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Paperback. Cobb's The Fire Eaters"Cobb's short stories, printed in the New Yorker and other magazines, hinted at the power he displays in this beautifully controlled and convincing debut, winner of the 1992 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel."-Publisher's Weekly Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411477
ISBN
9781421411477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.63

Paperback. A collection of stories in which a federal agent quits his job after his warning about a terrorist attack goes unheeded; a woman fleeing her abusive lover realizes her safety will forever be out of reach; and, an American visitor to Ireland learns that he will always be too much of an outsider to understand the country's politics and cultures. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421404622
ISBN
9781421404622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.88

Hardback. A collection of stories that features: "Memorial Day", "Memo and Oblivion" and "The Interview". In "Memorial Day", an aging man at a public swimming pool recalls a brief but momentous affair he had with a young British woman in London thirty years ago and the paradoxical role his recently deceased father played in it. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402734
ISBN
9781421402734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.72

Paperback. The wide sweep of this important novel encompasses many layers. It ranges over decades in the life of Chotti - the central character - in which India moves from colonial rule to independence and then to the unrest of the 1970s. Translator(s): Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405107051
ISBN
9781405107051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.78

Hardcover. The wide sweep of this important novel encompasses many layers. It ranges over decades in the life of Chotti - the central character - in which India moves from colonial rule to independence and then to the unrest of the 1970s. Translator(s): Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405107044
ISBN
9781405107044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.13

Paperback. The author is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. In this title, his story radiates out, relaying the poet's personal history through 1994, including his unique perspective on the 1991 coup by Communist hardliners resisted by Boris Yeltsin. Translator(s): Fusso, Ms. Susanne. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875807157
ISBN
9780875807157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. For those who cannot read the language of the original texts, the lively and varied world of eighteenth-century Russian literature has been largely inaccessible. This translation presents three seminal tales that express the major literary, social, and philosophical concerns of late-eighteenth-century Russia. Translator(s): Gasperetti, David. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875806747
ISBN
9780875806747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.77

Hardback. Translator(s): Nair, Anita. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 214 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423917
ISBN
9780857423917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.73

Hardback. Translator(s): Hoban, Wieland. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423696
ISBN
9780857423696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.64

Hardback. Translator(s): Tanoukhi, Nirvana. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423252
ISBN
9780857423252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.52

Hardback. T, an acclaimed but aging actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They meet, they break up, they marry, and they get divorced. They neither can live with nor without one another, and this impossible state of affairs lasts all their lives. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857421708
ISBN
9780857421708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.33

Hardback. Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic border. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Series: The German List. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420473
ISBN
9780857420473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.33

Hardback. The eponymous Old Testament hero Noah fuels his local economy with a prescient plan to build the Ark. Though no one around him seriously believes in the coming flood, everyone is more than willing to do business with him: The people of Mesopotamia had never had it so good. Translator(s): Willcocks, Samuel P. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420466
ISBN
9780857420466
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.81

Hardback. Richard I (1157-99) was king of England from 1189 until his death, but he is best known as a soldier, not a monarch. This title provides the story of a man living in the shadow of his own myth, also a fanatic general who wants to conquer the world's greatest sanctum and a king who is suddenly vulnerable. Translator(s): Anderson, James. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420336
ISBN
9780857420336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.36

Hardback. In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin, and towns large and small, the author has dreamt - and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume, she shares her dreams of the years 2008-10, a time of global upheaval that happened to coincide with upheavals in her own life. Illustrator(s): Banerjee, Sunandini. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 116 pages, 24 colour plates. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420299
ISBN
9780857420299
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.33

Hardback. After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature through the tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 774.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420282
ISBN
9780857420282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.11

Paperback. Set largely in locations along the French Riviera, these 11 short stories depict with great compassion the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this privileged region. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 291.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803280076
ISBN
9780803280076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.72

Paperback. Presents an account and indictment of colonialism. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: Illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803279667
ISBN
9780803279667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.65

Paperback. The well-educated daughter of a minister, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) was introduced to writing at a young age, as both her mother and father were published writers. This book seeks to restore Phelps' reputation by bringing together a diverse collection from the entire body of her lifetime of work. Editor(s): Duquette, Elizabeth; Tevlin, Cheryl. Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803243972
ISBN
9780803243972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803234932
ISBN
9780803234932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.42

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803224414
ISBN
9780803224414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.23

Hardback. Magnolias, water, mescal, stars, and fire return again and again in these seven sparse-yet tightly written-vignettes. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894312
ISBN
9780801894312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.84

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
1032
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691150437
ISBN
9780691150437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.66
€ 50.63

Paperback. Dark, weird, psychologically complex, Hawthorne's short fiction continues to fascinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has made a generous selection of Hawthorne's stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as other, less-often anthologized gems. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050228
ISBN
9780674050228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.27

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