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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Paperback. In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. This title tells his story. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK; HRGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561231
- ISBN
- 9780099561231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Tells the story of author's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 47. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561194
- ISBN
- 9780099561194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Hardcover. Yamamoto Sanehiko's (1885-1952) achievements as a publisher, writer, and politician in the interwar period served as both a catalyst and a template for developments after the wars. While exploring the accomplishments the compelling figure, this study sheds new light on the social, cultural, and political changes that occurred in postwar Japan. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJP; DSK; HBTB; JFC; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366214
- ISBN
- 9781137366214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102903
- ISBN
- 9780230102903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Paperback. Offering an account of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Robert Browning, and Joseph Conrad, this title explains why many Victorians nursed a hostile vision of man and society and how misanthropy - once a means of conveying integrity and justified disdain of society's excesses - turned immoral and quasi-criminal. Num Pages: 224 pages, 23 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130653
- ISBN
- 9780231130653
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Condition: New
€ 44.31
€ 44.31
Paperback. The stories gathered here explore the vagaries of sexual desire, gender identity, and erotic attachment, revealing the surprising queerness of nineteenth-century American literature. Editor(s): Looby, Christopher. Series: Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223668
- ISBN
- 9780812223668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical contexts and central issues, as well as the major texts and writers. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405160230
- ISBN
- 9781405160230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.30
€ 106.30
Hardback. For over two millennia, the "Cyropaedia", an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work. This study examines the work, demonstrating its overall coherence and unity and focusing, in particular, on the notoriously difficult ending. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 2AHA; DSBB; DSK; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520224049
- ISBN
- 9780520224049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.15€ 46.08
€ 58.15
€ 46.08
Paperback. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AKLC1; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477310687
- ISBN
- 9781477310687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AKLC1; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 508. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781477309773
- ISBN
- 9781477309773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.45
€ 97.45
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155203
- ISBN
- 9780691155203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.97€ 45.21
€ 56.97
€ 45.21
Hardcover. This book introduces and analyzes the fiction of Xu Xu and Wumingshi and shows their importance during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) until 1949. It makes the wider argument that their short stories and novels in this period, and popular Chinese literature more broadly, was indebted to the Shanghai modernist writers of the 1930s (Xinganjue Pai). Series: Edinburgh East Asian Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748696369
- ISBN
- 9780748696369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.81€ 103.50
€ 106.81
€ 103.50
Paperback. This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterized by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440860
- ISBN
- 9781137440860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.57
€ 71.57
Hardback. This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterized by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545281
- ISBN
- 9780230545281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children's linguistic creativity and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. Editor(s): Erlich, Victor. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 658 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- abridged ed
- Number of pages
- 658
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300106114
- ISBN
- 9780300106114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.77€ 58.34
€ 74.77
€ 58.34
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719095498
- ISBN
- 9780719095498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.60
€ 24.99
€ 24.60
Paperback. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Num Pages: 368 pages, x2 mono image sections. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274. How Jane Austen Conquered the World. 384 pages, 2 x 8pp colour. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight: 274.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847675330
- ISBN
- 9781847675330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.57
€ 15.99
€ 11.57
paperback. Get everything you need to achieve your full potential at English Literature A Level or AS with York Notes Study Guides, now updated for Assessment Objectives 1 to 5. Series: York Notes. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK; DSRC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 212 x 297 x 11. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781292138190
- ISBN
- 9781292138190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.96
€ 11.99
€ 11.96
Paperback. This book includes essays, unpublished sketches, Woolf's social realist 1919 novel Night and Day, and her final, visionary novel Between the Acts. This approach to Woolf's writing takes an integrated view, incorporating her juvenilia and foregrounding Woolf's critically neglected early novels. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474423168
- ISBN
- 9781474423168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. This book is the first study of disability in postcolonial fiction. Focusing on canonical novels, it explores the metaphorical functions and material presence of disabled child characters. Barker argues that progressive disability politics emerge from postcolonial concerns, and establishes dialogues between postcolonialism and disability studies. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230307889
- ISBN
- 9780230307889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.21
€ 139.21
Paperback. This important book, now in paperback, explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Familiar ideas about epistolary fiction and personal correspondence, and public and private, are re-examined in the light of alternative paradigms, showing how the letter is at the centre of Eighteenth-century life. Num Pages: 441 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552. 448 pages. This important book, now in paperback, explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Familiar ideas about epistolary fiction and personal correspondence, and public and private, are re-examined in the light of alternative paradigms, showing how the letter is at the centre of Eighteenth-century life. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 441
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249080
- ISBN
- 9780230249080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.67€ 114.64
€ 118.67
€ 114.64
Hardcover. This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390539
- ISBN
- 9780230390539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Paperback. 'York Notes' offer an approach to English literature that aims to fully reflect student needs. They are filled with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. Series: York Notes. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 4KHT; DSK; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Pearson York Notes
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582772717
- ISBN
- 9780582772717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.37
€ 9.37
Hardback. Series: Studies in 20th Century Literature. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333346006
- ISBN
- 9780333346006
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.71
€ 193.71