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""the Man Who Thought Himself a Woman"" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories

""the Man Who Thought Himself a Woman"" and Other Queer...

Author: Christopher Looby
ISBN: 9780812223668
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The stories gathered here explore the vagaries of sexual desire, gender identity, and erotic attachment, revealing...  Read More >>

The Short Story: A Critical Introduction

The Short Story: A Critical Introduction

Author: Valerie Shaw
ISBN: 9781138161160
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel

Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel...

Author: Helen Thompson
ISBN: 9780812248722
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Fictional Matter argues that chemical definitions of particulate matter shaped eighteenth-century British science...  Read More >>

Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Author: Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London, UK) ,  Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
ISBN: 9781472527745
Format: Paperback
$54.99

With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett's Library

Samuel Beckett's Library

Author: Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium) ,  Mark Nixon (University of Reading)
ISBN: 9781316632819
Format: Paperback
$62.10

Samuel Beckett's Library critically examines the reading notes and marginalia contained in the books of Samuel Beckett's...  Read More >>

Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes: National Identity and Social Order in Chile

Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes: National Identity...

Author: Patricia Vilches
ISBN: 9781443899772
Format: Hardback
$261.23

This book analyzes the work of iconic Chilean author Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) through the lens of Machiavelli...  Read More >>

Quintessential Wilde: His Worldly Place, His Penetrating Philosophy and His Influential Aestheticism

Quintessential Wilde: His Worldly Place, His Penetrating...

Author: Annette M. Magid
ISBN: 9781443899895
Format: Hardback
$284.99

This volume presents interpretive essays utilizing a variety of approaches to honor the 160th anniversary of Oscar...  Read More >>

Las Tribulaciones de un chino en China

Las Tribulaciones de un chino en China

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781542999472
Format: Paperback
$21.89

Al chino rico Kin-Fo, residente en Shangai, se le reprocha que no aprecie la vida en lo que vale. Kin-Fo contratara...  Read More >>

The war of the worlds

The war of the worlds

Author: Herbert George Wells ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781543034080
Format: Paperback
$20.04

Unabridged value reproduction of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is a must-have collectable for every bookshelf....  Read More >>

Orgullo y Prejuicio

Orgullo y Prejuicio

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781543032789
Format: Paperback
$29.57

The characters and relationships described by Jane Austen continue to be equally valid despite the changes that...  Read More >>

Borges and Kafka: Sons and Writers

Borges and Kafka: Sons and Writers

Author: Sarah Roger (McMaster University)
ISBN: 9780198746157
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in...  Read More >>

Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Author: Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London, UK) ,  Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
ISBN: 9781472522757
Format: Hardback
$190.00

With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian...  Read More >>

Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction

Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction

Author: Matthew Wilkens (Cornell University)
ISBN: 9781421420875
Format: Hardback
$80.99

While the imperatives of the postmodern eventually gave order to this chaos, Wilkens explains that the same forces...  Read More >>

Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture

Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture

Author: David Lemmo
ISBN: 9781476666952
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Las minas del rey salomon

Las minas del rey salomon

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781542999175
Format: Paperback
$23.47

Las minas del rey Salomón es una popular novela del escritor victoriano de aventuras y fábulas, H. Rider Haggard,...  Read More >>

King's Salomon's Mine

King's Salomon's Mine

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781542997157
Format: Paperback
$20.57

King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel[1] by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard....  Read More >>

Los primeros hombres en la Luna

Los primeros hombres en la Luna

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781542999670
Format: Paperback
$23.21

Los primeros hombres en la luna (en inglés The First Men in the Moon) es una novela de romance científico de 1901...  Read More >>

She: A History of Adventure

She: A History of Adventure

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Henry Ridder Haggard
ISBN: 9781542993586
Format: Paperback
$25.32

"She-subtitled A History of Adventure-is a novel by H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), first serialised in The Graphic...  Read More >>

La guerra de los mundos

La guerra de los mundos

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781542997942
Format: Paperback
$25.32

Invasion de la Tierra por los marcianos y que supuso por primera vez la irrupcion de seres de otros planetas en...  Read More >>

La Isla Misteriosa

La Isla Misteriosa

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781542998482
Format: Paperback
$46.44

During the American Civil War, a group of five northerners gather around the engineer Cyrus Smith. They take advantage...  Read More >>

El ultimo Hombre

El ultimo Hombre

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781542996396
Format: Paperback
$34.82

El último hombre en la tierra es una novela apocalíptica de ciencia ficción escrita por Mary Shelley, publicada...  Read More >>

La Isla del Tesoro

La Isla del Tesoro

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781542998246
Format: Paperback
$22.94

Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate adventure has been adapted into picture book format.  Read More >>

La Esfinge de los Hielos

La Esfinge de los Hielos

Author: Kenneth Andrade ,  Kenneth Andrade
ISBN: 9781542997584
Format: Paperback
$32.18

"""La esfinge de los hielos"" (""Le sphinx des glaces"") es una novela de Jules Verne. Trata de la busca del desaparecido...  Read More >>

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