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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

Paperback. A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 121 x 7. Weight in Grams: 62.
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008115272
ISBN
9780008115272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 8.43

Paperback. Editor(s): Aronson, Ronald; Hoven, Adrian van den. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590174937
ISBN
9781590174937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 20.57

Paperback. John Keegan concentrates in this book on significant war themes: the impact of war on the 20th century and the forms it has taken; the origin of war in human nature and history; the adoption and use of war by states as an instrument of policy; and the experience of war by individuals. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HB; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000311
ISBN
9780712665667
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907903045
ISBN
9781907903045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.50

Paperback. In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. This is an essay about his cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. Num Pages: 248 pages, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226790046
ISBN
9780226790046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period constitute some of the most remarkable 20th century analyses of the emergence of modern society. This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire and Brecht to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. Editor(s): Eiland, Howard; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 496 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022294
ISBN
9780674022294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.97

Paperback. In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings now in paperback in two parts: part 1 ISBN 0674015886. Series Editor(s): Jennings, Michael W.; Smith, Gary; Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674017467
ISBN
9780674017467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.93

Paperback. In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings now in paperback in two parts: part 2 ISBN 0674017463. Series Editor(s): Jennings, Michael W.; Eiland, Howard; Smith, Gary. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674015883
ISBN
9780674015883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.04

Paperback. Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more. Editor(s): Bullock, Marcus Paul; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 528 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013551
ISBN
9780674013551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.81

Hardback. Thoreau's literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living, has engaged readers and thinkers for a century and a half. This edition of Walden is the first to set forth an authoritative text with generous annotations. Cramer has meticulously corrected errors and omissions of previous editions. Editor(s): Cramer, Jeffrey S. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6ill. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 202 x 35. Weight in Grams: 920.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Annotated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300104660
ISBN
9780300104660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.17

Paperback. Series: Barnes & Noble classics. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593082086
ISBN
9781593082086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.26

Paperback. Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. Num Pages: 432 pages, bibliog. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Penguin Classic Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140390445
ISBN
9780140390445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

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