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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 4.99