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Fiction: special features
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749386870
- ISBN
- 9780749386870
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.21
€ 17.99
€ 14.21
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
€ 22.99
€ 18.89
paperback. Translator(s): Wortsmann, Peter. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780981955728
- ISBN
- 9780981955728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.47
€ 16.47
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
€ 19.99
€ 13.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cleis Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781627781305
- ISBN
- 9781627781305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.62
€ 16.99
€ 15.62
paperback. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. This work features stories such as "Rashomon", "In a Bamboo Grove", "The Nose", "O-Gin", "Loyalty", "Death Register", "The Life of a Stupid Man" and "Spinning Gears". Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780143039846
- ISBN
- 9780143039846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
paperback. A comprehensive selection of Voltaire's very brief contes and melanges: tiny feats of narrative compression, each often no more than a few pages long. Their genre is something between a tale and a polemic - more gestures than stories. Translator(s): Cuffe, Theo. Num Pages: 208 pages, chronlogy, further reading, notes. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140446869
- ISBN
- 9780140446869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
mass_market. Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. This book offers a collection of short stories dealing with motherhood such as: Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life and Constitutional. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110 x 8. Weight in Grams: 83.
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784872731
- ISBN
- 9781784872731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.99€ 7.67
€ 7.99
€ 7.67
paperback. A collection of all Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together, they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the depth of his thought. Some, like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Judgement", are well-known; others are mere jottings. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749399467
- ISBN
- 9780749399467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
€ 13.99
€ 11.14
paperback. Weaves characters, themes and language in 22 linked stories that evoke the complex density of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author is one of Granta's 20 Best Young American Writers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749386696
- ISBN
- 9780749386696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
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
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.75
€ 10.99
€ 9.75
paperback. Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels--"Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row," and "The Pearl." Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 214 x 41. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780143105770
- ISBN
- 9780143105770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 24.14
€ 35.99
€ 24.14
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
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.75
€ 10.99
€ 9.75
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.75
€ 10.99
€ 9.75
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.91
€ 18.99
€ 13.91
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
€ 14.99
€ 10.45
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45