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Paperback. Almost on the centenary of his death, this book studies the novels of Wilkie Collins and attempts to appreciate his representation of Victorian mores. It pays particular attention to Collins' views on sexuality, both male and female, and the laws concerning the distribution of property. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349089024
ISBN
9781349089024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.62

Paperback. Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires and fears. In this book, by reconnecting with this historic reality we are able to experience the true character of the playwright himself. It traces Shakespeare's unfolding imaginative generosity. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 312 x 36. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847924520
ISBN
9781847924520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. Japanese "private writer" bridges gap between traditional and pop cultures with stories of the ordinary. Illustrator(s): Mitani, Tomoko. Translator(s): Meldrum, Yukari F. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888645449
ISBN
9780888645449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.42

Hardcover. This stimulating and comprehensive study of Will Self's work spans his entire career and offers insightful readings of all his fictional and non-fictional work up to and including his Booker prize nominated novel Umbrella. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; JFC; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 297 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137486554
ISBN
9781137486554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

paperback.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Mercier Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KNW0010325
ISBN
9781856355216
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.99
€ 13.21

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Mercier Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781856355216
ISBN
9781856355216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. Absence makes the heart grow fonder..doesn't it? Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
KRA0009133
ISBN
9781847562104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Absence makes the heart grow fonder..doesn't it? Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KTM0001033
ISBN
9781847562104
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Published on her 70th birthday, Shuttle's latest collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, drawing on architecture, history and personal memory. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780373539
ISBN
9781780373539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.48

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580896382
ISBN
9781580896382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.51

Hardback. This study examines the ways in which Willa Cather handles landscape and exile in her fiction. Cather's characters are intricately connected to the places they inhibit, and they are often banished from a native or authentic landscape. Num Pages: 127 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
127
Condition
New
SKU
V9780945636564
ISBN
9780945636564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.40

Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780389208822
ISBN
9780389208822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.65

paperback. With a focus on Willa Cather's artistic principle of "the thing not named," this book illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction transforms the very categories-regarding gender, sexuality, race, and class-around which most recent Cather scholarship has focused. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326724
ISBN
9780822326724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardback. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Willa Cather. Num Pages: 370 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474091
ISBN
9781611474091
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.52

Hardcover. Drawing on a range of material from archives in the US and from a variety of primary historical sources, this study places Cather's major fiction in its cultural context. It explores "progressivism", "primitivism" and "Americanization" in such novels as "My Antonia" and "O Pioneers!". Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333634516
ISBN
9780333634516
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 209 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 13. Weight in Grams: 199.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803279964
ISBN
9780803279964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Presents a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. This work concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological". Num Pages: 126 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
4th Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803263321
ISBN
9780803263321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.99

Hardback. Willa Cather's Modernism challenges the assumption that Cather was an old-fashioned exponent of styles of fiction, demonstrating instead that Cather was clearly aware of the experimentation within the modernist movement. Illustrative chapters deal with three central novels: A Lost Lady, The Professor's House, and My Mortal Enemy. Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Willa Cather. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470925
ISBN
9781611470925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.97

Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dustwrapper. DW has some wear but remains good
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Carbondale Ill. Southern Illinois University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1967
SKU
KOC0025331
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198728146
ISBN
9780198728146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.81

Paperback. William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood-engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster in Mere. Among his best-known books of poetry are "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect" (1844) and "Hwomely Rhymes" (1859). Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 120 x 11. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236657
ISBN
9780571236657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. A painter, poet and engraver William Blake (1757-1827) was born in London. "Poetical Sketches", his first volume of poetry, was published in 1783 and was followed by works such as "Songs of Innocence (1789)", "The Book of Thel (1789)", and "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93)". This book introduces this poet. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 119 x 10. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236039
ISBN
9780571236039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.74

Paperback. This volume on Blake follows the writer's life and combines biography and critical analysis. Covering Blake's early career, his major works and his work as a visual artist, this new study will be a must for all Blake scholars and enthusiasts. Recent discoveries concerning Blake's forebears and their religion make this new study additionally timely. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BG; CF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230546820
ISBN
9780230546820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.22

Hardback. In Blake's designs, transparent skinned bodies passionately contort in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. This volume re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; AGB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333968482
ISBN
9780333968482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.82

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