Fiction in translation
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Fiction in translation
Paperback. A fascinating study in sexual psychology and sexual politics, the novel focuses on Helene Grandjean, a widow, and her shifting emotional states. This is the eighth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, and the first modern translation for more than fifty years. Editor(s): Nelson, Brian. Translator(s): Constantine, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; FC; FYT. Dimension: 196 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198728641
- ISBN
- 9780198728641
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Recently adapted for BBC Television, The Ladies' Paradise evokes the giddy pace of Paris's transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Translator(s): Fitzlyon, April. Num Pages: 453 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 199 x 28. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 453
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493132
- ISBN
- 9781847493132
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.78
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Paperback. Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Translator(s): Holden, George. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0007511
- ISBN
- 9780140442632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Translator(s): Holden, George. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342. Good copy with light shelf wear. Large cut to the edge of cover. Ex-Libris with stamps, remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0006453
- ISBN
- 9780140442632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 544 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846264
- ISBN
- 9781603846264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.66
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Paperback. Recounts the frenzied transformations that made late nineteenth-century Paris the fashion capital of the world. This novel includes a capitalist hero, Octave Mouret, who creates a giant department store that devours the dusty, outmoded boutiques surrounding it. Num Pages: 383 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 383
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520078673
- ISBN
- 9780520078673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.72
€ 45.72
Paperback. A wonderful collection of surreal stories from French master Emile Zola given a fresh new translation Translator(s): Cummins, Anthony. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843911883
- ISBN
- 9781843911883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.23
€ 15.99
€ 15.23
Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 544 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 33. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846271
- ISBN
- 9781603846271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.44
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Paperback. This controversial novel, set in the art world of Paris, has been read as an attack on the Impressionist painters who had been Zola's friends Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- First Edition, writing in Margins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472061457
- ISBN
- 9780472061457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.87
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Paperback. Follows pure and pious Father Julian Alvarez, who is sent to a remote country estate to put the affairs of the marquis, an irresponsible libertine, in order. When he discovers moral decadence, cruelty and corruption at his new home, Julian's well-meaning but ineffectual attempts to prevent the fall of the House of Ulloa end in tragedy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 118 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141392950
- ISBN
- 9780141392950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. 192 pages. "A hidden genius of Argentine literature."--Le Monde. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 13. Weight: 250. Translator(s): Novey, Idra.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564786043
- ISBN
- 9781564786043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.72
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; CBW; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Hachette Children´s Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781444937190
- ISBN
- 9781444937190
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Condition: New
€ 4.99
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Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908276865
- ISBN
- 9781908276865
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.57
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Paperback. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 12. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628970753
- ISBN
- 9781628970753
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.58
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Paperback. Comprise fifty-two chapters that provide insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab, his absence from the pages of history, his birth in prison, and his never having been born at all. This book parodies literary conventions, deconstructs narrative and meaning, and combines absurdity and hopelessness with irony and humor. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan; Hardin, Eleanor. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3226 x 7. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803263703
- ISBN
- 9780803263703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.34
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Paperback. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Series: French Literature Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 135
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564786333
- ISBN
- 9781564786333
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.25
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Paperback. Translator(s): Lane, Helen. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141985862
- ISBN
- 9780141985862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
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Paperback. Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141194547
- ISBN
- 9780141194547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
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Paperback. Translator(s): Foulston, Jill. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141984506
- ISBN
- 9780141984506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
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Paperback. A film director is found murdered in a hotel room in Istanbul. Electrocuted by a hair dryer thrown in his bath water. When the police accuse the lead actress she turns to her only friend in town, the feisty and sexy owner of Istanbul's only mystery book shop. Translator(s): Whitehouse, Ruth. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 248. 256 pages. A film director is found murdered in a hotel room in Istanbul. Electrocuted by a hair dryer thrown in his bath water. When the police accuse the lead actress she turns to her only friend in town, the feisty and sexy owner of Istanbul's only mystery book shop. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight: 246. Translator(s): Whitehouse, Ruth.
- Publisher
- Bitter Lemon Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904738688
- ISBN
- 9781904738688
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.47
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Hardcover. Translator(s): Carr, Maurice. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 30. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- David Paul United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780954054274
- ISBN
- 9780954054274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.46
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Hardcover. Ex Library with usual markings.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Quercus London
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK First Edition; 1st printing.
- SKU
- KEX0204845
- ISBN
- 9781847247971
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Translator(s): Silverston, Sondra; Shlesinger, Miriam; Englander, Nathan. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099563327
- ISBN
- 9780099563327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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Paperback. In the Cite, a seedy neighborhood where criminals gather, Rodolphe encounters a young prostitute of breathtaking purity who goes by the name Songbird. He saves her from an attack by a ruffian called the Slasher, setting off the dominoes of an epic narrative traversing the ranks of French society. Num Pages: 1392 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1108.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143107125
- ISBN
- 9780143107125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.46
€ 37.99
€ 25.46