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Hardcover. In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other, except perhaps his brother. These letters, in a four-volume series, provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history--years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic. Editor(s): Shackleton, Bailey. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 114 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Loeb
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674995710
- ISBN
- 9780674995710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.68
€ 33.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; BJ; DSBH; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431424863
- ISBN
- 9781431424863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.60
€ 24.99
€ 21.60
Paperback. The publication of de Beauvoir's letters to Sartre caused a storm of controversy in Paris in 1990. Frank and uncensored, they show her experimenting with her freedom within her love for Sartre, and trace the emotional and triangular complications of her life with him. Editor(s): Hoare, Quintin. Translator(s): Hoare, Quintin. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099914907
- ISBN
- 9780099914907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
Paperback. Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful method for analyzing them. It uses literary concepts to ask social scientific questions: how do stories make life better, and when do they endanger it? Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226004839
- ISBN
- 9780226004839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.17
€ 27.99
€ 23.17
Paperback. Can we truly claim that metaphysics is over? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity and a careful elaboration of Levinas's concept of the "nocturnal event" that surpasses the light of understanding, Raoul Moati opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics." Translator(s): Wyche, Daniel. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPJ; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 278 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823273201
- ISBN
- 9780823273201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Hardback. This new biography of Carroll by leading international authority, Edward Wakeling, presents a fresh appraisal of the man based upon his social circle. Num Pages: 480 pages, 20 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780768205
- ISBN
- 9781780768205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.73€ 65.07
€ 70.73
€ 65.07
Paperback. The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education. This title covers the novel Sunset Song, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Series: Scotnotes Study Guides. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 212 x 150 x 5. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780950262994
- ISBN
- 9780950262994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.30
€ 10.30
Hardback. Li Mengyang (1473 1530) was a scholar-official who initiated the literary archaist movement that sought to restore ancient styles of prose and poetry in sixteenth-century China. Chang Woei Ong situates Li's quest to redefine literati learning as a way to build a perfect social order in the context of intellectual transitions since the Song dynasty. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 350 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; BGH; DSBD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674970595
- ISBN
- 9780674970595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.96
€ 54.99
€ 45.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 209 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781871551532
- ISBN
- 9781871551532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.43
€ 18.99
€ 17.43
Paperback. Freedom and enfranchisement. Something anarchical which pushes at boundaries. Each of these rich avenues of meaning are bound up in the word 'liberty'. This book explored liberty via Virginia Woolf's novels like those in the feminist polemic of A Room of One's Own, or a whimsical account of roaming the streets of London. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872717
- ISBN
- 9781784872717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.87
€ 8.99
€ 7.87
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801427824
- ISBN
- 9780801427824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.31€ 15.76
€ 94.31
€ 15.76
Paperback. The first critical edition of this historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who finds escape from the tedium of her life by leading a double life as a highway robber. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 133 x 286 x 35. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- University Of Hertfordshire Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Critical
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909291348
- ISBN
- 9781909291348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.33
€ 12.33
Paperback. From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, the author wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his publisher and fellow writers - not to mention actresses. This book presents these letters which tell the story of the author's life as a man and a writer. Translator(s): Bartlett, Rosamund; Phillips, Anthony. Num Pages: 624 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449228
- ISBN
- 9780140449228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.58
€ 19.99
€ 18.58
Paperback. A.N. Wilson's biography looks back through the indifference which has surrounded Walter Scott in recent times, and the distortions of his Victorian idolaters, to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712697545
- ISBN
- 9780712697545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
€ 23.99
€ 17.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823272778
- ISBN
- 9780823272778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.19
€ 71.19
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 60 b/w, 36 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 189 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1311. dustjacket
- Condition
- Used, Acceptable
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KTK0099404
- ISBN
- 9780300109948
Hardback
Condition: Used, Acceptable
€ 10.00
€ 10.00
Paperback. The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief in the avant-garde. Num Pages: 654 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 153 x 33. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Number of pages
- 654
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330350495
- ISBN
- 9780330350495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.33
€ 17.99
€ 13.33
Hardback. Translator(s): Driscoll, Kari. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857424303
- ISBN
- 9780857424303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.04
€ 26.99
€ 22.04
Paperback. Blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561224
- ISBN
- 9780099561224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.84
€ 14.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. Brings together a substantial number of Elizabeth Bowen's ungathered and unknown radio broadcasts, interviews and public lectures. Editor(s): Hepburn, Allan. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DNS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748640423
- ISBN
- 9780748640423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.54
€ 41.99
€ 37.54
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107578692
- ISBN
- 9781107578692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.95
€ 96.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138284678
- ISBN
- 9781138284678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99
€ 35.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415747103
- ISBN
- 9780415747103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.93
€ 26.99
€ 26.93
Paperback. Literary Biography: An Introduction offers an erudite and insightful introduction into the history, theory, and practice of the increasingly popular literary genre of life writing. The text illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges verifiable historical facts with the familiar conventions of narrative. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119060116
- ISBN
- 9781119060116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.25
€ 38.25