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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Series: Dover Dual Language French. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486408958
ISBN
9780486408958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.42

Paperback. Written by the winner of the 1994 W H Smith Award, this book contains a selection of stories, from the earliest published work in 1968 to the works in 1994. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099732419
ISBN
9780099732419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Presents a collection of ten stories, which develops from early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder, and ghost stories. Editor(s): Wilson, Sue. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441658
ISBN
9780141441658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Paperback. Presents stories that expose the world of bartenders and 'b-girls', car washers and criminals. This title dissects the subtleties that bind humans together and the pressures that separate them. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 368 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099528791
ISBN
9780099528791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Includes stories that discuss con men and tricksters and 'innocent' deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, this title demonstrates the author's speech and place, and highlights his appreciation of life's quirks. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140186888
ISBN
9780140186888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

paperback. A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141186191
ISBN
9780141186191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. The best of a thousand imagistic stories, grouped under 'Follies and Vices' and 'Quest for the One' (the two aspects of the fundamental theme of world literature). Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 231 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
O Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780997537
ISBN
9781780997537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509806492
ISBN
9781509806492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.19

Paperback. A fictional autobiography of a young writer which takes the reader to Canada, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and elsewhere. This story of love, sex and ambiguity is the first novel by the Canadian author of the award-winning short-story collection, "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios". Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571219766
ISBN
9780571219766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.52

Paperback. Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious, this is forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence. It shows you how to deal with divorce, adultery, cancer, how to talk to your mother or become a writer, the author's way. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Faber Modern Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571322718
ISBN
9780571322718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. A collection of nine stories that provides an idiosyncratic guide to female existence. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571260850
ISBN
9780571260850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 149 x 8. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Atlas Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900565479
ISBN
9781900565479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.19

Paperback. Donna Stewart's family is poor but respectable and hard working. Donna is beautiful and clever - about to go up to university. Celebrating her exam results with her friends at a club, she meets Danny Lester, 10 years older, much richer, a businessman - he sweeps her off her feet. But it gradually emerges that he is a criminal and a sadist. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509844
ISBN
9780099509844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Old Johnny Ifor had never gone anywhere. Not physically, anyway. But in his mind, in the journals he's inherited, in the stories he starts to tell to Jonathon, he travels across oceans and generations. Num Pages: 331 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902638768
ISBN
9781902638768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosphy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policement in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0003058
ISBN
9780749399627
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
PM Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604863543
ISBN
9781604863543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.27

Paperback. The beloved and bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope's contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and is already one of the most talked about books of the year. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9780007461776
ISBN
9780007461776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 8.95

Paperback.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375756733
ISBN
9780375756733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.00

mass_market. In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, "Sense and Sensibility" is Austen's insightful representation of early 19th-century middle-class provincial life. This edition features a new Afterword. Revised reissue. Series: Signet Classics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 107 x 23. Weight in Grams: 167.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Signet United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780451531018
ISBN
9780451531018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.90

Paperback. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 211 x 24. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Bicentennial ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143106524
ISBN
9780143106524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

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