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Paperback. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. A singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, the book is a searing account of the situation of African Americans in the United States. This edition includes an invaluable appendix of contextualizing material. Editor(s): Edwards, Brent Hayes. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555833
- ISBN
- 9780199555833
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
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Paperback. Brings together various W B Yeats' published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DNF; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics London
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140180015
- ISBN
- 9780140180015
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
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Paperback. Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It consists of a series of short essays, arranged alphabetically, whose unifying thread is an attack on religious and political intolerance. Highly entertaining, its concern with intolerance and its consequences is still relevant today. Translator(s): Fletcher, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCD1; HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199553631
- ISBN
- 9780199553631
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Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.53
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Paperback. This groundbreaking collection draws together for the first time Mayakovsky's key translators from the 1930s to the present day, bringing some remarkable works back into print in the process and introducing poems which have never before been translated. Editor(s): Carrick, Rosy Patience. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 138 x 215 x 30. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910392164
- ISBN
- 9781910392164
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.91
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Paperback. This selection brings together thirty of Woolf's best essays across a wide range of subjects including writing and reading, the role and reputation of women writers, the art of biography, and the London scene. They are enchanting in their own right, and indispensable to an understanding of this great writer. Editor(s): Bradshaw, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199556069
- ISBN
- 9780199556069
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.72
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Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155455
- ISBN
- 9781903155455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.29
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hardcover. Woolf responds passionately to those writers - past, present - who deal honestly with the reader, who express their own variations on the 'I am I' - the selective vision of the finite self. Editor(s): Kavenna, Joanna. Series: Classic Collection. Num Pages: 182 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907903922
- ISBN
- 9781907903922
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.26
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Hardback. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, this title is one of the feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Bronte, and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. It justifies the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 176 x 105 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141395920
- ISBN
- 9780141395920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
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Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAC; 3JJG; DNF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509843183
- ISBN
- 9781509843183
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Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.80
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Paperback. With an introduction, notes and references, this title combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century, which together form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. It argues against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099734314
- ISBN
- 9780099734314
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Condition: New
€ 7.87
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Paperback. Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. This title offers a selection of her writings ranging from reflections on class and education, to slyly ironic reviews, and a superlative tour of her London neighbourhood. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099589778
- ISBN
- 9780099589778
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
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Paperback. Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the "common reader", someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She invesigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099443667
- ISBN
- 9780099443667
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Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
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Hardcover. Presents essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve, Gibbon and Horace Walpole. This title is suitable for for students, common readers and scholars alike. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780701206710
- ISBN
- 9780701206710
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 34.80
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Paperback. Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the "common reader", someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She invesigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099443674
- ISBN
- 9780099443674
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Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
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Paperback. In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. She raises questions concerning militarism, education, and social and gender inequality that are relevant to this day. Editor(s): Snaith, Anna. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 pages black and white images. BIC Classification: DNF; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199642212
- ISBN
- 9780199642212
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
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Paperback. Editor(s): Ganiban, Randall Toth; Perkell, Christine. Series: The Focus Vergil Aeneid Commentaries. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DC; DNF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585102273
- ISBN
- 9781585102273
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.64
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Paperback. * A collection of poetry and essays on war by one of the most prominent women writers from that period, author of the famous TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. A commemorative edition, out now in paperback Editor(s): Bostridge, Mark. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40pp of b/w. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844084142
- ISBN
- 9781844084142
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Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
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Paperback. The only Latin art of war to survive, Vegetius' Epitome was for long a part of the medieval prince's military education. The core of his proposals, the maintenance of a professional standing army, was revolutionary for medieval Europe, while his theory of deterrence through strength remains the foundation of modern Western defence policy. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HBJD; HBLA; JWA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 207 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 182
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Revised, Subsequent
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853239109
- ISBN
- 9780853239109
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Condition: New
€ 39.99
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Paperback. * Assembles for the first time the best work of Stanley Fish* Includes essays on Milton, the English Renaissance, law and literature, speech--act theory, Shakespeare amongst others* Also includes headnotes written by specialists in the field. . Editor(s): Veeser, H. Aram. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631204398
- ISBN
- 9780631204398
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Condition: New
€ 56.26
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Paperback. A dazzling follow-up to the novel Faces in the Crowd, this collection of literary peregrinations around the margins of metropolitan life demonstrates Valeria Luiselli's equal virtuosity as a writer of non-fiction Translator(s): MacSweeney, Christina. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847085191
- ISBN
- 9781847085191
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
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€ 13.07