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Short stories

Paperback. Introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the superstitious, social-climbing schoolmaster; and the pumpkin-topped Headless Horseman, ancestor to countless horror film antiheroes. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143107538
ISBN
9780143107538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. A collection of short stories. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571237852
ISBN
9780571237852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.03

Paperback. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; and two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140258349
ISBN
9780140258349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Editor(s): Lethem, Jonathan; Abramovich, Alex. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590174944
ISBN
9781590174944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.27

Paperback. A timely reissue of the extraordinary stories by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert that won international acclaim, to be timed with the theatrical release of the documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472152565
ISBN
9781472152565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. Illustrator(s): Shimizu, Yuko. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 264 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780008140403
ISBN
9780008140403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 4.95

Paperback.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140140828
ISBN
9780140140828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Hardcover. Features short stories and novellas that reflect every aspect of author's developing art and outlook. This book is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner, husband and father, the life which shaped Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Translator(s): Maude, Louise; Maude, Aylmer. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 39. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
848
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157574
ISBN
9781857157574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.89

Paperback.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841950600
ISBN
9781841950600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.25

Hardback. A collection of thirteen tales and anecdotes, published for the first time as Hogg intended, and capturing the flavour of Border story-telling. Editor(s): Mack, Douglas S. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748604746
ISBN
9780748604746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.33
€ 119.62

Paperback. Series: Persephone book. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155158
ISBN
9781903155158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.30

Paperback. In these six late stories Tolstoy explores human relationships and moral choices, raising profound questions about life in gripping fictional form. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is an existential masterpiece, a harrowing tale of the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer. Newly translated, and with a wide-ranging Introduction. Editor(s): Kahn, Andrew. Translator(s): Slater, Nicolas Pasternak. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199669882
ISBN
9780199669882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Contains stories from the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and is illustrated by Charles Vess. This book includes the characters of a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Strange himself and the Raven King". Num Pages: 256 pages, B&W. BIC Classification: FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214. and Other Stories. 256 pages, B&W. Contains stories from the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and is illustrated by Charles Vess. This book includes the characters of a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Strange himself and the Raven King". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FV; FYB. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight: 242.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747592402
ISBN
9780747592402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.90

Paperback. Translator(s): Koriyama, Naoshi. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9784805313411
ISBN
9784805313411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.92

Paperback. Mindblowingly inventive and beautifully written short stories from the most exciting new name in SF Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473210233
ISBN
9781473210233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781252833
ISBN
9781781252833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.27

Paperback. A superb new collection from the No.1 bestselling author: 'Reading her books is like gossiping with old friends' DAILY EXPRESS Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 293.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409161448
ISBN
9781409161448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0014006
ISBN
9780007517367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. This new translation includes Kafka's two published collections, A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist with other, uncollected stories, aphorisms, and parables that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, the stories meditate on art and artists and the human experience. Includes an introduction and notes. Translator(s): Crick, Joyce. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199600922
ISBN
9780199600922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

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

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