rejected Num Pages: 431 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 431
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813219820
- ISBN
- 9780813219820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.00
€ 46.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772899916
- ISBN
- 9788772899916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.73
€ 36.99
€ 26.73
Paperback. "Book Of Stones" is very much made out of the things around the author - living in the new South Africa, being part of a continent and its life and history and processes. Num Pages: 59 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 59
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857546408
- ISBN
- 9781857546408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.77
€ 20.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 291
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865970526
- ISBN
- 9780865970526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.65
€ 15.99
€ 12.65
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 1216 pages. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 134 x 37. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679783367
- ISBN
- 9780679783367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.44
€ 20.44
Hardcover. The selections represent many generations of poets, from Veronica Micle and Matilda Cugler-Poni in the nineteenth century, to Magda Isanos and the interwar poets, to such important contemporary poets as Ana Blandiana and Daniela Crasnaru, and younger poets, such as Carmen Firan and Carmen Veronica Steiciuc Editor(s): Sorkin, Adam J.; Treptow, Kurt W. Translator(s): Sorkin, Adam J.; Treptow, Kurt W. Series: East European Monographs S. Num Pages: 157 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 157
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880332941
- ISBN
- 9780880332941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.15
€ 30.99
€ 22.15
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Gibb Memorial Trust
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909724334
- ISBN
- 9781909724334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.89€ 108.53
€ 112.89
€ 108.53
Paperback. These poems perform an archaeology on lives lived. In this his fourth collection, Adam Thorpe continues his engagement with history, the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224063852
- ISBN
- 9780224063852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief, this book presents poems that argue for bewilderment and 'the slight bruise of doubt'. It features poems that remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history and with ourselves; whether walking an abandoned road, or considering a friend's suicide. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224079440
- ISBN
- 9780224079440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. A collection of poems that takes us on a journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging. It explores our chances, records our traces - in the marks on skin, home movies, stone walls, the pressure of our blood, or the clearing of a dying father's study: foraging backwards until something is revealed, however tentative. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 120 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780224094177
- ISBN
- 9780224094177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 6.23
€ 11.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. This volume contains a translated collection of plays by the important, but little-known to the English-speaking world, Chilean playwright and director Ramon Griffero's Diez obras de Fin de Siglo (Ten Plays from Teatro Fin de Siglo). BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Oberon Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783197279
- ISBN
- 9781783197279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.25
€ 30.25
Paperback. Literary history meets economic policy in this entertaining polemic on the ethical and potentially destructive power of terrible literature. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 376 x 27. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501313110
- ISBN
- 9781501313110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 21.79
€ 30.99
€ 21.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 147 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Salmon Poetry
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908836564
- ISBN
- 9781908836564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.00€ 12.58
€ 14.00
€ 12.58
Paperback. This selection, made by the author himself, draws from his English language collections - both in and out of print. Vivid, attentive to the world, the poems in this lucid translation share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, 'to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571224258
- ISBN
- 9780571224258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.52
€ 19.99
€ 14.52
Paperback. Editor(s): Adams, Anne V.; Sutherland-Addy, Esi. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ayebia Clarke Publishing
- Edition
- AFRICA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780954702311
- ISBN
- 9780954702311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.02
€ 29.99
€ 25.02
Hardback. Editor(s): Addyman, David; Feldman, Matthew; Tonning, Erik. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349951307
- ISBN
- 9781349951307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.05
€ 114.05
paperback. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his book "Orientalism", Edward W Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This volume on Edward Said's life and work, spans his broad legacy both within and beyond the academy. Editor(s): Iskandar, Adel; Rustom, Hakem. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFCX; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520258907
- ISBN
- 9780520258907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 9.66
€ 19.99
€ 9.66
Paperback. This book contends that when late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736565
- ISBN
- 9780804736565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. This book contends that when late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 493.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725484
- ISBN
- 9780804725484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.41
€ 138.41