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Paperback. If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. This book presents a provocative theory about why fairy tales were created and retold - and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: DSY; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159553
- ISBN
- 9780691159553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.63
€ 26.99
€ 20.63
Hardback. This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory, Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Suspicion, North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: APF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748636464
- ISBN
- 9780748636464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.15€ 114.08
€ 118.15
€ 114.08
Paperback. This is the first introduction to the whole field of modern fantasy literature in the English-speaking world. Editor(s): James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 294 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 438. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 296 pages, 1 b/w illus. Editor(s): James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah. This is the first introduction to the whole field of modern fantasy literature in the English-speaking world. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 14. Weight: 472.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521728737
- ISBN
- 9780521728737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.64
€ 34.64
Hardcover. 181pp. Hardcover op
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Edition
- 1st ed
- SKU
- KHS1003823
- ISBN
- 9780241103395
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. Deep inside each of us there is a challenge: individuality or conformity? action or acceptance? Sam is at the bottom of the American grave. His life is a cycle of work and television. The only thing he has left - besides twisted explorations in a sex club - is his dark, cutting sense of humour. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KMR0003891
- ISBN
- 9781841951980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472585202
- ISBN
- 9781472585202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.40
€ 14.99
€ 14.40
Paperback. In the 1960s, Henry Livings was celebrated for his eccentric and humorous depiction of northern working-class life. Known for the lightness of touch, his plays are peopled by so-called dimwits, crackpots and eccentrics who find themselves in often surreal situations. Includes: Eh?, The Ffinest Ffamily in the Land, Honour and Offer, Stop it Whoever Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840020441
- ISBN
- 9781840020441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.42
€ 18.99
€ 17.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 50 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KHT; 4KL; DSK; YQE. Category: (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 175 x 110. .
- Publisher
- Connell Guides
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911187066
- ISBN
- 9781911187066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.27
€ 8.99
€ 8.27
paperback. A glimpse into the mind and life of one of the most creative and enigmatic visionaries of our time, filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky Num Pages: 424 pages, Includes 8-page color insert and 29 b&w plates. BIC Classification: ANF; BGA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- Park Street Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620552810
- ISBN
- 9781620552810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.06
€ 23.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. With Baudelaire's critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two painters - Ingres and Delacroix - about whom Baudelaire wrote acutely, and then turns to Degas and Manet, who followed in the tracks Baudelaire laid down in his great essay The Painter of Modern Life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241957561
- ISBN
- 9780241957561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England, and The Rover, her most popular play, is set in Naples during the misrule of carnival time. The Rover explores issues of love, trickery and deception, forced marriage, male power, fidelity, and the excesses of sexual passion. Editor(s): Bolam, Robyn. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408152119
- ISBN
- 9781408152119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humour to be a meaningful - even significant - form of expression, this title provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts - not just their contents. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075933
- ISBN
- 9780252075933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.51
€ 29.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which only find their shape eighteen years later. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571191796
- ISBN
- 9780571191796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.50
€ 14.99
€ 11.50
Paperback. This is the second of two volumes of the collected plays of Steven Berkoff. The book includes "Decadence", "Kvetch", "Acapulco", "Harry's Christmas", "Brighton Beach Scumbags", "Darling You Were Marvellous", "Pitbull" and "Actor". Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571171026
- ISBN
- 9780571171026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.61
€ 25.99
€ 17.61
Hardcover. Over the last three-and-a-half centuries this glamorous, twenty-four hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit through verse, prose or the ultimate wisecrack. Series: In Quotations. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; DQ; WTM; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 88. .
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851244201
- ISBN
- 9781851244201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.36
€ 8.99
€ 8.36
Paperback. Presents a selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, that contain legends, dramas, and epics. Series: Library of Medieval Women. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ADL; DNF; DQ; DSBB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 214 x 11. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859914895
- ISBN
- 9780859914895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.67
€ 26.99
€ 23.67
Paperback. Rediscover the magic and wonder of the original Grimm Tales, retold by master-storyteller Philip Pullman. Perfect for youth theatres, schools and amateur companies looking for a vivid new version of the classic fairytales. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848425088
- ISBN
- 9781848425088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.27
€ 17.99
€ 14.27
Paperback. The beautiful but sharp-tongued 'shrew' Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband. Her younger sister Bianca, meanwhile, is forbidden to be married until Katherina finds a suitable match - much to the dismay of Bianca's suitors, Hortensio and Gremio. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141396583
- ISBN
- 9780141396583
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
€ 10.99
€ 9.47
Paperback. Follows the life of Serge Carrefax, a man who surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099547020
- ISBN
- 9780099547020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.85
€ 14.99
€ 11.85
Hardback. Complicating our understanding of Victorian marriage ideology's more well-trodden focus on a productive, nation-building ideal, Exquisite Masochism offers fascinating insight into our own culture's debates around illicit sexuality, marriage, reproduction, and feminism. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DS; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421419930
- ISBN
- 9781421419930
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.80€ 47.39
€ 50.80
€ 47.39