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Paperback. 25 poems by the great Russian futurist translated into Scots by Scotland's first Makar Translator(s): Morgan, Edwin. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 255 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784104474
ISBN
9781784104474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.75

Hardcover. Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. This book explores themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; and more. Editor(s): Booth, Joan; Maltby, Robert. Num Pages: 2 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; D. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
2
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125098
ISBN
9781905125098
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.66

Paperback. During her lifetime Marie de Gournay was celebrated as one of the seventy most famous women of all time. This volume presents translations of four of Gournay's works that address feminist issues. This volume includes previously unpublished work. Translator(s): Hillman, Richard; Quesnel, Colette. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; 3JD; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226305561
ISBN
9780226305561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. It is wartime London. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella herself. Caught between two men and unsure who she can trust, the flimsy structures of Stella's life begin to crumble. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099276463
ISBN
9780099276463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Two exhilarating plays by the author of Shopping and F***ing: pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success; Citizenship is a work for young people written for the National Theatre's Shell Connection Programme. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780713683981
ISBN
9780713683981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.40

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Daunt Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907970863
ISBN
9781907970863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Long-awaited follow-up to Scottish poet A.B. Jackson's Forward Prize-winning first collection Fire Stations (Anvil, 2003) Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780372600
ISBN
9781780372600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. From dreams realistic and reminiscent to the world of nightmare and phantasmagoria, from the bizarre and ridiculous to the perplexing and haunting, this anthology draws on the dreams of a wide variety of novelists, poets, playwrights, and others to explore the inexhaustible fascination of dreams and their power as a source of literary inspiration. Editor(s): Brook, Stephen. Series: The Oxford Books of Prose Series. Num Pages: 282 pages, index. BIC Classification: DQ; JMTD; VXN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KTJ0049384
ISBN
9780192803856
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Foley, Declan. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843516453
ISBN
9781843516453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.00
€ 30.68

Paperback. An eye-opening selection of Cumming's more avant-garde poetry and prose. Num Pages: 273 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 211 x 25. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871401748
ISBN
9780871401748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.93

Paperback. Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099535836
ISBN
9780099535836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.13

Paperback. Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking "New Woman". Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society, and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Editor(s): Taylor, Dennis; Ingham, Patricia. Num Pages: 528 pages, map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435382
ISBN
9780140435382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Well-read copy in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Tivoli
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KRF0009491
ISBN
9780717136049
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, this book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what can have been. It provides an overview of the question of surprise in philosophy and literature. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748676293
ISBN
9780748676293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.94
€ 103.50

Paperback. Moving subtly through a diverse range of thinkers and topics - aesthetics, affect, animation and film studies, bibliography, cognitive science, this book shows that a more sustained, less apocalyptic attention to ideas might lead to a richer discussion of our intellectual landscapes and the place of the humanities and social sciences in it. Editor(s): Potts, Jason; Stout, Daniel. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356813
ISBN
9780822356813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Hardback. What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988). Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBF; DSBH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230252592
ISBN
9780230252592
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. Describes the adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. This poem also describes his endurance, his love for his wife and son. Translator(s): Chapman, George. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 332. Clean copy In good condition.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Unabridged
SKU
KLJ0001372
ISBN
9781853260254
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 6.74

Paperback. The short story is one of the most varied genres in American literature. This title brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141194424
ISBN
9780141194424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

hardcover. Woolf responds passionately to those writers - past, present - who deal honestly with the reader, who express their own variations on the 'I am I' - the selective vision of the finite self. Editor(s): Kavenna, Joanna. Series: Classic Collection. Num Pages: 182 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907903922
ISBN
9781907903922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.68

Paperback. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 600 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 826.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
600
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Abridged Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157315
ISBN
9780231157315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

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