Literature & Literary Studies
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Judgments on History & Historians
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Renowned for his 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy' and 'Reflections on History', Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) has been described as "the mos...
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Just an Ordinary Lawyer
Playdead Press£9.99| /Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britains first Black judge in 1978. Also a fine concert singer and keen c...
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Just Off Message
Interactive Press Australia£23.99| /From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices s...
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Just Remember Me
Empire Publications (UK)£7.95| /When his beloved wife Nana died after 34 years of happy marriage in 1989, retired Consultant Psychiatrist G C Kanjilal found solace in writing poet...
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Kalila and Dimna
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £18.99Current price £14.24| /" This masterful translation of one of the most popular books of world literature makes available to an English readership the animal tales known c...
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Kanon und Diskurs
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£28.99| /The rise of literary history is closely associated with the rise of the modern national states, an "imaginary" parallel that catastrophically peake...
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Karenin Sings the Blues
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Karenin Sings the Blues is a meditation sparked by the actors in Tolstoy's 19th-century masterpiece, Anna Karenina. Entering this famous saga of de...
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Kartini
Monash University PublishingOriginal price £99.99Current price £64.99| /In Indonesia, the legacy of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904) is celebrated on Kartini Day, 21 April, every year. Around the world Kartini is recogni...
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Kat Among the Tigers
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /Exemplar of the Moderns, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), is reanimated by postmodern diva Kath MacLean in a tantric work of literary ventriloquism...
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Kein Zufall
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /Contingency - it is repeatedly stated - was only "discovered" in the early modern period. Before that, all incidents, no matter how inexplicable, w...
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Khitabah
Tughra Books (US)£6.99| /Speech is a great asset to those who can use it well. One can please or hurt another person with language. A word can heal a broken house, or it ca...
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King Henry the Sixth
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.Original price £13.99Current price £12.99| /George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of this eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his w...
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King John and King Henry VIII
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.Original price £13.99Current price £12.99| /The New Kittredge Shakespeare King John and Henry VIII offers the text of both plays, and glosses, as prepared by William Kittredge for his Complet...
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King Lear Minibook
Wartelsteiner GmbH£19.99| /King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeares most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-ren...
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King Lear Minibook -- Gilt Edged Edition
Wartelsteiner GmbHOriginal price £26.99Current price £17.54| /Book in slipcase. King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeares most powerful tragedy. Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific...
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King Oidipous
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.Original price £12.99Current price £11.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' famous tragedy of Oedipus and the fate he so much tries to avoid. Focus Classical Library provides clo...
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Kiss and Tell
Interactive Press£19.99| /Winner, Queensland Premier's Award for Poetry. The challenge for readers of David P Reiter's work over the past 15 years has been trying to pin dow...
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Kleist: Selected Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £18.99Current price £14.24| /Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von...
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Kleist: Selected Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £47.99Current price £31.19| /Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von...
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Knight in the Panthers Skin
Nova Science Publishers, IncOriginal price £203.99Current price £132.59| /12th century Georgian poet and thinker Shota Rustaveli, author of the Georgian national epic poem The Knight in the Panthers Skin, is considered b...
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Knowledge in the Hands
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /Heather Browne's first collection is the work of a mature poet in full control of her metier. Her poetry is sensuous, delicate, full of gesture, ev...
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Ko Aotearoa Tatou / We Are New Zealand
Otago University PressOriginal price £21.00Current price £15.75| /In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: We are all New Zealanders. These...
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Konzepte der 'exotischen' Tierwelt im Mittelalter
V & R Unipress GmbH£90.99| /How strange the description of an 'exotic' animal can be in a medieval text and which properties or proprietates are here especially stressed, depe...
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Krieg und Literatur/War and Literature Vol. XIV, 2008
V & R Unipress GmbHOriginal price £52.99Current price £34.44| /Eyewitness accounts of September 11, 2001 and the wars of the 17th century span the scope of the contributions in this volume. An analysis of the m...
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L' Oeuvre de Victor Hugo entre Fragments et Oeuvre Totale
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £22.99Current price £17.24| /TEXT IN FRENCH. Acts from the international symposium held at the University of Copenhagen, October 2002, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Vic...
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L'uomo inquieto
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £22.99Current price £17.24| /TEXT IN ITALIAN. The work of A Tabucchi, one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, is imbued with the topic of individual identity. His texts q...
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La Reception de La Litterature Classique au Moyen Age
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £46.99Current price £30.54| /A collection of articles dealing with the reception of classical texts in the Middle Ages. The book was published in celebration of Professor Birge...
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Labrador
Brindle & Glass (CA)Original price £13.99Current price £12.99| /Labrador is about a part of the world that practically no one knows anything about -- Canada's own Siberia. And because your tour guide is the love...
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Laches and Charmides
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Rosamond Kent Sprague's translations of the Laches and Charmides are highly regarded, and relied on, for their lucidity and philosophical acuity. T...
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Lan(D)Guage
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /In Ken Belford's fifth book of poetry he takes us on a journey through Canada's roadless north where he has discovered a third world gaze, looking ...
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Landfall 230
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £13.50Current price £12.50| /Landfall is a place, a mythic place, a piece of valuable cultural estate, consistently representing over time the robust heritage of Aotearoa New Z...
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Landfall 231
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £13.50Current price £12.50| /Featured Artists Peter Peryer, Saskia Leek, Ngataiharuru Taepa Writers Nick Ascroft, Shelley Arlidge, Mark Young, C K Stead, Jodie Dalgleish, Jessi...
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Landfall 232
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £17.50Current price £13.13| /Featured Artists: Elizabeth Thomson, Nick Austin, James Robinson, Simon Kaan. Writers: Michalia Arathimos, Ruth Arnison, Nick Ascroft, Airini Beaut...
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Landfall 233
Otago University PressOriginal price £17.00Current price £12.75| /Writers: Aimee-Jane Anderson-OConnor, Nick Ascroft, Claire Baylis, Miro Bilbrough, Victoria Broome, Iain Britton, Owen Bullock, Christine Burrows,...
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Landfall 234
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £17.00Current price £12.75| /Featured Artists: James Robinson, Jenna Packer, Andrew McLeod. Writers: Alie Benge, Marianne Bevan, Tony Beyer, Owen Bullock, Kate Camp, Medb Charl...
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Landfall 235
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £15.00Current price £11.25| /Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and ...
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