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Paperback. The great M.R. James, who collected and introduces the stories in this book, considered that Le Fanu 'stands absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories.' Editor(s): James, M. R. Series Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KTJ0008761
ISBN
9781840220674
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 6.75

Paperback. * The B format publication of the ecstatically received collection of short stories about vengeful wives, jealous husbands, femme fatales, reluctant fiancees, daddy's girls, secretive nannies and worldly children Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844087082
ISBN
9781844087082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. This book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters' death in 1948. Illustrator(s): Peacock, Irvine. Translator(s): Zipes, Jack David. Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 halftones. 26 line illus. BIC Classification: FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160993
ISBN
9780691160993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.32

Hardcover. Brings together an assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives together. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 125 x 29. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596020
ISBN
9781841596020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. A fabulous collection of short stories and essays by much loved and multi-million-copy bestselling author Penny Vincenzi Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Headline Review
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755399581
ISBN
9780755399581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141181493
ISBN
9780141181493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: FJM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268040345
ISBN
9780268040345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927063347
ISBN
9781927063347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.20

Paperback. Takes readers into Sri Lanka, Wales, Spain, India, Morocco and the lives and minds of the characters. This book creates a sense of mild disorientation and unreality that makes readers begin to see the world in a different way. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
150
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906998080
ISBN
9781906998080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.35

Paperback. Features a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, and an essay about the film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father. This collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole authors life savings. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571319701
ISBN
9780571319701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. The protagonist, the 'cave-man in a lounge suit', is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. This volume includes adventures he faced such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in "The Lost World" and the challenges of "The Land of Mist". Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FH; FJ; FLC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853262456
ISBN
9781853262456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.31

Paperback. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention. Translator(s): Galasso, Regina. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Swan Isle Press United States
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780983322078
ISBN
9780983322078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
NeWest Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926455662
ISBN
9781926455662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.78

Paperback.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842820766
ISBN
9781842820766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.49

Hardcover. Presents a collection of stories in which familiar characters and places are reintroduced in unfamiliar circumstances. This volume includes longest and shorter fictions. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591148
ISBN
9781841591148
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. A collection of stories written by the South African Nobel laureate. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214. 256 pages. A collection of stories written by the South African Nobel laureate. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight: 208.
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747565383
ISBN
9780747565383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.24

Paperback. A collection of salacious reimaginings of great literary works by popular, contemporary authors based on the wildly popular SF-based reading series Shipwrecked. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB; WHP; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 211 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Condition
New
SKU
V9781455566426
ISBN
9781455566426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.42

paperback. Weaves characters, themes and language in 22 linked stories that evoke the complex density of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author is one of Granta's 20 Best Young American Writers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780749386696
ISBN
9780749386696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. These stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village, a world where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a world at once universal, funny and compelling. The villagers' lives intersect, as lives do in a small place, and they all know each other's secrets - all the little infamies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099433521
ISBN
9780099433521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749386870
ISBN
9780749386870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

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