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Fiction: special features
Hardcover. How does one translate experience into fiction? This work includes specific and practical guidance on the art, craft, and business of writing short stories. It offers advice on exploring sources, galvanizing the imagination, studying stories, and then writing them. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 figures, glossary, index. BIC Classification: CBV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629191
- ISBN
- 9780815629191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.81
€ 47.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590177648
- ISBN
- 9781590177648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.38
€ 16.99
€ 12.38
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679424789
- ISBN
- 9780679424789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.51
€ 26.99
€ 22.51
Hardcover. Suburban Sketches Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845880835
- ISBN
- 9781845880835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.30
€ 9.30
Paperback. A captivating hybrid of Gothic, oriental, and satiric fiction, Vathek documents the fall of Vathek, whose obsessive quest for knowledge, pleasure and power leads to his eventual damnation. An extraordinary fantasy, the novel has influenced writers from Byron to Lovecraft. This new edition combines a definitive text with new introduction and notes. Editor(s): Keymer, Thomas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FM; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199576951
- ISBN
- 9780199576951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation. Editor(s): Trevor, William. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Oxford
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583140
- ISBN
- 9780199583140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.08
€ 15.99
€ 13.08
Hardback. In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into "Youth and the Bright Medusa". This title also includes an historical essay and explanatory notes that trace the composition of the stories and their roots in the people, events, and places Cather knew. Series: Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. Num Pages: 646 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1103.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 646
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Scholarly
- SKU
- V9780803217546
- ISBN
- 9780803217546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.07
€ 96.07
Paperback. A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of waterways and death. Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840225334
- ISBN
- 9781840225334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.09
€ 7.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 214 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564789211
- ISBN
- 9781564789211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.89
€ 14.99
€ 13.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628970043
- ISBN
- 9781628970043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.02
€ 18.02
Hardback. IN Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423054
- ISBN
- 9780857423054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.30
€ 35.99
€ 28.30
Paperback. A collection of short stories depicting and analyzing key issues in America's "New Gilded Age" Editor(s): Martin, Wendy, Ph.D.; Tichi, Cecelia. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814796283
- ISBN
- 9780814796283
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Shoemaker & Hoard, Div of Avalon Publishing Group Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781593760540
- ISBN
- 9781593760540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.92
€ 19.99
€ 18.92
Hardback. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231160902
- ISBN
- 9780231160902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.22
€ 30.99
€ 22.22
Hardback. Depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. This book offers an account of the often hedonistic individualism that is taking root. It depicts a spiritually bankrupt society, periodically rocked by spasms of uncontrolled violence. It presents a story about casual sex in a provincial city. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 390. And Other Stories of China. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. 256 pages. Depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. This book offers an account of the often hedonistic individualism that is taking root. It depicts a spiritually bankrupt society, periodically rocked by spasms of uncontrolled violence. It presents a story about casual sex in a provincial city. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; FYB. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 23. Weight: 390. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231136945
- ISBN
- 9780231136945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.28
€ 40.99
€ 29.28
Paperback. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 205 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231160919
- ISBN
- 9780231160919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.86
€ 24.99
€ 18.86
Paperback. Includes stories wherein: a man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own; teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods; and, a boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First printing of this edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847081209
- ISBN
- 9781847081209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
paperback. The stories are keenly observant, darkly humorous, and absurdly fatalistic. Editor(s): Gioia, Dana. Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 171 x 203 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803278066
- ISBN
- 9780803278066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.55
€ 17.99
€ 17.55
Hardback. Designed to appeal to both general and specialist readers, this volume presents a group of works by O'Brien (1828-1862), an early innovator in the short story form, that explore one of his special interests-the representation of individual consciousness. All but three of the thirteen stories are reprinted here for the first time Num Pages: 196 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611494020
- ISBN
- 9781611494020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.10
€ 116.10
Hardback. Num Pages: 420 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490466
- ISBN
- 9781611490466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.81
€ 162.81
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Freight Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780956613585
- ISBN
- 9780956613585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.95
€ 10.99
€ 9.95
Paperback. A collection of short stories; or one long one. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Zero Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785350030
- ISBN
- 9781785350030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.51
€ 18.99
€ 17.51
Paperback. Washington Irving (1783--1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service Num Pages: 840 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 211 x 48. Weight in Grams: 966.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Edition
- 1st Da Capo Press ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306808401
- ISBN
- 9780306808401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.00€ 29.78
€ 31.00
€ 29.78
Paperback. Introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the superstitious, social-climbing schoolmaster; and the pumpkin-topped Headless Horseman, ancestor to countless horror film antiheroes. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143107538
- ISBN
- 9780143107538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.44
€ 15.99
€ 13.44