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Literary essays
Hardcover. Editor(s): Hamilton, Charles H. Num Pages: 430 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; HPC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780913966723
- ISBN
- 9780913966723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.37
€ 26.99
€ 20.37
Paperback. This text gathers together the many interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews that were omitted from "Required Writing". Taken together the collection fills in a consistent but sometimes unexpected portrait of Philip Larkin - mordant, intolerant, generous, but always himself. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571216147
- ISBN
- 9780571216147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.38
€ 19.99
€ 13.38
Gary In Your Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher (Series Q)
Fisher, Gary. Ed(S): Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
paperback. The incandescent African American writer Gary Fisher was completely unpublished when he died of AIDS in 1994 at the age of 32. This book includes all of Fisher's stories and a selection from his journals, notebooks, and poems. Editor(s): Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317999
- ISBN
- 9780822317999
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.52
€ 31.99
€ 28.52
paperback. Having expanded far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye, Snyder has produced a wide-ranging body of work that encompasses his fluency in Eastern literature and culture and his commitment to the environment. Num Pages: 640 pages, ports. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Counterpoint United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781582430799
- ISBN
- 9781582430799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.70
€ 31.99
€ 30.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DNF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681371184
- ISBN
- 9781681371184
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.62
€ 18.99
€ 16.62
Paperback. Presents a dialogue between Western and Middle Eastern women. This collection provides substantial extracts from Ottoman, Egyptian and British and American writers - each with a biographical and literary introduction - that trace the development of an intellectual, personal and critical dialogue between women. Num Pages: 296 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; DNF; GTB; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860649578
- ISBN
- 9781860649578
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.95
€ 35.99
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Paperback. Renowned translator Helen Craig McCullough has selected representative portions of these two major classical Japanese works with a view to shaping the abridgments into coherent, aesthetically acceptable wholes. Translator(s): McCullough, Helen Craig. Num Pages: 500 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 500
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804722582
- ISBN
- 9780804722582
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.62
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Paperback. An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCS; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008181246
- ISBN
- 9780008181246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. Gilbert A. Harrison, for many years editor in chief of the New Republic, was one of Stein's publishers. For this volume, he selected excerpts from her essays, novels, plays, poems, lectures, and interviews, to introduce readers to a little-known aspect of her work. Editor(s): Harrison, Gilbert A. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DNF; WT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871401632
- ISBN
- 9780871401632
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Condition: New
€ 11.14
€ 11.14
Hardcover. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 200 x 133. Weight in Grams: 1968.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907903489
- ISBN
- 9781907903489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.65€ 89.74
€ 94.65
€ 89.74
paperback. Illustrator(s): Wales, Shelley. Editor(s): Craig, Lee. Num Pages: 224 pages, Black and white photographs and line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 55 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Lone Pine Publishing Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551051543
- ISBN
- 9781551051543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Focusing on the ways authors have traditionally responded to censorship, this is a collection of essays which attempt to understand the motives for censorship. It argues that a society bound by censorship engenders a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalating rivalry. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DNF; JFMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226111766
- ISBN
- 9780226111766
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.90
€ 31.99
€ 24.90
Paperback. Gathered here are the best of John O'Farrell's newspaper columns for "The Guardian" and "The Independent". Among many things, he claims that with the election of George W. Bush, the global village has finally got its own global village idiot. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238. 8vo good copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KEX0261349
- ISBN
- 9780552999649
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. In this translation of two seminal works by Mauriac, the 1930 novel "What Was Lost" and its theoretical basis, the 1929 essay "God and Mammon", Raymond MacKenzie re-introduces Mauriac to the English speaking world. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; HRCC7; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742531680
- ISBN
- 9780742531680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.59
€ 149.59
Paperback. In this translation of two seminal works by Mauriac, the 1930 novel "What Was Lost" and its theoretical basis, the 1929 essay "God and Mammon", Raymond MacKenzie re-introduces Mauriac to the English speaking world. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; HRCC7; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 229 x 9. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742531697
- ISBN
- 9780742531697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.20
€ 56.20
Paperback. Includes "Conversations of German Refugees" and "Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years". Editor(s): Brown, Jane K. Translator(s): Heurck, Jan Van; Winston, Krishna. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691043456
- ISBN
- 9780691043456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.07€ 50.63
€ 65.07
€ 50.63
Goethe, Volume 11: The Sorrows of Young Werther--Elective Affinities--...
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Paperback. Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy and moral rebirth. Translator(s): Lange, Victor; Ryan, Judith. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691043463
- ISBN
- 9780691043463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.43
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Paperback. A story that centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive world of economics and seeks fulfillment as an actor and playwright. Editor(s): Blackall, Eric A. Series: Goethe: The Collected Works. Num Pages: 396 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691043449
- ISBN
- 9780691043449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.39
€ 37.99
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Hardcover. The "Metamorphoses" ("The Golden Ass") of Apuleius (born c. 125 CE) is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the sensations of a bird, but by pharmaceutical accident becomes an ass. The bulk of the novel recounts his adventures as an animal, but Lucius also recounts many stories he overhears, including that of Cupid and Psyche. Translator(s): Hanson, J.A. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 115 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Harvard UP
- Number of pages
- 286
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674994980
- ISBN
- 9780674994980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.62
€ 33.99
€ 28.62
Paperback. Are high moral standards essential or should we give our preference to the pragmatist who gets things done or negotiates successfully? Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, this title debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office. Editor(s): Emlyn-Jones, Chris. Translator(s): Hamilton, Walter. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449044
- ISBN
- 9780140449044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.78
€ 10.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. A book that is suitable for courses at various levels in philosophy, from introductory courses on Plato, or problems in Philosophy, to graduate seminars. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 132
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- Translated By Donald Zeyl
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872200166
- ISBN
- 9780872200166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.71
€ 13.00
€ 12.71
Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540327
- ISBN
- 9780199540327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.69
€ 10.69
Paperback. An introduction to the central problems of moral and political philosophy. In the notes to his translation, Professor Irwin discusses the historical and social context of the dialogue, expounds and criticises the arguments, and tries above all to suggest the questions a modern reader ought to raise about Plato's doctrines. Translator(s): Irwin, Terence H. Series: Clarendon Plato S. Num Pages: 280 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 202 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Ex-Libris with bookplate and non ink stamp. Sunning to spine, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Number of pages
- 280
- SKU
- KCW0001561
- ISBN
- 9780198720911
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 34.99€ 28.97
€ 34.99
€ 28.97
Hardback. GOT HERE AS SOON AS I COULD is a collection of syndicated columnist Sarah Smiley's most-loved columns about raising a family in Maine. In these 100 essays, readers will laugh, cry and nod their head "yes" as they remember a time when all of America was as simple and beautiful as it still is today in Vacationland. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEN; 2AB; BM; DNF; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608935765
- ISBN
- 9781608935765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.84
€ 20.99
€ 19.84