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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Hardback. This collection of 13 essays, published in association with the Children's Literature Association, celebrates the centennial of the publication of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", by Beatrix Potter. It explores how contemporary American children respond to the timeless appeal of Peter's antics. Editor(s): Mackey, Margaret. Series: Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810841970
ISBN
9780810841970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.55

Paperback. It will be a welcome addition to the library of any scholar of modernism and can easily be adapted for courses on Woolf and modern literature. Editor(s): Linett, Maren. Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book. Num Pages: 464 pages, 17, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004231
ISBN
9780801891182
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

It will be a welcome addition to the library of any scholar of modernism and can easily be adapted for courses on Woolf and modern literature. Editor(s): Linett, Maren. Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book. Num Pages: 464 pages, 17, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801891175
ISBN
9780801891175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 88.32

paperback. CZ;SK Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9788024629353
ISBN
9788024629353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.25

Paperback. Offers a firsthand account of the life of Marek Hlasko, a young writer whose iconoclastic way of life became an inspiration in 1950s Poland. Detailing relationships with such giants of Polish culture as the filmmaker Roman Polanski and the novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, this memoir recounts his adventures and misadventures abroad in the postwar era. Translator(s): Ufberg, Ross. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 18. Weight in Grams: 299.
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875806976
ISBN
9780875806976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.80

Paperback. The third and fourth books of Cicero's "Tusculan Disputations" deal with the nature and management of emotion. He presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicurians and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position. Translator(s): Graver, Margaret (Assistant Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College, USA). Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSK; HPCA; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226305783
ISBN
9780226305783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.12

Hardback. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 7 figures. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803294967
ISBN
9780803294967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.34

Hardcover. Translated for the first time into English, The Myth of the Superhero looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the superpowers, presenting a serious study of the genre and its place in a broader cultural context. Translator(s): Richards, Jamie. Num Pages: 216 pages, 66, 66 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421409108
ISBN
9781421409108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.46

Paperback. Translated for the first time into English, The Myth of the Superhero looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the superpowers, presenting a serious study of the genre and its place in a broader cultural context. Translator(s): Richards, Jamie. Num Pages: 216 pages, 66, 66 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421409535
ISBN
9781421409535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.75

Hardback. Num Pages: 120 pages, Plans transparencies :Bibliography: p110-115. - Includes index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838633120
ISBN
9780838633120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.13

Paperback. In its centennial year, Marcel Proust's masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Lee, Susanna. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393919165
ISBN
9780393919165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.37

Paperback. The foremost Proust scholar of our time offers a brilliantly revised and annotated edition of the first volume of the twentieth century's most acclaimed novel Editor(s): Carter, William C. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. Series: In Search of Lost Time. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 192 x 28. Weight in Grams: 888.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300185430
ISBN
9780300185430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.86

Hardcover. This text maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives, including "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "A Tale of Heroic Lovers". Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DQ; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674005129
ISBN
9780674005129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.75

Paperback. This classic study, now made available again to readers, shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748641949
ISBN
9780748641949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.69

Hardcover. Based on original archival research and dozens of interviews, Kerouac is a fresh, compelling, and substantive critical reassessment of Kerouac's brief and often chaotic life. Num Pages: 484 pages, 24 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 44. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878333059
ISBN
9780878333059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 28.47

Hardcover. In this collection, Joyce experts from around the world have collaborated with one another to produce a set of essays that stage or result from dialogue between different points of view. The result is a sequence of lively discussions about Joyces most accessible and widely read set of vignettes about Dublin life at the turn of the century. Editor(s): Mahaffey, Vicki. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815632702
ISBN
9780815632702
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.78

Hardcover. A collection of essays that first appeared in the Regency World magazine. It celebrates the quirkiest corners and cleverest contrivances of Jane Austen's art. It features twenty-one topics ranging from coiffure to crime, from gossip to grandmothers. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Crowood Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719820588
ISBN
9780719820588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.38

Paperback. An impressive and highly original study, The Rise of the Gothic Novel is an invaluable contribution to the continuing literary debates surrounding this influential genre. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 123 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Routledge London
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415081825
ISBN
9780415081825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.45

hardcover. The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts is the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations. Editor(s): Humm, Maggie. Num Pages: 512 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1210. 512 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations. Editor(s): Humm, Maggie. The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts is the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 33. Weight: 1210.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748635528
ISBN
9780748635528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 205.81
€ 194.57

Paperback. Reveals the significant role that Turkish locales, cultures, and friends played in James Baldwin's life and thought. This book demonstrates how Baldwin's Turkish sojourns enabled him to re-imagine himself as a black queer writer and to revise his views of American identity and US race relations as the 1960s drew to a close. Num Pages: 416 pages, 53 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341673
ISBN
9780822341673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.38

Paperback. The first critical edition of this historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who finds escape from the tedium of her life by leading a double life as a highway robber. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 133 x 286 x 35. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
University Of Hertfordshire Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Critical
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909291348
ISBN
9781909291348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.24

Paperback. Considered by many as one of the most innovative writers to hit the French literary scene in over 40 years, Chamoiseau made his name with his book Texaco (published in 1992 and winner of the highest literary prize in France, the Prix Goncourt). This book examines the work of the award-winning writer Patrick Chamoiseau. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KJWWM; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846316869
ISBN
9781846316869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.62

Paperback. Dubey argues that for African American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226167275
ISBN
9780226167275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801497704
ISBN
9780801497704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.60

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