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Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816667550
ISBN
9780816667550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Cautions that medieval selfhood should not be understood merely in terms of confessional practice. The author points to the controversy over confession and, more generally, lay instruction that was generated in late medieval England around the heresy known as Wycliffism (or Lollardy). Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268033767
ISBN
9780268033767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.23

Hardback. Ancient epics remain a fount of inspiration for poets, dramatists, and musicians not only because they tell good stories in an aesthetically beautiful way, but also because they speak to contemporary hearts and minds still wrestling with timeless issues of human limitation, passion, violence, and uses and abuses of power. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405159470
ISBN
9781405159470
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.41

Paperback. Ancient epics remain a fount of inspiration for poets, dramatists, and musicians not only because they tell good stories in an aesthetically beautiful way, but also because they speak to contemporary hearts and minds still wrestling with timeless issues of human limitation, passion, violence, and uses and abuses of power. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118255346
ISBN
9781118255346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.55

Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804718257
ISBN
9780804718257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.39

Paperback. A reassessment of the achievements of British playwright Harold Pinter by an international group of scholars. This work contains eighteen essays that represent the state of Pinter criticism and an affirmation of Pinter's preeminence in modern British theatre. Editor(s): Burkman, Katherine H.; Kundert-Gibbs, John Leeland. Series: Drama & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; AS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253208118
ISBN
9780253208118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.28

hardcover. In her short life, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) authored two novels, 32 stories and numerous essays. This work addresses the conflicts O'Connor experienced as a "southern lady" and professional author. It considers the reasons for feminist critical neglect of the writer. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920122
ISBN
9780813920122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.93

Hardcover. Working Girls offers a cultural and literary history of telegraphists, typists, shop-girls, and barmaids. It argues that these occupations helped to shape a distinctively new identity for emancipated young women, and explores how authors used this to navigate a precarious literary landscape. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198724841
ISBN
9780198724841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.99

Paperback. To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512-48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. The author assembles the four publications attributed to her - Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations, The Lamentation of a Sinner, and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts written in her hand. Editor(s): Mueller, Janel. Num Pages: 656 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 179 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1138.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226213798
ISBN
9780226213798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.06
€ 44.01

Hardback. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; AN; DSBD; DSG; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 585.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501703140
ISBN
9781501703140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.53

paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823232154
ISBN
9780823232154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.46

Paperback. In this text, Kathleen Brogan makes the case that the recent preoccupation with ghosts stems not from a lingering interest in Gothic themes, but instead from a whole new genre in American literature that she calls "the story of cultural haunting". Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 175 x 21. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918273
ISBN
9780813918273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.01

Hardback. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 106 includes "A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod's Cult in the Works and Days"; "Sapphica"; "A New Manuscript of Classical Authors in Spain"; "The Dates of the Dramatists of the Fabula Togata"; "The Coroebus Episode in Virgil's Aeneid"; "Herod's Last Days"; and other essays. Editor(s): Coleman, Kathleen M. Series: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 374 pages, 8 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 151 x 32. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072015
ISBN
9780674072015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.36

Hardcover. Images for Classicists shows how text and image taken together complicate and enrich our understanding of ancient culture. Working to dissolve distinctions between text- and artifact-based scholarship, it explores challenges the digital revolution poses to curators and sketches ways that image-based collections may be deployed in the future. Series: Loeb Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACG; DSBB; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Harvard University Department of the Classics
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674428362
ISBN
9780674428362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.64

Paperback. The greatly anticipated debut collection by a prose poet of unusual perception. Series: Marie Alexander Poetry Series. Num Pages: 79 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
White Pine Press United States
Edition
First edition.
Number of pages
79
Condition
New
SKU
V9781893996199
ISBN
9781893996199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.44

Hardback. The volume gives an excellent overall view of Rodoreda's poetry in the original and in translation, her short stories and novels. A completely annotated, cross-indexed bibliography of the critical work on Rodoreda, accompanied by an analysis of the current state of criticism on her work is included. Num Pages: 279 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 159. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910185
ISBN
9781575910185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.15

Paperback. Features a satire on the moral failure of the "Jazz Age". This book explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
Stg
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140771978
ISBN
9780140771978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.31

Paperback. This book is an examination of three major literary, critical and philosophical movements in European and Anglo--American literature. It aims to show their differences (often pointed out) and their similarities (never yet demonstrated) and to make accessible recent post--structuralist theory. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631189640
ISBN
9780631189640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.80

Hardcover. Editor(s): Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn; Thompson, John J.; Baechle, Sarah. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1043.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268033279
ISBN
9780268033279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Crameri, Kathryn. Translator(s): Willis, Judith; Crameri, Kathryn. Series: Anglo-Catalan Society Occasional Papers: New Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907869112
ISBN
9781907869112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.24

Paperback. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, this title presents fifty of the Library's most prized treasures. It features works ranging from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare, and notorious books in history. Editor(s): James, Kathryn. Series: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Num Pages: 128 pages, 61 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; DSBB; GBCR; GLMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 212 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300196429
ISBN
9780300196429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Hardback. Kathryn Sutherland presents an edition of the fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen: the first substantial collection of autograph writings to survive for a British novelist. Volume II contains the facsimile and facing-page transcription of Volume the Second. Editor(s): Sutherland, Kathryn. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrated with facsimile pages of Austen's manuscript throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199680931
ISBN
9780199680931
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 278.65

Hardback. Kathryn Sutherland presents an edition of the fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen: the first substantial collection of autograph writings to survive for a British novelist. Volume III contains the facsimiles and facing-page transcriptions of Volume the Third and Lady Susan. Editor(s): Sutherland, Kathryn. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrated with facsimile pages of Austen's manuscript throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199680948
ISBN
9780199680948
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 211.43

Hardback. Kathryn Sutherland presents an edition of the fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen: the first substantial collection of autograph writings to survive for a British novelist. Volume IV contains the facsimiles and transcriptions of The Watsons, Persuasion, Susan, Opinions of Mansfield Park and Opinions of Emma, Plan of a Novel, Profits of my Novels. Editor(s): Sutherland, Kathryn. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrated with facsimile pages of Austen's manuscript throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199680955
ISBN
9780199680955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 208.10

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