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Fiction in translation

Paperback. In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying labels have been removed. No identification papers. Five crisp thousand-franc bills have been slipped into one of his pockets. A distressed man is found wandering the streets of Paris, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Translator(s): Coverdale, Linda. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 152.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141394794
ISBN
9780141394794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's criticism and philosophy. The stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century and present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's skill and artistry. Editor(s): Gustafson, Richard F. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199553990
ISBN
9780199553990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Provides an unparalleled view of the art of traditional Chinese short fiction. Translator(s): Yang, Shuhui. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DQ; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993713
ISBN
9780295993713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.89
€ 62.86

Hardback. Dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. This book reveals the tensions and triumphs of coming of age in a revolutionary time. Translator(s): Katz, Michael R. Series: Jewish Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FV; FYT; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253012098
ISBN
9780253012098
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.24

Paperback. What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening. But how? And why? Translator(s): Coward, David. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141393469
ISBN
9780141393469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.59

Hardback. Features selections that illustrate the author's literary development from an associative, highly structured early prose to the more chronologically narrated novels. This anthology concludes with an interview in which the author considers the psychology of writing, and the relationship of literature and reality. Editor(s): Ittner, Jutta. Translator(s): Ittner, Jutta. Num Pages: 347 pages, 1 black & white illustration. BIC Classification: DQ; DSK; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
347
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838757093
ISBN
9780838757093
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.14

Paperback. Translator(s): Dickson, C. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931203
ISBN
9780813931203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.32

Paperback. Dona Barbara is a beautiful and mysterious woman - rumored to be a witch - with a ferocious power over men. When her cousin Santos Luzardo returns to the plains in order to reclaim his land and cattle, he reluctantly faces off against Dona Barbara, and their battle becomes simultaneously one of violence and seduction. Translator(s): Malloy, Robert. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Tra Rep
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226279206
ISBN
9780226279206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.30

Paperback. 'a sad and splendid book' New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141022826
ISBN
9780141022826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.81

Paperback. The new bestselling novel, now in paperback, from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007166046
ISBN
9780007166046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Adrian Leverkuhn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H. T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 32. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
9780749386573
ISBN
9780749386573
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.99
€ 11.29

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

Hardback. As he leaves the cinema where he has just watched Casablanca, one of his favorite films, Julien is approached by a mysterious young woman, Claire. Unbeknownst to Julien, Claire has been following him for several days. Outside the cinema she relays a cryptic message: "Someone's trying to find you." Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422439
ISBN
9780857422439
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.22

Paperback. In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever. Translator(s): Born, Anne. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000468
ISBN
9780099506133
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Black Paintings from the Lives of the Men in the Goya Family. Series: Dedalus Europe 2012. 252 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 200 x 129 x 22. Weight: 266. Translator(s): Jones, Antonia Lloyd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dedalus Books
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907650697
ISBN
9781907650697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

paperback. A local scandal intrudes on Maigret's seaside holiday in book twenty-eight of the new Penguin Maigret series. At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an exercise book. Translator(s): Schwartz, Ros. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 200 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141980744
ISBN
9780141980744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.75

Hardcover. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 904 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 39. Weight in Grams: 804.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857152890
ISBN
9781857152890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.62

Paperback. Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, Hajime and Shimamoto had been childhood sweethearts. The two eventually lost touch but now, in their thirties, they meet up again. Hajime, now a father and husband, finds himself catapulted into the past, risking all that he has in the present. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099448570
ISBN
9780099448570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
Condition
New
SKU
9781564785367
ISBN
9781564785367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Ines, realistic about the state of her marriage, is not surprised to find a note to her husband with a heart smeared in lipstick and the words All YoursA". When Ernesto becomes a suspect in the murder case of his lover she provides him with an alibi. But when he continues his sexual adventures Ines plans a diabolical revenge. Translator(s): France, Miranda. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press United Kingdom
Edition
F First Edition
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904738800
ISBN
9781904738800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.50

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
€ 20.64

Paperback. Translator(s): Corner, Mark. Num Pages: 204 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 23. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Edition
Classroom
SKU
V9788024632896
ISBN
9788024632896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing Qatar
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9789927101885
ISBN
9789927101885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.64

paperback. Translator(s): Donougher, Christine. Series: Dedalus Europe 1992-95 S. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873982952
ISBN
9781873982952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.33

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