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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. Num Pages: 287 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Overlook Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781468301526
ISBN
9781468301526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 6.49

Paperback. A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. It features Pechorin who is a dangerous man, Byronic in his wasted gifts and his cynicism, and desperate for any kind of action that will stave off boredom. Translator(s): Randall, Natasha. Num Pages: 208 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143105633
ISBN
9780143105633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.19

Paperback. .
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941920039
ISBN
9781941920039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 514 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Open Letter United States
Number of pages
514
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934824368
ISBN
9781934824368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.59

Paperback. Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. But now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death.. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780871080
ISBN
9781780871080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Hungarian classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed. Translator(s): Thursfield, Patrick. Series: The Writing on the Wall. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910050927
ISBN
9781910050927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Hungarian Classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed Translator(s): Banffy-Jelen, Katlin; Thursfield, Patrick. Series: The Writing on the Wall. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 40. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910050910
ISBN
9781910050910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. The bestselling cult comedy from Mil Millington published alongside his new novel, Love and Other Near Death Experiences Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753820735
ISBN
9780753820735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Is this love or just oxytocin? The brilliant second novel by the bestselling author of Things my Girlfriend and I Have Argued About Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753820728
ISBN
9780753820728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. The new novel from the bestselling author of THINGS MY GIRLFRIEND AND I HAVE ARGUED ABOUT. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753826270
ISBN
9780753826270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571174379
ISBN
9780571174379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this early novel. Translator(s): Kussi, Peter; Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
311
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571197774
ISBN
9780571197774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571179435
ISBN
9780571179435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Translator(s): Rappaport, S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571206926
ISBN
9780571206926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

paperback. Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571135394
ISBN
9780571135394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? Translator(s): Asher, Linda. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571215515
ISBN
9780571215515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DD; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571194711
ISBN
9780571194711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. This is the first novel by the author of "Immortality", which won "The Independent" Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of "The Book of Laughter and Fogetting". Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571166930
ISBN
9780571166930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. A novel by the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality. Translator(s): Asher, Linda. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571195671
ISBN
9780571195671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

paperback. A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master". Translator(s): Kussi, Peter. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
FABER & FABER
Condition
New
SKU
9780571144563
ISBN
9780571144563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

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