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Literary essays

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.80

Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 449. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Cork University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004396
ISBN
9781859182352
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Samuel Waters served as an officer in the Irish Constabulary in all four provinces. His recollections encompass the Fenian Rising, the Land War and the 1916 insurrection. Series: Irish Narratives S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; BGHA; DNF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JKSW1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 0. Weight in Grams: 135.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859181898
ISBN
9781859181898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.64

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 12.53

Paperback. Translator(s): Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583225707
ISBN
9781583225707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.10

Paperback. Paul Green was winner of a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1927 and helped bring southern writing to the attention of the world. This volume features Green's drama and fiction, with texts of three plays and six short stories. His life is also outlined and examined by Laurence Avery. Series: Chapel Hill Books. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustration, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DNF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0228250
ISBN
9780807847084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. This work then adopts far more radical position, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation of mankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', and a full-scale reorganization of British society. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JF; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780140433487
ISBN
9780140433487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.24

Paperback. Describing the hard working conditions on plantations and harsh treatment of apprentices unjustly incarcerated, this book argues that apprenticeship actually worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves: former owners, no longer legally permitted to directly punish their workers, used the Jamaican legal system as a punitive lever against them. Editor(s): Paton, Diana. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 b&w photos, 2 maps, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JH; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780822326472
ISBN
9780822326472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. This book discusses Swift's life and turbulent times, his political views and his powers as a writer of complex irony and intricate word play. Editor(s): Fabricant, Carole. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140436426
ISBN
9780140436426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 134 x 4. Weight in Grams: 62. Series: Dover Thrift S. 64 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DNF; FC; FYB. Dimension: 208 x 134 x 4. Weight: 62.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486287591
ISBN
9780486287591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.13

Paperback. Features Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) devastating short satire on how to solve a famine. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 161 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780141398181
ISBN
9780141398181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 80 pages, 15 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BG; DNF; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 107 x 178. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781477309490
ISBN
9781477309490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.46

Paperback. From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give English readers, and lovers of the Bel Paese and its culture, the lay of the literary land of Italy. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846883910
ISBN
9781846883910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132. Keywords: "Special Features - History - Essays, Journals, Letters & True Accounts - 20th Century,Special Features - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Essays, Journals & Letters - 20th Century"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KHS0061381
ISBN
9781897648544
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. In 1581, after four days of debating six leading Anglican divines at the Tower of London, Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was put to death because he would not deny his faith. This volume contains Catholic manuscripts of those debates. Num Pages: 249 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 3JB; DNF; HRA; HRCC7; HRCC91. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823218875
ISBN
9780823218875
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.29

Paperback. In April 1956, C S Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and the author found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In this journal, he freely confesses his pain, rage, and struggle to sustain his faith. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCV; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571310876
ISBN
9780571310876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.37

Paperback. A selection of Gramsci's writings in one volume including his most important political, cultural and historical work. The collection focuses on key concepts - such as hegemony, passive revolution, civil society, common sense - and important texts on Americanism and Fordism, and popular culture. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JPA; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 33. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853158929
ISBN
9780853158929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.28

Paperback. Brings into print editions, translations, and commentaries for more than two dozen unique poems (in Latin) from the late eleventh and early twelfth century, preserved in Houghton Library's anthology known as MS Lat 300. This book offers unparalleled access to the anthology. Editor(s): Ziolkowski, Jan M.; Balint, Bridget K. Translator(s): Lake, Justin; Light, Laura; Piper, Prydwyn O. Series: Houghton Library Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 45 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; DNF; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 255 x 18. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
Condition
New
SKU
V9780976547273
ISBN
9780976547273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.99

paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; DNF; JFSK; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 299. *
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
TouchWood Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781771510547
ISBN
9781771510547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 18.67

mass_market. Includes exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141398259
ISBN
9780141398259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.53

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