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Paperback. A warrior sails to a distant land, to a once great hall plagued by a murderous enemy: the monster Grendel. Can the hero Beowulf defeat his blood-thirsty foe, save the Geats from being wiped off the map, and claim his just rewards? The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is brought to life by American poet Meghan Purvis in a vigorous new translation. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penned in the Margins United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908058140
- ISBN
- 9781908058140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, this work is the narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. It is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main - bilingual edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571230419
- ISBN
- 9780571230419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.64
€ 16.99
€ 12.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. Dimension: 209 x 155. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393320978
- ISBN
- 9780393320978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.61
€ 17.99
€ 16.61
Paperback. Translator(s): Raffel, Professor Burton. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 105 x 15. Weight in Grams: 91.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780451530967
- ISBN
- 9780451530967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.13
€ 7.13
Paperback. This is a brilliant, exemplary edition and a must-have for any serious student of the poem. Liuzza has set the standard for many years to come. Stacy S. Klein, Rutgers University Editor(s): Liuzza, R. M. Translator(s): Liuzza, R. M. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554810642
- ISBN
- 9781554810642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.95
€ 24.99
€ 22.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 570 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ABA; 2ACSC; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 902.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 596
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408286036
- ISBN
- 9781408286036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.29
€ 50.29
hardcover. Bilingual edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper and with mylar sleeve
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSG0031292
- ISBN
- 9780374111199
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 65.00
€ 65.00
paperback. A translation of "Beowulf" that captures the rhythm and movement of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid Modern English style and relatively simple vocabulary. It provides an approximation of the acoustic features - and power - of the original and is suitable for reading either silently or aloud. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780872208933
- ISBN
- 9780872208933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.35
€ 18.99
€ 15.35
Paperback. Tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland. Translator(s): Alexander, Michael. Num Pages: 208 pages, genealogy tables, maps. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449310
- ISBN
- 9780140449310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857545883
- ISBN
- 9781857545883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.86
€ 11.99
€ 10.86
Hardback. Translator(s): Anderson, James. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857424426
- ISBN
- 9780857424426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.46
€ 23.99
€ 23.46
Paperback. Presents the author's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End. This book focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child, a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one. It tells about the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of the metropolis. Translator(s): Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJC; DSBH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022225
- ISBN
- 9780674022225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.38
€ 25.99
€ 23.38
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681370545
- ISBN
- 9781681370545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. In order to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the reunification, the author offers a meditation about Germany's restored capital - both what it represents in European history, and the peculiar part it has played in his own life. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 5. Weight in Grams: 78.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571251308
- ISBN
- 9780571251308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.99€ 6.00
€ 7.99
€ 6.00
Hardcover. .8vo. Very good copy. Irish literature in the twenienth century.Two volumes . Volume 2 signed by the author
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- SKU
- KEX0266834
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 75.00
€ 75.00
Hardback. Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543554
- ISBN
- 9781137543554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.53€ 27.05
€ 71.53
€ 27.05
Paperback. Editor(s): Coleman, Philip. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 141.
- Publisher
- Arlen House
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781851321124
- ISBN
- 9781851321124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: BGS; DD; WSQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 201 x 7. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472596109
- ISBN
- 9781472596109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.40
€ 19.40
Hardcover. Beryl Bainbridge is best known as a prolific writer of novels that ranged from black comedies of contemporary life, often autobiographical in inspiration, to idiosyncratic reimaginings of historical events and characters. This book offers a highly personal, chronological account of Beryl's life and work both her writing and her painting. Num Pages: 208 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; ACXJ; AFC; AGB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500516515
- ISBN
- 9780500516515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 5.80
€ 25.99
€ 5.80
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Wright, Emma. Editor(s): Key, Amy. Num Pages: 96 pages, 6. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- The Emma Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910139073
- ISBN
- 9781910139073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0014414
- ISBN
- 9780236401147
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 562 446pp. A posthumous novel from the late beloved Nuala Ó Faoláin, this one explores the challenges women, who have lived a full life, face in late middle age
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848400450
- ISBN
- 9781848400450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.95
€ 13.95
paperback. Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life. Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- (Reissue)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007247189
- ISBN
- 9780007247189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. For the third time, Granta has selected 20 writers under 40 whose writing represents the best promise or achievement in British fiction. The collection includes stories by Sarah Waters, Rachel Cusk, Robert McLiam Wilson, Rachel Seiffert, Philip Hensher, A. L. Kennedy and Toby Litt. Editor(s): Jack, Ian. Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32photos. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780903141581
- ISBN
- 9780903141581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.75
€ 23.99
€ 17.75