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Fiction: Irish and International

paperback. Describes the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century and exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D. J. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099362517
ISBN
9780099362517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

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. A story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099285922
ISBN
9780099285922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

paperback. Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099285670
ISBN
9780099285670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

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. 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. Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, this novel castigates the fanaticism of the country's revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. It presents a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a study of terrorism. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 51. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099140016
ISBN
9780099140016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

hardcover. Written over a period of more than half a century, this volume include short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Num Pages: 1856 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 91. Weight in Grams: 1826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857152432
ISBN
9781857152432
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.99
€ 55.00

hardcover. Weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him towards Zionism. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 133 x 44. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857151633
ISBN
9781857151633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 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. Letters by the 18th century blue-stocking grande dame, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was a duke's daughter, who married the English ambassador in Constantinople, and the friend of Swift and Pope, whom she numbered among her correspondents. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: BG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857151312
ISBN
9781857151312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 12.53

hardcover. The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 37. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857151220
ISBN
9781857151220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 12.53

hardcover. Together with Voltaire, Diderot was a remarkable figure of the French Enlightenment, as a philosopher, journalist and novelist. In this book, a young girl's enforced enclosure in a convent gives Diderot the chance to explore themes such as religious hypocrisy and sexual repression. Translator(s): Birrell, Francis. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 209 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150902
ISBN
9781857150902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 11.14

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. Featuring part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, the author transmutes his life experience into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists he so much admired. Num Pages: 878 pages, 39 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 45. Weight in Grams: 900.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150315
ISBN
9781857150315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 16.68

Hardcover. The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it. Num Pages: 880 pages, 39 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 880. New.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Everyman
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150087
ISBN
9781857150087
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 16.68

hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781841593890
ISBN
9781841593890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 17.36

hardcover. Focusing on authors work, this title offers a collection of three stories dated from the 1930s. It features books such as, In Burmese Days, Coming Up for Airdramatizes, and Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Num Pages: 712 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 134 x 39. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781841593357
ISBN
9781841593357
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 13.91

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781555976453
ISBN
9781555976453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.60

paperback. Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing skill in a range of literary styles. The stories include: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire" and "The Happy Prince". Editor(s): Small, Ian. Num Pages: 320 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141439693
ISBN
9780141439693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 9.75

hardcover. A collection of stories such as: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and, "The Lost Decade". Series: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 139 x 41. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141194103
ISBN
9780141194103
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 16.68

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

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Chicken House
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781915026774
ISBN
9781915026774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.75

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Scribe UK
Condition
New
SKU
9781914484711
ISBN
9781914484711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.80

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