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Paperback. Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best writings-both classic and previously unpublished works-on topics ranging from baseball to Frost and Emerson to the culture of creative writing. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780231110716
ISBN
9780231110716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.39

Hardcover. Five hundred copies of this book have been printed on paper made in Ireland, and published at the Cuala Press. Alasdair Carwood was the pressman. Finished on 27 April 1971 in the centenary year of Synge's birth. This volume is numbered 247. The pages remain clean and intact. Keywords: Letters - Centenary
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Dublin: Cuala Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1971
SKU
KHS0036949
ISBN
9780903002028
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 220.00

Paperback. Deceptively relaxed in tone, these verse letters - sometime serious, sometimes whimsical - are addressed to such figures as Angela Carter, the Venerable Bede and from Odysseus to Gilbert White's tortoise, on topics as diverse as smallpox and the paintings of Vermeer, landscape-gardening, the King James Bible and Eddie Stobart's lorries on the M6. Num Pages: 78 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Enitharmon Pr
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907587764
ISBN
9781907587764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. A collection of poems that treats the mundane interchanges, the lingering uncertainties, the missed opportunities, and the familiar sense of loss that mark daily life with the surgeon's deft touch. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252067747
ISBN
9780252067747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632430045
ISBN
9781632430045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.34

Hardback. 15pp. Lacks cover. No date, publisher or place of publiction given. Extracts of reviews of some novels written by M McD Bodkin, by writers including Oliver Wendell Holmes and Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Keywords: Literature - Novels
Condition
Used, Like New
Format
Hardback
SKU
KHS1004462
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 36.00

Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Barnes&Noble
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0013076
ISBN
9780760765807
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. After his highly successful history of Prussia, the authorized biographer of Siegfried Sassoon examines the First World War through the lives of the poets who fought at the front. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; 3JJF; DSC; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781447241997
ISBN
9781447241997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 5.38

paperback. After his highly successful history of Prussia, the authorized biographer of Siegfried Sassoon examines the First World War through the lives of the poets who fought at the front. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DCQ; DSBH; DSC; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
SKU
9781447242000
ISBN
9781447242000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 5.80

Paperback. Some Bright Elegance captures those moments of transformation when people, places or objects take on new significances. In the book this is explored in relation to bereavement, the transcendental qualities of music and the search for understanding between people. Num Pages: 36 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 3. Weight in Grams: 50.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844718726
ISBN
9781844718726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.22

Paperback. This work focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasising how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DQ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725330
ISBN
9780804725330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. .
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724241
ISBN
9780804724241
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.49

Paperback. An anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey that captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and displacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country literally at the border of the West and the East that is recovering from military coups. Editor(s): Erincin, Serap. Translator(s): Erincin, Serap; Ventura, Mark. Series: In Performance. Num Pages: 270 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: DD; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 192 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420015
ISBN
9780857420015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.05

Hardback. Solomon, famous from the Bible is pit against a wily peasant named Marcolf. The king and jester, sage and fool, prophet and blasphemer bandy back and forth questions and comments. Whereas Solomon is solemn and pompous, Marcolf resorts to low language and earthy topics. Marcolf tricks Solomon time and again. Translator(s): Ziolkowski, Jan M. Series: Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin/ Harvard University Department of Classics. Num Pages: 275 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 140. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780674028418
ISBN
9780674028418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.89

Paperback. Solomon, famous from the Bible is pit against a wily peasant named Marcolf. The king and jester, sage and fool, prophet and blasphemer bandy back and forth questions and comments. Whereas Solomon is solemn and pompous, Marcolf resorts to low language and earthy topics. Marcolf tricks Solomon time and again. Translator(s): Ziolkowski, Jan M. Series: Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin/ Harvard University Department of Classics. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674028425
ISBN
9780674028425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349632602
ISBN
9781349632602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.07

Hardback. In this study of solitude in high modernist writing, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239473
ISBN
9780312239473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Harvey, Elizabeth D.; Maus, Katharine Eisaman. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226318769
ISBN
9780226318769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.56

Paperback. This study investigates how Pindar's obscurity has been perceived and confronted, extorted and exploited. It addresses issues including the recovery and appropriation of classical texts, problems of translation and representations of lyric authenticity. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 350 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674012578
ISBN
9780674012578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.57

Hardcover. 8vo. Good copy in original cloth.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Herbert Jenkins Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1917
SKU
KEX0278916
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 38.00

paperback. Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 214 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Civitas Books United States
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465036820
ISBN
9780465036820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.30

Paperback. Poems of surrealism by Mexico's famed poet-diplomat, in the tradition of Octavio Paz. Translator(s): McWhirter, George. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Bilingual
SKU
V9780872865044
ISBN
9780872865044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.10

Paperback. An engaging and accessible book looking at 1970s sf writing, film and television - alongside music and architecture - to reclaim the decade as a crucial period in the history of science fiction. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381175
ISBN
9781781381175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.71

Paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003387
ISBN
9780099549024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

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