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Short stories
paperback. This title gathers 20 stories from the "glory days" of "The New Yorker", some of them set in her native Dublin, but mostly in and around her adopted Manhattan. The collection's centrepiece is a suite of satirical scenes from suburban life. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Counterpoint LLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781582431192
- ISBN
- 9781582431192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.37
€ 21.99
€ 15.37
paperback. Series: Break Away Books. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Break Away Book Club
- SKU
- V9780253020628
- ISBN
- 9780253020628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.16
€ 18.99
€ 18.16
paperback. A companion piece to the captivating memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST by the Man Booker-winning author, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007166442
- ISBN
- 9780007166442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.88
€ 12.99
€ 9.88
Paperback. Deals with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children. This title contains the author's controversial story "Weddings and Beheadings", as well as his prophetic "My Son the Fanatic", which exposes the religious tensions within the muslim family unit. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 47. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571249824
- ISBN
- 9780571249824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.24
€ 17.99
€ 12.24
paperback. First published in 1852, "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" is a loose series of lyrical stories of rural life under serfdom. This expanded edition includes all Turgenev's other short stories. Translator(s): Freeborn, Richard. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140445220
- ISBN
- 9780140445220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 9.88
€ 19.99
€ 9.88
paperback. LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'. Before too long Marlowe's up to his neck in corpses and cops and he's taken pity on the girl. There's nothing like making trouble of your business.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241956304
- ISBN
- 9780241956304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 9.88
€ 19.99
€ 9.88
paperback. The novelist, poet, and essayist presents a collection of twenty essays that offer everything from critiques of the American experience to a celebration of ordinary lives to a determined warning about the future of the country. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Counterpoint United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619024373
- ISBN
- 9781619024373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.28
€ 21.28
Paperback. These collaborative stories unite two beloved characters from two different urban fantasy series in each of ten electrifying new stories. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 205 x 28. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harper Voyager
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062391346
- ISBN
- 9780062391346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.45
€ 17.99
€ 16.45
Paperback. An account of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. This book portrays characters which are generally the uneducated and disadvantaged who must cope with assaults on their traditionalism, hostility from their urban brethren and, of course, the debilitating effects of poverty. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231122610
- ISBN
- 9780231122610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.24
€ 38.24
The Last of the Whampoa Breed. Stories of the Chinese Diaspora.
David Der-Wei . Ed(S): Chi Pang-Yuan; Wang
Stories born of the trials and heartache of exile in Taiwan. Editor(s): Chi Pang-Yuan; Wang, David Der-Wei. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130028
- ISBN
- 9780231130028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.22
€ 49.22
This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui)." Editor(s): Rea, Christopher G. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152747
- ISBN
- 9780231152747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.67
€ 128.67
Paperback. Kurt Vonnegut's first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vanguard Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306822780
- ISBN
- 9780306822780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.32
€ 16.99
€ 14.32
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Furman, Laura. Series: Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories. Num Pages: 403 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 403
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307472373
- ISBN
- 9780307472373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.92
€ 16.99
€ 15.92
Paperback. A new short story collection from Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316334396
- ISBN
- 9780316334396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.94
€ 18.99
€ 16.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 182 x 368 x 12. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375757174
- ISBN
- 9780375757174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.74
€ 17.99
€ 15.74
Paperback. In a splendid display of show-and-tell, 26 writers tell a story and lift the curtain to reveal how they did it. Editor(s): Turchi, Peter; Barrett, Andrea. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; CBV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393325324
- ISBN
- 9780393325324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.08
€ 19.99
€ 19.08
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Books Ed
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780394710488
- ISBN
- 9780394710488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.94
€ 25.99
€ 22.94
Continuing the bestselling backlist Penthouse Letters series, which has sold more than 500,000 copies, here's the latest steamy collection of erotic true stories originally featured in Penthouse magazine. Series: Letters to Penthouse. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FP; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 105 x 24. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780446604192
- ISBN
- 9780446604192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.43
€ 10.43
Paperback. Series: Vintage classics. Num Pages: 493 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679736486
- ISBN
- 9780679736486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.14
€ 17.99
€ 17.14
Paperback. This guide offers an introduction to the basic skills and intellectual tools required for making a study of fiction. It presents an explanation of the most common features of prose, using practical examples drawn from six short stories which are included as part of the study programme. Num Pages: 224 pages, glossary, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSB; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 134. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719033971
- ISBN
- 9780719033971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.28
€ 29.28