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Paperback. Nine stories make up Haslett's first collection. They are set in Los Angeles, the Midwest, New England and England, but each summons its own distinctive world. The characters include a widower, a young couple, middle-aged siblings and an orphaned boy who finds solace in a classmate's violence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099443643
- ISBN
- 9780099443643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.79
€ 20.99
€ 16.79
Hardcover. A sequel to the author's collection of stories "Two Jews on a Train". Through twenty-nine tales, it spins stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of daily life, while painting a portrait of a world of unassimilated Jewish life. Translator(s): Tihanyi, Catherine. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226052175
- ISBN
- 9780226052175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.17
€ 24.99
€ 20.17
Paperback. Offers fiction intended for both Western and Middle Eastern readers. The stories in this volume deal with issues both traditional and modern, including relations between parents and children, between husbands and wives, and between citizens of independent Morocco and its nationalist representative government. Translator(s): Abouzeid, Leila. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: 127 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1HBM; FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 127
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712652
- ISBN
- 9780292712652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.30
€ 15.99
€ 15.30
Paperback. Translator(s): Small, Rachel. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 11. .
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584351948
- ISBN
- 9781584351948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.01
€ 18.99
€ 14.01
Paperback. Exposing and exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence, anguish and love, this title examines the nature of the individual, both in isolation and society, as characters define and deny their chosen identities. It reveals the subversive liberation of impotence, and, the humour of discomfort as human beings chafe together. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099457114
- ISBN
- 9780099457114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
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
€ 16.99
€ 12.60
Paperback. Strange, smart and sexy short stories from one of America's most brilliant contemporary writers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847087294
- ISBN
- 9781847087294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. The heroes and heroines of this, A.L. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and who never make the headlines. Often alone and sometimes lonely, her characters ponder the mysteries of sex and death.. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099450061
- ISBN
- 9780099450061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
Paperback. A collection of stories, in which, a husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them, a woman contemplates the idea of her lover dying as she queues in a bank, and an almost impossibly uncomfortably lunch culminates in a passionate kiss. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099587422
- ISBN
- 9780099587422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
€ 23.99
€ 17.61
Paperback. A.B. Guthrie Jr. is best known for his historical fiction; his classic novel The Way West earned him a Pulitzer Prize. The Big It and Other Stories collects his diverse shorter tales, written between 1946 and 1960. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803240551
- ISBN
- 9780803240551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.92
€ 20.99
€ 20.92
Paperback. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; a woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world. This title deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001472
- ISBN
- 9780099273769
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099521310
- ISBN
- 9780099521310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Morpho Eugenia and The Conjugal Angel are two fascinating novellas and, like A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, they are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099224310
- ISBN
- 9780099224310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling - about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. This book includes stories which are all about human beings. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099472711
- ISBN
- 9780099472711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. Editor(s): Byatt, A. S. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199561605
- ISBN
- 9780199561605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Ochoa, Gabriel Garcia; Jones, Rebecca; Schwartz, Oscar. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 8. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing Australia
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781922235497
- ISBN
- 9781922235497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.88
€ 23.99
€ 17.88
Paperback. Editor(s): Gay, William; Kingsbury, Suzanne. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 123 x 19. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849821728
- ISBN
- 9781849821728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.71
€ 9.99
€ 8.71
Paperback. Editor(s): Franklin, Tom; Fennelly, Beth Ann. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 124 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849821735
- ISBN
- 9781849821735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.71
€ 9.99
€ 8.71
Paperback. Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire's limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region's slaveholding society. Editor(s): Bronte, Emily; Heywood, Christopher. Num Pages: 519 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 221 x 34. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 519
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551112473
- ISBN
- 9781551112473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.66
€ 33.99
€ 30.66
Writing to Delight: Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women ...
. Ed(S): Arslan, Antonia; Romani, Gabriella
hardcover. Writing to Delight also serves as an instrument for a critical investigation of both the cultural productions of nineteenth-century Italy and the process of formation of modern Italian identities. Editor(s): Arslan, Antonia; Romani, Gabriella. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; DN; DSBF; DSK; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802038746
- ISBN
- 9780802038746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.96
€ 100.96