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Hardcover. .
Publisher
Melrose Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909757141
ISBN
9781909757141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. .
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition, First ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486794648
ISBN
9780486794648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. This fully revised second edition of "The Modern Arabic Short Story" is an anthology offering English translations of previously unavailable Arabic texts. Each story has been translated and collected with an introduction and overview of this classical form of storytelling. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 2CSR; DSBH; DSK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333641378
ISBN
9780333641378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.57

Paperback. "Yiddish edition originally published as Vidervuks in 1969." Translator(s): Butler, Erik. Series: Northwestern World Classics. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 193 x 22. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810127364
ISBN
9780810127364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.98

Paperback. Includes ten short stories that tell the inside story of the conflict lurking beneath the war's surface: the human dramas of the soldiers fighting it. This book illuminates a hidden world of tragedy, anxiety, and everyday heroism. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589661790
ISBN
9781589661790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.83

Paperback. Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of 19th-century Spain's most well known authors, had a career in the diplomatic service with postings in Europe and the Americas. A serious student of his own and foreign literatures, Valera wrote novels, short stories, essays and literary criticism. Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688867
ISBN
9780856688867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.73

Paperback. "Like her characters, Christine Granados is not afraid to step up and in. It doesn't matter who, what man or woman, Chicano or Chicana, she's fighting to win."--Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning: Stories

Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826357922
ISBN
9780826357922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.57

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

€ 34.08

Hardback. Features a collection of the author's short stories such as 'And All This Unease', 'Madness Had Come with the Rain', and 'The Survivors'. Translator(s): Wilson, Betty. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929002
ISBN
9780813929002
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.76

hardcover. Written in a narrative prose, this is a translated collection of seventeen short stories about the precolonial and colonial past of Djibouti alongside those set in the postcolonial era. Here the art of the short story offers illuminated scenes of the Djiboutian urban and rural landscape, its people, and its history. Translator(s): Garane, Jeanne. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925073
ISBN
9780813925073
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.92

Paperback. Offers a portrait of contemporary Alaskans and a look at the moral decisions that lurk in the unexpected corners of daily life. Series: Alaska Literary Series. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 227 x 14. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Alaska Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602231559
ISBN
9781602231559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.06

Hardback. Set in the time of the crucial 1970 Swiss referendum on immigration, this book introduces us to a host of colorful characters who struggle to make Switzerland their home: Eli, the Spanish bricklayer; Toni, the Italian factory worker with movie star looks; Madame Jelisaweta, the Yugoslav hairdresser; and Milena, the mysterious girl in the wardrobe. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Donal. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857421845
ISBN
9780857421845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.60

Paperback. A collection of short stories that employ a variety of forms - genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games - while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fiction Collective 2
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661393
ISBN
9781573661393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.30

Paperback. Set in New York, New England, Paris, and Morocco, this work is a collection of tales that are narrated by men and women, old and young, gay, straight, and bisexual; one narrator is not a person at all, but a work of art. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661386
ISBN
9781573661386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.83

Paperback. What would our post-9/11 society look like if it were viewed through a series of funhouse mirrors? This work presents an imaginative reconstruction of America in the early 21st century. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fiction Collective 2
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661348
ISBN
9781573661348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.23

Paperback. This volume of short stories includes a selection of reviews of unwritten novels, prefaces to fraudulent books, narratives of dictionary entries, and one interminable sentence written in a style intended to disorientate. Translator(s): Josephson, Matthew. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 178 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Fiction Collective 2
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573660853
ISBN
9781573660853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.73

Hardcover. Editor(s): Joshi, Author S T; Berkove, Professor Lawrence I; Schultz, David E. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Edition
Com
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572335387
ISBN
9781572335387
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.36

Hardcover. Editor(s): Joshi, Author S T; Berkove, Professor Lawrence I; Schultz, David E. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Edition
Com
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572335370
ISBN
9781572335370
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.49

Hardcover. Editor(s): Joshi, Author S T; Berkove, Professor Lawrence I; Schultz, David E. Num Pages: 497 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Edition
Com
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572335363
ISBN
9781572335363
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.47

Hardback. Within these stories, all carefully crafted in the language Hughes loved, are many themes for which he is best known. We meet and come to know many characters - black and white, young and old, men and women - all as believable as our own families, friends and acquaintances. Series: The collected works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 488 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 854.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Missouri Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826214119
ISBN
9780826214119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.17

Paperback. Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction short stories. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558498181
ISBN
9781558498181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.56

Hardcover. A collection of stories from the streets and cities of modern south India that explore interior worlds and moments of intensity, either awakening or loss, in the lives of diverse characters - mostly young girls and married women, but also boys and long-laboring men. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558497429
ISBN
9781558497429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.39

Paperback. A collection of stories including "Amar", "Boy, Sea, Boy", "The Collection" and "The Kids". It includes stories that reveal people teetering on the dangerous edge of their lives. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558496996
ISBN
9781558496996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.68

Hardcover. Featuring short stories, this work shows how love emerges as infidelity - incongruous and disruptive, threatening the stability of daily life. Each story moves toward the moment in which its characters, navigating loss, learn acceptance. Like the single mother in "Destiny," they see their lives happen - "all around, just then, forever". Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558496170
ISBN
9781558496170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.82

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