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hardcover. Although the events of Selma and Birmingham are burned into the nation's consciousness, little has been written about the civil rights events in the surrounding counties, the vast sections of the rural south. Cynthia Fleming addresses this gap by bringing to light the struggle for equality of the citizens of Wilcox County, Alabama. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSW; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508101
- ISBN
- 9780742508101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.03
€ 183.03
Paperback. The first comprehensive treatment of Louise Erdrich's writing in all its diversity. This book offers searching analysis of the common themes and contexts across Erdrich's poetry, prose, memoirs, and children's fiction. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719074271
- ISBN
- 9780719074271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.09
€ 40.09
Paperback. This biography sets out to reveal the true identity of the novelist Thomas Mann. His bisexuality, obsession with preserving appearances and the deep guilt which plagued him for much of his life is exposed. These revelations are drawn from Mann's diaries and interviews with his children. Num Pages: 8pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747529460
- ISBN
- 9780747529460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.61
€ 33.99
€ 24.61
Hardcover. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403989925
- ISBN
- 9781403989925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
paperback. Looking back not only at author's own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099285045
- ISBN
- 9780099285045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Hardback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231539
- ISBN
- 9780823231539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.87
€ 110.87
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- BOYE6
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135650
- ISBN
- 9781571135650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 39.53
€ 41.99
€ 39.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 187.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349035656
- ISBN
- 9781349035656
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.18
€ 65.18
Hardback. Priya Joshi demonstrates how a paradoxical legacy has shaped the works of Indian writers such as Krupa Satthianadhan, Ahmed Ali and Salman Rushdie, a process she calls the "indigenization" of the English novel. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231125840
- ISBN
- 9780231125840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.73€ 89.70
€ 116.73
€ 89.70
Hardback. This volume contains essays on Russian literature and thought from the classical age. It looks at the important work of well-known authors such as Pushkin and Dostoevsky, relatively unknown writers such as Marlinsky and Boborykin, and studies of thinkers such as Herzen and Chaadaev. Editor(s): Offord, Derek; White, Stephen. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; CFA; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333557334
- ISBN
- 9780333557334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.50
€ 170.50
Hardcover. An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers. Num Pages: 137 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364555
- ISBN
- 9781137364555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403900692
- ISBN
- 9781403900692
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617643
- ISBN
- 9780230617643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Paperback. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBJK; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 377.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495405
- ISBN
- 9781349495405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Hardback. The significance of Rainer Maria Rilke's work rests with the poet's insistence that everything needed for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. This book examines both the lesser-known and the overlooked and controversial aspects of Rilke's poetry and life. Translator(s): Hamilton, Andrew. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256280
- ISBN
- 9780823256280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.82
€ 95.82
Paperback. The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy. A contemporary of Virgil and Horace, Propertius has influenced scores of poets - from Ovid to Housman to Pound. This work contains poems that pay tribute to Cynthia, Propertius's romantic obsession, but the scope of these 107 elegies is broad. Translator(s): Katz, Vincent. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 520 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115825
- ISBN
- 9780691115825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.27
€ 36.99
€ 27.27
hardcover. Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical Jewish figures. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 24. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102897
- ISBN
- 9780230102897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. Employing the methods of Poe's own detective, Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries offers new and surprising discoveries about Poe's stories. This book is an insightful and useful guide for students and experts alike. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120389
- ISBN
- 9780230120389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 179 pages, b/w & colour photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772898605
- ISBN
- 9788772898605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.45
€ 26.99
€ 20.45
Paperback. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349425402
- ISBN
- 9781349425402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardcover. Popular notion has it that Polish Jewish writers, unlike their counterparts in Western, Northern and Central Europe, wrote solely in Yiddish or Hebrew. Yet between the two wars, Poland produces an elite group of assimilated Jews writing exclusively in Polish. This text explores their emergence. Translator(s): Shenitzer, Abe. Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AGP; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629849
- ISBN
- 9780815629849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.96
€ 35.96
hardcover. Editor(s): Jones, Anna Maria; Mitchell, Rebecca N. Series: Series in Victorian Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JM; ACV; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821422472
- ISBN
- 9780821422472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.04
€ 87.04
Paperback. "Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War"-- Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326723
- ISBN
- 9781349326723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. An account of Chinese literary modernism, written from the perspective of Republican China. Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time and analyzes pivotal issues, such as decadence and Orientalism. Series: Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 32. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520220645
- ISBN
- 9780520220645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 28.12
€ 37.99
€ 28.12