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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

hardcover. First published in 1912, Theodore Dreiser's third novel, "The Financier", captures the ruthlessness and sparkle of the Gilded Age alongside the charismatic amorality of the power brokers and bankers of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume is an edition of "The Financier" to draw on the uncorrected page proofs of the original 1912 version. Editor(s): Mulligan, Roark. Series: The Dreiser Edition. Num Pages: 672 pages, 10 b&w. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 247 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1088.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252035043
ISBN
9780252035043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.70

Hardback. .
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556439346
ISBN
9781556439346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 33.95

paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Brindle & Glass Canada
Edition
New
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927366028
ISBN
9781927366028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.83

Paperback. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING CHRISTINA RICCI The novel of the woman dubbed 'The First Flapper' - Zelda Fitzgerald, wife and muse to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set against the glamorous backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, Z is the story of the golden couple who had it all, but who weren't destined for a happy ending. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
John Murray Press
Number of pages
383
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444761436
ISBN
9781444761436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. When dying Jack Flynn decides he needs a bride, so that he can sire a son, his young wife Caitlin proves feistier than he anticipated. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782641353
ISBN
9781782641353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.42

Paperback. A heartbreaking new novel about lost loves and past regrets. A guaranteed tearjerker. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KSG0011820
ISBN
9781847560247
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. When Roz Rosenzweig, self-described spitfire and loud n' proud New York Jew, meets Edwin Anderson at a party in the 1970s in her friend's Manhatten apartment, she has trouble believing that the earnest Nebraskan is for real. But Roz is quickly attracted to Edwin and is more happy than stunned when their improbable courtship results in marriage. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002118
ISBN
9780099422723
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. The centurion who speared Christ also guarded the tomb. When the body is missing, Pilate orders his arrest. He flees. The spear has special powers. Num Pages: 405 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 680.
Publisher
Primedia E-launch LLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
first
Condition
New
SKU
V9781943275038
ISBN
9781943275038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.67

Paperback. The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860466410
ISBN
9781860466410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.85

Paperback. Roithamer has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. This work talks about the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion of the negation of his own soul. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099442547
ISBN
9780099442547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) gives us one of his most darkly comic works. A series of parable-like anecdotes--some drawn from newspaper reports, some from conversation, some even from hearsay--this satire portrays an ordinary world careening into absurdity and disaster. Translator(s): Northcott, Kenneth. Num Pages: 114 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044026
ISBN
9780226044026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226311043
ISBN
9780226311043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.45

paperback. Translator(s): Winston, Professor Richard; Winston, Clara. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
9781400077557
ISBN
9781400077557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 21.89

Paperback. Featherbones is an ethereal love song to a city by the sea. This beautiful novel depicts a liminal world of statues, drownings and winged creatures. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Sparkling Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907230516
ISBN
9781907230516
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.57

Paperback. "A haunting novel of obsession and betrayal, told by a man who may have committed an horrific act of violence: The Secret History meets Notes on a Scandal." Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782391739
ISBN
9781782391739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.24

Paperback. A haunting novel of obsession and betrayal, told from the perspective of a man who may have committed an horrific act of violence: The Secret History meets Before I Go to Sleep. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782391715
ISBN
9781782391715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater remains its author's most famous and frequently-read work and one of the period's central statements about both the power and terror of imagination. De Quincey describes the intense "pleasures" and harrowing "pains" of his opium use in lyrical and dramatic prose. Editor(s): Faflak, Joel. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 487.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551114354
ISBN
9781551114354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.44

Paperback. Steven Armour is a man at a crossroad. But life takes a dramatic turn for Steven when, on a whim, he joins a local group of Civil War re-enactors. Assigned to immerse himself in the life of Private John Trow, Steven soon finds that his weekends at the living history village on Connecticut's Mt Riga let him escape his everyday disappointments. Num Pages: 368 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099449676
ISBN
9780099449676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408845189
ISBN
9781408845189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.46

Paperback. A luminous love story and an internationally acclaimed masterpiece, published in the UK for the first time Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208. 288 pages. Bernardo Greene is attempting to rebuild his life. Imprisoned and tortured by Pinochet's regime for introducing his students to political poetry, he has arrived at Copenhagen's centre for rehabilitating torture victims at the age of forty-nine, to begin, to begin again. Across from the King's Garden, Michela Ibsen also seeks a new beginning. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 134 x 197 x 18. Weight: 208.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408809846
ISBN
9781408809846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.35

Paperback. In the Vatican, the pope is dying as priestly vultures gather around, whispering the names of possible successors. In a forgotten monastery on Ireland's gale-swept coast, a dangerous document is hidden, waiting to be claimed. And in a family chapel in Princeton, New Jersey, a nun is murdered at her prayers. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 34. Weight in Grams: 372. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
Publisher
Arrow London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KAK0011158
ISBN
9780099484257
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him to swear never to touch alcohol again for twenty-one years. He has since risen from his origins to become a respected pillar of the community in Casterbridge, but his secrets cannot stay hidden forever. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529576
ISBN
9780099529576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula but she, the Laodicean of the title, is torn between his admiration and that of Captain De Stancy. Editor(s): Schad, John. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, facsim., map. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435061
ISBN
9780140435061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 32. Weight in Grams: 404. Good clean copy with some minor reading wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Modern Library Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KLJ0015860
ISBN
9780375756795
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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