Literary essays
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Literary essays
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
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.41
€ 32.99
€ 25.41
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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
€ 13.99
€ 10.50
hardcover. Editor(s): Denard, Carolyn C. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781604730173
- ISBN
- 9781604730173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.52
€ 20.52
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€ 16.69
€ 20.99
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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
€ 71.85
€ 71.85
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
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
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
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 25.38
€ 40.99
€ 25.38
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
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.39
€ 10.99
€ 9.39
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
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.59
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€ 15.59
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€ 14.08
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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
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.62
€ 26.99
€ 18.62
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
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.51
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€ 27.51
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
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.37
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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
€ 15.99€ 13.88
€ 15.99
€ 13.88
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
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.39
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€ 9.39
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 353
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209749
- ISBN
- 9780872209749
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.91
€ 19.99
€ 15.91
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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
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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€ 21.32
€ 24.99
€ 21.32
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
€ 17.13
€ 17.13
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
€ 25.80
€ 25.80