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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763531092
ISBN
9788763531092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 34.68

Hardback. Meg Dods, a sentimental virago, keeps a rundown inn in a derelict Tweedale village, while the young Laird is living way beyond his means. When a nearby spring becomes a Spa, life changes as a hotel and a troop of social climbers move in. Editor(s): Weinstein, Mark. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 508 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
508
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748605354
ISBN
9780748605354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.96
€ 109.40

paperback. In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of these people. Num Pages: 236 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1DVWYV; HBJD; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 192 x 16. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
236
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224080897
ISBN
9780224080897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.49

Paperback. The writings of the Marquis de Sade have attained notoriety in the canon of world literature. Sade himself is often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual rights and a giant of philosophical thought. In this detailed work, Laurence Bongie tests these claims. Num Pages: 348 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DNF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226064215
ISBN
9780226064215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. Herman Melville's oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810131798
ISBN
9780810131798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.47

Hardcover. This book examines Willa Cather's conceptions through her numerous works. Hively's study combines Cather's interest in the historians, the philosophers, and the mythographers, to examine nine of her novels on three levels. Num Pages: 212 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819194817
ISBN
9780819194817
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.78

Hardback. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: DSK; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 533.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812233711
ISBN
9780812233711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.97

Hardcover. A critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381946
ISBN
9781781381946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.68

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636597
ISBN
9780691636597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.81

Paperback. Augusten Burroughs's jaw-dropping memoir, out now in paperback: 'Adrian Mole scripted by Hieronymous Bosch' Fiona Hook, The Times Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843541516
ISBN
9781843541516
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Hardcover. "Rulin waishi" (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is an 18th century landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. Through a close reading of this novel, the author seeks answers to such questions as: what accounts for the literati's enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010956
ISBN
9780674010956
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Hardcover. This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333557204
ISBN
9780333557204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.72

Paperback. This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2003rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333557211
ISBN
9780333557211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardcover. Provides an reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. This book examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748698554
ISBN
9780748698554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.01
€ 103.30

Hardback. Exploring the meaning of modernism, this work focuses on the journey taken by Hardy, Lawrence and Woolf towards unknown regions of the mind and the universe. In a discussion of these novelists, both individually and in relation to one another, a reconsideration of modernism is developed. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333770467
ISBN
9780333770467
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

hardcover. Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a 'genius' upon the publication of his novel, "Passage from Home"; someone expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. This book intends to reclaim Rosenfeld's legacy by opening up his work. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW with price sticker to front, remains very good to like new
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031625
ISBN
9780300126495
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 6.49

Hardcover. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States when she assisted her brother, Grover Cleveland. She was also a literary scholar, novelist, and a poet who published work that empowered women. This book positions Cleveland in the historical context of the early twentieth century, when she helped shape female subjectivity and agency. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137456526
ISBN
9781137456526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.84

Paperback. Tells the story of the author's parents' lives - largely in their own words. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods. Through their eyes, we see the intensely Catholic society of their youth being transformed into the vibrant, modern Ireland. This is the author's first non-fiction book. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099449225
ISBN
9780099449225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. Explores a specific site - the Reading Room of the British Museum - as a space of imaginative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early 20th-century London. This book challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the British Museum as a bastion of class and gender privilege. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 9 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748697946
ISBN
9780748697946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. With an introduction, notes and references, this title combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century, which together form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. It argues against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099734314
ISBN
9780099734314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.72

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