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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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

paperback. Editor(s): Hoagland, Sarah Lucia; Frye, Marilyn. Series: Re-Reading the Canon. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780271020198
ISBN
9780271020198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.49

paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780268044237
ISBN
9780268044237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 8.29

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
€ 17.61

hardcover. The publishers of Ulysses by James Joyce were brought to trial and convicted of obscenity in the USA in 1921. The Ulysses Trials chronicles the progress of the trials and adds not only to the understanding of Joyce but also to the history of the laws of obscenity, censorship and freedom of speech. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 274 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Signed and inscribed to Ivor. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031535
ISBN
9781843516682
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

hardcover. This book considers the widespread treatment of traumatic memory in Irish fiction of the past thirty-five years. It focuses on both trauma fiction and the historical novel, and the way certain novelists looked to early events in twentieth century Irish history to engage the recent political violence in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Inscribed affectionately by author to both. Very good clean copy showing minor age and wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0025604
ISBN
9780230250307
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

paperback. Deals with Oscar's astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London's sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, in this book, the author argues that Oscar's Wilde's life and work can only be fully understood and appreciated in terms of his sexuality. Num Pages: 736 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 564. Good clean copy showing light age and wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornerstone U.K.
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0025432
ISBN
9780099415459
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Fedorchek, Robert M. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688584
ISBN
9780856688584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. Jorge Olivares connects the personal, political, and artistic trajectories of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) to Arenas's insights into the Cuban Revolution, the struggles of exiles, and the politics of sexuality. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353966
ISBN
9780822353966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Hardcover. A leading literary critic's innovative study of how the Nobel Prize-winning author turned life into art. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393246872
ISBN
9780393246872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 40.40

paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248. Very good copy showing minor shelf wear and age. Text is clean throughout
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Random House Inc New York
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0025101
ISBN
9780805211412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. Challenging the notion that Africa s first women novelists were uninterested in postcolonial politics, Susan Z. Andrade shows that in their allegorical fiction, the family stood for the nation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349211
ISBN
9780822349211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

paperback. Num Pages: 334 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822313212
ISBN
9780822313212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. Makes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies Editor(s): King, Lovalerie; Moody-Turner, Shirley. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 392 pages, 3 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253006264
ISBN
9780253006264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. This edition is an important contribution to scholarship in the long eighteenth century. Tara Ghoshal Wallace, George Washington University Num Pages: 339 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 391.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551111759
ISBN
9781551111759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.02

Paperback. An abbess in the Franciscan abbey of Longchamp, Agnes of Harcourt wrote a biography of Isabelle of France and a letter detailing Louis IX's involvement with the abbey, both of which provide a window on 13th-century religious life. This translation also contains an introduction to her life and work. Editor(s): Field, Sean L. (Assistant Professor of History, University of Vermont, USA). Translator(s): Field, Sean L. (Assistant Professor of History, University of Vermont, USA). Series: Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3H; BG; DN; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268044046
ISBN
9780268044046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. An impressive and highly original study, The Rise of the Gothic Novel is an invaluable contribution to the continuing literary debates surrounding this influential genre. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 123 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Routledge London
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415081825
ISBN
9780415081825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.00

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. William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise. Editor(s): Wilmer, Clive. Num Pages: 480 pages, chronology, bibliographical notes. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140433302
ISBN
9780140433302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.07

paperback. How to get on well with people, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought. This biography of Montaigne relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099485155
ISBN
9780099485155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

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