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Paperback. This work argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. It explores texts ranging from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost. Num Pages: 444 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 696.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
444
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226015170
ISBN
9780226015170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. This book offers a new unified approach to rhetoric, a means of persuading or influencing interlocutors. All the principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theorists are integrated into Michel Meyer's 'problematological' conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; DSB; HBLA1; HPC; HPM; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199691821
ISBN
9780199691821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.25

paperback. Poetry from the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
W W NORTON & CO
Condition
New
SKU
9780393327090
ISBN
9780393327090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.32

Paperback. "What is what was" combines Richard Stern's fiction and non-fiction work into one miscellany. His essays include philosophy, criticism, reportage and autobiography, all worked within the theme of actuality made and remade in description. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 115 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226773261
ISBN
9780226773261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.41

Paperback. Probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a changing world. This book looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. It argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691049861
ISBN
9780691049861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 38.85

Paperback. Poems that capture the jumble of emotions inherent in motherhood: delight, guilt, resentment, and gratitude. Num Pages: 42 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Peace Hill Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
42
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933339597
ISBN
9781933339597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Turtle Point Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933527482
ISBN
9781933527482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99

Paperback. A collection of poems that explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss, decay and legacy. Translator(s): Jones, Francis R. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852247805
ISBN
9781852247805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.41

Paperback. Originally published as what it takes: writing in college. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CF; CJCW; DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pearson Education (US) United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780205864843
ISBN
9780205864843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Paperback. This study focuses on literature for girls. Written by women for children, such texts have been doubly marginalized by the critical establishment. Using 20th-century feminist critical practice, the authors open up fresh perspectives on popular fiction written for girls between 1850 and 1920. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; DSY; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333626733
ISBN
9780333626733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.72

Paperback. Presents a comprehensive selection that includes early formal lyrics, fierce feminist and political poems, and meditations on the author's husband suicide, on love, loss, blindness and aging. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 668.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First U. K. Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852248413
ISBN
9781852248413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.31

Paperback. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. The novel traces the course of her education and ends with the death of her childhood. It is one of James's finest studies of lost innocence. Editor(s): Poole, Adrian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538591
ISBN
9780199538591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.07

Paperback. A unique book, from the incomparable Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Among Others, Jo Walton: What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Fantasy and SF is a collection of brilliant reassessments of the classics - and the forgotten gems - of modern fantasy and SF. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DSRC; FL; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472111616
ISBN
9781472111616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.65

Paperback. From 'Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?' to 'Which important Austen characters never speak?' the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden truths about Jane Austen's fictional world Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244. Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved. 352 pages. From 'Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?' to 'Which important Austen characters never speak?' the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden truths about Jane Austen's fictional world. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 200 x 131 x 22. Weight: 244.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408831694
ISBN
9781408831694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.97

Paperback. This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
390
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574231052
ISBN
9781574231052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. Most widely known as the controversial OFSTED Chief, Chris Woodhead held forthright views that turned up the volume of the national education debate. As journalism, education is at the core of this book, but it also reflects his passions for literature and climbing, and concludes with his courageous thoughts on assisted dying. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JHBZ; JNL; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
The University of Buckingham Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908684820
ISBN
9781908684820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.03

Hardback. "What May Words Say..?" contains a comprehensive and in many respects unconventional interpretation of The Merchant of Venice. The play's development of ideas is unfolded in a literary analysis that focuses on the poet's words in their philological, historical, and philosophical contexts. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470000
ISBN
9781611470000
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.04

Hardcover. As Zionism took root in Palestine, European Yiddish was employed within a dominant Hebrew context. A complex relationship between cultural politics and Jewish writing ensued that paved the way for modern Israeli culture. This volume reveals a previously unrecognized, alternative literature. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 254 pages, 10 b/w photographs, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630500
ISBN
9780815630500
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.85

Paperback. Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852246891
ISBN
9781852246891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.00

Paperback. Maria Irene Fornes is PAJ's top-selling author, with three volumes in print for two decades. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
PAJ Publications,U.S. United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555540807
ISBN
9781555540807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.85

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