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Paperback. Playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) gives us one of his most darkly comic works. A series of parable-like anecdotes--some drawn from newspaper reports, some from conversation, some even from hearsay--this satire portrays an ordinary world careening into absurdity and disaster. Translator(s): Northcott, Kenneth. Num Pages: 114 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044026
ISBN
9780226044026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.50

Paperback. Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393329469
ISBN
9780393329469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.13

Paperback. .
Publisher
Orenda Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910633649
ISBN
9781910633649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. This text contains eight stylistically distinct stories, connected by threads of African American and gay experience, as well as Caribbean American culture and history. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 5SG; DQ; FA; FYB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872863750
ISBN
9780872863750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.44

Paperback. Contains tales that tenderly re-create a vanishing rural world and scrutinise the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life. This book contains tales and sketches that possess the wealth of description, the portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853261787
ISBN
9781853261787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.31

Paperback. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853262692
ISBN
9781853262692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.31

Paperback. Editor(s): Hill, Susan. Num Pages: 368 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140431247
ISBN
9780140431247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

Paperback. Contains stories that include "The Melancholy Hussar", "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions", "The First Countess of Wessex", "Barbara of the House of Grebe", "For Conscience' Sake", "The Son's Veto", "On the Western Circuit", "An Imaginative Woman", "A Changed Man", and "Enter a Dragoon". Editor(s): Wilson, Keith. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140439007
ISBN
9780140439007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

Paperback. Contains stories that feature tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns. This collection introduces readers to a community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Virgin Books
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
9780753513743
ISBN
9780753513743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.73

Hardcover. This is a study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the 19th century. The novel is based on Mann's own experience as the son of a German merchant prince, but goes beyond his own experience in its sweep. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 732 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 135 x 41. Weight in Grams: 802.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151077
ISBN
9781857151077
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.93

Paperback. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Mandarin Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749386474
ISBN
9780749386474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Hardcover. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 890 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 928.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151961
ISBN
9781857151961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.93

Paperback. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749386429
ISBN
9780749386429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Hardcover. A portrayal of genius possessed, through the biography of the composer Adrian Leverkuhn, narrated by his friend Zeitblom in the years 1943-45, as Germany faces ruin. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 523 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 211 x 35. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
523
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150803
ISBN
9781857150803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Features short stories that explore the author's abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. Written between 1918 and 1953, this book shows the literary development of one of Germany's most important writers. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749386627
ISBN
9780749386627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Hardcover. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 904 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 39. Weight in Grams: 804.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857152890
ISBN
9781857152890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.62

Hardcover. This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prizewinner's great masterpiece is a major literary event. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 1536 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1114.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857152876
ISBN
9781857152876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 27.45

Paperback. Adrian Leverkuhn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H. T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 32. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
9780749386573
ISBN
9780749386573
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.99
€ 11.29

paperback. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 538 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780375701160
ISBN
9780375701160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 19.04

Paperback. A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an unimaginable truth; and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571317028
ISBN
9780571317028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 5.47

Paperback. A compilation of five short stories which include: "The Small Rain", "Lowlands", "Entropy", "Under the Rose", and "The Secret Integration". Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099532514
ISBN
9780099532514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Hardback. Richard I (1157-99) was king of England from 1189 until his death, but he is best known as a soldier, not a monarch. This title provides the story of a man living in the shadow of his own myth, also a fanatic general who wants to conquer the world's greatest sanctum and a king who is suddenly vulnerable. Translator(s): Anderson, James. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420336
ISBN
9780857420336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.36

Paperback. The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FJMV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Flamingo
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006543947
ISBN
9780006543947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Very good clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Prime Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KEX0249435
ISBN
9780809556861
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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