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Literary essays
Hardback. Editor(s): Kernan, Alvin B. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; DNF; H; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631943
- ISBN
- 9780691631943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.54
€ 145.54
Hardback. This collection Mark Twain's writing aims to capture the essence of the author's work - the dark humour, the wry observations, and the keen insight into social and political realities, both specifically American and broadly human. Editor(s): Collins, Brian. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CB; DNF; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104982
- ISBN
- 9780231104982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.31
€ 50.31
Hardcover. This collection of 28 tales are arranged by subjects and themes, such as: Bouki and Malice; stepmothers; animals; kings and princes; ghost, zonbi and tonton makout; and love and courtship. Liliane Nerette Louis includes a variety of traditional recipes and some historical background information. Series: World Folklore Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, colour and b&w photographs, line drawings. BIC Classification: DNF; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 185 x 17. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Libraries Unlimited
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563085796
- ISBN
- 9781563085796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.68
€ 76.68
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€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
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€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
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
€ 21.99€ 15.90
€ 21.99
€ 15.90
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€ 14.29
€ 18.99
€ 14.29
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€ 19.08
€ 26.99
€ 19.08
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€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
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€ 27.05
€ 33.99
€ 27.05
Paperback. A collection of privileged information about the identities of authors. It briefs about the fictional persona behind the scenes. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061782220
- ISBN
- 9780061782220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.60
€ 16.99
€ 14.60
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€ 9.54
€ 10.99
€ 9.54
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€ 16.29
€ 19.99
€ 16.29
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€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
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
€ 20.99€ 18.68
€ 20.99
€ 18.68
Hardback. Features 142 short essays on a wide variety of subjects. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Axios Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604191004
- ISBN
- 9781604191004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.29
€ 27.29
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€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
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
€ 112.96€ 109.07
€ 112.96
€ 109.07
Paperback. 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. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 143 x 48. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 648
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620869
- ISBN
- 9780748620869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.86
€ 26.99
€ 23.86
Paperback. In June 1862 Fyodor Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan and Vienna. This volume details the impressions of everthing he saw. Num Pages: 78 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; DNF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 78
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810115187
- ISBN
- 9780810115187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.60
€ 24.60