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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

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

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

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. 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

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. 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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
9780140437973
ISBN
9780140437973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.08

Paperback. A final collection of original short fantasy stories assembles previously uncollected tales, stories about the two-centimeter demon Azael, several fairy tales, and a humorous adventure about Batman's old age from the grandmaster of science fiction. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CBW; FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 21. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006482031
ISBN
9780006482031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.38

Paperback. In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange - and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical, these nine stories prove Link to be an original and important talent. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007242009
ISBN
9780007242009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.58

Paperback. Focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Seagull Books Pvt. Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
2002nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9788170461401
ISBN
9788170461401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.11

Paperback. Includes twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. This book includes stories such as, Zombies, Knock, Knock, Tunnel of Love, and Excursion. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099587682
ISBN
9780099587682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749396046
ISBN
9780749396046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Hemmingson, Michael. Series: Mammoth Books. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FP; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 148 x 36. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Robinson Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841190785
ISBN
9781841190785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Condition
New
SKU
9780099428541
ISBN
9780099428541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.25

Pamphlet. .
Publisher
UEA Publishing Project
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911343042
ISBN
9781911343042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.14

Paperback. Features short stories that explore the author's abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. Written between 1918 and 1953, this book shows the literary development of one of Germany's most important writers. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749386627
ISBN
9780749386627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Hardback. Suitable for those who is, has ever been, or might one day be married. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0007103
ISBN
9780857868497
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, "The Two Hussars" contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Editor(s): Wilks, Ronald. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449624
ISBN
9780140449624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Beginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of a family caught up in an explosion of shocking sectarian violence and ending with the white-out of an Iowa blizzard and a different kind of fear, this book is about bonds and connections, made and broken, secret and known. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 165.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099493037
ISBN
9780099493037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

paperback. Illustrator(s): Luchoomun, Krishna. Editor(s): Butlin, Ron. Num Pages: 192 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ; DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 150. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Flambard Pr United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873226247
ISBN
9781873226247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

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