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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486269689
- ISBN
- 9780486269689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
Paperback. The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853260261
- ISBN
- 9781853260261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.74
€ 6.74
Paperback. Collects some of Jack London's allegorical tales. This volume of Jack London's stories of the North also includes "Batard", in which an abused dog takes revenge on his owner; and "Love of Life", in which an injured prospector, abandoned by his partner, must struggle home alone through the wilderness, stalked by a lone wolf. Editor(s): Sinclair, Andrew. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140186512
- ISBN
- 9780140186512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. Tells the story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141198262
- ISBN
- 9780141198262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.80
€ 11.99
€ 5.80
Paperback. A tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation. It captures the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications. It also discusses about growing up in America. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190037
- ISBN
- 9780141190037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realizes how sheltered his upbringing has been. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141394091
- ISBN
- 9780141394091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Presents an autobiographical account of the author's growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of his childhood. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 194 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141198248
- ISBN
- 9780141198248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.25
€ 10.25
Paperback. In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to get away to solitude again or die, so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 194 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141198255
- ISBN
- 9780141198255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. A coming of age story, which draws on the author's New England childhood. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182230
- ISBN
- 9780141182230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.40
€ 17.99
€ 13.40
Paperback. Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. Editor(s): Cunnell, Howard. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189215
- ISBN
- 9780141189215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.85
€ 14.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. A semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141198231
- ISBN
- 9780141198231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 111 x 18. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241951538
- ISBN
- 9780241951538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.70
€ 8.70
Paperback. Presents the story of two men engaged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Deluxe
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143039600
- ISBN
- 9780143039600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; FC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184906
- ISBN
- 9780141184906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Offers an examination of the author's own New York life. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals a portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141198224
- ISBN
- 9780141198224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Follows two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184883
- ISBN
- 9780141184883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Presents the author's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141198217
- ISBN
- 9780141198217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.88
€ 14.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Lost during the author's lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and brotherhood and a meditation on the desire to escape society, following the fortunes of two men as they impulsively decide to work their passage on the S S Westminster: drinking, arguing, playing cards, dodging torpedoes and contemplating the beauty of the sea. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141193342
- ISBN
- 9780141193342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.85
€ 14.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998141
- ISBN
- 9781906998141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. The electrifying WWII bestseller from the master of the game. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 30. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000884
- ISBN
- 9780007223725
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In the early morning hours of 6 November 1943, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler receives the coded message he has been waiting for: 'The Eagle has landed'. It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: Operation Eagle, Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405917520
- ISBN
- 9781405917520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 220 x 22. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295995618
- ISBN
- 9780295995618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.79
€ 20.99
€ 20.79
Paperback. The author's professional writing had always expressed complex ideas in expressive prose. And the notion emerged - why not compress ideas, stories, even whole novels, into single aphorisms? This collection of single aphorisms intends to provide food for thought. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 129. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Foulsham
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780572030407
- ISBN
- 9780572030407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.30
€ 8.30
Paperback. Tells the story of a boy Willie Kiddar, his first 14 years, from conception on a Sunday afternoon to leaving school during the First World War. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852241278
- ISBN
- 9781852241278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45