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paperback. Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. Translator(s): Motteaux, P. A. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 516. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0022068
ISBN
9781853260360
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.12

paperback. These stories, conceived by the author as a thematic collection, have as their principal focus the city of Galway, providing an evocation of the city's life and people in the 1940s. From the author of QUENCH THE MOON and RAIN ON THE WIND. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 191. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
O'Brien Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0022075
ISBN
9780863222764
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.12

paperback. A collection of stories from the author's final years. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Newspaper clipping pasted to half-title page by previous owner. Remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022712
ISBN
9780141042596
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.96

paperback. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Random House
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022753
ISBN
9780099287865
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.96

Paperback. Stories capture the peculiar rites of passage of growing up Midwestern Series: Break Away Books. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253008381
ISBN
9780253008381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564788559
ISBN
9781564788559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.04

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Manic D Press, Inc. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916397739
ISBN
9780916397739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.19

Paperback. Set mainly in California's Central Valley, Manuel Munoz's collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths and narratives of Chicano literature and explores, instead, the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings. Editor(s): Stavans, Ilan. Series: Latino Voices S. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810120990
ISBN
9780810120990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.03

Paperback. An anthology of fiction by one of America's important feminist writers, the author of the "Yellow Wallpaper", in which a woman is driven mad by chauvinist psychiatry. Collected here, by Lane, are 18 stories and fragments, including a selection from "Herland", Gilman's feminist Utopia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DQ; DSBF; DSK; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918761
ISBN
9780813918761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.05

Paperback. Written in a narrative prose, this is a translated collection of seventeen short stories about the precolonial and colonial past of Djibouti alongside those set in the postcolonial era. Here the art of the short story offers illuminated scenes of the Djiboutian urban and rural landscape, its people, and its history. Translator(s): Garane, Jeanne. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925080
ISBN
9780813925080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.88

Hardcover. Translator(s): Hanaburgh, Sara. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936024
ISBN
9780813936024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.85

Paperback. Translator(s): Hanaburgh, Sara. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813936031
ISBN
9780813936031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.86

Hardcover. "Originally published in French as L'Enfant leopard; (c) Editions Grasset & Faquelle, 1999" -- Verso title page. Translator(s): Garane, Jeanne. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813937892
ISBN
9780813937892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.59

Paperback. "Originally published in French as L'Enfant laeopard; (c) aEditions Grasset & Faquelle, 1999" -- Verso title page. Translator(s): Garane, Jeanne. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813937908
ISBN
9780813937908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.94

Hardcover. Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Told in precise, evocative prose that skewers the heart of the matter time after time, these memorable stories view and illuminate the human condition from a compelling, funny and entirely original perspective. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822944102
ISBN
9780822944102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.30

Hardcover. Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 2012 --Text. Series: Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822944195
ISBN
9780822944195
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.18

Hardcover. Series: Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822944294
ISBN
9780822944294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.42

Paperback. These stories, chosen from ten separately published collections of James T. Farrell's short fiction, offer remarkable insights into the lives of Irish Americans and other Chicagoans from 1910 to 1940. Farrell's stories offer a wonderful diversity of characters and experiences. Series: Prairie State Book. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252019814
ISBN
9780252019814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.03

Paperback. Series: Modern Jewish Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896728592
ISBN
9780896728592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.50

Paperback. "Collection of short stories detailing the fictitious lives of people in Horned Toad, Texas"-- Num Pages: 136 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 146 x 4. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896729261
ISBN
9780896729261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.86

Hardback. Features a collection of the author's short stories such as 'And All This Unease', 'Madness Had Come with the Rain', and 'The Survivors'. Translator(s): Wilson, Betty. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929002
ISBN
9780813929002
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.12

Paperback. Translator(s): Dickson, C. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931203
ISBN
9780813931203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.32

Paperback. "Yiddish edition originally published as Vidervuks in 1969." Translator(s): Butler, Erik. Series: Northwestern World Classics. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 193 x 22. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810127364
ISBN
9780810127364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.62

An exploration of identity, home, and the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters Translator(s): Grenaudier-Klijn, France; Miller, Margot. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803234802
ISBN
9780803234802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.85

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