×


 x 

Shopping cart

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Results 4581 - 4600 of 13889

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875655703
ISBN
9780875655703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 121 x 24. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
1st Black Swan Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552772969
ISBN
9780552772969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099428480
ISBN
9780099428480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 10.45

Hardcover. A novel, in which Charles Gould returns to South America determined to make a success of the inheritance left to him by his father, the San Tome mine. But his dreams are thwarted as the country is plunged into revolution. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Everyman
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150889
ISBN
9781857150889
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 13.91

hardcover. A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857151381
ISBN
9781857151381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 13.91

hardcover. Set in the Central Europe of old, this anti-war novel features a simple soldier whose determination to survive brings into question the powerful social and political institutions he confronts. A portrait of a "little man" waging his own war against authority, it becomes a satire on the old regime. Translator(s): Parrott, Cecil. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 210 x 47. Weight in Grams: 868.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857151510
ISBN
9781857151510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.68

paperback. Traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-century literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099282778
ISBN
9780099282778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. In the little town of Goray, laid waste by murder and famine, grief becomes joy as good news arrives of the second coming of the Messiah. Once the town's pious rabbi is usurped, the townspeople are free to look forward to the End of Days, when they will wear golden jackets and dine on marzipan candy. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099285472
ISBN
9780099285472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099289524
ISBN
9780099289524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own story. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099422396
ISBN
9780099422396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

paperback. The scene is Ireland. The time, 1916, is the eve of the famous, tragic Easter Rebellion in Dublin, which startled Europe even in the midst of the First World War. A single Anglo Irish family provides the extremely diverse characters. This story weaves these people together into a tragic comic pattern. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099429135
ISBN
9780099429135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

paperback. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099440833
ISBN
9780099440833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Steve Almond's stunning first collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties, their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities, taking a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era without innocence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099443629
ISBN
9780099443629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.57

paperback. The opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
9780099472384
ISBN
9780099472384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.20

paperback. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099478331
ISBN
9780099478331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Graham Greene's gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of his finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of revolutionaries. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099478386
ISBN
9780099478386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. The British Raj in India is in its final days. For Guy Perron, Field Sergeant and historian, these last days are a time to reflect on the legacy the British has left behind in India. And for the British families still residing in India, decisions about their future must be made and final goodbyes must be said. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 40. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099478836
ISBN
9780099478836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

paperback. A collection of five stories: "The Acid House", "Rattlesnakes", "The DOGS. of Lincoln Park", "Miss Arizona" and "The Kingdom of Fife". Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099483595
ISBN
9780099483595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099531883
ISBN
9780099531883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara. Translator(s): Volokhonsky, Larissa; Pevear, Richard. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099541240
ISBN
9780099541240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!