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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Series: Writers on Writers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 114 x 184 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691164120
ISBN
9780691164120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.40

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
94
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843916185
ISBN
9781843916185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.71

On Friendship and Freedom contains the first published collection of correspondence between Silone and his longtime friend the philanthropist and art collector Marcel Fleischmann. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442649965
ISBN
9781442649965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

Paperback. Provides an intimate portrait of Walter Benjamin, venturesome at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought. This English-language edition features a section of supplementary materials - drawn from Benjamin's essays, letters and sketches - relating to hashish use, as well as a reminiscence by his friend Jean Selz. Editor(s): Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 195 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022218
ISBN
9780674022218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.11

Paperback. The Cold War that has so often been linked to Orwell's novel ended with more of a whimper than a bang, but most of the issues of concern to him remain alive in some form today: censorship, scientific surveillance, power worship, the autonomy of art, the meaning of democracy, relations between men and women, and many others. Editor(s): Gleason, Prof. Abbott; Goldsmith, Jack L.; Nussbaum, Martha C. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691113616
ISBN
9780691113616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardcover. Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230620001
ISBN
9780230620001
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.62

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

€ 113.01
€ 103.50

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. This title explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. Num Pages: 560 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 632.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057111
ISBN
9780674057111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.66

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
€ 18.68

Paperback. 'Part biography, part collection of tips for the aspiring writer' Guardian. ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT is a brilliant book on writing from the number one bestselling writer. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
SKU
9781444723250
ISBN
9781444723250
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.56

Paperback. She was only nine when her world fell apart. The struggle to understand took a lifetime. In 1960s Bristol, Susan's family was like any other with its joys and frustrations, and fierce loyalties. Then tragedy struck and left a legacy that was to last a lifetime. Susan was only nine when her mother died. A year later she was sent away to school. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DSK; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099560074
ISBN
9780099560074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.45

Paperback. A groundbreaking memoir by the acclaimed Kenyan Caine Prize winner. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847083326
ISBN
9781847083326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardback. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803269637
ISBN
9780803269637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Hardcover. Num Pages: 378 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
378
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674282483
ISBN
9780674282483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.85
€ 51.77

Paperback. Editor(s): Walshe, Eibhear. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780902561663
ISBN
9780902561663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.00
€ 24.15

Paperback. This work explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation, as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674002630
ISBN
9780674002630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.76

Paperback. Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through history first as a man, then as a woman. At its heart is the figure of Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history and wryly examines sexual double standards. Editor(s): Whitworth, Michael H. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 black and white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199650736
ISBN
9780199650736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. George Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Including interviews with friends and people who knew him in his years of obscurity, this book offers a human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. Num Pages: 496 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPR; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 40. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283461
ISBN
9780099283461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Hardcover. This bold new reading of Orwell's work focuses upon his representation of communities and the myths that shape them. It analyzes his interpretations of class, gender and nationality within the context of the period. The book uses a range of texts to argue that Orwell attempted to integrate 'traditional' communal identities with socialist politics. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230517691
ISBN
9780230517691
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.77

Paperback.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415852111
ISBN
9780415852111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.69

Hardback. This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker. Num Pages: 318 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600232
ISBN
9780230600232
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.64

hardcover. This volume contains the newly transcribed and annotated text of one of Oscar Wilde's unpublished notebooks that functioned as a major ante-text of Historical Criticism (1879). The notebook illuminates Wilde's practices of research and composition, contains the unused materials Wilde studied, and shows his wit and imagination at work. Editor(s): Smith, Philip E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGL; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199688012
ISBN
9780199688012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 190.07

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967794
ISBN
9781403967794
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Paperback. Our Conrad is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a "master" literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of American literary and cultural studies. Num Pages: 488 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804783132
ISBN
9780804783132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.84

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