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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Set largely in locations along the French Riviera, these 11 short stories depict with great compassion the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this privileged region. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803280076
- ISBN
- 9780803280076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.87
€ 20.99
€ 20.87
Paperback. Winky thought he'd seen everything in Wyoming Territory. Then into town one lazy day rode a long-haired kid and a colossal African mute. They were met in the saloon by Fiddler Jones, whose hair and temper flared like a wasps' nest. Fiddler's yellow eyes fell instantly in love with the kid's pouch of gold dust. That pouch was worth killing for. Series: Bison Book. Num Pages: 119 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 158. Series: Bison Book S. 119 pages. Winky thought he'd seen everything in Wyoming Territory. Then into town one lazy day rode a long-haired kid and a colossal African mute. They were met in the saloon by Fiddler Jones, whose hair and temper flared like a wasps' nest. Fiddler's yellow eyes fell instantly in love with the kid's pouch of gold dust. That pouch was worth killing for. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 203 x 128 x 9. Weight: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 119
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803291317
- ISBN
- 9780803291317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.21
€ 14.21
Paperback. Tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. This novel is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passer-by's mouth as an ashtray. It aims to spoof the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan (Assistant Professor, Bard College, USA). Num Pages: 141 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803298095
- ISBN
- 9780803298095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.76
€ 19.99
€ 19.76
Paperback. On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes, as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically. Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803298415
- ISBN
- 9780803298415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.65
€ 18.99
€ 18.65
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press oh
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804008914
- ISBN
- 9780804008914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.52
€ 33.52
Paperback. First published in 1930 under the title Fever Pitch, The Lizard Woman is Frank Waters' first novel. It foreshadows a theme central to Waters' later work: that we must attune our spirits to the land to fully understand our places in the natural order. Num Pages: 146 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 143 x 280. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press Ohio
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804009874
- ISBN
- 9780804009874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.54
€ 17.99
€ 17.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816618521
- ISBN
- 9780816618521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.10
€ 24.99
€ 23.10
Paperback. Translator(s): Mier-Cruz, Benjamin. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816677993
- ISBN
- 9780816677993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.72
€ 19.99
€ 19.72
Paperback. When cattle rustlers working in the San Joaquin Valley in the 1880s switch to horses and target the Circle C ranch, fourteen-year-old Andi turns to Macy, a homeless, ill-bred new student whose mistakes have endangered Andi but who may hold the key to saving Taffy's foal. Series: Circle C Milestones. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FW; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Kregel Publications,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780825443671
- ISBN
- 9780825443671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.33
€ 10.33
Hardback. After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature through the tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420282
- ISBN
- 9780857420282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.31
€ 35.99
€ 28.31
Hardback. In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin, and towns large and small, the author has dreamt - and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume, she shares her dreams of the years 2008-10, a time of global upheaval that happened to coincide with upheavals in her own life. Illustrator(s): Banerjee, Sunandini. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 116 pages, 24 colour plates. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420299
- ISBN
- 9780857420299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.45
€ 19.99
€ 17.45
Hardback. The eponymous Old Testament hero Noah fuels his local economy with a prescient plan to build the Ark. Though no one around him seriously believes in the coming flood, everyone is more than willing to do business with him: The people of Mesopotamia had never had it so good. Translator(s): Willcocks, Samuel P. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420466
- ISBN
- 9780857420466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.93
€ 19.99
€ 16.93
Hardback. Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic border. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Series: The German List. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420473
- ISBN
- 9780857420473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.40
€ 20.99
€ 18.40
Hardback. Features Max, a French journalist looking for his next story, and Lena, an American singer, who were once lovers, but now friends. They travel with Lena's new man, Thibault and with Max's barely masked jealousy. Then they meet the striking Colonel Strether, the epitome of military decorum and bearing. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420985
- ISBN
- 9780857420985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.28
€ 20.99
€ 18.28
Hardback. In an unnamed African nation, the people are subject to a state of perpetual warfare and an Orwellian abuse of language that strips away meaning and renders life senseless. And in a bare room lit only by moonlight, a young man hides, waiting for the mysterious crocodile-men to come and help him escape from the violent tyranny of the state. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Series: The Africa List. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420992
- ISBN
- 9780857420992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.32
€ 20.99
€ 18.32
Hardback. T, an acclaimed but aging actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They meet, they break up, they marry, and they get divorced. They neither can live with nor without one another, and this impossible state of affairs lasts all their lives. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857421708
- ISBN
- 9780857421708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.40
€ 20.99
€ 18.40
Hardback. Tells the moving tale of an Italian family living in Scotland during the rise of Mussolini and his rule in Italy. This story is told from the point of view of Lucia, the family's daughter, who, at 83, reflects on her childhood. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857422231
- ISBN
- 9780857422231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.52
€ 27.99
€ 22.52
Hardback. With subversive energy and masterful brevity, Mr Zed undermines arrogance, megalomania, and false authority. A determined speaker who doesn't care for ambitions, he forces topics that others would rather keep to themselves. This work collects the considerations and provocations of this squat park-bench philosopher. Translator(s): Chalmers, Martin. Series: The German List. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857422248
- ISBN
- 9780857422248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.34
€ 20.99
€ 18.34
Hardback. Johnny is from New Jersey, and Kari is from Oslo. They meet in New York in the late 1950s and soon fall in love, get married, and move to Asbury Park, where their life unfolds like a dream: Kari gives birth to two beautiful daughters, and Johnny is a wildly successful entrepreneur. Translator(s): Oatley, Diane. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857422361
- ISBN
- 9780857422361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.26
€ 25.99
€ 21.26
Hardback. Translator(s): Tanoukhi, Nirvana. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423252
- ISBN
- 9780857423252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.52
€ 27.99
€ 22.52
Hardback. Translator(s): Hoban, Wieland. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423696
- ISBN
- 9780857423696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.72
€ 24.99
€ 20.72
Hardback. Translator(s): Nair, Anita. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 214 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423917
- ISBN
- 9780857423917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.73
€ 24.99
€ 20.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 511 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 36. Weight in Grams: 874.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 511
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875805672
- ISBN
- 9780875805672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.04
€ 34.99
€ 32.04
Paperback. Tells a coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of small-town Minnesota during the 1970s and told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old girl, Iris, who learns from her parents that she is adopted. Series: Switchgrass. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875806815
- ISBN
- 9780875806815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.59
€ 17.99
€ 17.59