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Paperback. Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer. This title introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process; his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers; and his venture into nonfiction through his book "Sakhalin Island". Num Pages: 168 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AGR; CBW; DSBF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1/31/12
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226568195
ISBN
9780226568195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. A thoughtful and fascinating portrait of England, told through the story of A. E. Housman and his much-loved poetry collection, A Shropshire Lad. Num Pages: 624 pages, b/w pics. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMP; 2AB; DSC; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349140681
ISBN
9780349140681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.07

Paperback. The story is of one of the most famous investigations ever conducted by science into the mysteries of the world - and its disastrous ending in the even stranger mysteries of the world within. Series: Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Methuen Books
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413724908
ISBN
9780413724908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.89

Hardcover. A collection of Pollmann's previously-published essays on early Christian poetry, most newly-translated from German and all updated and corrected. It is a genre that has tended to be overlooked by both Classicists and Patristics scholars and this collection will rectify that. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; HRAX; HRC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198726487
ISBN
9780198726487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781559362665
ISBN
9781559362665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.83

Paperback. An adaptation of Ted Hughes's "Tales from Ovid" for the stage. Tim Supple is Artistic Director of the Young Vic. He has already adapted Grimm and Rushdie, and worked with Hughes on "Spring Awakening" and "Blood Wedding". Translator(s): Hughes, Ted. Num Pages: 144 pages, map. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571202256
ISBN
9780571202256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.53

Hardback. William Shakespeare is one of the most recognisable names in English literature. This tiny tome is filled with some of Shakespeare's most creative and scathing insults. It is presented with a faux leather binding with embossed type. Editor(s): Running Press. Num Pages: 176 pages, Two-color art throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 101 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 82.
Publisher
Running Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Min
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762453863
ISBN
9780762453863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.91

Paperback. In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever. Translator(s): Born, Anne. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099506133
ISBN
9780099506133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback.
Publisher
Arlen House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
9781903631744
ISBN
9781903631744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00

Hardcover. Heekyoung Cho investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign values. Cho's study focuses on literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660045
ISBN
9780674660045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.99

Paperback. A study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. It takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? And, when is a metaphor successful? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition first Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845950934
ISBN
9781845950934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. Contains four essays, including a memoir of the author's father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and an essay about the influences on his writing life; fifty poems; and, seven stories. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530367
ISBN
9780099530367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.85

Paperback. Series: Manga Shakespeare. Num Pages: 208 pages, chiefly Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: DDS; FXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346. Series: Manga Shakespeare. 208 pages, chiefly Illustrations (some col.). Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DDS; FXA. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 14. Weight: 350.
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955816963
ISBN
9780955816963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.36

Paperback. .
Publisher
Zeticula Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849211543
ISBN
9781849211543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 4.90

Paperback. Hans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. This title tells the story of Hans Fallada, whose real name was Rudolf Ditzen. It chronicles his turbulent life as a writer, husband and father, shadowed by mental torment and long periods in psychiatric care. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 308.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Penguin Press/Classics
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241952672
ISBN
9780241952672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.65

Hardback. In the last year of his life Mark Twain asserted, "To me, the most important feature of my life is its literary feature." "This new biography takes him at his word.. [It] may inspire many to reread the Inimitable himself."-Kirkus Reviews Num Pages: 416 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 840.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812235166
ISBN
9780812235166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344. Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. 242 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight: 296.
Publisher
The University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226468129
ISBN
9780226468129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.40

Paperback. Tracing an ambivalence toward pleasure from the early modern to the modern era, McEleney shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for t Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272662
ISBN
9780823272662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.89

Paperback. Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about three cinema attendants, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425620
ISBN
9781848425620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.57

Paperback. Includes poetry from "We Brits" that gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. This book also includes "Weblines" that contains three Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 1. Weight in Grams: 332. Selected Poems. 160 pages. Includes poetry from "We Brits" that gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. This book also includes "Weblines" that contains three Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 1. Weight: 328.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Pap/DVD
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852248239
ISBN
9781852248239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.17

Electronic book text. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature Eup. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1H; DSB; HRAB; HRAX; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474426428
ISBN
9781474426428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.24

Paperback. Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099518259
ISBN
9780099518259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. The author was the greatest poet of the First World War, and his death in battle, a few days before Armistice, was a disastrous loss to English letters. This volume gathers together the poems for which he is best known, and which represent his most important contribution to poetry in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 214 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Chatto and Windus London
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780701161262
ISBN
9780701161262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 346.
Edition
Main Market
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330483148
ISBN
9780330483148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

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