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Hardback. Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Editor(s): Duncan, Ian. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 648 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1160.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748615568
ISBN
9780748615568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.39
€ 108.37

Paperback. In 1926, de Saint-Exupery began flying for the airline Latecoere - later known as Aeropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. This autobiographical narrative combines encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures. It includes the story of his crash in the Libyan Desert in 1936, and his miraculous survival. Editor(s): Rees, William. Translator(s): Rees, William. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DNF; TRPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183190
ISBN
9780141183190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907903182
ISBN
9781907903182
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.85

Paperback. Ben Trovato is a man of letters, incisive wit and occasional lapses of judgment. He is a writer who refuses to be restrained within the conventional boundaries of fiction and non-fiction and his words range across a murky middle ground that, like the man himself, is not easily identified. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781919931180
ISBN
9781919931180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.66

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oldcastle Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842431719
ISBN
9781842431719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. .
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
353
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209749
ISBN
9780872209749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.25

Paperback. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. This title brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 111 x 9. Weight in Grams: 82.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
128
Publication date
2004
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141019000
ISBN
9780141019000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. A selection of 19th-century Barbary Coast captivity narratives. The accounts range from 1798 to 1904 and tell the stories of enslaved white Americans, whose plight became fodder for pro- and anti-slavery writers. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226034041
ISBN
9780226034041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.89

Paperback. Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was an advocate and exemplar of women's education, this text contains her writings on the defence of women's education, her letters to other learned women, her own account of her early life as well as responses to her work from male contemporaries Translator(s): Irwin, Joyce L. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DNF; HRC; JFSJ1; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226849997
ISBN
9780226849997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 229 x 38. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926455754
ISBN
9781926455754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Paperback. Includes ardent pieces on writers from the author's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W G Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. This work shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. It explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141190211
ISBN
9780141190211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926455846
ISBN
9781926455846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.78

Paperback. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 8. Weight in Grams: 72.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
112
Publication date
2005
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141023977
ISBN
9780141023977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Hardback. Offering essays, this book explores a panoply of subjects from the mastery of translation to the best day job for a poet. It is a journey with literature's most irresistible flaneur. It is a story of love between a reader and his treasured books. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571323661
ISBN
9780571323661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.02

Paperback. The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fellow historian, gathers together important essays from the span of his career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; HBLW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099593430
ISBN
9780099593430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. With topics ranging from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese people do Christmas shopping or have swimming pools, this book offers a Chinese woman's perspective on the connections and differences between the lives of British and Chinese people. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Editiion First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099501527
ISBN
9780099501527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.82

Paperback. This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
390
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574231052
ISBN
9781574231052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. "What is what was" combines Richard Stern's fiction and non-fiction work into one miscellany. His essays include philosophy, criticism, reportage and autobiography, all worked within the theme of actuality made and remade in description. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 115 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226773261
ISBN
9780226773261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.02

paperback. During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. He considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, although he perceived the question of art to be a religious one. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; ABA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140446425
ISBN
9780140446425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Hardcover. N+1 Anthology Volume II brings together some of the best Essays of the last decade. Emily Witt writes on Pornography, Nikil Saval on the birth of the office, A.S.Hamrah on Hollywood and the war on terror and Philip Connors on working at The Wall Street Journal during 9/11. Editor(s): Lorentzen, Christian. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 191 x 22. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907903793
ISBN
9781907903793
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.62

Paperback. Presenting a collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, the author takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Gandhi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is the Road. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099769811
ISBN
9780099769811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Hardback. When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Here, the author a Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual - answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. Series: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. Num Pages: 152 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 179 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674028364
ISBN
9780674028364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.54

Paperback. From riffs on country music, George Bush, and his mother's midnight mania, to a bittersweet tribute to a dead friend, this book demonstrates why Kurt Vonnegut is equally well known as an essayist and commentator as he is a novelist. It resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 42. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099387817
ISBN
9780099387817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 336 pages, references, commentary, notes, bibliography, indexes. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856687396
ISBN
9780856687396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.28

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