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Paperback. A collection of seven essays that sketches out the author's personal view of the history and value of the novel. The real work of a novel is not bound up in the specifics of any one language: what makes a novel matter is its ability to reveal some previously unknown aspect of our existence. This work describes how the best novels do just that. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571232819
ISBN
9780571232819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.59

Paperback. The voyages of Captain Cook are endlessly fascinating to a wide audience, and no aspect of them has been more controversial than Cook's death. This book contains introductory essays that discuss Samwell's contribution to our understanding of the dramatic period in Pacific and maritime history, and examines the personality and career of Samwell. Num Pages: 180 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBTM; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
No Statement of Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708320730
ISBN
9780708320730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.36

Paperback. The Decay of Lying sees Wilde explore his deepest preoccupations about the relationship between life and art, and examine the work of such writers as Shakespeare and Balzac. Series: Quirky Classics. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 279 x 18. Weight in Grams: 90.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496829
ISBN
9781847496829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Calling on diverse examples from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings, this title creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only art worth loving is that built on complete untruths. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141192659
ISBN
9780141192659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

paperback. Editor(s): Murdoch, Brian O. Translator(s): Murdoch, Brian. Series: Medieval Literature S. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Dedalus Limited United Kingdom
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873982020
ISBN
9781873982020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.46

Paperback. A playful look at nineteenth-century values and talking points, this dictionary will provide enduring entertainment and prove relevant even today. Series: Quirky Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 151 x 2. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496836
ISBN
9781847496836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. From Ulysses' Argo to Freud's Lun, these stories explore the mysterious and often intense relationship between human beings and dogs. Illustrating a broad knowledge of literary dog lovers, and elaborating on their insights, Grenier's volume abounds with humour and history. Translator(s): Kaplan, Alice. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226308289
ISBN
9780226308289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. This work illustrates the old-time virtues of hard work ingenuity, and respect for others. Illustrator(s): Mawicke, Tran. Num Pages: 230 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 13. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803282162
ISBN
9780803282162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.53

Hardback. This reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career. Editor(s): Regan, Stephen. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 836.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631202486
ISBN
9780631202486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.70

Paperback. This reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career. Editor(s): Regan, Stephen. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631202493
ISBN
9780631202493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.53

Hardcover. Num Pages: 395 pages, 1facsim,1port. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230. .
Publisher
Ohio University Press Ohio
Number of pages
395
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0228306
ISBN
9780821409602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Addressed to educators and general readers - the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life, this book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Series: A Midland Book. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Indiana University Press Bloomington
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1964
Edition
New Impression
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253200884
ISBN
9780253200884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.38

Paperback. Translator(s): Ambler, Wayne. Series: Agora Editions. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801487507
ISBN
9780801487507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Translator(s): Causa-Steindler, Mariangela; Mauch, Thomas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226062761
ISBN
9780226062761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Paperback. This collection of new essays looks at the diversity of seventeenth-century Quaker writing, examining its rhetoric, its polemical strategies, its purposeful use of the print medium, and the heroism and vehemence of its world vision. Editor(s): Corns, Thomas N.; Loewenstein, David. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DNF; DSB; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Routledge
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714642468
ISBN
9780714642468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.92

Paperback. A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847088420
ISBN
9781847088420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.54

Paperback. With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge the author takes up in this book, using Thoreau's "Walden" as a touchstone. Num Pages: 600 pages, 4 fine line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBF; JFC; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 852.
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674258624
ISBN
9780674258624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.02

Paperback. A newly translated epic about the premier leader of the Songhay Empire. Editor(s): Hale, Thomas. Series: African Epic. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253209900
ISBN
9780253209900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.32

paperback. Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens and honour. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140432169
ISBN
9780140432169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write. This title discusses Montaigne's themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, and coaches and cannibals. Editor(s): Screech, M. A. Translator(s): Screech, M. A. Num Pages: 480 pages, index, summary of the symbols. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140446029
ISBN
9780140446029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

paperback. Presents a range of Swift's writing, including not only the major literary prose works but also substantial poetic and political writings. This title includes a selection of contemporary materials, along with criticism, a chronology and bibliography. Editor(s): Rawson, Claude; Higgins, Ian. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 944 pages, 1 map, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
Critical
Condition
New
SKU
9780393930658
ISBN
9780393930658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.34

Hardback. A collection seeks to examine exactly what Levinas' writings mean for both Jews and Christians. It takes a snapshot of the state of Jewish-Christian dialogue, using Levinas as the rationale for the discussion. It represents three generations of Levinas scholars. Editor(s): Hart, Kevin. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230150
ISBN
9780823230150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.57

Paperback. What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? To have dinner with Attila the Hun? To watch the charge of the Light Brigade? To see the Titanic slide beneath the waves? This title offers an account from memoirs, travel books and newspapers. Editor(s): Carey, John. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 135 x 46. Weight in Grams: 802.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571141630
ISBN
9780571141630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.12

Paperback. Editor(s): Kaye, F. B. Num Pages: 1074 pages, index. BIC Classification: DNF; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 77. Weight in Grams: 1624.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
1074
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865970755
ISBN
9780865970755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.48

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