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Paperback. Focuses on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Translator(s): Innes, Mary M. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1955
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140440584
- ISBN
- 9780140440584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. "A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post Translator(s): Martin, Charles. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393326420
- ISBN
- 9780393326420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.76
€ 18.99
€ 18.76
paperback. The elegant verse and subtle observation of the Amores, The Art of Love, and The Cures of Love made their author the talk of Rome. Ovid saw love as a game at which both sexes could play without getting hurt - as long as they stuck to his rules, but primarily he wrote these sparkling and often erotic poems to entertain, and after two thousand years they still give enormous pleasure. Translator(s): Melville, A. D. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199540334
- ISBN
- 9780199540334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.29
€ 14.99
€ 11.29
hardcover. In this translation of Ovid's epic poem - whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages - , Chris Martin combines a close fidelity to the original text with verse that captures its speed and vitality. Translator(s): Martin, Charles. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393058109
- ISBN
- 9780393058109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.22€ 56.67
€ 57.22
€ 56.67
paperback. A collection of Ovid's poems that deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. It features poems such as "Amores" and "Cures for Love". Translator(s): Green, Peter. Num Pages: 464 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140443608
- ISBN
- 9780140443608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Hardback. Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts. Num Pages: 1440 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138753877
- ISBN
- 9781138753877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.19
€ 142.19
Paperback. A brand new literary title in the renowned graphic novel-style of the Introducing Graphic Guide series. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, 176 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 118. .
- Publisher
- Icon Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848319042
- ISBN
- 9781848319042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. "For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for the men, 4,000 of them from the 38th (Welsh) Division, who were killed or wounded in the Battle of Mametz Wood in July 1916. Translator(s): Jones, Ceri Wyn. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571332250
- ISBN
- 9780571332250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. A poetry anthology. Under the headings of six varieties of British landscape - London and Cities, Villages and Towns, Mountains and Moorland, Islands, Woods and Forest, and Coast and Sea - it collects poems that evoke qualities of the land, city and sea and have become part of the way we see these landscapes. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141192840
- ISBN
- 9780141192840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 52 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 3. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 52
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854114037
- ISBN
- 9781854114037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 96.
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854112774
- ISBN
- 9781854112774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Fintan Buckley is a pleasant, rather conventional and unimaginative man, who works as a legal adviser in Dublin. As he goes about his life, working and spending time with his family, Fintan begins to experience states of altered consciousness and auditory hallucinations, which seem to take him out of a linear experience of time. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278. Nice copy in clean dustwrapper. First edition signed by the author.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KEX0303028
- ISBN
- 9780571290864
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Deals with Susan Glaspell's and Sophie Treadwell's plays from a theatrical, rather than literary, perspective, and presents a comprehensive overview of their work from lesser known plays to seminal productions of "Trifles" and "Machinal". Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415404846
- ISBN
- 9780415404846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.29
€ 43.29
Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Collins Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001737
- ISBN
- 9781903464168
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a very nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Leicester University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0027003
- ISBN
- 9780718502331
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. A collection of works that have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. It features works that include "Ion", "Poetics", "Art of Poetry", and "On the Sublime". Translator(s): Murray, Penelope; Dorsch, T. S. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, chronology. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446517
- ISBN
- 9780140446517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.90
€ 15.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. Peter Field's new editon of the Morte Darthur has been hailed as 'our standard critical edition of Malory'. The paperback makes the complete definitive original spelling text edition available, with the same pagination as the two-volume hardback edition. Num Pages: 1120 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Original Text ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844600
- ISBN
- 9781843844600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.77
€ 43.77
Hardcover. Good copy in original blue cloth. Heavy staining and wear to cover but is otherwise in very good condition. Frontispiece
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Browne and Nolan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1924
- SKU
- KOC0002580
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This book deals with the historical context of ancient Greek tragic performances, with the plays themselves, and with later adaptation and re-performance, down to modern times. Editor(s): Easterling, P. E. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 410 pages, 33 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 410 pages, 33 b/w illus. 1 map. Editor(s): Easterling, P. E. This book deals with the historical context of ancient Greek tragic performances, with the plays themselves, and with later adaptation and re-performance, down to modern times. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight: 658.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 410
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521423519
- ISBN
- 9780521423519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.75
€ 47.75
Paperback. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003286
- ISBN
- 9781407424859
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. A collection of poems that lists them according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet. Num Pages: 1184 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 52. Weight in Grams: 792.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 1184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140424546
- ISBN
- 9780140424546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.36
€ 26.99
€ 20.36
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Publisher
- The Mercier Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0012235
- ISBN
- 9780853423300
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. First edition, name on endpaper,cover worn
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The Paramount Printing House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1945
- SKU
- KTK0094352
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. 513pp
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Penguin 1989
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- SKU
- KHS1026447
- ISBN
- 9780140129540
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99