Short stories
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Short stories
Paperback. A collection of forty-seven short stories such as "Taibele and Her Demon" "The Unseen", "Gimpel the Fool" and "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141196770
- ISBN
- 9780141196770
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Condition: New
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paperback. A collection of seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. It is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141187198
- ISBN
- 9780141187198
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140180435
- ISBN
- 9780140180435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.17
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Paperback. Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185880
- ISBN
- 9780141185880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Translator(s): Martin, George. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 800
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141181349
- ISBN
- 9780141181349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.51
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Paperback. Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Martin; McLaughlin, Martin; Parks, Tim; Weaver, William. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189680
- ISBN
- 9780141189680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
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Paperback. A collection of short stories covering the length of the author's writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. It includes fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; and a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts. Translator(s): Parks, Tim; McLaughlin, Martin; Creagh, Patrick; Weaver, William. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, integrated black and white. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189741
- ISBN
- 9780141189741
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. A collection of fables. It is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. It features a comic story "The Argentine Ant". Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099287032
- ISBN
- 9780099287032
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
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Paperback. A collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature - from enchantments and horrors to subtler, psychological terrors. It includes Hoffmann's "The Sandman", Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Dickens' "The Signal-Man", and works from celebrated writers including Honore de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott and Guy de Maupassant. Editor(s): Calvino, Italo. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190129
- ISBN
- 9780141190129
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
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paperback. Series: Brazilian Literature Series. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Dalkey Archive Ed
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564783462
- ISBN
- 9781564783462
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.52
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Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FP; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551520865
- ISBN
- 9781551520865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.12
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Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551521923
- ISBN
- 9781551521923
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.51
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Paperback. One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic offence could lead to surveillance and where contraband books were the currency of the underworld. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 279.
- Publisher
- Granta UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Reprint, Subsequent
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781862071032
- ISBN
- 9781862071032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.58
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Paperback. Editor(s): Srsen, Ivan. Series: Akashic Noir. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Akashic Books,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617753084
- ISBN
- 9781617753084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.98
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paperback. First published in 1852, "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" is a loose series of lyrical stories of rural life under serfdom. This expanded edition includes all Turgenev's other short stories. Translator(s): Freeborn, Richard. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140445220
- ISBN
- 9780140445220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
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paperback. When Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair. Translator(s): Berlin, Isaiah. Num Pages: 112 pages, chronology. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443356
- ISBN
- 9780140443356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.46
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Hardcover. This work contains "First Love" and "A Fire At Sea", translated by Isiah Berlin, and "Spring Torrents" translated by Leonard Schapiro. These stories record the pains and glories of youthful infatuation. Translator(s): Berlin, Isaiah; Schapiro, Leonard. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151916
- ISBN
- 9781857151916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
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Hardcover. These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Translator(s): Hepburn, Charles; Hepburn, Natasha. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 210 x 31. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 398
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150544
- ISBN
- 9781857150544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.16
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Paperback. Translator(s): Freeborn, Richard. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540402
- ISBN
- 9780199540402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.29
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Paperback. Ivan Vladislavic invites readers to do some detective work of their own. Each story can be read as a story or you can try to tease out the clues and patterns. Whether skewering extreme marketing techniques or constructing dystopian parallel universes, Vladislavic will make you look beyond appearances. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908276568
- ISBN
- 9781908276568
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.77
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€ 16.77