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Paperback. In this literary history of Los Angeles, critic David Fine traces the history and mood of the place through the work of writers as diverse as Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Austin, Norman Mailer, Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Carolyn See, and many others. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874176032
- ISBN
- 9780874176032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.27
€ 23.27
Paperback. Reflects on the twin motivations of the author's life - the commitment to do some good in the world and the impulse to enjoy life and participate fully in its most intense moments - and examines the tension created by his efforts to balance these two poles of his responsibility. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874177565
- ISBN
- 9780874177565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.75
€ 29.75
Hardback. How the status of Russian writers as members of the nobility, and their careers in service to the imperial state, shaped the course of Russian literature from Sumarokov and Derzhavin through Pushkin, Gogol, and Dostoevsky. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299308308
- ISBN
- 9780299308308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.62
€ 73.62
Hardcover. Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892641109
- ISBN
- 9780892641109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Exiles at Home: Stories by Ch'en Ying-chen (Michigan Classics in Chine...
Ch'En Ying-Chen, Lucien Miller, Yvonne Chang,...
Paperback. Translator(s): Miller, Lucien. Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892641598
- ISBN
- 9780892641598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.83
€ 21.99
€ 21.83
Paperback. This is one of the very best anthologies of poetry to come out of the Vietnam War. The poets here have given their experiences an energy that transcends time and grabs your heart. Read these poems and know that you will never be the same. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 205 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896721883
- ISBN
- 9780896721883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.98
€ 16.98
Hardcover. When an enraged reader gunned him down in Waco, April Fool's Day 1898, William Cowper Brann had published "The Iconoclast", the nation's most controversial magazine, for some forty months. This title synthesizes some of the most memorable Brannisms, from America to Texas Politics to the Universe. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896724051
- ISBN
- 9780896724051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.31
€ 29.99
€ 27.31
Hardcover. Miriam Vermilya was a retired grade school teacher and a well known painter and writer in Greenville, Ohio, where she lived. This title includes poems that sum up Vermilyas reflections on her life, love, and marriage; the deaths of friends and family members; and, most poignantly, her own aging and death. Series: Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 74 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896724310
- ISBN
- 9780896724310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.28
€ 20.28
Hardcover. Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald has published more than eighteen volumes of award-winning poetry. This title includes essays that analyze McDonalds writings about war and the veterans return to civilian life, the regional grounding of his far-reaching verities, and the writer himself. Editor(s): Whittington, Janice. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896724877
- ISBN
- 9780896724877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.55
€ 36.99
€ 33.55
Paperback. An anthology of thirty-four writers who published during the settlement years of the American frontier. It assembles nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from women of Anglo, Chinese, Hispanic, and Native American ethnicity, addressing such themes as isolation, drudgery, friendship, mourning, and even mysticism. Editor(s): Miller, Susan Cummins. Series: Voice in the American West. Num Pages: 462 pages, New Preface. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726185
- ISBN
- 9780896726185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.07
€ 29.07
Hardcover. Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture; from the European landscape of World War II to the war in Iraq, this title opens the author's personal world to the world at large. It includes poems that explore the historical, social, and scientific, relishing life's juxtapositions. Series: Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726215
- ISBN
- 9780896726215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.06
€ 22.06
Paperback. Though Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in "The Crisis" and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection presents a road map of African American life in the Southwest and West during the movements glory days. Editor(s): Champion, Laurie. Num Pages: 189 pages, 1 b/w photo. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726291
- ISBN
- 9780896726291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Hardcover. With references to his work appearing everywhere from the New Yorker to The Simpsons, Joseph Conrad remains one of the twentieth century's most widely discussed literary figures. This title analyzes both conrad's early and major works, including "The Nigger of the Narcissus", "Heart of Darkness", "Lord Jim", and "Nostromo". Num Pages: 234 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726338
- ISBN
- 9780896726338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.46
€ 41.99
€ 37.46
Hardcover. Includes poems that focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mothers struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, ones own mortality, humanity's physical and emotional frailties. Series: Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726475
- ISBN
- 9780896726475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.06
€ 23.99
€ 22.06
Paperback. From the depths of grief, the author began to write poems - not as therapy but to see if she could express the range of her experience more fully than the published books shed read. This volume of verse inspires thousands of parents, patients, and other determined survivors Series: Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 85 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 85
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726574
- ISBN
- 9780896726574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.79
€ 15.99
€ 15.79
Paperback. Covering an extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture, from the European landscape of World War II to the war in Iraq, this book opens a poet's personal world to the world at large. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726673
- ISBN
- 9780896726673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.65
€ 17.99
€ 17.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896727786
- ISBN
- 9780896727786
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.98
€ 21.98
Paperback. Series: Walt McDonald First-Book. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896729209
- ISBN
- 9780896729209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.57
€ 19.99
€ 18.57
Hardcover. Horton Foote is one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century. This book reflects upon his journey from his childhood in Wharton, Texas, through his early experiences as an actor in the theatre, to his mature vocation as a playwright. It identifies the people and influences that shaped his character and nurtured his art. Editor(s): Castleberry, Marion. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780918954916
- ISBN
- 9780918954916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.20
€ 39.20
Hardcover. Editor(s): Morgan, Christopher. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DS; WDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Lewis Carroll Society of North America
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780930326029
- ISBN
- 9780930326029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.72
€ 82.72
Paperback. These poems were written during Lance Henson's extensive travels through the United States and Europe from 1986 to 1994. Stark, militant, and searching, bearing a fierce witness, they constitute his mature view of the American experience. Num Pages: 73 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- West End Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780931122866
- ISBN
- 9780931122866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.21
€ 13.21
Hardcover. Series: Islandica. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 550. Series: Islandica. 238 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 171 x 237 x 22. Weight: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Library
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780935995145
- ISBN
- 9780935995145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.86
€ 71.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- West End Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780970534484
- ISBN
- 9780970534484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.72
€ 15.72
Paperback. Discusses about small town Indians, about community and family, about thieves, prostitutes, train stealers, drug dealers, loners, jerks, dreaming alcoholics, and the ones who did everything but all of that. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- West End Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780975348673
- ISBN
- 9780975348673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.72
€ 15.72