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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Offers a collection of poems and songs from the eighteenth century. This title includes a selection from the work of Allan Ramsay and Robert Ferguson (Burns' 'elder brother in the muse'), as well as a wider selection from the men and women writers whose good-humoured accessibility so characterised the poetry of their time. Editor(s): MacLachlan, Christopher. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841952536
ISBN
9781841952536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.18

Paperback. Why have ancient Rome and Greece been so influential? Series: All That Matters. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; ACG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 179 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
John Murray Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444177961
ISBN
9781444177961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. Editor(s): Wolfe, Cary. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; PSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816641062
ISBN
9780816641062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.93

Hardback. A rigorous and many-layered study of the works of Blanchot and Adorno in terms of the relation between negativity and autonomy in the work of art with particular reference to literature, which yields a thinking of materiality in language as an ambiguous force of critique and innovation. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 338 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD2; DSA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 34. Weight in Grams: 640.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823269280
ISBN
9780823269280
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.62

Paperback. A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Translator(s): Kirkup, James. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185330
ISBN
9780141185330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472573315
ISBN
9781472573315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.55

Hardback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474415729
ISBN
9781474415729
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 101.56

Paperback. "This magnificent collection completely re-imagines the vast and well-trodden field of the Bible and Literature. From Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature offers a compelling narrative of how the English literary tradition has itself used, re-written and re-visioned sacred texts. Editor(s): Lemon, Rebecca; Mason, Emma; Roberts, Jonathan; Rowland, Christopher. Num Pages: 714 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 246 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1082.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470674994
ISBN
9780470674994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.14

Hardback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646377
ISBN
9781442646377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.38
€ 12.38

Hardcover. Updated editions in this trusted Shakespeare series Series: Heinemann Shakespeare. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 205 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435026479
ISBN
9780435026479
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.80

Paperback. Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust, and his decades-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer - right down to his overcoat Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846272721
ISBN
9781846272721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.08

Paperback. Series: Great Shakespeareans. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472579492
ISBN
9781472579492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.69

Hardback. In this edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson", Marshall Waingrow offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. He charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors which crept into the final edition. Editor(s): Waingrow, Marshall. Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748606054
ISBN
9780748606054
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.37
€ 114.80

Paperback. Editor(s): Lacy, Norris J. Translator(s): Chase, Carol J.; Burns, E. Jane. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 542. The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation. History of the Holy Grail. 348 pages. Editor(s): Lacy, Norris J. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 27. Weight: 550. Translator(s): Chase, Carol J.; Burns, E.Jane.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
348
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842248
ISBN
9781843842248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.25

Paperback. With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge the author takes up in this book, using Thoreau's "Walden" as a touchstone. Num Pages: 600 pages, 4 fine line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBF; JFC; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 852.
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674258624
ISBN
9780674258624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.30

Paperback. This revealing autobiography illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a personal insight into the life of the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Pan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main Market
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330484053
ISBN
9780330484053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. This book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748633043
ISBN
9780748633043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. Anne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a woman in the world of politics. First English translation. Series: Library of Medieval Women. Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3H; DSBB; HBJD; JFM; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 202 x 7. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
124
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842934
ISBN
9781843842934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.33

Hardcover. Editor(s): Grund, Gary R. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 203 x 30. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674017443
ISBN
9780674017443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.29

Paperback. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. The editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature - in this volume, Emily Dickinson poems. Editor(s): Hughes, Ted. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 121 x 6. Weight in Grams: 70.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571223435
ISBN
9780571223435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.91

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