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Paperback. Includes stories such as - "Mr Loveday's Little Outing"; "Cruise"; "Period Piece"; "On Guard"; "An Englishman's Home"; "Excursion in Reality"; "Bella Fleace Gave a Party"; "Winner Takes All"; "Work Suspended"; "Scott-King's Modern Europe"; "Basil Seal Rides Again"; and "Charles Ryder's Schooldays". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184517
ISBN
9780141184517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. 224 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DN; FYB. Dimension: 209 x 136 x 17. Weight: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Luath Press Limited
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842820551
ISBN
9781842820551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Offering a wide-ranging tour of the final decades of the 20th century, this series of related stories touches on the crucial issues and events that came to define and shape this period, including the corrosive impact of the Vietnam War. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268019716
ISBN
9780268019716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. A story wherein different characters are not happy with the way things are going on in their lives. They are waiting for something to change their lives. Will these characters able to realise the happiness they have been waiting for? Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099498162
ISBN
9780099498162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

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
€ 11.02

paperback. This volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature with the aid of parallel translations. Editor(s): Zillekens, Ernst. Series: Parallel Text. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CJBR; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140265422
ISBN
9780140265422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

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

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Edition
Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780684843322
ISBN
9780684843322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Paperback.
Publication date
1954
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780440378648
ISBN
9780440378648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. Features hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: living on the raw edge, making love, and facing the inevitable reality of death. As an introduction to the author's work, or as an overview of the themes he developed in his novels, this work presents a collection of stories. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 124 x 12. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099909705
ISBN
9780099909705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. In this book Hemingway shares his passion for bullfighting. The technical skills are described and explained, with chapters on individual bullfighters and the bulls. This work also contains a number of short stories inspired by the intense life and inevitable death of those violent afternoons. Num Pages: 336 pages, 48pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; ASZX; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 24. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
Edition
New Ed
SKU
9780099909101
ISBN
9780099909101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.45

Paperback. A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, including "Up in Michigan", "Fifty Grand", and "The Light of the World", and the "Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Winner Take Nothing" and "Men Without Women" collections. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 30. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099339212
ISBN
9780099339212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and the knowledge which fuelled the authors passion for Spain and the bullfight. This book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons. Num Pages: 352 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: ASZX; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random House Gro
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099285021
ISBN
9780099285021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Features stories which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. In this book, the stories range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099460923
ISBN
9780099460923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for Whom The Bell Tolls and A Farewell To Arms. He was equally prolific as a writer of short stories. This collection includes all Hemingway's shorter fiction arranged chronologically from 'Up in Michigan' (1923) to 'Old Man at the Bridge (1938). Num Pages: 788 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 133 x 45. Weight in Grams: 854.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151879
ISBN
9781857151879
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Paperback. Presents Hemingway stories, in which men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from the haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099908807
ISBN
9780099908807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. Contains short stories, featuring men, who are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by woman's hand. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099909309
ISBN
9780099909309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Hardcover. .
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276865
ISBN
9781908276865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.67

Paperback. Translator(s): Thomas, Dominic. Series: Global African Voices. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556. .
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253026699
ISBN
9780253026699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.87

Paperback. A dazzling collection about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange, for readers of Lydia Davis, George Saunders, and Karen Russell. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393350531
ISBN
9780393350531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.92

Paperback. A collection of short stories about the downside of civilization where the reader will encounter long marriages, the polite English countryside, missed opportunities and a child's view of the adult world. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002128
ISBN
9780860686125
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Here are the collected stories of English novelist Elizabeth Taylor, including some only recently discovered. From the awkward passions of lonely holiday-makers to the fresh-faced anticipation of three school friends preparing for their first dance, she wryly captures the ordinary excetionalness of life. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 46. Weight in Grams: 838.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844088409
ISBN
9781844088409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

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
€ 29.73

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099592976
ISBN
9780099592976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.82

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