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Fantastic Four
Stan LeeCurrent price €43.45Original price €52.99Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesTh...
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The Avengers
Stan LeeCurrent price €43.45Original price €52.99Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesSt...
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Edward II
Christopher MarloweCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50Depicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters' fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in...
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A Study Guide for Anita Desai''s A Devoted Son
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Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
Oliver BurkemanCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?Rejecting the futi...
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The Tales of Ise
Penguin Books LtdCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Jap...
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The Making of Middle-earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings
Christopher A. SnyderCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is...
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Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
Eleanor Rosamund BarracloughCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen ma...
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A Study Guide for Christopher Marlowe''s Tamburlaine the Great
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The Art of Rhetoric
AristotleCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies... Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of th...
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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
Farah Karim-CooperCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A...
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A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien: The History and Mythology That Inspired Tolkien''s World
David DayCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50The spellbinding world of Middle-earth is full of beasts and battles, heroes and heroines, and the struggle between good and evil.In this dictionar...
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Horror: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction
Darryl JonesCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to ...
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The Iliad
HomerCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99'War, the bringer of tears...' For 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. T...
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The Wild Ass''s Skin
Honore de BalzacCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in t...
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Inferno (Collins Classics)
Dante AlighieriCurrent price €4.46Original price €5.25HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of...
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN: CERTAIN PRIVATE CON
MILLER ARTHURCurrent price €12.50Original price €12.80Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examinati...
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Roberto Bolaño''s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
Chris AndrewsCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature...
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The Handmaid''s Tale
SparkNotesCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99When a paper is due and exams loom, here is the help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better and faste...
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The Ring Legends of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Rings in Tolkien''s World, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
David DayCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful...
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Weird Realism Lovecraft and Philosophy
Graham HarmanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was o...
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Facets of Wuthering Heights: Selected Essays
Graeme TytlerCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several different facets of Emily Brontës ...
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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
Antonia FraserCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about t...
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Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming''s Jamaica
Matthew ParkerCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing' William Boyd'The big bang of Bond books... Beautiful, bri...
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John le Carré: The Biography
Adam SismanCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional worl...
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Oxford Student Texts: Songs of Innocence and Experience
William BlakeCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...
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The World of Jane Austen
Brenda WilliamsCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99Through the novels of Englands foremost woman writer, we explore the Regency world at the time of the Napoleonic wars, its manners, fashion and sty...
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Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Othello
Pete BuntenCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Exam Board: AQA A, AQA B, Edexcel, CCEALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Enable stu...
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The Sonnets
William ShakespeareCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, th...
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The Voynich Manuscript
Yale University PressCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzleFor the first time, a complete reproduction ...
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Seneca''S Letters from a Stoic
Lucius SenecaCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50As chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame der...
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Metamorphoses
OvidCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These ...
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Isabel Allende
Salem Press IncCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99The border between fact and fiction has always been a porous one for Isabel Allende. Her acclaimed first novel, The House of the Spirits, began as ...
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Marina WarnerCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the cha...
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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
Katie RoipheCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching deathKatie Roiphe's extraordinary...
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Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99The relationship between critical disability studies and the hearing sciences is a dynamic one, and its changing still, both as clinicians come to ...
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John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer
Anne LongmuirCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victor...
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Insurgent Cultures: World Literatures and Violence from the Global South
Pavan Kumar MalreddyCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Moving beyond the normative frames of terrorism and counter-terrorism, this book shows how world literatures from the Global South can be used to e...
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Representations of the Moon in Literature and Art
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This book brings together a collection of essays on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first man on the moon a time wh...
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The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination ...
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Oliver Goldsmith in Context
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Oliver Goldsmith has a claim to be the only eighteenth-century author who wrote canonical works in prose fiction, poetry, and drama. An Irish write...
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The British Novel of Ideas: George Eliot to Zadie Smith
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99The novel of ideas is an important form that is both under-theorised and largely neglected in accounts of the development of the novel in the twent...
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Memory Made, Hacked, and Outsourced: How the 21st Century Anglophone Novels Remember and Forget
Chia-Chieh Mavis TsengCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly...
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White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue: Criticism as Autobiography
John MorrisonCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Originally published in 1991. The style of this startlingly original appraisal of a broad range of womens writing suggests a new direction for femi...
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Poetics and Religion in Pindar: Ambits of Performance and Cult
Agis MarinisCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book delves into the intricate and, as argued, essential relationship between poetics and religion in Pindar. It explores how performance, cul...
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The Letters of Libanius from the Age of Theodosius
David MoncurCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99Libanius of Antioch (AD 314-93), teacher, rhetorician and eloquent exponent of Greek paideia, was one of the most prolific letter writers of late a...
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The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England''s Greatest Novelist
Jon SutherlandCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', crea...
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