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Paperback. Twenty-two translated stories associated with the regions of France, including both well-known and little-known writers. Offering a panoramic view of French society and culture, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love France and things French. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Num Pages: 368 pages, Numerous black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199217489
ISBN
9780199217489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.48

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199689118
ISBN
9780199689118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this attractive collection of translated stories evokes the many transformations the city has undergone. Including both well-known and new writers, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love Berlin. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Translator(s): Marven, Lyn. Num Pages: 256 pages, Numerous black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199559381
ISBN
9780199559381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.13

Paperback. Seventeen stories from one of Europe's most enchanting cities. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Translator(s): Holmes, Deborah. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199669790
ISBN
9780199669790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

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

Paperback. Brings together eight short stories by the intense 19th-century German author. Translator(s): Luke, D.; Reeves, N. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443592
ISBN
9780140443592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Translator(s): Vennawitz, Leila; Vennewitz, L. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714509389
ISBN
9780714509389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411418
ISBN
9781572411418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.68

Paperback. During the performances of fashionable operas, the musicians tell tales, read stories and exchange gossip to relieve the tedium of the bad music they are paid to perform. We are privy to 25 entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers. Editor(s): Barzun, Jacques. Translator(s): Barzun, Jacques. Num Pages: 404 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: AV; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
404
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226043746
ISBN
9780226043746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FJM; FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062418548
ISBN
9780062418548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.64

Paperback. Translator(s): Wright, Jonathan. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172. 176 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 132 x 199 x 11. Weight: 168.
Publisher
Comma Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583522
ISBN
9781905583522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.44

Paperback. Translator(s): Wright, Jonathan. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Comma Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583256
ISBN
9781905583256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.44

Paperback. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DQ; FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. 160 pages. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DQ; FC; FYB. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 21. Weight: 248. Translator(s): Watson, Burton.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152457
ISBN
9780231152457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.44

Paperback. Features such characters as: Satsuki who has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake who left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away; and, fourteen-year-old Sala who has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099448563
ISBN
9780099448563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A collection that features such stories as: When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden; and, more. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099448754
ISBN
9780099448754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774248108
ISBN
9789774248108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.01

Paperback. Eight killer reads from eight bestselling authors - specially written for Quick Reads. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409169123
ISBN
9781409169123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.08

Paperback. A compendium of Harold Lamb's previously uncollected crusader stories. Editor(s): Jones, Howard Andrew. Num Pages: 622 pages, appendix. BIC Classification: FJH; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 824.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
622
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220355
ISBN
9780803220355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. A collection of stories featuring Arabs, Mongols, and Hindus as heroic, sympathetic, and believable characters: men of honor and integrity ready to lay down their lives for their countries and their comrades. Editor(s): Jones, Howard Andrew. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 appendix. BIC Classification: FJH; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803225169
ISBN
9780803225169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.02

Paperback. Gathers for the first time all of the Irish work Harold Frederic completed in his lifetime. The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories brings together the four sixteenth-century stories that Frederic finished and published in magazines in 1895-96, and two of his stories set in the west of Ireland of the second-half of the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Morgan, Professor Jack. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813227818
ISBN
9780813227818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.56

Paperback. Includes tales such as 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus'. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 113 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54. Clean copy with damage to cover but pages remain ini very good condition
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KEA0000181
ISBN
9780141398044
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Includes tales such as 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus'. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 113 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780141398044
ISBN
9780141398044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Mindblowingly inventive and beautifully written short stories from the most exciting new name in SF Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473210233
ISBN
9781473210233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. Deals with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children. This title contains the author's controversial story "Weddings and Beheadings", as well as his prophetic "My Son the Fanatic", which exposes the religious tensions within the muslim family unit. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 47. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571249824
ISBN
9780571249824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.16

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