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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. After 19 years of teaching his pupils to emigrate, Alford George, elitist schoolteacher turned populist politician, is forced to work out a welcome for the diverse races of Trinidad to their own island and how to liberate those who, despite emancipation, are still struggling under old captivities. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 6. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571192946
- ISBN
- 9780571192946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.06
€ 13.99
€ 10.06
Paperback. The second novel by an award-winning Caribbean novelist, playwright and poet. It deals with the impingements of modern life on a remote village in the interior of Trinidad which wants a school and a schoolmaster. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571196760
- ISBN
- 9780571196760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Series: European Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 138 x 33. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781873982648
- ISBN
- 9781873982648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.47
€ 13.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. In Dublin, a newspaper editor is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on the dead man's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to a dusty road in Africa and to the woman he once loved.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206. Paperback, in good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KRF0015132
- ISBN
- 9780141038063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 13.99€ 11.24
€ 13.99
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Paperback. In Dublin, a newspaper editor is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on the dead man's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to a dusty road in Africa and to the woman he once loved.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KTJ0008195
- ISBN
- 9780141038063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 13.99€ 11.24
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Paperback. An American gothic story of brotherhood, family fealty, love, scandal and disorder. One day, in an act of vengeance against their father, Paul picks up Rocky from school and nearly abandons him in the woods. Afterward, Paul disappears. Seven years later, Rocky is a teenager himself. He hasn't forgotten being abandoned by his boyhood hero. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616205263
- ISBN
- 9781616205263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.21
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€ 14.21
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 1026
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780394716787
- ISBN
- 9780394716787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.60
€ 21.99
€ 21.60
Paperback. Editor(s): Hutchisson, James M. Num Pages: 550 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 573.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554810468
- ISBN
- 9781554810468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.63
€ 29.99
€ 21.63
Leather / fine binding.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Canterbury Classics United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 724
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607103141
- ISBN
- 9781607103141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.24
€ 26.99
€ 20.24
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Trade Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486272757
- ISBN
- 9780486272757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.56
€ 6.56
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845233006
- ISBN
- 9781845233006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.16
€ 26.99
€ 20.16
Paperback. Series: Modern Library Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Modern Library Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Modern Library Pbk. Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780812967067
- ISBN
- 9780812967067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.73
€ 8.99
€ 8.73
Paperback. Editor(s): Harsh, Constance D. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551117416
- ISBN
- 9781551117416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.75
€ 41.99
€ 29.75
Paperback. The new collection of stories from the author of the award-winning Binocular Vision. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444797046
- ISBN
- 9781444797046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. The heroine of this novel is Lily Bart, whose goal is to secure a rich husband who can sustain her lifestyle. She operates in a world where social position is important, but money can buy it. Lily is redeemed by her clear view of the corrupt society which is her gilded cage. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840224191
- ISBN
- 9781840224191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.31
€ 6.31
Hardcover. With this novel about the anguish of loving, and society's brutal treatment of those who transgress its codes, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 308
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152029
- ISBN
- 9781857152029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.99
€ 19.99
€ 14.99
Paperback. Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in a village, until a visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity's relation to her father and her lover, this title delves into dark cultural territory: repressed sexuality, small-town prejudice, and, in subtle hints, incest. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140186796
- ISBN
- 9780140186796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
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Paperback. Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City. In this aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, seeks a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and wealth. But her quest comes to an end when she is accused of being the mistress of a wealthy man. Exiled from her world of artificial conventions, she finds life impossible. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140187298
- ISBN
- 9780140187298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.45
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€ 9.45
Paperback. Presents a tale about a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. She marries well above herself twice and both times fails to recognize her husbands' strengths of character or the weakness of her own, and it is they, not she, who pay the price. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143039709
- ISBN
- 9780143039709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590172483
- ISBN
- 9781590172483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.38
€ 23.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1911. Editor(s): Wolff, Cynthia Griffin; Lauer, Kristin O. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393966350
- ISBN
- 9780393966350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
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Paperback. Nineteen year old Lily Bart is in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to gossip. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 51. Weight in Grams: 992.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 784
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 150th Anniversary ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143106555
- ISBN
- 9780143106555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.93
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Paperback. Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland Archer is content to live within its constraints until he meets Ellen Olenska, whose arrival threatens his impending marriage as well as his comfortable future. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540013
- ISBN
- 9780199540013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69