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Fiction: special features
Paperback. Translated from Hebrew by various translators. Editor(s): Frieden, Ken. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 209.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610199
- ISBN
- 9780815610199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.92
€ 19.99
€ 18.92
Vathek and Other Stories: A William Beckford Reader (Penguin Classics)
Beckford, William; Jack, Malcolm
paperback. A story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to the halls of Eblis, or Hell, in the pursuit of knowledge. It exhibits the author's exuberant day-dreaming imagination as well as the deeply emotional, aesthetic themes and detailed physical descriptions of his writing. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140435306
- ISBN
- 9780140435306
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.15
€ 17.99
€ 14.15
Paperback. "First published a Le Daesert, ou la Vie et les Aventures de Jubair Ouali El-Mammi, Paris, Editions Gallimard, 1977, 1989."--Title page verso. Translator(s): Roumani, Judith. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 277.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610557
- ISBN
- 9780815610557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.42
€ 19.99
€ 19.42
hardcover. A collection of stories such as: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and, "The Lost Decade". Series: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 139 x 41. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141194103
- ISBN
- 9780141194103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.68
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€ 16.68
paperback. Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing skill in a range of literary styles. The stories include: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire" and "The Happy Prince". Editor(s): Small, Ian. Num Pages: 320 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141439693
- ISBN
- 9780141439693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 9.75
€ 19.99
€ 9.75
hardcover. Examines the conflict of attitudes in mid-19th-century Russia, as distant pre-echoes of the Revolution continue to rumble through the remote rural landscape. The story follows the Kirsanov family, representatives of the old regime, and the violent character of the anti-hero Bazarov. Translator(s): Pyman, A. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857150179
- ISBN
- 9781857150179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 12.53
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€ 12.53
hardcover. Written over a period of more than half a century, this volume include short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Num Pages: 1856 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 91. Weight in Grams: 1826.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857152432
- ISBN
- 9781857152432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.99€ 55.00
€ 69.99
€ 55.00
paperback. Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285670
- ISBN
- 9780099285670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
paperback. Steve Almond's stunning first collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties, their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities, taking a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era without innocence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099443629
- ISBN
- 9780099443629
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Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.57
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€ 8.57
paperback. A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099481331
- ISBN
- 9780099481331
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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paperback. A collection of seven short stories themed around troubled relations. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099518594
- ISBN
- 9780099518594
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
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paperback. Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple. Translator(s): Scudder, Bernard. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099548553
- ISBN
- 9780099548553
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
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paperback. Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of the celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099554578
- ISBN
- 9780099554578
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Condition: New
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paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099586623
- ISBN
- 9780099586623
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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paperback. A collection of eight short stories, which help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life. Editor(s): Lyon, Pamela. Series: Parallel Text. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140023855
- ISBN
- 9780140023855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
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paperback. This is the description of "The New Blazing World" (1666) - one of the earliest pieces of science fiction writing. It attempts, in the manner of contemporary utopian fantasies, to tell the story of a voyage to another world where speculative science reigns. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FLC; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140433722
- ISBN
- 9780140433722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.45
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paperback. When the new managers of the Paris Opera House ignore their predecessors' warnings about the hideous 'Opera ghost' stalking the theatre, it is a fatal mistake. The Phantom haunts the imagination of the talented singer Christine Daae, appearing to her as the 'Angel of Music' - a disembodied voice, coaching her to sing as she never could before. Translator(s): Ribiere, Mireille; Ribiere, Mireille. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141191508
- ISBN
- 9780141191508
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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paperback. Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141198293
- ISBN
- 9780141198293
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.91
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paperback. Maigret is asked to the windswept, rainy border town of Givet by a young woman desperate to clear her family of murder. But their well-kept shop, the sleepy community and its raging river all hide their own mysteries. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141394770
- ISBN
- 9780141394770
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.46
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paperback. A local scandal intrudes on Maigret's seaside holiday in book twenty-eight of the new Penguin Maigret series. At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an exercise book. Translator(s): Schwartz, Ros. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 200 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141980744
- ISBN
- 9780141980744
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.75
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paperback. Includes the stories "Metamorphosis"; "Meditation"; "The Judgement"; "The Stoker"; and "The Aeroplanes at Brescia". Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 213 x 22. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780143105244
- ISBN
- 9780143105244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
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paperback. Translator(s): Curtis, Howard. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 270 x 14. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241240175
- ISBN
- 9780241240175
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Condition: New
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paperback. Presents short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most part about Welsh people, providing depictions of valley and mountain, country and town, as well as insights into the nature of the people. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241955468
- ISBN
- 9780241955468
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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paperback. Features a collection of short stories. This book explores the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are startlingly present and where imagination has the power to transform reality. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552771054
- ISBN
- 9780552771054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45