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Hardback. Tells the story of how Flaubert's admiration for Cervantes' Don Quijote unfolded, and how profoundly it shaped and influenced Flaubert's ambition and his approach to all his major works, beginning with his breakthrough novel "Madame Bovary". Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845192570
ISBN
9781845192570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.82

paperback. A work that poses provocative questions about perception and reality. It is a parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. It provides an overview of this world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435313
ISBN
9780140435313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.42

Hardback. This volume seeks to address the conundrum of reading African American poets as racial spokespeople, and to model alternative ways of addressing their work. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910826
ISBN
9781575910826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.69

Paperback. A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. Editor(s): Thomas, James; Shapard, Robert; Merrill, Christopher. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393346077
ISBN
9780393346077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. 1942. At the Falcon Hotel, on the Lincolnshire coast, Teddy a young RAF bomber pilot celebrates a reunion with his actress wife Patricia. They are thrown into upheaval when Peter, Patricia's ex lover and Hollywood heartthrob, arrives and an urgent bombing mission over Germany is ordered. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848421875
ISBN
9781848421875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Hardback. Series: Princeton Essays in Literature. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691629698
ISBN
9780691629698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.51

Hardcover. By disclosing how Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy made aesthetic choices based on their Catholicism and their belief that fiction by its very nature is revelatory, the author demonstrates that their work cannot be seen as merely a continuation of the historical aesthetic that dominated southern literature for so long. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826217578
ISBN
9780826217578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.47

Paperback. Explores the hermit novelist, Flannery O'Connor's identification with the early Christian monastics and the ways in which she infused her fiction with their teachings. This title shows how her characters are moved toward a radical simplicity of ascetic discipline as a means of confronting internal and worldly evils while being drawn closer to God. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570039102
ISBN
9781570039102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.20

Paperback. Offers a literary and philosophical analysis of Flannery O'Connor's life and literature. It draws upon Robert Coles's personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, his brief acquaintance with the writer herself, and readings of her works. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820315362
ISBN
9780820315362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.36

Paperback. Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggle led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Here, Sarah Gordon shows a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820325200
ISBN
9780820325200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.35

Paperback. Susan Srigley argues that Flannery O'Connor's ethics are inextricably linked to her role as a storyteller, and that her moral vision is expressed through the dramatic narrative of her fiction. Srigley elucidates O'Connor's sacramental vision by showing that it is embodied morally within her fiction as an ethic of responsibility. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268017804
ISBN
9780268017804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.87

Hardback. Employing a wide range of critical perspectives and new comparative contexts, Flann O'Brien: Contesting Legacies breaks new ground in O'Brien scholarship by testing a number of popular commonplaces about this Irish (post-) Modernist author. Editor(s): Borg, Ruben; Fagan, Paul; Werner, Huber. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782050766
ISBN
9781782050766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Hardcover. Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms. Num Pages: 778 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 45. Weight in Grams: 844.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Combined volume
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593098
ISBN
9781841593098
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.10

Hardcover. Recent years have witnessed a series of shifts in the reception of Brian O'Nolan's work, with the publication of collected short stories and dramatic texts and a systematic critical reappraisal of once marginal titles in the author's canon. Editor(s): Borg, Ruben; Fagan, Paul. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: DS; DSRC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782052302
ISBN
9781782052302
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Paperback. This groundbreaking study, first published in 1995 and now substantially revised, reconfigures O'Brien as a highly subversive writer within a rich and fertile literary landscape: indisputably Irish yet distinctly post-modern. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
new ed of 2nd revised ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184875
ISBN
9781859184875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.00
€ 21.31

Hardcover. This work applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of literary discourse and the concept of "carnivalisation" to the work of Flann O'Brien. The author emphasises the political and social implications of the writings, arguing that O'Brien maintained a reflexive focus on language throughout his career. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815626657
ISBN
9780815626657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.11

paperback. Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler. In this book, the author defines her as 'a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DDF; 1KBBEY; BM; DNF; HBTB; JFFK; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 135. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099593379
ISBN
9780099593379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.77

paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 251.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Flambard Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873226131
ISBN
9781873226131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.28

Paperback. Set in northern Nigeria against a backdrop of global turmoil and corruption, Lydia Adetunji's Fixer is a fast-paced drama that asks questions about integrity, loyalty and the price of human life. Num Pages: 81 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 165 x 7. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
81
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848420649
ISBN
9781848420649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. A reissue of Paulin's "corrosive and uproarious litany of bad sex, bad politics and bad religion" from the 1980s. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571210183
ISBN
9780571210183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

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