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Paperback. This new, parallel-text prose translation of a generous selection of Martial's witty and satiric epigrams pulls no punches and matches the boldness of the originals. They bring Imperial Rome vividly to life. The edition establishes Martial's originality as a literary author and includes a full introduction and notes. Translator(s): Nisbet, Gideon. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199645459
- ISBN
- 9780199645459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.48
€ 14.99
€ 12.48
Paperback. This title shows how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and how well the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence. Sections including "Religion", "Money and Rank", "Men, Women, Marriage" and "Politics", cover the range of aphoristic literature. Editor(s): Gross, John. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CB; CFG; DQ; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 394
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192804563
- ISBN
- 9780192804563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.25
€ 40.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780716531531
- ISBN
- 9780716531531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.27
€ 27.99
€ 21.27
Hardcover. The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a banquet or at a public festival. This edition brings together works of various artists. Illustrator(s): Pine, Johannes. Translator(s): Marlowe, Christopher. Num Pages: 260 pages, Engravings. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 111 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857157345
- ISBN
- 9781857157345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a town resident, a woman of seductive beauty and singular charm. Translator(s): Mason, Wyatt. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 8. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300180701
- ISBN
- 9780300180701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.60
€ 14.99
€ 12.60
Paperback. Cats were first domesticated or, more likely, noticed a warm fireside and chose to domesticate themselves many thousands of years ago. This title includes a selection of the many poems, anecdotes and quotations about cats which have been written over the centuries: the charming, the funny, the sad, the exasperated, and the heartfelt. Editor(s): Pemberton, Delia. Num Pages: 96 pages, 41 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AGN; DQ; WNGC; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 172 x 12. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714151113
- ISBN
- 9780714151113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.31
€ 13.99
€ 13.31
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Classics Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714542041
- ISBN
- 9780714542041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.41
€ 13.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. Series: Macmillan Master Guides. Num Pages: 95 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 95
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333434093
- ISBN
- 9780333434093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.51
€ 31.99
€ 26.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 145 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559361521
- ISBN
- 9781559361521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.54
€ 15.99
€ 14.54
Hardcover. 373pp. Index. This limited edition of 50 copies numbered 1 to 50 and five copies has been bound in quarter goatskin, with raised bands, hand - tooled spine in 22 carat gold leaf, top edge gilt,marble boards with matching slipcase, by Kennys Bookbindery Ltd. Galway, and signed by the author
- Publisher
- Penguin Ireland
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KHS1004398
- ISBN
- 9781844881550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 400.00
€ 400.00
Hardcover. John McGahern (1934-2006) has been widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Irish prose writers of the twentieth and the early twenty-first century. McGahern has traditionally been regarded as a 'chronicler' of the lives of farmers, teachers and policemen in the Irish midlands in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782051640
- ISBN
- 9781782051640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 31.26
€ 39.00
€ 31.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 4. Weight in Grams: 97.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852244620
- ISBN
- 9781852244620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.90
€ 9.99
€ 8.90
Paperback. Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery'. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. 224 pages, illustrations. Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery'. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBD. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 14. Weight: 336.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748636846
- ISBN
- 9780748636846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
Paperback. Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization, and sample questions with guideline answers. Editor(s): Baker, I.L. Series: Brodie's Notes. Num Pages: 104 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KHT; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK; YQE; YQZ. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (XX) Exams / tests / exercises. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 126. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- SKU
- KAK0006376
- ISBN
- 9780333581186
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. This book analyses the Romantic vision of the Orient from Ottoman Turkey, through the Middle East, including Egypt and Persia, to the Vale of Kashmir - fascination with the exotic Orient mixed with distaste for despotic rule. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 integrated bw. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780764825
- ISBN
- 9781780764825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.44
€ 25.99
€ 22.44
Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536214
- ISBN
- 9780199536214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants. Editor(s): Kinsella, John. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334. 242 pages. Editor(s): Kinsella, John. Judith Wright (1915-2000) is one of Australia's best loved, and essential, poets, devoted to place, responsive to landscape and to the violence done to the land and its inhabitants. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 217 x 136 x 22. Weight: 352.
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 242
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847770516
- ISBN
- 9781847770516
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.80
€ 19.99
€ 15.80
Paperback. Professor Carey's frontal assault on the principles and practices of literary modernism caused an immediate critical storm, establishing itself as a key text for all future discussion of the subject. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571169269
- ISBN
- 9780571169269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.41
€ 14.99
€ 11.41
Paperback. Translation of: Nihaayat al-arab fai funaun al-adab. Translator(s): Muhanna, Elias. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; DN; GBA; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 183 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143107484
- ISBN
- 9780143107484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.58
€ 16.99
€ 12.58
Paperback. Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. In this personal anthology, the author has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571321100
- ISBN
- 9780571321100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
€ 14.99
€ 11.46
Hardback. An introduction to "Confessions", one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. It tells the story of the "Confessions" - what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Series: Lives of Great Religious Books. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 193 x 122 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143576
- ISBN
- 9780691143576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.86
€ 21.99
€ 17.86
Paperback. First British publication by the rising star of European poetry Translator(s): Reid, Peggy; Reid, Graham W.; Horvat, Magdalena; Reed, Adam. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st UK edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852249892
- ISBN
- 9781852249892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.38
€ 13.99
€ 11.38
Hardcover. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some light shelf wear.
- Publisher
- Random House Value Publications
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0013255
- ISBN
- 9780517095300
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. An anthology of poems celebrating Venice from well-known poets such as Byron, Shelley, Wilde, and Pound. Editor(s): Hughes, Hetty. Series: Poetry of Place. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 100 x 9. Weight in Grams: 96.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871682
- ISBN
- 9780907871682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.75
€ 8.99
€ 7.75