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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Aims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what it is that makes a writer. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Eland Books
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955010514
ISBN
9780955010514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.08

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179683
ISBN
9780231179683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.08
€ 64.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 217 x 2. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179690
ISBN
9780231179690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.68

Paperback. The Chronicles of Narnia or the The Perelandra Chronicles may be a reader's first encounter with the writings of C.S. Lewis, but what is the story behind these works of fantasy and science fiction written by a recent convert to Christianity? Introducing C.S. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405158848
ISBN
9781405158848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.95

Paperback. A detailed analysis of Proust's masterpiece, aimed at students coming to the work for the first time. Num Pages: 230 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521720069
ISBN
9780521720069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.62

Hardback. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333354742
ISBN
9780333354742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.34

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 658 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1085.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
658
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691652023
ISBN
9780691652023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 335.33

paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801472879
ISBN
9780801472879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801444692
ISBN
9780801444692
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Hardback. Presents a reading of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays. This work focuses on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the cycle of terrorism and counter terrorism that characterized the Algerian War. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231140867
ISBN
9780231140867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.19
€ 83.75

Paperback. Takes a wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 195.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820330136
ISBN
9780820330136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.30

Hardcover. Explores "Chronicles of Narnia", offering a look at the stories themselves and also focusing on the intellect and imagination of the man behind the Wardrobe. This title presents each Narnia book as its own little wardrobe - each tale an opportunity to discover a visionary world of vitality, beauty, and clarity. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787978907
ISBN
9780787978907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. Provides overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This title highlights the wealth of diversity in this field, identifying and exploring key themes including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, anti Semitism and Zionism. It is discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks. Editor(s): Brauner, David; Staehler, Axel. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 252 x 34. Weight in Grams: 994.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748646159
ISBN
9780748646159
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 207.69
€ 198.27

Paperback. * Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain. * Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism. * Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres. Editor(s): Bradshaw, David. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220558
ISBN
9780631220558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.69

Paperback. This up-to-date account of the composition, structure, and achievement of Balzac's novel provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing 19th-century expectations of what novels should be like. Series Editor(s): Stern, J. P. Series: Landmarks of World Literature. Num Pages: 116 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0003900
ISBN
9780521316347
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801445613
ISBN
9780801445613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Paperback. This treatise defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that he absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. It describes the political contexts surrounding his novels. Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa S. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 10. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520078123
ISBN
9780520078123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. The work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Carlyle and Mathew Arnold are explored in relation to ideas about fiction, journalism, drama, poetry, new women, gothic, horror and the Victorian sage. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. 232 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. The work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Carlyle and Mathew Arnold are explored in relation to ideas about fiction, journalism, drama, poetry, new women, gothic, horror and the Victorian sage. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 14. Weight: 292.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625635
ISBN
9780748625635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 386. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0236782
ISBN
9780801488863
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 386. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KEX0236781
ISBN
9780801488863
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardback. .
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603292092
ISBN
9781603292092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.01

Paperback. Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world. Editor(s): Wood, David. Series Editor(s): Davies, Catherine. Series: Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719064135
ISBN
9780719064135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.13

Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fields Written in an approachable and accessible style Covers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelists Provides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay. Editor(s): Seed, David. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 179 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1224.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405146913
ISBN
9781405146913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.66

Hardback. Toward the end of James's career, Charles Scribner's Sons offered to publish his collected work under the overall title The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James. This book is the first comprehensive effort to apprehend the full complexity of James's self-performance there. Editor(s): McWhirter, David. Num Pages: 352 pages, 29 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725644
ISBN
9780804725644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.07

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