Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A collection of broadly interrelated stories that offer a warm, inspired portrait of an extended Arab family in a Lebanese and Syrian community in Toledo, Ohio, spanning the decades between the 1930s and the present. It offers a passionate, unvarnished glimpse into the lives of an immigrant community. Series: Arab American Writing. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632108
- ISBN
- 9780815632108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.20
€ 29.20
Paperback. During a deadly Chicago heat wave that's claiming hundreds of lives, Robert, who's stuck in his apartment alone, fears he's going to be the next victim. One day, Robert ventures forth into the searing heat to gas up his car. Immediately he encounters enigmatic Lucy who is trying to escape her brutal fiance, Matthew Gliss. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875806297
- ISBN
- 9780875806297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.31
€ 15.99
€ 15.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rare Bird Books United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781940207469
- ISBN
- 9781940207469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.19
€ 16.99
€ 16.19
paperback. First published in 1904, this book deals with Latin America. It offers a picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption. Editor(s): Pauly, Veronique. Series Editor(s): Stape, J. H. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141441634
- ISBN
- 9780141441634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.86
€ 12.99
€ 10.86
Hardcover. A novel, in which Charles Gould returns to South America determined to make a success of the inheritance left to him by his father, the San Tome mine. But his dreams are thwarted as the country is plunged into revolution. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857150889
- ISBN
- 9781857150889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 13.91
€ 20.99
€ 13.91
mass_market. A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where natives worship him--and where he may be able to find redemption. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue. Series: Signet Classics. Num Pages: 329 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 109 x 244 x 30. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Signet United States
- Number of pages
- 329
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780451531278
- ISBN
- 9780451531278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.23
€ 8.23
Paperback. This edition of the novel sets the standard for its successors to follow. Allan Simmons, General Editor of The Conradian Num Pages: 455 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111728
- ISBN
- 9781551111728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 28.04
€ 37.99
€ 28.04
Paperback. Includes three stories where characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret stuff of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself'. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0019544
- ISBN
- 9781853267437
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Set in the Malay Archipelago, this novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. It explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0001805
- ISBN
- 9781853260377
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140180978
- ISBN
- 9780140180978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
€ 11.99
€ 10.22
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 72. Series: Dover Thrift S. 80 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 208 x 131 x 6. Weight: 74.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- different cover
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486264646
- ISBN
- 9780486264646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.24
€ 6.24
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375753770
- ISBN
- 9780375753770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.13
€ 13.99
€ 12.13
Paperback. Lord Jim is a book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth, in the exotic setting of post-colonial Patusan, a remote Malay settlement. This new edition uses the first English edition text and includes a new introduction and notes by leading Conrad scholar Jacques Berthoud, glossaries, and an appendix on Conrad's sources and reading. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536023
- ISBN
- 9780199536023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.07
€ 10.07
Hardcover. 3et in the Malay Archipelago, where the author spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, this book is a sombre yet brilliant study of good and evil in his mature manner. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151442
- ISBN
- 9781857151442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
Hardcover. This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151237
- ISBN
- 9781857151237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz: dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Editor(s): Hampson, Robert; Knowles, Owen. Series Editor(s): Stape, J. H. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441672
- ISBN
- 9780141441672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
€ 10.99
€ 9.50
Paperback. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit. This compact novel, completed in 1900, is at its baseline a book of the sea. Editor(s): Stape, J. H. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441610
- ISBN
- 9780141441610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.31
€ 10.31
Paperback. Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier, to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea-captain faces a succession of crises on his first command, for which he feels himself responsible. The novel is a work full of 'sudden passions', as well as a penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood. Editor(s): Hawthorn, Jeremy. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 102 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555567
- ISBN
- 9780199555567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Hardcover. In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, the author invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150049
- ISBN
- 9781857150049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 15.82
€ 19.00
€ 15.82
Paperback. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by Peter the Great. But in pre-revolutionary Russia Peter's legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination, and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with Haldin's trustful sister Natalia in spy-haunted Geneva. Editor(s): Donovan, Stephen. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441948
- ISBN
- 9780141441948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37