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Paperback. Featuring a collection of articles, this book focuses on the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. It includes a selection of shorter pieces such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and 'A Hanging'. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183060
ISBN
9780141183060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Revealing the author's thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes, this work includes titles such as: "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience". Translator(s): Cohen, John M. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140178975
ISBN
9780140178975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. ESSAYISM is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point. BIC Classification: DNF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125. .
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910695418
ISBN
9781910695418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632430014
ISBN
9781632430014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.54

Hardback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401104
ISBN
9781474401104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.94
€ 103.50

Paperback. Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by James Macdonald. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 82.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425491
ISBN
9781848425491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. This work looks at the similarities and dissimilarities in the work of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo, two writers of radically different political persuasions. It puts the writers' work in the perspective of postwar Japanese political and social realities. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674261815
ISBN
9780674261815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.75

Paperback. Winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300201222
ISBN
9780300201222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.40

Hardback. Examining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot to Paul de Man, this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, emigres, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric, literary criticism and literary theory. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; DSA; HBT; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231123723
ISBN
9780231123723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.32
€ 83.75

Hardback. This is the story of Lady Sarah Cowper, based on a diary that she kept from 1700 to 1716. She reveals not only her personal life, but also her thoughts about religion, politics, and society, weaving her own words with unattributed quotations from conduct manuals, sermons, periodicals, and other sources. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; 3JF; BGH; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804734189
ISBN
9780804734189
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816677832
ISBN
9780816677832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. Editor(s): Leglu, Catherine; Milner, Stephen J. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403976192
ISBN
9781403976192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Hardcover. Offers erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust. This jacketed hardcover anthology has a full-cloth binding and silk ribbon marker. Editor(s): Pelling, Rowan. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596143
ISBN
9781841596143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Hardcover. Intended to follow on from and complement "Love Poems" - also part of the "Everyman's Pocket Poets" series - this book contains a selection of erotic verse. The emphasis is on the tender, sensuous, witty and passionate aspects of erotic poetry. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Random House
Number of pages
286
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157093
ISBN
9781857157093
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.48

Paperback. Translator(s): Luke, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199549726
ISBN
9780199549726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Hardcover. This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon - the female-authored erotic memoir - and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137326539
ISBN
9781137326539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.74

Hardcover. Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing discusses the role of sexuality in medieval devotional practice, looking in particular at religious writings circulating in England in the tenth to thirteenth centuries. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; HRC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295004
ISBN
9780312295004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.40

Hardcover. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403969255
ISBN
9781403969255
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

paperback. This book shows for the first time the power of the British law against divorce, Coleridge's anguish at his entrapment in his marriage, and his formulations for preserving some personal integrity for men and women within the bounds of these laws. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2005
SKU
V9781349531158
ISBN
9781349531158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.94

Paperback. How clean the mind is, holy grave. It is this girl by Piero della Francesca, unbuttoning her blue dress, her mantle of weather, to go into labor. Come, we can go in. It is before the birth of god. No-one has risen yet to the museums, to the assembly line bodies and wings to the open air market. This is what the living do: go in. It's a long way. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691014050
ISBN
9780691014050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.68

Hardcover. This title examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encompassing the period from the early 1560s to the late 1590s, the book links together Scottish Marian and Jacobean court literatures. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 229 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2002nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333918753
ISBN
9780333918753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 219 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349423699
ISBN
9781349423699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.77

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: CFGA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1850
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783662392225
ISBN
9783662392225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.78

Hardcover. Experiences of twentieth century history and major literary trends are reflected in the excellent but little-known writings of the Austrian-Czech physician and novelist Ernst Weiss (1882-1940). This book assesses the life and legacy of this important voice from mid twentieth century Central Europe. Num Pages: 284 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Academica Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933146720
ISBN
9781933146720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.39

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