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Hardcover. The Iliad and the Odyssey are the cornerstones of Western literature. Over the years they have inspired artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, playwrights, and film-makers. Barbara Graziosi introduces Homer's key works and discusses the main literary, historical, and archaeological issues at the heart of Homeric studies. Num Pages: 176 pages, 14 black and white images. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 130 x 177 x 15. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198788300
ISBN
9780198788300
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

paperback. Introduces international writing to the general and literary public - travelers, teachers, students, publishers, and a new generation of eclectic readers - by presenting international literature not as a static, elite phenomenon, but a portal through which to explore the world. Num Pages: 592 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
Ecco
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061583247
ISBN
9780061583247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.87

Hardcover. This crisply written biography traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood, through her tumultuous relationship with Dylan Thomas, to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C. P. Snow. Hers was a rich, courageous, and politically committed writing life. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198729617
ISBN
9780198729617
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.48

hardcover. This volume presents a complete text of all Milton's verse. Coleridge linked Milton and Shakespeare as the greatest of English poets, and even in our time Milton continues to exert a powerful influence, both on the writing of poetry and on critical debate. Num Pages: 630 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 39. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Number of pages
630
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150971
ISBN
9781857150971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Melvyn Bragg explores a controversial selection of British books and their huge impact on history Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 x 8pp colour. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340839829
ISBN
9780340839829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Offers teachings of Epicurus - about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and friendship-attracted legions of adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. This volume includes all of his extant writings - his letters, doctrines, and Vatican sayings. Translator(s): Strodach, John K. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DB; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143107217
ISBN
9780143107217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Jackie Kay brings her poetry to Picador with a brilliant new collection that crosses borders Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed by the author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
SKU
KEX0281109
ISBN
9780330513371
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Contains essays that explore the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and lament the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning). This book also unfolds the author's views on things from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 110 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141191263
ISBN
9780141191263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born in Dorset. He left school at sixteen to work as an apprentice for an architect who specialized in church restoration. He made his reputation as a novelist, and it wasn't until after the publication of his last novel, The Well-beloved, in 1897, that he dedicated himself to writing poetry. Editor(s): Paulin, Tom. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 122 x 13. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571226733
ISBN
9780571226733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164306
ISBN
9780231164306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Editor(s): Goldsby, Jacqueline. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 512 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 212 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393972863
ISBN
9780393972863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.47

Hardcover. Represents the 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', and a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 108 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157109
ISBN
9781857157109
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.60

Paperback. In 1818, when Stendhal was in his mid-thirties, he met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings. Translator(s): Sale, Gilbert; Sale, Suzanne. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF; JMM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443073
ISBN
9780140443073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Editor(s): Harker, Jaime; Farr, Cecilia Konchar. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; DS; HBJK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252081347
ISBN
9780252081347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, and spurred on by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141396316
ISBN
9780141396316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.45

Paperback. Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest, in part because he provides vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, and partly because of the light he casts on the intellectual life of first century Rome. This edition uses the 1997 Clarendon text by the acclaimed translator P.G. Walsh. Editor(s): Walsh, P. G. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540068
ISBN
9780199540068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: D; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Playdead Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957607736
ISBN
9780957607736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. This title features poems according to ornithological notes and provides fascinating information on the birds. Editor(s): Dee, Tim. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141027111
ISBN
9780141027111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Hardcover. The Trivium are the three Liberal Arts pertaining to language: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of perfecting a speaker and their speech. Also included in this compendium of seven Wooden Books are studies of Euphonics, Poetic Meter and Form, Ethics, and Proverbs. Series: Wooden Books. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 878.
Publisher
Wooden Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907155185
ISBN
9781907155185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472581020
ISBN
9781472581020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.60

Paperback. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 235 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241251966
ISBN
9780241251966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.52

Paperback. This anthology is a guide to the Modernist movement in literature providing students, researchers and teachers of Modernism with a comprehensive documentary resource. Covering a wide range of intellectual concerns of the period 1850-1940 in Britain, Europe and America the anthology brings together contemporary essays, reviews, articles and manifestos of the political and aesthetic avant-garde. Editor(s): Kolocotroni, Vassiliki; Goldman, Jane A.; Taxidou, Olga. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 174 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1112.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748609734
ISBN
9780748609734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.11

Paperback. Editor(s): Hibbard, G. R. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New Ed. /
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536818
ISBN
9780199536818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

Hardcover. 93pp. Fine
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1948
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KHS1003519
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 145.00

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