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Hardback. The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. The Battle of Lepanto anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets who composed Latin poetry in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 532 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 30. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674725423
- ISBN
- 9780674725423
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.04
€ 40.99
€ 35.04
Paperback. Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England's throne. This title is a chronicle of Richard's machinations to be king - a tale of murder upon murder. Editor(s): Raffel, Professor Burton. Series: The Annotated Shakespeare. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300122022
- ISBN
- 9780300122022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.06
€ 12.06
Paperback. Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This book presents a collection of the Locas mujeres poems that explore facets of the self in extremis. Editor(s): Couch, Randall. Translator(s): Couch, Randall. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226531915
- ISBN
- 9780226531915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.73
€ 33.73
Paperback. This bilingual edition contains an introduction to the three major periods of the troubadours - their beginning, rise, and decline - as well as headnotes that briefly put each poet in context. Lark in the Morning will become an essential collection for those interested in learning about and teaching the origins of Western vernacular poetry. Editor(s): Kehew, Robert. Translator(s): Pound, Ezra; Snodgrass, W. D.; Kehew, Robert. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226429335
- ISBN
- 9780226429335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.39
€ 41.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 334. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing to edges and ffep, with minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1963
- Publisher
- Faber
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0008754
- ISBN
- 9780571054442
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Part thriller, part mystery, with a powerful love story at its heart, this three-part adaptation delivers a vibrant and visceral story. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 358. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing on edges and ffep with minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0008625
- ISBN
- 9781849904285
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 8.99€ 5.38
€ 8.99
€ 5.38
Paperback. Presents tales such as "King Oedipus", "Oedipus at Colonus", and "Antigone". Translator(s): Watling, E.F. Num Pages: 176 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134. Good copy with some shelf wear, wrapped in plastic cover. Yellowing of pages and minor foxing, inscribed by previous owner on inside cover. Good copy
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KKD0010149
- ISBN
- 9780140440034
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Long time, no see introduces us to the unforgettable world of Mister Psyche. Hanging out with men some forty-plus years his senior proves hazardous for Mister Psyche when the appearance of a bullet-hole in Uncle Joe-Joe's window draws him into a series of (mis)-adventures which unsettle and bemuse. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- 9780571210794
- ISBN
- 9780571210794
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In this sequel to Catherine Cookson's collection of essays and poems, "Let Me Make Myself Plain", she offers a further selection of thoughts, recollections and observations on life - and death - together with more of the poems she prefers to describe as "prose on short lines". Num Pages: 336 pages, 8pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 107 x 24. Weight in Grams: 200. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0010071
- ISBN
- 9780552143844
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Represents a city's underworld, and the laws of corruption and delay. This novel projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. Illustrator(s): Browne, Hablot K., (Phiz). Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 504. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0010044
- ISBN
- 9781853260827
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear, stains on cover, pages remain good with clear text
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0009978
- ISBN
- 9780224090100
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 384
- SKU
- KKD0009969
- ISBN
- 9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with minor edge wear, some foxing of pages but remains a good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0009872
- ISBN
- 9780571168934
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KKD0009774
- ISBN
- 9780671014803
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A historical tale marking a new turn in Doyle's writing. Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. He eventually becomes a Fenian, a rebel, a republican legend - one of Michael Collins's boys, an assassin on a stolen bike. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 250. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KKD0009745
- ISBN
- 9780099284482
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear, wear to cover and spine and yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Penguin London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0009730
- ISBN
- 9780140400281
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'Thompson's best work of the past three decades' New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330510790
- ISBN
- 9780330510790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 4.99
€ 13.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Poems of famous men -- and the women who married them -- by the Poet Laureate. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128 76pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprints
- SKU
- 9780330372220
- ISBN
- 9780330372220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. This collection of his poetry was written in Montreal, Mumbai and during his retirement in Mt Baldy. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141027562
- ISBN
- 9780141027562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
€ 13.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate the evil marabou stork before it drives away the flamingo from picturesque Lake Torto. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- 9780099435112
- ISBN
- 9780099435112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 4.99
€ 9.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Num Pages: 400 pages, 28 b/w plates (12pp). BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780006388890
- ISBN
- 9780006388890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 5.70
€ 13.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n roll' lifestyle as his artistic work Num Pages: 544 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753817872
- ISBN
- 9780753817872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299597
- ISBN
- 9780230299597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99
€ 36.99
paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0008151
- ISBN
- 9780140282627
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99