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Paperback. Translated from Hebrew by various translators. Editor(s): Frieden, Ken. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 209.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815610199
ISBN
9780815610199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.38

paperback. A story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to the halls of Eblis, or Hell, in the pursuit of knowledge. It exhibits the author's exuberant day-dreaming imagination as well as the deeply emotional, aesthetic themes and detailed physical descriptions of his writing. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Penguin Classics United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435306
ISBN
9780140435306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Tagus
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933227412
ISBN
9781933227412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.61

hardcover. A collection of stories such as: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and, "The Lost Decade". Series: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 139 x 41. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141194103
ISBN
9780141194103
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 16.68

paperback. Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing skill in a range of literary styles. The stories include: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire" and "The Happy Prince". Editor(s): Small, Ian. Num Pages: 320 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141439693
ISBN
9780141439693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 9.75

hardcover. Written over a period of more than half a century, this volume include short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Num Pages: 1856 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 91. Weight in Grams: 1826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857152432
ISBN
9781857152432
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.99
€ 55.00

paperback. Steve Almond's stunning first collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties, their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities, taking a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era without innocence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099443629
ISBN
9780099443629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.57

paperback. A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099481331
ISBN
9780099481331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. A collection of seven short stories themed around troubled relations. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099518594
ISBN
9780099518594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

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. This is the description of "The New Blazing World" (1666) - one of the earliest pieces of science fiction writing. It attempts, in the manner of contemporary utopian fantasies, to tell the story of a voyage to another world where speculative science reigns. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FLC; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140433722
ISBN
9780140433722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141198293
ISBN
9780141198293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.91

paperback. Includes the stories "Metamorphosis"; "Meditation"; "The Judgement"; "The Stoker"; and "The Aeroplanes at Brescia". Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 213 x 22. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780143105244
ISBN
9780143105244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels--"Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row," and "The Pearl." Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 214 x 41. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780143105770
ISBN
9780143105770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 24.14

paperback. Presents short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most part about Welsh people, providing depictions of valley and mountain, country and town, as well as insights into the nature of the people. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241955468
ISBN
9780241955468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Features a collection of short stories. This book explores the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are startlingly present and where imagination has the power to transform reality. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
9780552771054
ISBN
9780552771054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

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. A collection of all Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together, they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the depth of his thought. Some, like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Judgement", are well-known; others are mere jottings. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780749399467
ISBN
9780749399467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

mass_market. Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. This book offers a collection of short stories dealing with motherhood such as: Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life and Constitutional. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110 x 8. Weight in Grams: 83.
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9781784872731
ISBN
9781784872731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.99
€ 7.67

paperback. A comprehensive selection of Voltaire's very brief contes and melanges: tiny feats of narrative compression, each often no more than a few pages long. Their genre is something between a tale and a polemic - more gestures than stories. Translator(s): Cuffe, Theo. Num Pages: 208 pages, chronlogy, further reading, notes. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140446869
ISBN
9780140446869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

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