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Paperback. Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Translator(s): Holden, George. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0007511
ISBN
9780140442632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Translator(s): Holden, George. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342. Good copy with light shelf wear. Large cut to the edge of cover. Ex-Libris with stamps, remains good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0006453
ISBN
9780140442632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 544 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603846264
ISBN
9781603846264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.79

Paperback. Recounts the frenzied transformations that made late nineteenth-century Paris the fashion capital of the world. This novel includes a capitalist hero, Octave Mouret, who creates a giant department store that devours the dusty, outmoded boutiques surrounding it. Num Pages: 383 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520078673
ISBN
9780520078673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.76

Paperback. A wonderful collection of surreal stories from French master Emile Zola given a fresh new translation Translator(s): Cummins, Anthony. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hesperus Press
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843911883
ISBN
9781843911883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.42

Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 544 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 33. Weight in Grams: 734.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603846271
ISBN
9781603846271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Follows pure and pious Father Julian Alvarez, who is sent to a remote country estate to put the affairs of the marquis, an irresponsible libertine, in order. When he discovers moral decadence, cruelty and corruption at his new home, Julian's well-meaning but ineffectual attempts to prevent the fall of the House of Ulloa end in tragedy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 118 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141392950
ISBN
9780141392950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. 192 pages. "A hidden genius of Argentine literature."--Le Monde. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 13. Weight: 250. Translator(s): Novey, Idra.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564786043
ISBN
9781564786043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.22

Paperback. A dazzling collection about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange, for readers of Lydia Davis, George Saunders, and Karen Russell. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393350531
ISBN
9780393350531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.61

Paperback. Translator(s): Thomas, Dominic. Series: Global African Voices. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556. .
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253026699
ISBN
9780253026699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; CBW; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Hachette Children´s Group
Condition
New
SKU
9781444937190
ISBN
9781444937190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. .
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276865
ISBN
9781908276865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. Comprise fifty-two chapters that provide insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab, his absence from the pages of history, his birth in prison, and his never having been born at all. This book parodies literary conventions, deconstructs narrative and meaning, and combines absurdity and hopelessness with irony and humor. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan; Hardin, Eleanor. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3226 x 7. Weight in Grams: 171.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803263703
ISBN
9780803263703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Series: French Literature Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
135
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564786333
ISBN
9781564786333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.79

Paperback. After the West Virginia town of Grantville was unceremoniously hurled back through time to the 1630s, the seventeenth century would never be the same. Teenage capitalist girls have formed an investment group; and a linotype operator, whose profession was wiped out by computers, finds a new life in an old century. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 107 x 26. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Baen Books United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781439133118
ISBN
9781439133118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.26

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Baen Books United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439134221
ISBN
9781439134221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.51

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Mosaic Press
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771610582
ISBN
9781771610582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.24

Hardcover. Finally available after three decades, a lost classic of the Harlem Renaissance that Langston Hughes acclaimed for its "hard poetic beauty." Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liveright
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871403353
ISBN
9780871403353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.42

Paperback. Contains short stories, featuring men, who are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by woman's hand. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099909309
ISBN
9780099909309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Presents Hemingway stories, in which men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from the haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099908807
ISBN
9780099908807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.33

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