Short stories
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Short stories
Paperback. Presents a collection of ten stories by an award-winning fiction writer, "Chicago Tribune" reporter, and former foreign correspondent. These stories explore the emotional repercussions of fragile humans caught in often harsh situations beyond their control. It chronicles the fictive lives that all too clearly resonates with our world. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268044084
- ISBN
- 9780268044084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.75
€ 20.99
€ 20.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 111 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Otago University Press New Zealand
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877133855
- ISBN
- 9781877133855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.86
€ 11.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099928300
- ISBN
- 9780099928300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.13
€ 17.99
€ 14.13
Paperback. This collection of long and short stories probes the patterns of everyday life to pinpoint the frailties, the desires of deception, and the guilty secrets of human beings. It ends with "The Strawberry Tree", a novella-length tale of lost innocence set on the island of Majorca. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 15. Weight in Grams: 132. Tear to front cover, otherwise v good
- Condition
- Used, Acceptable
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- SKU
- KTJ0007422
- ISBN
- 9780099784616
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
CD-Audio. Features a range of unabridged stories that celebrate the very best of contemporary writers and writing. Among others, this collection features thriller writer Ruth Rendell, witty William Boyd, the Japanese literary sensation Haruki Murakami, ever-inventive Helen Simpson, and Patrick O'Brien, world-famous for his nautical series. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904605508
- ISBN
- 9781904605508
CD
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 17.59
€ 31.99
€ 17.59
Paperback. A wife plots her husband's psychological destruction - then his murder; a son is ruined by his mother's obsession; a man marries the woman he rescues from suicide, only to become the victim of her obsessiveness; and a family feud brings unimaginable horror. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 12. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Edition
- Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099214601
- ISBN
- 9780099214601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.21
€ 17.99
€ 14.21
Paperback. Murder, corruption, blackmail. All these are part of someone else's world, not part of the everyday lives of ordinary people..or are they? This is a collection of sinister stories from the bestselling author who won "The Sunday Times" Literary Award for 1990. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 121 x 12. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099470304
- ISBN
- 9780099470304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.35
€ 17.99
€ 14.35
Paperback. World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories, with a nod to Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West. Series: City Lights Noir. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872865198
- ISBN
- 9780872865198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.21
€ 18.21
Hardcover. Num Pages: 164 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 201 x 22. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fantagraphics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606998472
- ISBN
- 9781606998472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.92
€ 24.99
€ 21.92
mass_market. Includes autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling - Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927). Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Classic
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141397726
- ISBN
- 9780141397726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.29
€ 6.29
Paperback. This fascinating collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa made famous Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives. Illustrator(s): Kuwata, M. Translator(s): Kojima, Takashi. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871401731
- ISBN
- 9780871401731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.23
€ 14.99
€ 14.23
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Mosaic Press
- Edition
- Second Edition, Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771610674
- ISBN
- 9781771610674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.80
€ 16.99
€ 15.80
paperback. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. This work features stories such as "Rashomon", "In a Bamboo Grove", "The Nose", "O-Gin", "Loyalty", "Death Register", "The Life of a Stupid Man" and "Spinning Gears". Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780143039846
- ISBN
- 9780143039846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.10
€ 17.99
€ 13.10
Paperback. The fourth volume in the Black Wings of Cthulhu series, edited by the leading authority on H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi Editor(s): Joshi, S T. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- Titan Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Anniversary edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783295739
- ISBN
- 9781783295739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.87
€ 11.99
€ 9.87
Hardcover. These lyrical stories attempt to portray the yearnings of a little sister, the hazy memories of a concentration camp liberator, and the romantic entanglements of political activists. The title story captures the longings, personal and political, of a sensitive girl on the cusp of adolescence. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Triquarterly
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810151086
- ISBN
- 9780810151086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.41
€ 60.41
Paperback. Includes stories that are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, and full of eccentric unconventional situations. Editor(s): Munro, H. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184494
- ISBN
- 9780141184494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.77
€ 15.99
€ 11.77
Paperback. Explores the buttoned-up world of the British upper classes. This book includes stories, in which, an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life, the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core, and 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 208 x 40. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784871918
- ISBN
- 9781784871918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.77
€ 15.99
€ 11.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172. 136 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight: 168.
- Publisher
- Non Basic Stock Line
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907970009
- ISBN
- 9781907970009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.18
€ 10.99
€ 9.18
Hardback. Editor(s): Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Num Pages: 400 pages, Please figure on drawing one simple map of the Arab world. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149228
- ISBN
- 9780231149228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.87
€ 152.87
Paperback. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters home describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties London; two childhood friends turned diplomats live out fantasies hatched by Star Trek; and more. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099533016
- ISBN
- 9780099533016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02