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Paperback. Presents a portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a wrestling coach. This book also gives a picture of a father's dedication to his children. It also details the interrelationship of the disciplines of writing and wrestling. Num Pages: 160 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552996808
ISBN
9780552996808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.13

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472528957
ISBN
9781472528957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.54

Paperback. A Level English Text Guide - The Great Gatsby Editor(s): CGP Books. Num Pages: 75 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 296 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Coordination Group Publications Ltd (CGP)
Number of pages
75
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847626684
ISBN
9781847626684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.57

Paperback. Using the multiple meanings of "wake" to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery's afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance. Num Pages: 192 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 300 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362944
ISBN
9780822362944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.95

Hardback. Engendering the Fall argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced Paradise Lost, while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 33. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240863
ISBN
9780812240863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.97

Hardcover. Cast in the form of a dialogue, this title treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human digestion while showcasing Virgil as the master of all human knowledge from diction and rhetoric to philosophy and religion. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 464 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 115 x 22. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996724
ISBN
9780674996724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.13

Paperback. A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time. Editor(s): Payne, Philip; Bartram, Graham; Tihanov, Galin. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 474 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 28. Weight in Grams: 720. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 474 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Payne, Philip; Bartram, Graham; Tihanov, Galin. A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 28. Weight: 730.
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
474
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134530
ISBN
9781571134530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.77

Paperback. Translator(s): Posten, Anne. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; AGB; BGF; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811221399
ISBN
9780811221399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.26

Hardback. Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry contains 17 studies on Greek Lyric, Elegiac, and Iambic poetry by leading international academics drawn from the last three decades, 3 of which are translated here for the first time. Ian Rutherford has written an introduction surveying the scholarship in the field. Editor(s): Rutherford, Ian. Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199216192
ISBN
9780199216192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.36

Paperback. A Bronte Encyclopedia is an A- Z encyclopedia of the most notable literary family of the 19th century highlighting original literary insights and the significant people and places that influenced the Brontes' lives. Num Pages: 416 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 175 x 22. Weight in Grams: 716.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118492062
ISBN
9781118492062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.10

Paperback. A full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth). Editor(s): Rusten, Jeffrey S. Translator(s): Henderson, Jeffrey; Konstan, David; Rosen, Ralph M.; Rusten, Jeffrey S.; Slater, Niall W. Num Pages: 816 pages, 43, 42 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 254 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1274.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421186
ISBN
9781421421186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.42
€ 46.84

Paperback. A revelatory collection of letters from the nation's favourite storyteller. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444786286
ISBN
9781444786286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.74

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415536929
ISBN
9780415536929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.12

Paperback. Why is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book challenges Foucault's tunnel vision of the West and his marginalization of empire. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFJ; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822316909
ISBN
9780822316909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99

Hardback. Combining literary and intellectual history, it provides an account of British Romanticism in which high rhetoric, political prose, poetry, and poetics converge in a discourse of enlightenment and emancipation. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. .
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421418032
ISBN
9781421418032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.23

Paperback. * 'As rich as a novel by Henry James' DAILY TELEGRAPH * 'Will do nothing less than revolutionise the way Dickinson is read for years' GUARDIAN The definitive biography, out now in paperback Num Pages: 512 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844084548
ISBN
9781844084548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.31

Paperback. Focusing on the first and last years of Libanius' Antiochene career (AD 354 388), this volume illustrates his great range of his rhetorical skills, while at the same time illuminating the intrigues of city politics and university life. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 214 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 2AHA; 3D; DNF; DSBB; HBJF; HBLC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853235958
ISBN
9780853235958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.90

Paperback. Series: Popular Patristics. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 184 x 2. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
St Vladimir´s Seminary Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780881414219
ISBN
9780881414219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.33

Paperback. This book investigates how, as postcolonial studies revises its agenda to incorporate twenty-first century concerns, asylum has emerged as a key field of enquiry. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318726
ISBN
9781846318726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Paperback. A Critical Companion to the four principle playwrights associated with the Irish Dramatic Revival - W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Augusta Lady Gregory and Sean O'Casey - and to the birth of the Irish national theatre, the Abbey. Anthony Roche provides a reappraisal of the theatre movement led by Yeats and the work of the main practitioners. Series: Critical Companions. Num Pages: 272 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408175286
ISBN
9781408175286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.57

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