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Paperback. Tells stories from the middle period of the author's career - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor. In this title, all the stories feature characters who face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 368 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140447866
- ISBN
- 9780140447866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Hardcover. A novel that follows the parallel lives of a transplanted Austrian woman, who has made Iran her home, and her grandson, Nuri, who desperately misses his mother but hides his longing behind a veneer of teenage bravado. Translator(s): Rahimieh, Nasrin. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609339
- ISBN
- 9780815609339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.52
€ 31.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. These warm and humorous stories are ideal for fireside reading for young and old. Illustrator(s): Hayes, William J. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Derrydale Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568331430
- ISBN
- 9781568331430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.78
€ 17.99
€ 17.78
Paperback. Translator(s): Hodges, Horace Jeffery; Hwang, Sun-ae. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 37. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564789112
- ISBN
- 9781564789112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.23
€ 19.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099540946
- ISBN
- 9780099540946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.07
€ 13.99
€ 11.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Santa Fe Writer's Project United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939650054
- ISBN
- 9781939650054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.21
€ 14.99
€ 14.21
Paperback. Translator(s): Fulton, Bruce; Fulton, Ju-Chan. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DQ; DSB; FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231181013
- ISBN
- 9780231181013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
paperback. A collection of modernist short stories which create a picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. The author stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KOG0001580
- ISBN
- 9780141182452
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 10.99€ 9.35
€ 10.99
€ 9.35
Paperback. With London in the grip of a heat-wave, a man takes refuge from the scorching sun in a nearby tea-shop, only to share his table with a stranger who seems determined to make conversation. Too polite to ignore him, he becomes his reluctant confidant as harmless small talk gives way to dark memories. Num Pages: 109 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 109
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843914297
- ISBN
- 9781843914297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.52
€ 5.52
Hardback. T, an acclaimed but aging actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They meet, they break up, they marry, and they get divorced. They neither can live with nor without one another, and this impossible state of affairs lasts all their lives. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857421708
- ISBN
- 9780857421708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.33
€ 20.99
€ 18.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681370163
- ISBN
- 9781681370163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.74
€ 19.99
€ 14.74
paperback. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714529547
- ISBN
- 9780714529547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.38
€ 12.38
Paperback. A cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together short stories by authors including Calvino, Garcia Marquez, Abe, Duras, Borges and Beckett. Editor(s): MacShane, Frank; Carlson, Lori M. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231079938
- ISBN
- 9780231079938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.43
€ 37.99
€ 27.43
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857051578
- ISBN
- 9780857051578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
paperback. A humorous look at golf by the acclaimed author of the "Jeeves and Wooster" stories. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780091745752
- ISBN
- 9780091745752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 16.68
€ 25.99
€ 16.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807614
- ISBN
- 9780875807614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.42
€ 17.99
€ 17.42
Paperback. The stories in this debut collection present a harsh and unsentimental view of the mundane, underscored by moments of beauty, humour and pathos. The characters inhabit a world that can seem dangerously indifferent to human feeling, but alive to the thrills of living on the edge. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571206544
- ISBN
- 9780571206544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.05
€ 9.99
€ 8.05
Includes translations of the earliest preserved novels in ancient Greek that offer us a glimpse of the beginning of prose fiction in the western world. Translator(s): Trzaskoma, Stephen M. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603841931
- ISBN
- 9781603841931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.05€ 41.28
€ 52.05
€ 41.28
Paperback. Hrabal s books are distinctive witness to the life of ordinary people only at first glance. In the book, Rambling on await the reader stories set in the popular Hrabal s Kersko. The book was filmed in 1983 by Jiri Menzel. " Translator(s): Short, David. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 191 x 13. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Karolinum Press, Charles University
- Edition
- Classroom ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788024632865
- ISBN
- 9788024632865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.62
€ 11.99
€ 11.62
Paperback. As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba. Series: Vintage Magic. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099528562
- ISBN
- 9780099528562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.27
€ 13.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. "[Elsir is] widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers." --"Daily News," Egypt Translator(s): Hutchins, William; Hutchins, William. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789927101892
- ISBN
- 9789927101892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work, from Gothic horror to the first modern detective stories. Series Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840220728
- ISBN
- 9781840220728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.09
€ 7.09
Paperback. Burrard Inlet is the body of water that divides Vancouver's North Shore from the rest of the Lower Mainland. In this collection of award-winning stories, Tyler Keevil uses that rugged landscape as a backdrop for characters who are struggling against the elements, each other, and themselves. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 204 x 16. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946898
- ISBN
- 9781908946898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.37
€ 12.37
The narrator of the novella, ?Boys?, is a 13-year-old Chris, a member of a small gang. The 12 stories in ?On Monday? proceed chronologically from a Monday to a Tuesday morning. Each story highlights a different character's experiences with parents, friends, teachers, the expectations of others and the expectations of a culture and an era. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607977
- ISBN
- 9780815607977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.75
€ 24.99
€ 21.75