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Paperback. Presents a tale about the Lover and his quest - against the admonishments of reason and the obstacles set by jealousy and resistance - to pluck the fair Rose in the Enchanted Garden. This work includes an introduction, covering such topics as the iconographic significance of the imagery and the use of irony in developing the central theme of love. Translator(s): Dahlberg, Charles. Num Pages: 520 pages, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691044569
- ISBN
- 9780691044569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.70
€ 54.99
€ 39.70
Paperback. The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, "Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole" and "L'Escoufle" (The Kite), as well as "Le Lai de l'Ombre," Jean Renart is today recognized as the most accomplished practitioner of the "realistic romance" in Old French literature. Translator(s): Terry, Patricia; Durling, Nancy Vine. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812213881
- ISBN
- 9780812213881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Paperback. Editor(s): Horgan, Frances. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540679
- ISBN
- 9780199540679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.61
€ 17.99
€ 17.61
Paperback. From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great's global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages. This book provides an engaging and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its continuing influence on literature and art. Num Pages: 152 pages, 70 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 662. 152 pages, 70 colour illustrations. From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great's global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages. This book provides an engaging and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its continuing influence on literature and art. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 211 x 210 x 17. Weight: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851242955
- ISBN
- 9781851242955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.55
€ 26.99
€ 20.55
Num Pages: 260 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 181 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493917
- ISBN
- 9781611493917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 142.49
€ 142.49
Paperback. To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922553
- ISBN
- 9780813922553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.44
€ 34.44
Hardback. "A provocative study of an intriguing subject.. The Romance of Adultery establishes perceptive and tantalizing connections between literature and history while sensibly resisting the teptation to see the former as a reflection of the latter."-Romance Philology Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 348 x 28. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812234329
- ISBN
- 9780812234329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.92
€ 73.92
Hardback. It seeks to restore poetry to its rightful place as a crucial source for interpreting the rich cultural and intellectual life of the era. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801887222
- ISBN
- 9780801887222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.06€ 64.91
€ 71.06
€ 64.91
Hardcover. In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T. P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of Roman 'literature' to mass public audiences. Num Pages: 352 pages, 27 illustrations, including a four-page colour plates section. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 247 x 29. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198718352
- ISBN
- 9780198718352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.96
€ 187.96
Paperback. .". not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." The Review of Metaphysics.". essential reading for anyone interesting in.. the new reader-centered forms of criticism." Library JournalIn this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between open and closed texts." Series: Advances in Semiotics. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Edition
- Midland Book ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253203182
- ISBN
- 9780253203182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.26
€ 25.99
€ 24.26
paperback. BIC Classification: DN; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- International Publishers Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780717807390
- ISBN
- 9780717807390
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.54
€ 17.99
€ 16.54
Perfect Paperback. Editor(s): Hinshaw, Robert. Num Pages: 393 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DNF; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Daimon Verlag Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 393
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783856305406
- ISBN
- 9783856305406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.23
€ 47.99
€ 34.23
paperback. Features the play "Robbers" that presents a passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal; and "Wallenstein" that explores a flawed general's struggle to bring the Thirty Years War to an end against the will of his Emperor. Translator(s): Lamport, F.J. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140443684
- ISBN
- 9780140443684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
€ 16.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. It stirs depths that Cat's Eye did not reach, and grants deeper stronger powers to women's friendship in distress' MARINA WARNER An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 38. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853817229
- ISBN
- 9781853817229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. Editor(s): Panek, Jennifer. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393932775
- ISBN
- 9780393932775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.59
€ 18.99
€ 17.59
Paperback. This volume offers excellent value by bringing together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed, city comedies by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Each of the plays features tradesmen - a shoemaker, goldsmith, merchant, shop-keepers - and depicts bustling city life. Editor(s): Knowles, Sir James. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540105
- ISBN
- 9780199540105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.50
€ 15.99
€ 12.50
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713668131
- ISBN
- 9780713668131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. A hilarious city comedy by the authors of A Mad World, My Masters and The Shoemaker's Holiday. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848424005
- ISBN
- 9781848424005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 209 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- British Library Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0015940
- ISBN
- 9780712309738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. An international anthology of Roma poetry and prose. In this text, the lives of the contributors are told in brief biographical notes reflecting the many roads followed by the Roma in coming to terms with modern society. Editor(s): Hancock, Ian; Dowd, Siobhan; Djuric, Rajko. Series: PEN American Center's threatened literature series. Num Pages: 170 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: DC; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 10. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- University of Hertfordshire Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900458903
- ISBN
- 9780900458903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.46
€ 17.99
€ 16.46