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paperback. Presents a personal chronicle of Fanny, a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. This novel charts Fanny's emotional growth through her relationship with her mother, the shrewd, sympathetic Molly Brandeis. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 377.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252069468
ISBN
9780252069468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. As the author of "Evelina" and "Cecilia", both of which created new dimensions for the novel, Fanny Burney is as well remembered for her memoirs of Johnson, her mastectomy and her account of the Battle of Waterloo. This portrait of Burney paints a picture of this forward-looking woman. Num Pages: 112 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 125 x 0. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Short Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0020983
ISBN
9781904095187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

hardcover. This study places Djuna Barnes's early work in the context of symbolist ideas and practices. It presents Barnes not only as a woman writer, but also as an American writer, especially in her attention to the search for identity and to the conflict between individual values and those of society. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 359.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Susquehanna University Press United States
Number of pages
118
Condition
New
SKU
V9780941664172
ISBN
9780941664172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.99

Hardcover. The last words of politicians, kings, queens, actors, philosophers, scientists and writers are sometimes profound, sometimes prescient, often strange, funny and usually poignant. The most interesting, controversial and insightful of these exit lines are collected here, from deathbed desperation to the fondest of farewells. Editor(s): Cock-Starkey, Claire. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 120. .
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851242511
ISBN
9781851242511
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. Winner of the 2007 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, Selected by John Yau Num Pages: 80 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780975499078
ISBN
9780975499078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.09

Paperback. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Sterling
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KRF0031257
ISBN
9780806907086
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Meriwether Publishing,U.S. United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566081160
ISBN
9781566081160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.49

Hardcover. Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved poets in America, and the poem Famous is literally her most famous poem. At once simple and profound, this illustrated version of the poem is a charmingly ironic take on what it means to be "famous". Illustrator(s): Desimini, Lisa. Num Pages: 32 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 3. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Wings Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609404499
ISBN
9781609404499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.34

Paperback. This resource provides teachers, librarians, parents, and others who work with children with an annotated bibliography of children's books that contain characters who display positive values as they relate to others. Includes sample activities and lessons. Series: School Library Media Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSY; GBCR; JHBK; YXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 215 x 11. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810836822
ISBN
9780810836822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 107.00

Paperback. From a motorway service area to the author's ambivalent relationship with religion, this title covers a range of her experiences. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 72.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571280629
ISBN
9780571280629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Hardcover. 251pp. First US Edition. Fore edge uncut
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Viking
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
First American Edition
SKU
KHS1003869
ISBN
9780670832576
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 48.00

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in good dust wrapper. Dust wrapper stained to edges and showing some shelf wear. Page edges spotted. Remains a very nice copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The Bodley Head Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First edition
SKU
KSG0023203
ISBN
9780370313740
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

Hardcover. 8vo.Good copy in good dustwrapper.Irish literature.. William Trevor, KBE (born 24 May 1928), is an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world,[1] he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language.[2] He has won the Whitbread Prize three times and has been nominated five times for the Booker Prize, most recently for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name has also been mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3] Trevor has resided in Devon, South West England, since the 1950s.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First American Edition
Publisher
Viking
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
SKU
KEX0273962
ISBN
9780670832576
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

Hardcover. 251pp. First US Edition. Fore edge uncut
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
First American Edition
Publisher
Viking
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
SKU
KHS1003840
ISBN
9780670832576
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 45.00

Hardcover. 250pp
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
The Bodley Head Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Edition
First edition
SKU
KHS1003855
ISBN
9780370313740
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 45.00

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691604701
ISBN
9780691604701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.19

Paperback. As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution. Reading popular "divorce narratives" in fiction, film, and TV drama, this book shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993508
ISBN
9780295993508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardcover. As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution. Reading popular "divorce narratives" in fiction, film, and TV drama, this book shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993492
ISBN
9780295993492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Hardback. Editor(s): Crawforth, Hannah; Lewis, Sarah. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 270 pages, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSA; DSBD; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137511430
ISBN
9781137511430
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801476631
ISBN
9780801476631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801447075
ISBN
9780801447075
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.88

Paperback. By revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the family were estranged, reconstituted as novel concepts, and then finally presented as national social norms. Num Pages: 408 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
Anniversary ed.
SKU
V9780804741880
ISBN
9780804741880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.64

Hardcover. This book explores the conjunction of authorship and family life as a distinctive cultural formation of Romantic-era Britain. It traces an alternative history of Romantic authorship, one that lies on the cusp between a vanishing manuscript culture and the dominance of print, grappling with an evolving tension between the private and public spheres. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230545120
ISBN
9780230545120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Paperback. This book explores the conjunction of authorship and family life as a distinctive cultural formation of Romantic-era Britain. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349360666
ISBN
9781349360666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.65

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