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Paperback. A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author's work. It is divided into three sections: State of the Art , which covers literature; State of the Union , which deals with politics and public life; and State of Being , which gives his personal responses to people and events. Num Pages: 1312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 65. Weight in Grams: 882.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349105246
- ISBN
- 9780349105246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.66
€ 21.99
€ 16.66
Paperback. An edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. Editor(s): Mayer, Roland. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 3D; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 180 x 125 x 8. Weight in Grams: 246. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. 240 pages. Editor(s): Mayer, Roland. An edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2ADL; 3D; DNF; DSBB. Dimension: 180 x 125 x 8. Weight: 238.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521469968
- ISBN
- 9780521469968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.72
€ 42.72
Hardcover. Num Pages: 684 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: DNF; HPC; HPQ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1278.
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 684
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865970557
- ISBN
- 9780865970557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.82
€ 38.82
Paperback. This translation of Aristotle's "Poetics" seeks to make it as accessible as possible. Key words and concepts are glossed within the text so as to disperse with the need for intrusive footnotes. The aim is to allow readers to experience Aristotle's arguments directly for themselves. Translator(s): McLeish, Kenneth. Series: Dramatic contexts. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 5. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854593337
- ISBN
- 9781854593337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.46
€ 12.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFCA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 245 x 14. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Akashic Books,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617754098
- ISBN
- 9781617754098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.00
€ 16.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. Series: The Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 258 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Number of pages
- 101
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195061673
- ISBN
- 9780195061673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.71
€ 14.99
€ 14.71
Paperback. 8 masterly essays by great French thinker: "Of Friendship," "Of Books," "Of Cruelty," "Of Repentance," four more. Classic Charles Cotton translation. Translator(s): Atkinson, James B.; Sices, David. Num Pages: 410 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 410
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603845953
- ISBN
- 9781603845953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.26
€ 19.99
€ 16.26
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907970863
- ISBN
- 9781907970863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Describes the adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. This poem also describes his endurance, his love for his wife and son. Translator(s): Chapman, George. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 332. Clean copy In good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Unabridged
- SKU
- KLJ0001372
- ISBN
- 9781853260254
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 6.74
€ 6.74
hardcover. Woolf responds passionately to those writers - past, present - who deal honestly with the reader, who express their own variations on the 'I am I' - the selective vision of the finite self. Editor(s): Kavenna, Joanna. Series: Classic Collection. Num Pages: 182 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Notting Hill Editions
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907903922
- ISBN
- 9781907903922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.71
€ 19.99
€ 17.71
Paperback. A collection of speeches, articles, essays and introductions from Sunday Times bestselling author, commentator and craftsman Neil Gaiman. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472208026
- ISBN
- 9781472208026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In this book, the author takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It brings Cornwall and its seas to life, mixing drinking and drugs and sea spray, moonlit beaches and shattering storms, myth and urban myth. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784700997
- ISBN
- 9781784700997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.89
€ 14.99
€ 11.89
Paperback. "Perfect Catch" is a bundle of poems, plays and collaborations between Ian McMillan and various musicians, theatre groups, radio producers and ordinary and extraordinary people. Poetry is a community art for this writer, not a craft pursued in a lonely room. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 187. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KEX0281282
- ISBN
- 9781857544961
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Paperback. In 1936 George Orwell was commissioned to visit areas of mass unemployment in the North of England, this book offers a description of the poverty he witnessed there. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; HBTB; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185293
- ISBN
- 9780141185293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. An aristocratic member of a prominent Philadelphia family, Sidney George Fisher was a prolific man of letters. He kept a diary that chronicled not only daily life in America's second city but also the key political, social, and cultural events of the 19th century. This book talks about the Fisher's diary written during the Civil War. Editor(s): White, Jonathan W. Series: North's Civil War. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: BG; DNJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 423.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823227280
- ISBN
- 9780823227280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.78
€ 42.99
€ 38.78
Paperback. Charles Dickens describes his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness, and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows him as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety and cruelty. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141047508
- ISBN
- 9780141047508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
€ 10.99
€ 9.50
Hardcover. Orwell continued the BBC program "Voice" and developed an "open university" with broadcasts by distinguished speakers such as E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Joseph Needham. "From the Trade Paperback edition." Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 239 x 38. Weight in Grams: 952.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780436203664
- ISBN
- 9780436203664
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.53€ 42.91
€ 58.53
€ 42.91
Paperback. "The Republic" deals with almost the whole range of Plato's thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument with myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by leisures and appetites. Translator(s): Davies, John Llewelyn; Vaughan, David James. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HPCA; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853264832
- ISBN
- 9781853264832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.41
€ 7.41
Paperback. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period constitute some of the most remarkable 20th century analyses of the emergence of modern society. This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire and Brecht to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. Editor(s): Eiland, Howard; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 496 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022294
- ISBN
- 9780674022294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.99
€ 35.99
€ 30.99
Paperback. Offer an account of author's part in World War Two that sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a 'Combined Services Entertainment' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: DN; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 6th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241958148
- ISBN
- 9780241958148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.89
€ 14.99
€ 11.89