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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226098678
ISBN
9780226098678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.45

Paperback. "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Editor(s): Fischer, Victor; Salamo, Lin; Smith, Harriet E.; Blair, Walter. Series: Mark Twain Library. Num Pages: 616 pages, 30 b/w photographs, 192 line illustrations, 5 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 140 x 39. Weight in Grams: 698.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
616
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
125th Anniversary Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520266100
ISBN
9780520266100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.35

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 498 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 857.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647418
ISBN
9780691647418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 244.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816634187
ISBN
9780816634187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803230026
ISBN
9780803230026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Paperback. This text presents eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta are some of the writers included. The importance of children and community in the literary tradition of African womanism is assessed. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226620855
ISBN
9780226620855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. Explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226304755
ISBN
9780226304755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.85

Paperback. By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a fresh genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. It argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst re-imagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220768
ISBN
9780803220768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.32

hardcover. Num Pages: 337 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1002.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Sheridan House United States
Edition
Limited signed ed
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955024382
ISBN
9780955024382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.71

Paperback. Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306. Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. 216 pages, 1 illustration. Shows how literary representations of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans for individual and collective freedom. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352419
ISBN
9780822352419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Coinciding with the major new TV series, this is the definitive companion to the MISS MARPLE novels, films and TV appearances. Num Pages: 176 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 98. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
HarperCollins
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0000945
ISBN
9780006499565
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. When Agatha Christie, the so-called 'Queen of Crime', disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1927, the whole nation held its breath. This work explains, in the light of scientific knowledge, her behaviour during that troubled time. Num Pages: 192 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752442884
ISBN
9780752442884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.54

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571135780
ISBN
9781571135780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Hardback. A study that integrates the biography, creative writing, and criticism of one of the important figures in young adult literature. This work is aimed at teachers, librarians, and scholars of young adult literatures, as well as devoted fans and students doing research on Chambers or the subjects of his novels. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 184 x 15. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810850873
ISBN
9780810850873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.26

Hardcover. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived in Iraq during the first century of the Abbasid caliphate. This book introduces the writings and Abbasid-period textual world of Al-Jahiz, the 'father of Arabic prose'. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; 3F; DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 240 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1036.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748683321
ISBN
9780748683321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.80

Hardcover. An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation. Editor(s): Mendelssohn, Michele; Flannery, Denis. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719097171
ISBN
9780719097171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.11

paperback. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 768 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSK; U. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 41. Weight in Grams: 572.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099116417
ISBN
9780099116417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.44

Hardcover. Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage. Num Pages: 187 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 0. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754146
ISBN
9780838754146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.02

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

€ 109.33
€ 82.56

Paperback. * Fascinating and perceptive new biography of one of the most brilliant writers of his age: novelist, essayist and born-again mystic Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), author of BRAVE NEW WORLD and EYELESS IN GAZA Num Pages: 512 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349113487
ISBN
9780349113487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.54

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