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Hardback. A look at the many sources, literary and otherwise, that influence film adaptations. This work subverts the idea that film adaptations of novels and plays must be faithful to the original texts. Series: Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742538207
- ISBN
- 9780742538207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.77
€ 145.77
Hardcover. This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Num Pages: 204 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198706830
- ISBN
- 9780198706830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.65
€ 148.65
Hardcover. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Showing light shelf wear, remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0026946
- ISBN
- 9780374177201
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bosley, Keith. Translator(s): Bosley, Keith. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Libris United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870352529
- ISBN
- 9781870352529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.21
€ 14.99
€ 14.21
Paperback. This engaging book draws on all of Shakespearea s plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life. * Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespearea s plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631229858
- ISBN
- 9780631229858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.18
€ 45.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555975210
- ISBN
- 9781555975210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.13
€ 19.99
€ 19.13
hardcover. As an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency the author knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. Taking detective fiction out of the drawing-room, the author 'gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it', as Raymond Chandler said. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 43. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857152630
- ISBN
- 9781857152630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.07
€ 23.99
€ 16.07
Hardback. A revised critical edition of all three books of Caesar's Bellum civile, an account of his civil war against Pompey during 49-48 BC, based on a new collation of the ancient manuscripts and featuring an expanded and up-to-date critical apparatus. Editor(s): Damon, Cynthia. Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 134 x 194 x 29. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199659746
- ISBN
- 9780199659746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.06
€ 103.06
Hardback. Until the late 19th century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers, their sacred center - Jerusalem, Zion - fatefully out of reach. This book examines the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the realignment of the people with their original center. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 370 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSB; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206458
- ISBN
- 9780520206458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.33€ 48.50
€ 62.33
€ 48.50
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473803
- ISBN
- 9781611473803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.08
€ 151.08
Paperback. What are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great's romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion? What did it mean when the ancient writers told that Alexander had been sired by a thunderbolt or by a gigantic snake? This title addresses these questions and others. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898386
- ISBN
- 9780859898386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.43
€ 36.99
€ 33.43
Paperback. This "Critical Edition" is based on the Maude translation. The text includes three maps of Napoleon's campaigns and battles in Russia, the publication history of "War and Peace", selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries, three drafts of his introduction to the novel, and 20 critical essays. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 1200 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1058.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 1196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393966473
- ISBN
- 9780393966473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.24
€ 20.99
€ 19.24
hardcover. Volume 2 of this six volume set covers the years 1860-65, when Arnold emerged as a critic and went on to consolidate his reputation. His letters record his impressions of Europe on an official school study, with observations of nature within and nature without. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1134.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917061
- ISBN
- 9780813917061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.81
€ 112.81
paperback. Used paperback in good condition. Some minor wear and tear; corners may be slightly bumped, may have some foxing and/or sunning.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Merlin Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRF0034536
- ISBN
- 9780863277221
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Translator(s): Kisacky, Julia. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226256788
- ISBN
- 9780226256788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.86
€ 42.99
€ 32.86
Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- UPA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761819240
- ISBN
- 9780761819240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.62
€ 126.62
Paperback. This volume takes the reader through the journey of a myth - where Orpheus becomes an Orpheus-Christus, a courtly knight and the writer of love lyrics. Num Pages: 265 pages, 34 b&w photographs, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815628255
- ISBN
- 9780815628255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.21
€ 38.21
Paperback. Written with a keen awareness of both climate change and the situation in the Middle East, this work features poems that draws upon the poet's travels in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Argentina, and his 25 years in the environmental movement. It also includes politically-charged poems such as "An Opera in Baghdad" and "An Isotope, Dreaming". Num Pages: 129 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 129
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857549652
- ISBN
- 9781857549652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.26
€ 19.99
€ 18.26
Hardback. Editor(s): Bourdaghs, Michael; Ueda, Atsuko; Murphy, Dr. Joseph. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146562
- ISBN
- 9780231146562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.20€ 81.84
€ 108.20
€ 81.84
Paperback. This edition of Wilde's verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet: the haunting elegy to his young sister; the religious drama of his romance with Rome; forbidden sexual desires; and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol". Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853264535
- ISBN
- 9781853264535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.04
€ 7.04
Paperback. Good clean copy, minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0000131
- ISBN
- 9780330235563
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 300. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Mount Eagle Publications Ltd Kerry
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0220337
- ISBN
- 9781902011042
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the 'girl power' movement of the 1990's, this title provides a critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. It traces the literary and cultural transformations that the concept of 'tomboy' has undergone in the United States. Num Pages: 338 pages, 10 Halftoness. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592137237
- ISBN
- 9781592137237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.67
€ 38.99
€ 34.67
hardcover. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471427
- ISBN
- 9781611471427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.56
€ 115.56