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Paperback. Gregory of tours wrote this dramatic narrative of sixth-century French history as a chronicle of the events leading up to and including his 21-year tenure as bishop of tours. Translator(s): Thorpe, Lewis. Num Pages: 720 pages, map, index. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442953
- ISBN
- 9780140442953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary. Num Pages: 206 pages, 136, 136 colour illustrations, 136 colour. BIC Classification: ACK; AKLB; DNF; JFHF; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 434. Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764. 205 pages, with 136 col illus. A delightful translation of one of the finest, and most beautiful, examples of a medieval Bestiary. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACK; AKLB; DNF; JFHF; WN. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight: 426. Translator(s): Barber, Richard.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851157535
- ISBN
- 9780851157535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.78
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Paperback. This volume brings together more than 100 selections of works from the 18th century, including examples from Kant, Diderot, Newton and Locke. They demonstrate the impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social and economic institutions. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; DNF; HBG; HBLH; HBLL; HPC; HPK; JFCX; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140245660
- ISBN
- 9780140245660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; HPC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- First LP Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865970939
- ISBN
- 9780865970939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.94
€ 11.99
€ 10.94
Paperback. Brings together another rich, varied crop of literary voices, comprising: Graham Greene, James Thurber, William Faulkner, Robert Lowell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eudora Welty, John Gardner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, James Baldwin, William Gaddis, Harold Bloom, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Peter Carey and Stephen King. Editor(s): Gourevitch, Philip. Series: The Paris Review. Num Pages: 528 pages, facsims. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 27. Weight in Grams: 552. 448 pages, facsims. Editor(s): Gourevitch, Philip. Includes interviews from one of the world's best literary magazines. This volume is suitable for reading for those who cares about writers and writing. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 27. Weight: 640.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 524
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847670335
- ISBN
- 9781847670335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.51
€ 19.99
€ 14.51
Hardcover. The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 107 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857157215
- ISBN
- 9781857157215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.60
€ 16.99
€ 12.60
Paperback. Contains essays that explore the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and lament the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning). This book also unfolds the author's views on things from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 110 x 8. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191263
- ISBN
- 9780141191263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
€ 10.99
€ 9.50
Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Editor(s): Goldsby, Jacqueline. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 512 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 212 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393972863
- ISBN
- 9780393972863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.47
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€ 17.47
Paperback. In 1818, when Stendhal was in his mid-thirties, he met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings. Translator(s): Sale, Gilbert; Sale, Suzanne. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF; JMM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443073
- ISBN
- 9780140443073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest, in part because he provides vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, and partly because of the light he casts on the intellectual life of first century Rome. This edition uses the 1997 Clarendon text by the acclaimed translator P.G. Walsh. Editor(s): Walsh, P. G. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540068
- ISBN
- 9780199540068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.54
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Paperback. This biography of Henry Thoreau offers insight into his social activism, his interest in fine arts, William Gilpin and John Ruskin's influence on his nature writing, and his involvement in, and influence by, the Agassiz-Darwin debate over "The Origin of Species.". Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520063464
- ISBN
- 9780520063464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.65
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€ 26.65
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Number of pages
- 704
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590173213
- ISBN
- 9781590173213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 27.36
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€ 27.36
Hardback. John Sutherland examines the intergenerational conflict as a new kind of 'war' in which institutional neglect and universal indifference to the old has reached aggressive, and routinely lethal, levels. Series: Provocations. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DNF; JFSP31. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 121 x 185 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Biteback Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785901713
- ISBN
- 9781785901713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.70
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€ 11.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Rogers, Professor Melvin L. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 242 x 20. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Swallow Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804011662
- ISBN
- 9780804011662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.10
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€ 23.10
Hardcover. Editor(s): Canavan, Francis. Num Pages: 500 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD; HBLL; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 884.
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 500
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865971660
- ISBN
- 9780865971660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.13
€ 31.99
€ 23.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 114 pages. BIC Classification: AJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 107 x 8. Weight in Grams: 93. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- GREEN INTEGER
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KHN0000484
- ISBN
- 9781892295903
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 114 pages. BIC Classification: AJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 107 x 8. Weight in Grams: 93. Fine copy. Very minor to no shelfwear
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- GREEN INTEGER
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KST0026683
- ISBN
- 9781892295903
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Baxter, Lee; Satz, Martha. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Demeter Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772581041
- ISBN
- 9781772581041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.90
€ 34.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Offers a collection of some of the finest correspondence from the Second World War, this book includes author's original introduction and recounts the courage of the bomber crews, the tragic air-raids and the strangeness of the British, before being sent to Africa and joining a special operations unit off the coast of Italy. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; HBJD; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186320
- ISBN
- 9780141186320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.29
€ 17.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. By the award-winning author of "The Undertaking", this second collection of Lynch's essays examines the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts, a relationship on which he has a unique perspective, being both a poet and a funeral director. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 119. Weight in Grams: 319. Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Essays, Journals & Letters - General,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Essays, Journals & Letters - General"
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KHS0037843
- ISBN
- 9780224059046
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 31.99€ 27.51
€ 31.99
€ 27.51