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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183756
- ISBN
- 9780141183756
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185996
- ISBN
- 9780141185996
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241302484
- ISBN
- 9780241302484
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?! Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 28. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141023496
- ISBN
- 9780141023496
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? Or is he all of these? Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241951644
- ISBN
- 9780241951644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185767
- ISBN
- 9780141185767
Paperback
Condition: New
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Hardcover. A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150674
- ISBN
- 9781857150674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
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Paperback. The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185262
- ISBN
- 9780141185262
Paperback
Condition: New
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hardcover. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 329 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 329
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151336
- ISBN
- 9781857151336
Hardback
Condition: New
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paperback. An annotated edition of "Lolita". It attempts to elaborate on the verbal textures and show how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. It also provides observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185040
- ISBN
- 9780141185040
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
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Paperback. A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191188
- ISBN
- 9780141191188
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
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Paperback. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141181875
- ISBN
- 9780141181875
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.80
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Paperback. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182537
- ISBN
- 9780141182537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.45
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Paperback.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141196329
- ISBN
- 9780141196329
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. Editor(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 45. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183459
- ISBN
- 9780141183459
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.73
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Paperback. Translator(s): Ready, Oliver. Series: Dedalus Europe. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910213148
- ISBN
- 9781910213148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.53
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Paperback. Translator(s): Ready, Oliver. Series: Dedalus Europe 2013. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907650710
- ISBN
- 9781907650710
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Translator(s): Gambrell, Jamey. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 127 x 39. Weight in Grams: 718.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 704
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590173862
- ISBN
- 9781590173862
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.45
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Paperback. Translator(s): Laird, Sally. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590172742
- ISBN
- 9781590172742
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.38
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Paperback. Translator(s): Steiger, Krystyna A. Num Pages: 186 pages, 1. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278. 186 pages, 1. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 201 x 140 x 16. Weight: 278. Translator(s): Steiger, Krystyna A.
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press
- Number of pages
- 186
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788086264363
- ISBN
- 9788086264363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
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