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Hardback. This book is a study of Michel Tournier's collection of short stories, Le Coq de bruyre, but it is also much more. Author Walter Redfern sees the stories as a microcosm of the whole fictional universe of Tournier, widely regarded as France's premier living writer. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 169 x 16. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611471250
ISBN
9781611471250
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Hardback. Num Pages: 586 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 169 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1007.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
586
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611471243
ISBN
9781611471243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.20

Hardback. The city has been the main setting for modern African-American literature, and the fifteen essays in this collection show that this body of writing has been remarkable for the variety of ways in which it has made significant affirmations about urban society in America. Editor(s): Hakutani, Dr Yoshinobu; Butler, Robert. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611471151
ISBN
9781611471151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.86

Hardback. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 908.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611471052
ISBN
9781611471052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.26

Hardback. This work focuses on reportorial writers in the French Eighteenth and earl Nineteenth Century who wrote in the Addisonian tradition-a tradition that had to do with dispassionate observation of individuals and society. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470918
ISBN
9781611470918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.07

Hardback. Reading Visual Poetry examines works created in Spain, Latin America, France, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. Besides explicating individual works, it investigates the dynamics involved in reading (and viewing) visual poetry. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470628
ISBN
9781611470628
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.06

Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative argues that the Old English (from Old Saxon) poem Genesis B does not present, as some scholars assert, an unorthodox view of the Fall of Adam and Eve but that the poem reflects the comedic "happy ending" that characterizes much medieval Christian literature: the eventual attainment of Heaven. Num Pages: 342 pages, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611461671
ISBN
9781611461671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.42

Hardback. This volume is the first study of the mode of the fragmentary in eighteenth-century poetry. Revisiting traditional literary historiography, it offers a fresh account of the "Pindaric" impulse, a mode informing deliberate fragmentation. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
173
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611460629
ISBN
9781611460629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.28

Hardback. This book examines the ways six contemporary American novels (October Light; American Psycho; Vineland; Et Tu, Babe; In Country; and White Noise) formulate critiques of a late-capitalist consumer culture proclaimed to be all but unassailable. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611460544
ISBN
9781611460544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.06

Hardback. The early works of Herve Guibert explored every aspect of the body and its desires. He was influenced by the works of the Marquis de Sade, and this book discusses how both authors manipulate their identities; theatrical aspects of both authors' works; how story telling brings freedom to both authors; and disintegrating and disappearing bodies. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611460506
ISBN
9781611460506
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.58

Hardback. This study puts Shakespearean drama into the context of one of the centuryOs greatest preoccupations, the study and use of rhetoric Num Pages: 369 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 699.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
369
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611460315
ISBN
9781611460315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.97

hardcover. Editor(s): Carlile, Susan. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611460124
ISBN
9781611460124
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.78

Hardback. GOT HERE AS SOON AS I COULD is a collection of syndicated columnist Sarah Smiley's most-loved columns about raising a family in Maine. In these 100 essays, readers will laugh, cry and nod their head "yes" as they remember a time when all of America was as simple and beautiful as it still is today in Vacationland. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEN; 2AB; BM; DNF; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608935765
ISBN
9781608935765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.85

Paperback. John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. This title collects 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. Editor(s): Swift, Daniel. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 33. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780374534554
ISBN
9780374534554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.58

Hardback. The emotional bond between horses and the humans who love them can reach mystical proportions, and nowhere is that relationship more evident than in these 24 true-life accounts of horses rescuing people. 30 color illustrations. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; WNGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602397217
ISBN
9781602397217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.03

Num Pages: 120 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 218 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Tughra Books United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597842754
ISBN
9781597842754
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.10

Paperback. A collection of stories that focus on those who will inherit a world overrun with the living dead: a young man who takes up the family business of dealing with the undead, a girl struggling with her abusive father ..who has become a zombie, a poet who digs up the wrong grave, and a Viking maiden imprisoned with the living dead.. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FK; YDC; YFD. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 210 x 143 x 26. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Night Shade Books United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597803120
ISBN
9781597803120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.31

Paperback. Are we alone? From "War of the Worlds" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "ET" to "Close Encounters", creators of science fiction have always eagerly speculated on just how the story of alien contact would play out. This title gathers together some of the stories over the years, weaving a tapestry that covers a range of scenarios. Editor(s): Halpern, Marty. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Night Shade Books United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597802819
ISBN
9781597802819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Counterpoint United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593762940
ISBN
9781593762940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.70

Paperback. Editor(s): Ingham, Donna. Series: 1001. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 175 x 149 x 26. Weight in Grams: 26.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592289981
ISBN
9781592289981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.00

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