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Paperback. A collection of seven essays that sketches out the author's personal view of the history and value of the novel. The real work of a novel is not bound up in the specifics of any one language: what makes a novel matter is its ability to reveal some previously unknown aspect of our existence. This work describes how the best novels do just that. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571232819
- ISBN
- 9780571232819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.44
€ 19.99
€ 14.44
Hardback. "This interesting comparative study of the relationship between blood and gender in medieval literature considers how blood is associated with cultural values and how those values might be understood in light of blood's ubiquity as a metaphor and literal agent.. Recommended."-Choice Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- SKU
- V9780812237139
- ISBN
- 9780812237139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.33
€ 68.33
Paperback. Probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of "passion" and "beauty", the author shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. In doing so, he also explores the problematic place of passion and beauty in Romantic radicalism. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299129644
- ISBN
- 9780299129644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.02
€ 22.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 74 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Four Way Books United States
- Number of pages
- 74
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781884800894
- ISBN
- 9781884800894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.36
€ 16.99
€ 15.36
Hardcover. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Num Pages: 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 478. 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851243846
- ISBN
- 9781851243846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.80
€ 13.99
€ 11.80
hardcover. Clean copy with some shelf wear fine in dustjacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- London, UK: Jonathan Cape / Random
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001928
- ISBN
- 9780224063784
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 6.44
€ 6.44
Paperback. When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing. Editor(s): SparkNotes. Series: SparkNotes Literature Guide. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSRC. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 212 x 133 x 6. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- SparkNotes
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781411471009
- ISBN
- 9781411471009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.32
€ 8.99
€ 8.32
Paperback. Christopher, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 100. Series: Modern Plays. 112 pages. Christopher, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DD. Dimension: 196 x 136 x 10. Weight: 118.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408173350
- ISBN
- 9781408173350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.42
€ 16.99
€ 15.42
hardcover. Clustering around the letter 'C', this title features seventy poems that celebrate a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. It includes tales of cufflinks and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571321452
- ISBN
- 9780571321452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.75
€ 19.99
€ 6.75
Paperback. Clustering around the letter 'C', this volume includes a collection of seventy-some poems that celebrates a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. It also features tales of cufflinks and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571322961
- ISBN
- 9780571322961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.46
€ 15.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. A novel about transforming organizations from the author of bestselling business books The Goal and Zapp! The Cure is a novel for managers about transforming an under-performing bureaucratic organization into a boundaryless, fact-driven management culture like the one that made Jack Welch's General Electric so consistently successful. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471268307
- ISBN
- 9780471268307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.33
€ 47.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226437361
- ISBN
- 9780226437361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.43
€ 50.43
Paperback. A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes that tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes' invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571327652
- ISBN
- 9780571327652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.95
€ 17.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. Pervades the idea of the aperture, the gap, the silence that exists between what we want to say and what we actually do say. This work explores the various dimensions of silence. It considers both literal, obvious silences - death, abandonment, the silence into which lost things vanish - and silences of a more mysterious and paradoxical nature. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 6. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268036614
- ISBN
- 9780268036614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.10
€ 26.99
€ 25.10
Hardback. The Cup of Song explores the symbiotic relationship of the symposion and poetry across Greek literary history. Each chapter discusses one aspect of sympotic engagement by key authors across the major genres of Greek poetry, leading to a characterization of the full spectrum of sympotic poetry from its beginnings through to the Hellenistic age. Editor(s): Cazzato, Vanessa; Obbink, Dirk; Prodi, Enrico Emanuele. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSC; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199687688
- ISBN
- 9780199687688
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 209.16
€ 209.16
Hardback. This book presents a unique analysis of letter writing in the Middle Islamic period. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748633739
- ISBN
- 9780748633739
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.82
€ 146.82
Paperback. This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 48 illustrations (8 colour). BIC Classification: AB; DSB; GT; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745055
- ISBN
- 9780804745055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.56
€ 32.99
€ 29.56
Hardcover. Editor(s): Arseneau, Mary; Harrison, Antony H.; Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen. Num Pages: 373 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 373
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821412435
- ISBN
- 9780821412435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.60
€ 107.60
Hardback. Focusing primarily on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present, this interdisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at the institutions and practices of autobiography and self-portraiture in Europe, the United States and other cultures. Editor(s): Folkenflik, Robert. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 288 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720472
- ISBN
- 9780804720472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.79
€ 132.79
paperback. This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno's finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. Editor(s): Bernstein, J. M. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 246. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034113
- ISBN
- 9780415253802
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.65
€ 5.65