Literature & Literary Studies
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James Bonney MP
Playdead Press£9.99| /"James Bonney, the swashbuckling moderate, the (ladies) man of the people doesnt take kindly to enemies within not his new leader who believes i...
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James Joyce
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£25.00| /This book follows the increasing focus on Irish identity in Joyces major works of prose. This study traces the development of the idea of Ireland,...
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Jane Austen & Company
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her s...
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Jane Austen Sings the Blues
University of Alberta Press (CA)£23.99| /Bruce Stovel championed Jane Austen studies and blues music with equal measures of expertise and passion. The outpouring of affection at the celebr...
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Jane Eyre
Playdead Press£9.99| /"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will"A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secre...
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Janet Frames World of Books
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£32.00| /This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive reading to create a web of intertextual relationships. ...
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Jasper Jones (the play)
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /ts summer 1965 in a small, hot town in Western Australia. Overseas, war is raging in Vietnam, Civil Rights marches are on the streets, and womens...
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Jezebel
Playdead Press£9.99| /A clever comedy about the dumb consequences of hot sex meeting cold statistics. Alan and Robin are a go-getting couple who want to spice up their s...
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Jig of Forslin
Branden Publishing Co (US)£6.99| /Originally published in 1916. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to J...
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John Donne & the Line of Wit
Ronsdale Press (CA)£7.99| /This is a study of influence, adaptation, and historical imitation and invention. In his own time, Donne was celebrated for his distinctive style, ...
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John Thompson
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /During John Thompson's sadly attenuated lifetime, he completed only two volumes of poetry. At the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets and Sti...
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Jonas in Frames
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursti...
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Joothan
Bhatkal & Sen (IND)£20.00| /Omprakash Valmiki saw dalit literature as a vital part of the struggle for social justice. A pioneer in dalit writing in Hindi, his autobiography, ...
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José-Miguel Ullán
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£20.00| /La poesía de José-Miguel Ullán tiene la virtud de haber resultado incómoda a muchos de los componentes del sistema literario español, desde los pro...
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Joseph C. Lincoln's Essential Cape Cod Reader
Schiffer£13.99| /"The dear old Cape! I love it! I love its hills of sand," From "The Surf Along the Shore", Cape Cod Ballads (1902). From 1902 to a year before his ...
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Judgments on History & Historians
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£20.95| /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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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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Julio Herrera y Reissig
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£17.99| /Consagrado a la escritura del uruguayo Julio Herrera y Reissig (1875-1910), este libro convierte la obra herreriana en un caso paradigmático para v...
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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 One Day
Playdead Press£7.99| /When Girl 29 is drug raped the friendship between Shona, Sheldon and Janet is stretched. When Janet's fiancé Gary is accused of the rape, the women...
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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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Kafka Kaleidoscope
Birch Brook Press (US)£17.99| /A kaleidoscope of essays, poetry, fiction and drama inspired by and in homage to writer/mystic Franz Kafka. Wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair. A l...
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Kalila and Dimna
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /" 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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Kalila and Dimna
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£55.99| /" 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 Editions£15.99| /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 Publishing£99.99| /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)£16.99| /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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Kelly
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Ned Kelly is about to hang for his crimes. But his final night in prison is interrupted by the arrival of his brother Dan, disguised as a priest. S...
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Kenny's Coming Home
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Kennys Coming Home is a play with music that celebrates life in Sydneys Western suburbs. The Green family escape inner-city Sydney in the early 1...
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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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Kid
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /The play that launched Michael Gow's playwriting career returns to the stage. In blazing heat, a stolen Mini hurtles towards Sydney. Inside, three ...
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Kikia te Poa
Play Press (NZ)£8.00| /Based on real events, Kikia Te Poa is the story of John Cook -- a 'Maorish' (Ngapuhi/Irish) Maori who ventures into the Anglo-South African War to ...
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King Henry the Sixth
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£13.99| /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.£13.99| /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 (D)£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 GmbH (D)£26.99| /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.£12.99| /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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Kirby Congdon
Presa Press (US)£20.99| /"Kirby's contributions to the concept of "The Poet", was more than just the publications of some 300 separate poems, with reprints in magazines and...
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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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Kisses From a Distance
Cune Press (US)£18.99| /This book chronicles a Lebanese immigrant experience -- based on a cache of more than 200 letters discovered after the death of the author's mother...
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Kleist: Selected Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /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)£47.99| /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, Inc£203.99| /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 I We Are New Zealand
Otago University Press£21.00| /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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