Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. 1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate Tamerlan has been kidnapped by guerrillas, demanding a bust of Eva Peron be placed in all 92 offices of his company. The man for the job: Marrone. His mission: to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Peron, the legendary Evita. A caustic and original take on Argentina's history. Translator(s): Barnett, Ian. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 386 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908276506
- ISBN
- 9781908276506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184869
- ISBN
- 9780141184869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.81
€ 14.99
€ 11.81
Hardcover. A fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world - and more especially, twentieth-century America. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 35. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857152159
- ISBN
- 9781857152159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.53
€ 17.99
€ 12.53
Hardcover. Features Baron Munchausen's absurd adventures. This book tells how he turned a wolf inside out in Russia, rode on a Turkish cannon ball, danced a hornpipe in the stomach of large fish which had swallowed him alive, mended his horse which had been severed in two by a portcullis, and lent his friend General Elliot a hand at the siege of Gibraltar. Num Pages: 192 pages, YES. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857155181
- ISBN
- 9781857155181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
€ 14.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. The Adventures of Eovaai is the most important prose satire of English politics and the administration of Sir Robert Walpole between Gullivers Travels and Jonathan Wild. Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Num Pages: 243 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111971
- ISBN
- 9781551111971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.84
€ 37.99
€ 27.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Athena Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844017065
- ISBN
- 9781844017065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 5.52
€ 8.99
€ 5.52
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486421599
- ISBN
- 9780486421599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.48
€ 12.48
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714530215
- ISBN
- 9780714530215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 205.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905847174
- ISBN
- 9781905847174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback. The Adventures of Rivella is especially valuable for the light it throws on a woman authors relations with publishers and other writers, both male and female. Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta Num Pages: 178 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111216
- ISBN
- 9781551111216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.53
€ 38.53
Paperback. Series: Dover Children's Thrift Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 209 x 148 x 6. Weight in Grams: 73.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486430317
- ISBN
- 9780486430317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.31
€ 7.31
Paperback. Originally published 1940. First published by Princeton 1983 and assigned new ISBN when reissued as a print-on-demand title in 2014. Translator(s): Bodde, Derk. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 514 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 514
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691613314
- ISBN
- 9780691613314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.59€ 68.36
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€ 68.36
Paperback. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former US Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553825503
- ISBN
- 9780553825503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. For fans of Siri Hustvedt and Nicole Krauss, THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS is an exceptional debut about the awakening of a young widow and 'carries a considerable erotic charge, but there's much more to it besides: grief is Amy Grace Loyd's subject and her narrative is as psychologically acute as it is sensual' (DAILY MAIL). Includes reading-group notes. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780226811
- ISBN
- 9781780226811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Hardback. Includes "Things Fall Apart", "No Longer at Ease", and "Arrow of God". In "Things Fall Apart" the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, 'strong man' and tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo society under the impact of Christianity and colonialism. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Everyman Paperback Classics
- Number of pages
- 536
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593272
- ISBN
- 9781841593272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.94
€ 26.99
€ 18.94
Hardcover. "The Afterlife of Stars moved me more than any other novel I've read in recent memory." --Tim O'Brien Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316308113
- ISBN
- 9780316308113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.59
€ 25.99
€ 20.59
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. 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€ 11.66
€ 13.99
€ 11.66
Paperback. The text of Wharton's richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar. Editor(s): Waid, Candace. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 544 pages, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Norton Critical
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393967944
- ISBN
- 9780393967944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.47
€ 18.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784081485
- ISBN
- 9781784081485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.33
€ 10.99
€ 9.33