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Paperback. Containing 74 essays, this book covers a range of subjects including the literature of the perceived masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries, the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture, film, politicians, the Labour Party, racial prejudice and the preciousness of free expression. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Penguin Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140140361
ISBN
9780140140361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.22

Paperback. Translator(s): Shafir, Yvonne. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Exact Change,U.S. United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9781878972224
ISBN
9781878972224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.82

Paperback. The vivid and haunting story of Sri Lanka and its brutal thirty-year civil war, from one of India's best new writers. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKS; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; DNJ; HBWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857895974
ISBN
9780857895974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, the author found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was all for wild, passionate Cathy; but her friend found Cathy silly, a snob, while courageous Jane makes her own way. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099575566
ISBN
9780099575566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Treat your palate to a sample of Arabic sayings and adages with a varied collection of traditional Middle-Eastern proverbs. In Taste the Arabic Proverbs, an expansive range of mores and suggestions are offered with ties to the cuisine, ingredients, and food-preparation techniques of the Middle East Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786934512
ISBN
9781786934512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.12

Hardcover. These essays record in personal and idiosyncratic terms a year in the life of a man with a tenacious commitment to pausing and wondering. Moving between humour and seriousness, the mundane and the philosophical, truth and fiction, the essays saunter through life and rummage through lives. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820319407
ISBN
9780820319407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268030940
ISBN
9780268030940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.84

Paperback. This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Johnson's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by essays, criticism, and fiction - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Editor(s): Greene, Donald. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 2 x 53. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
880
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538331
ISBN
9780199538331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.14

Paperback. Contains a selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. This volume includes the best of Johnson's journalism, including essays from the periodicals 'The Adventurer' and 'The Idler'. Editor(s): Womersley, David. Num Pages: 640 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140436273
ISBN
9780140436273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Hardcover. Series: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, map, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; DNF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1971
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300012514
ISBN
9780300012514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.42
€ 98.10

Hardcover. Series: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Num Pages: 363 pages, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCX4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 143 x 35. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
363
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300021042
ISBN
9780300021042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.42
€ 98.79

Hardback. Editor(s): Kolb, Gwin J.; DeMaria, Robert. Series: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Num Pages: 560 pages, 89 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBX; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 45. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
548
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300106725
ISBN
9780300106725
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.42
€ 98.37

Paperback. Offers a selection from author's startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; DNF; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 161 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141397542
ISBN
9780141397542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.52

Paperback. Offers a sampling of Coleridge's encyclopedic marginalia. This book also offers an introduction to Coleridge's life, the intellectual issues and concerns that held his attention, and the workings of his mind. It features brief headnotes that outline Coleridge's circumstances year by year and provide historical information. Editor(s): Jackson, H. J. Num Pages: 272 pages, index. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691113173
ISBN
9780691113173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.98

Paperback. "Biographia Literaria" has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics of English literature. This is a completely annotated edition of the highly allusive work. Series: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Num Pages: 856 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DNF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 140 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1326.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
856
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691018614
ISBN
9780691018614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 83.00
€ 64.17

Hardcover. Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803. This volume draws on Coleridge's letters and notebooks to look at his travels with the Wordsworths and to record and photograph the journey he experienced after he parted from them. Num Pages: 192 pages, 78 colour plates, 87 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DSBF; DSC; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 976.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated)
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300096415
ISBN
9780300096415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.91

Hardcover. Comprises annotations on more than fifty books and manuscripts (from "Valckenaer" to "Zwick", and "Addenda"). This book includes comments on Wordsworth's "Benjamin the Waggoner," "The Prelude," and "Translation of Virgil's Aeneid," as well as on William Godwins's verse drama "Abbas." Editor(s): Jackson, H. J. Series: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Num Pages: 760 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 46. Weight in Grams: 999.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
732
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691004952
ISBN
9780691004952
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 291.68
€ 215.49

Hardback. During the winter of 1818-1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge gave 14 lectures on the history of philosophy. This edition presents an indexed text of the lecture series and provides, in addition, the complete texts of the shorthand reports and of Coleridge's own notes, along with newspaper and manuscript reports by people who attended the lectures. Editor(s): Jackson, J. R. de J. Series: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Num Pages: 1192 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 78. Weight in Grams: 1628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
1328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691098753
ISBN
9780691098753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 366.37
€ 270.81

Hardback. Presents the manuscripts that provide insight into a crucial period of the author's intellectual development, as he became increasingly dissatisfied with Naturphilosophie and struggled to affirm Trinitarian Christianity on a rational basis. Editor(s): McFarland, Thomas. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 664 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 0. Weight in Grams: 857.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
664
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691098821
ISBN
9780691098821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 385.35
€ 284.77

Paperback. Samuel Waters served as an officer in the Irish Constabulary in all four provinces. His recollections encompass the Fenian Rising, the Land War and the 1916 insurrection. Series: Irish Narratives S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; BGHA; DNF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JKSW1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 0. Weight in Grams: 135.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859181898
ISBN
9781859181898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.64

Paperback. Concentrating mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to this writer's extraordinary world. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 196 x 37. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330523691
ISBN
9780330523691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. A glorious survey of food writing from the classical world to the present. Editor(s): Gilbert, Sandra M.; Porter, Roger J. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DQ; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 251 x 33. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393353518
ISBN
9780393353518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.75

Hardcover. A glorious survey of food writing from the classical world to the present. Editor(s): Gilbert, Sandra M.; Porter, Roger J. Num Pages: 512 pages, ---. BIC Classification: DNF; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 243 x 43. Weight in Grams: 892.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393239843
ISBN
9780393239843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Taneda Santoka's poetry attracted limited notice during his lifetime (1882-1940), but there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in his life and writings. Including 245 poems and selected diary excerpts, For All My Walking makes Santoka's work available to English-speaking readers. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125178
ISBN
9780231125178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

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