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Paperback. Explores the buttoned-up world of the British upper classes. This book includes stories, in which, an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life, the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core, and 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 208 x 40. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784871918
ISBN
9781784871918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

paperback. First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
New
SKU
9780007242290
ISBN
9780007242290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.83

paperback. The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
New
SKU
9780007245765
ISBN
9780007245765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.53

Paperback. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 184 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Schocken Books United States
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780805210552
ISBN
9780805210552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.36

hardcover. Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis, the detective novel and the Hollywood film. His psychologically profound stories, which comprise this book, represent the darker side of the 19th-century American sensibility. Num Pages: 955 pages. BIC Classification: FKC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 46. Weight in Grams: 886.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150995
ISBN
9781857150995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 18.89

Paperback. With 92 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories spanning five decades, and featuring such classics as Prima Belladonna and The Index, Ballard's "Complete Stories" evokes Kafka and Borges with its ability to render psychosis, modern paranoia, and fantastical creations on the page. Num Pages: 1199 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393339291
ISBN
9780393339291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.91

Paperback. "The Constance Garnett translation has been revised throughout by the editor." Translator(s): Garnett, C. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 202 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226300696
ISBN
9780226300696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.88

Paperback. Translator(s): Garnett, C. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSK; FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332. 302 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSK; FC; FYB. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 16. Weight: 322. Translator(s): Garnett, C.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226300689
ISBN
9780226300689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.64

Paperback. It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up - couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099560890
ISBN
9780099560890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

hardcover. Illustrated with vivid portraits of friends, family, colleagues and enemies, this book provides an account of the passage from a life of sensuality and superstition to a genuine spiritual awakening. It is narrative of one man's religious journey which continues to shape the way we write and behave today. Translator(s): Burton, Philip. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; BGXA; HBLA; HRAX; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 207 x 31. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151282
ISBN
9781857151282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.03

Paperback. A new translation of Robert Musil's first novel, a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars. Translator(s): Moncrieff, Christopher. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493545
ISBN
9781847493545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199669400
ISBN
9780199669400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Reassembles the Charles W Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre. This work allows the reader to see how the original volume was created, how an African American author negotiated with the tastes of the dominant literary culture of the late nineteenth century, and how that culture both promoted and delimited his work. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822313878
ISBN
9780822313878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. An ambitious and unscrupulous priest arrives in the provincial town of Plassans, intent on conquering its political and social life. His arrival has profound consequences for the Mouret family, whose lives are turned upside down. This is the fourth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, and the first modern translation for more than fifty years. Translator(s): Constantine, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199664788
ISBN
9780199664788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. In 1974 the same boy had surfaced in connection with a sudden death in his new home. And then again ten years later, in connection with yet another case: a dramatic double-murder in Sunnfjord. The small boy is now an adult, and on the run in Oslo, determined to take revenge on those responsible for destroying his life. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Num Pages: 335 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906413385
ISBN
9781906413385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. This paperback edition brings together novellas and short stories of the celebrated Jewish writer A.B. Yehoshua, including two stories previously unpublished in English. "Mr Mani", which appeared in the previous hardback edition, is now a novel in its own right. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 146 x 33. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870015721
ISBN
9781870015721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.60

Paperback. Young Jawad, born to a Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise. Translator(s): Antoon, Sinan. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300205640
ISBN
9780300205640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 12.72

Paperback. In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, "The Cossacks" describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Editor(s): McDuff, David. Translator(s): McDuff, David. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 440 x 27. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449594
ISBN
9780140449594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Hardback. An abridged, pocket hardback edition of this classic revenge story. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 696 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 100 x 35. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509827978
ISBN
9781509827978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.56

Paperback. The first translation in over one hundred years of The Countess von Rudolstadt brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece. Translator(s): van Slyke, Gretchen. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 776.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812220148
ISBN
9780812220148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

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