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The Jewish Book of Fables. The Selected Works of Eliezer Shtaynbarg.
Shtaynbarg, Eliezer. Illus: Craft, Dana
The fable has a 3000-year-old tradition in Jewish literature, going back to the Bible and the Talmud. It was not until the advent of the illustrious poet and fabulist Eliezer Shtaynbarg that fable writing in Yiddish was honed to perfection. This text is devoted to Shtaynbarg's work. Illustrator(s): Craft, Dana. Translator(s): Leviant, Curt. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DQ; FA; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607182
- ISBN
- 9780815607182
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.31
€ 35.99
€ 31.31
Paperback. This is the first volume of two, Harold C. Goddard takes the reader on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his plays and genius. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 407 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1951
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 407
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226300412
- ISBN
- 9780226300412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.44
€ 35.99
€ 28.44
Hardback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABC; CFFD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816631858
- ISBN
- 9780816631858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.32
€ 56.32
Paperback. Editor(s): Shaw, Jonathan. Series: National Theatre S. Num Pages: 128 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780868191546
- ISBN
- 9780868191546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.82
€ 19.99
€ 14.82
Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with minor edge wear but remains good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0010513
- ISBN
- 9780224044196
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature. * Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry. Editor(s): DeMaria, Robert; Brown, Robert D. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 31. Weight in Grams: 946.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405112949
- ISBN
- 9781405112949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.68
€ 56.68
Hardback. From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide. Editor(s): Orr, Mary; Sharpe, Lesley. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897211
- ISBN
- 9780859897211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.12
€ 134.12
Hardback. This book describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823269341
- ISBN
- 9780823269341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.58
€ 97.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, Ill.(some col.). BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900715935
- ISBN
- 9781900715935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.37
€ 26.99
€ 23.37
Paperback. Good clean copy. Showing light shelfwear, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Merlin Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KSG0021800
- ISBN
- 9780863272806
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This collection of new essays looks at the diversity of seventeenth-century Quaker writing, examining its rhetoric, its polemical strategies, its purposeful use of the print medium, and the heroism and vehemence of its world vision. Editor(s): Corns, Thomas N.; Loewenstein, David. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DNF; DSB; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714642468
- ISBN
- 9780714642468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.63
€ 71.63
Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001999
- ISBN
- 9780571152810
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. This study of the learned book trade of the late Renaissance reveals how many features of today's publishing world were in place even then. Beginning in Frankfurt, Maclean surveys the authors, publishers, censors, and sellers who operated in this fraught religious atmosphere and overheated market, and ends with the market's decline in the 1620s. Num Pages: 400 pages, 37 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; DSB; HR; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 30. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062085
- ISBN
- 9780674062085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.52€ 55.60
€ 61.52
€ 55.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907587504
- ISBN
- 9781907587504
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.24
€ 13.99
€ 13.24
Hardback. A provocative and historical reading of the relations between Victorian liberalism and aestheticism that challenges critical assumptions concerning liberal agency and aesthetic experience more generally. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237542
- ISBN
- 9780812237542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.53
€ 81.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. Dimension: 202 x 138. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811225151
- ISBN
- 9780811225151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.75
€ 14.99
€ 13.75
Hardcover. This anthology - a companion volume to "New Plays From the Abbey Theatre, 1993-1995" - takes up where the first volume left off, with the best new plays from Ireland's Abbey Theatre. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; AN; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629283
- ISBN
- 9780815629283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.41
€ 54.41
Paperback. With a depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion, this book tells about the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099488781
- ISBN
- 9780099488781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. "Green's work is of the greatest importance for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of English writing and institutions, and a crucial shift in patterns of cognition."-Derek Pearsall, Harvard University Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; CF; DS; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 751.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218091
- ISBN
- 9780812218091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.35
€ 42.35
Paperback. A volume of plays of the world-renowned author, Heiner Muller. Translator(s): Weber, Carl. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- PAJ Publications,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555541521
- ISBN
- 9781555541521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.36
€ 22.36
Paperback. Based upon "Distant Voices", this work gathers together essays on a range of subjects including Burma, Fleet Street, East Timor, Vietnam, the media and UK politics. Num Pages: 704 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: DNJ; JFD; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 524. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRA0005122
- ISBN
- 9780099741510
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Offers a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. This book reflects on a long poetic apprenticeship. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159195
- ISBN
- 9780691159195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 4. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854115720
- ISBN
- 9781854115720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.37
€ 18.99
€ 16.37
Hardback. This study of the effect of literature on readers, both as individuals and as members of social groups, focuses on Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, as a model for investigating the aesthetic and social functions of literature. Num Pages: 300 pages, 9 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726627
- ISBN
- 9780804726627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.98
€ 98.98