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Paperback. Presents the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith. This title offers an examination of the nature of faith, the question of identity and the notion of how to lead a good life. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141391571
ISBN
9780141391571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. A collection of the finest short stories from our best loved authors, including Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, William Golding, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, J G Ballard, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Rose Tremain, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift and Kazuo Ishiguro. Editor(s): Bradbury, Malcolm. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241952863
ISBN
9780241952863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. The Golden Age of the English short story lies from its first wide acceptance in the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth, a period when there were a great many outlets in Britain for shorter fictions. This title celebrates this period through some of the most widely known writers of the time. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241952856
ISBN
9780241952856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Editor(s): Zwagerman, Joost. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141395722
ISBN
9780141395722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the literature produced by this most exuberant of nations. Editor(s): Cochrane, James. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241952849
ISBN
9780241952849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. At an end-of-the London season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning him not to go. Translator(s): Rix, Len. Num Pages: 240 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901285895
ISBN
9781901285895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.13

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Furman, Laura. Series: Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories. Num Pages: 403 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
403
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307472373
ISBN
9780307472373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.71

Paperback. China's hottest literary genre brings together the traditional, the experimental, and the avant-garde. Editor(s): Qi, Shouhua. Num Pages: 438 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press United States
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933330624
ISBN
9781933330624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.81

Paperback. A collection of interconnected tales devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141186092
ISBN
9780141186092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. A beautiful, haunting novel by the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature Translator(s): Chalmers, Martin. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781255278
ISBN
9781781255278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.91

Paperback. G H, a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197357
ISBN
9780141197357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. The first collection of Ken Liu's multi-award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 30. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784975692
ISBN
9781784975692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. This work showcases the art of this writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Translator(s): Dunlop, Lane. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DNF; DSBH; DSK; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 191 x 11. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121576
ISBN
9780231121576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. A collection of linked short stories that explore the borderland between Israelis and American Jews, emigrants and expatriates, and vanished homelands and the dangerous world in which we live. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820333311
ISBN
9780820333311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.68

paperback. V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. Editor(s): Pritchett, V. S. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583133
ISBN
9780199583133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. Editor(s): Dunn, Douglas. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199556540
ISBN
9780199556540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. The definitive collection of the twentieth century's most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace and up-to-the-minute myths of genetic engineering. Editor(s): Shippey, Tom. Num Pages: 624 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DQ; FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192803818
ISBN
9780192803818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Publisher
United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195130850
ISBN
9780195130850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.98

Paperback. Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the younger generation dealing with the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story, the Japanese literary genre. Editor(s): Goossen, Theodore W. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
484
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583195
ISBN
9780199583195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.36

Paperback. Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation. Editor(s): Trevor, William. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Oxford
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583140
ISBN
9780199583140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.08

Paperback. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, this collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Carribbean in the twentieth century. Editor(s): Fallaize, Elizabeth. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583171
ISBN
9780199583171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. Editor(s): Byatt, A. S. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199561605
ISBN
9780199561605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.36

Paperback. Presents the full range of classic English ghost fiction, including some of the very best and most frightening ghost stories ever written. Editor(s): Cox, Michael; Gilbert, R. A. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199556304
ISBN
9780199556304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.13

Paperback. Bringing together contributions from major figures and work of Caribbean writers, this collection of short stories is pan-Caribbean, ranging beyond the Anglophone territories to include stories originally published in Spanish, French, and Dutch. Editor(s): Wickham, John; Brown, Stewart. Series: Oxford Books of Prose. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192802293
ISBN
9780192802293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.32

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