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Literary essays
Paperback. Translated into dactylic hexameter, this edition of the "Odyssey" recaptures the oral-formulaic experience as never before Translator(s): Merrill, Rodney. Num Pages: 432 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472088546
- ISBN
- 9780472088546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.79
€ 47.79
Paperback. A selected anthology of Hans Jonas's later essays which offers a comprehensive survey of the philosopher's contributions. Editor(s): Vogel, Lawrence C. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810112865
- ISBN
- 9780810112865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.00
€ 43.00
Paperback. Gathers some of the author's best essays on the issues that have been closest to her throughout her storied career. Divided into sections on 'Taking Root', 'Poets and Poetry', and 'Country Living', this book reveals the author honing her views within a variety of forms, including speeches, critical essays, and introductions of other writers' work. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810126480
- ISBN
- 9780810126480
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.72
€ 23.99
€ 21.72
Hardcover. A collection of essays form Louisa McCord, a 19th-century Southern US conservative intellectual. A supporter of slavery and a believer in the superiority of the white race, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles, supported laissez-faire political economy and abhorred socialism. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813915708
- ISBN
- 9780813915708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.68
€ 107.68
Paperback. First published in 1963 this new edition of Ruskin's writings aims to make his ideas and works accessible to the modern reader. This volume powerfully demonstrates the range and inexhaustible vitality of his prose and provided a reference tool for Victorianists. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 31. Weight in Grams: 666.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917894
- ISBN
- 9780813917894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.16
€ 53.16
Paperback. His third novel, Jacques Stephen Alexis brings his powerful characterization and political consciousness to the age-old question of whether a prostitute can leave "the life" to find her own identity and true love. La Nina Estrelita is plying her trade during Holy Week, 1949 in Port-au-Prince. Translator(s): Danticat, Edwidge; Coates, Carrol F. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921396
- ISBN
- 9780813921396
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Condition: New
€ 37.05
€ 37.05
Hardcover. A selection of Tocqueville's writings on America together with letters and sketches from his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont. Editor(s): Zunz, Oliver. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 784 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DNF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930626
- ISBN
- 9780813930626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.47
€ 115.47
Hardcover. Translator(s): Artes, Skyler. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813937564
- ISBN
- 9780813937564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.96
€ 92.96
Paperback. Translator(s): Artes, Skyler. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813937571
- ISBN
- 9780813937571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.81
€ 38.81
Hardcover. Editor(s): Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe; Orrells, Daniel. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white line drawings, tables. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DNF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813939100
- ISBN
- 9780813939100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.22
€ 112.22
Paperback. This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s. Num Pages: 388 pages, 41 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; DNF; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607168
- ISBN
- 9780815607168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.45
€ 13.45
Hardcover. Based on the author's lectures at the Judisches Freies Lehrhaus, these essays include notes for a group of lectures of 1920, "Faith and Knowledge", followed by a three-part lecture series of 1922, "The Science of God", "The Science of Man", and "The Science of World". Editor(s): Galli, Barbara E. (Aaron Aaronov Chair, Judaic Studies, University of Alabama, USA). Translator(s): Galli, Barbara E. (Aaron Aaronov Chair, Judaic Studies, University of Alabama, USA). Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPC; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 127 x 0. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815627883
- ISBN
- 9780815627883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.67
€ 57.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816527731
- ISBN
- 9780816527731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.34
€ 35.34
Hardcover. Jesse B. Simple sprang to life in Langston Hughes's weekly "Chicago Defender" column in 1943. This is an examination of Hughes's "Simple stories". Through the conversations between Simple and his foil, Boyd, Hughes makes clear that both are alike - black men in a racially unbalanced society. Series: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; FYB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 767.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826213709
- ISBN
- 9780826213709
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.18
€ 84.18
Paperback. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857424471
- ISBN
- 9780857424471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.27
€ 19.99
€ 17.27
Paperback. Riveting, finely crafted essays about family and the natural world, and winner of the 2000 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. Series: Northwest Reprints Book. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HP; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oregon State University Press
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised Edition, New Afterword by
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870717086
- ISBN
- 9780870717086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.39
€ 26.39
Paperback. "Novelist and essayist Brian Doyle describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape in this collection of short vignettes. The book gathers previously unpublished work along with selections that have been published in Orion, The Sun, and The American Scholar, among others"-- Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; PSVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oregon State University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870717543
- ISBN
- 9780870717543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.98
€ 18.99
€ 17.98
The News from Poems. Essays on the 21st-Century American Poetry of Eng...
. Ed(S): Gray, Jeffrey; Keniston, Ann
Paperback. Examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This"engaged" poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the increasing corporatization of US culture. Editor(s): Gray, Jeffrey; Keniston, Ann. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JM; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472053186
- ISBN
- 9780472053186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.08
€ 54.08
Paperback. The principal motif that runs throughout The Virtual Point of Freedom is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom, or, more specifically, the falsely transgressive ideal of a total emancipation that would know no constraints. Series: Diaeresis. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HPN; HRAB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810133730
- ISBN
- 9780810133730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69
hardcover. A biographical sketch of the antecedents, early life and career of William Thornton, particulary known for his design of the US Capitol. It includes his early antislavery writings, and detailed accounts of the evolution of the first successful steamboat. Num Pages: 720 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; AM; BGHA; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1243.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813913445
- ISBN
- 9780813913445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.53
€ 126.53