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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241968772
ISBN
9780241968772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. A diverse and moving collection of women's poetry and verse of the First World War. Editor(s): Reilly, Catherine W. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844082254
ISBN
9781844082254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSB; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816680610
ISBN
9780816680610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. How to Read the Victorian Novel unpicks our comfortable expectations of the genre to fully explore just how unfamiliar its familiarity is: emphasizing the complexity and contradictions in Victorian writers' attempts to deal with a world heading into modernity at full speed. Series: How to Study Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405130561
ISBN
9781405130561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.85

Paperback. This fresh edition of Henry IV Part 2 from the RSC offers fascinating new material to help readers understand the play on the page and in performance, including interviews with Shakespearean directors Michael Boyd and Adrian Noble and actor Michael Pennington, an introduction by Jonathan Bate and student-friendly scene-by-scene analysis. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230232150
ISBN
9780230232150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.22

Paperback. A literary scholar and a planetary scientist look at the Earth as object, viewed from the outside, and as a singular orb that is a challenge to scale and human self-importance. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 144 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501317910
ISBN
9781501317910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.58

Paperback. En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
159
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780994031
ISBN
9781780994031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. Jerome K Jerome is without doubt best known today for his comic masterpiece "Three Men in a Boat". This work provides a selection from his other works demonstrative of the variety and brilliance of his writing. It is suitable for fans of "Three Men in a Boat" who want to find out more about its author's other works. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258. 160 pages. Jerome K Jerome is without doubt best known today for his comic masterpiece "Three Men in a Boat". This work provides a selection from his other works demonstrative of the variety and brilliance of his writing. It is suitable for fans of "Three Men in a Boat" who want to find out more about its author's other works. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight: 258.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845886356
ISBN
9781845886356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.38

Paperback. Series: Contemporary Dramatists. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350007420
ISBN
9781350007420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.45

Hardback. Homophobia is still rife and it remains dangerous and even life-threatening to be out in Africa, but Chantal Zabus here traces the range of representations of same-sex desire in Africa through historic and contemporary sources. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1HF; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 708.
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010827
ISBN
9781847010827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.41

Paperback. A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 314 pages. Editor(s): Scanlon, Larry. A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight: 512.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
314
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521602587
ISBN
9780521602587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.87

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; DSBD; DSK; HBT; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801441431
ISBN
9780801441431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.58

Paperback. Shakespeare and Ecology shows how environmental problems typically associated with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including pollution, deforestation, and climate change, actually began in Shakespeare's time and are reflected in many of his plays. Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Num Pages: 224 pages, Eight black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199567010
ISBN
9780199567010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.62

Hardcover. This work looks at the "ginans", a large corpus of hymns and poems composed in a variety of Indic languages, written over several centuries. It examines their characteristics and explores the Khojki script in which they were written, also noting their continuing influence. Series: Ismaili Heritage Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 2B; DSB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860647581
ISBN
9781860647581
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.77
€ 48.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 116 pages, 97 Full Colour Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 217 x 10. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556438837
ISBN
9781556438837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.59

Paperback. One of a series, this one concentrating on the work by William Blake Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198310785
ISBN
9780198310785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.49

Paperback. A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's history and practice of theatre. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854595508
ISBN
9781854595508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.01

Paperback. Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, this work describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, it is among the Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalry and seduction. Editor(s): O'Donoghue, Bernard. Translator(s): O'Donoghue, Bernard. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140424539
ISBN
9780140424539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. An examination of the figure of Briseis, Achilles' concubine in the "Iliad", as an example of the traditional artistry enabled by the oral poetic system. It argues that Briseis' role in the "Iliad" is enormously compressed, both in relation to the "Iliad" and the tradition of the epic cycle. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 213.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742522190
ISBN
9780742522190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.75

Paperback. Building on the formula of "York Notes", this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 7. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Longman London
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582329317
ISBN
9780582329317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.28

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