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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. This fascinating volume reveals the real men - and women - behind some of the most infamous London villains ever to appear in fiction. Num Pages: 194 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; FFC; FZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 568.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752454184
ISBN
9780752454184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.82

Hardcover. The true story of the lives of Jane Austen's three nieces, their Pride and Prejudice-style courtships, dramas and disappointments, and their move to turbulent 19th century Ireland in a time of war and famine. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 560.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Belfast
Number of pages
294
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856408687
ISBN
9780856408687
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.73

Hardback. Editor(s): Biderman, Shai; Lewit, Ido. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231176446
ISBN
9780231176446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.62
€ 80.25

Paperback. Presents a re-examination of nineteenth-century French culture and literature's representation of the physician and medicine. Exploring six novels and two short stories published during the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, the author argues that there was a growing resistance to medicine's linguistic and professional hegemony. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803266285
ISBN
9780803266285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.64

Paperback. Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268017828
ISBN
9780268017828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. A fully updated second edition of J. A. Burrow's hugely successful introduction to medieval English literature. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB; DSC; DSG; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199532049
ISBN
9780199532049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.45

Hardcover. This study examines Herman Mellville's search for literary strategies compatible with egalitarian, democratic and multicultural values. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820316826
ISBN
9780820316826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.96

Hardback. Series: Clemson University Press. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Clemson University Digital Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781942954231
ISBN
9781942954231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.68

paperback. Collected in this volume are Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd-presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author. Editor(s): McCall, Dan. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 432 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Norton & Company
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393976410
ISBN
9780393976410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. The description for this book, Melville's Quarrel With God, will be forthcoming. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 484 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
484
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691623719
ISBN
9780691623719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.34
€ 55.58

Paperback. Traces Herman Melville's response to an array of nineteenth-century writings that includes literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. This book shows how Melville raised with verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation. Num Pages: 206 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSK; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1 Reprint
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254558
ISBN
9780520254558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances. From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, this work offers insights into a unique literary life. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099461067
ISBN
9780099461067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.65

Paperback. A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Translator(s): Kirkup, James. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185330
ISBN
9780141185330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172469
ISBN
9781590172469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Translator(s): Chandler, Robert; Jackson, Anne Marie; Steinberg, Irina. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; BM; DSK; HBTV4; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782272991
ISBN
9781782272991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. The second book of a major two-volume biographical study of the author William Makepeace Thackeray and his family, including new research that sheds light on the lives of his daughters Minny and Annie. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718892258
ISBN
9780718892258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.35

Paperback. Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. This title explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691115269
ISBN
9780691115269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. Benjamin and Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. With material dating from 1918 to 1923, this text aims to make their more obscure work accessible to a wider audience. The topics discussed include messianism, language and divine justice. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJG; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231126564
ISBN
9780231126564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.89
€ 90.75

Paperback. Benjamin and Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. With material dating from 1918 to 1923, this text aims to make their more obscure work accessible to a wider audience. The topics discussed include messianism, language and divine justice. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJG; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231126571
ISBN
9780231126571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643888
ISBN
9781442643888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Paperback. Gene Stratton-Porter's tale of a plucky, orphaned newspaper boy is now back in print! Series: The Library of Indiana Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages, 32 figures. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 29. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253210456
ISBN
9780253210456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318610
ISBN
9781846318610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.08

paperback. A comprehensive selection of Voltaire's very brief contes and melanges: tiny feats of narrative compression, each often no more than a few pages long. Their genre is something between a tale and a polemic - more gestures than stories. Translator(s): Cuffe, Theo. Num Pages: 208 pages, chronlogy, further reading, notes. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140446869
ISBN
9780140446869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837631081
ISBN
9783837631081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.31

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