Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. * Cixous is generally regarded as one of the leading, if not the leading French feminist author writing today. * This book tells the story of how the author re-discovers a box from the past, containing a book manuscript from over fifty years ago. This leads to reflections on literary creativity, memory, identity and dreams. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745653914
- ISBN
- 9780745653914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.11
€ 22.11
Paperback. There, this fourth wise man learns the recipe from a fellow prisoner, and learns of the existence and meaning of Jesus. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801857331
- ISBN
- 9780801857331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.10
€ 29.99
€ 25.10
Paperback. Gemini is a novel of extraordinary proportions, intricate images, and profound thought, in which Michel Tournier tells his fascinating story with an irresistible humor. Translator(s): Carter, Ann. Num Pages: 452 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801857768
- ISBN
- 9780801857768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.22
€ 36.99
€ 31.22
Hardback. Magnolias, water, mescal, stars, and fire return again and again in these seven sparse-yet tightly written-vignettes. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894312
- ISBN
- 9780801894312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.92
€ 32.99
€ 27.92
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803224414
- ISBN
- 9780803224414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.23
€ 15.99
€ 15.23
Paperback. Self-centred, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, Kate Riley is all too real but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood. Kate is about to undergo exploratory brain surgery for a condition she herself has fabricated. Series: Flyover Fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3404 x 18. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803225145
- ISBN
- 9780803225145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.59
€ 17.99
€ 17.59
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803234932
- ISBN
- 9780803234932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.42
€ 17.99
€ 17.42
Paperback. Features stories such as: "Under the Lion's Paw", "Up the Coolly", "Mrs. Ripley's Trip" and more. Num Pages: 247 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 17. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press new york
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803270589
- ISBN
- 9780803270589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.79
€ 20.79
Paperback. Presents an account and indictment of colonialism. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: Illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803279667
- ISBN
- 9780803279667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.65
€ 18.99
€ 18.65
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
€ 20.72
€ 20.72
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
€ 14.13
€ 14.13
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€ 19.69
€ 19.99
€ 19.69
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€ 18.53
€ 18.99
€ 18.53
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
€ 33.28
€ 33.28
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€ 17.42
€ 17.99
€ 17.42
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€ 28.11
€ 35.99
€ 28.11
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€ 17.33
€ 19.99
€ 17.33
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€ 16.81
€ 19.99
€ 16.81
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
€ 21.99€ 18.33
€ 21.99
€ 18.33
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
€ 21.99€ 18.28
€ 21.99
€ 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
€ 21.99€ 18.29
€ 21.99
€ 18.29