Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Plantation Child and Other Stories by Eve Begley Kiehm
(Hardback )€11.70 (RRP €13.76)
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The "Call of the Wild", "White Fang" and Other Stories by Jack London
(Paperback 416 pages)Collects some of Jack London's allegorical tales. This volume of Jack London's stories of the North also includes "Batard", in which an abused dog takes revenge on his owner; and "Love Read more...
€10.01 (RRP €11.78)
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The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield(Hardback 224 pages)A collection of 15 stories which tells not so much of specific events or of dramas, but more of the ordinary, the everyday reality of life as people live it. Read more...
€11.08 (RRP €13.03)
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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner(Paperback 384 pages)Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From Read more...
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner(Paperback 288 pages)Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, this title explores passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. It is about Read more...
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Ninety Fathoms Down by Mark Bourrie
(Paperback 184 pages)Offers an account of people whose lives took dramatic turns on the vast Great Lakes. This title includes Paul Ragueneau, a Jesuit priest who tried to save thousands of starving Hurons in 1650, and seventeenth-century Read more...
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The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
(Paperback 290 pages)This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie's Read more...
€12.24 (RRP €14.40)
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The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway(Paperback 512 pages)This collection comprises: "Fiesta", Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from "A Farewell to Arms", "To Have and Have Not" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; 25 complete short stories; and the Read more...
€8.89 (RRP €10.47)
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"the Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence
(Paperback 304 pages)A collection of twelve stories written between 1907 and 1914. It ranges from the tale of a Prussian officer who drives his orderly towards a reckoning, to the elements of 'A Fragment of Stained Read more...
€12.24 (RRP €14.40)
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The House in New Orleans by Fleur Reynolds
(Paperback 308 pages)When Ottilie Duvier part inherits her family's mansion in New Orleans, it's the ideal opportunity to flee from her aristocratic English boyfriend, Lord Christopher. Arriving in New Orleans, she discovers her Read more...
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Hold the Dream by Barbara Taylor Bradford(Paperback 832 pages)The continuing story of Emma Harte, indomitable heroine of A Woman of Substance. Read more...
€27.84 (RRP €32.75)
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My Antonia by Willa Cather
(Paperback 436 pages)Antonia Shimerda is memorable as the warm-hearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit. Read more...
€17.80 (RRP €20.95)
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Nor the Years Condemn by Robin Hyde
(Paperback 292 pages)Shows the predicament of returned servicemen and women after the First World War. Through the story of Douglas Stark, this book describes the many ways in which New Zealand was failing their expectations. Read more...
€15.58 (RRP €18.33)
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The Straw Obelisk by Adolph Caso(Hardback 391 pages)It is post-World War II Italy where Samuele, a young soldier ill with consumption, returns to his village much changed by the horrors he witnessed in battle. Always hot tempered, he is now more accepting of human foibles. Read more...
€23.37 (RRP €27.50)
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El Viaje De Hector Rabinal Spani by Watt Donle
(Paperback 160 pages)€12.81 (RRP €15.06)
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The Magic Crocodile and Other Folktales From Indonesia by Alice M. Terada
(Hardback 144 pages)€18.37 (RRP €21.62)
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With Faith and Fury by Delos B. McKown
(Hardback 440 pages)When Manly John Plumwell hears the call of the Handmaiden of the Lord to join her Church of the Chosen, it is a call that plunges him into a world ablaze with religious fervour. The Chosen are those who have Read more...
€35.62 (RRP €41.91)
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Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway(Paperback 240 pages)The War is just over. In Venice, a city affectionately described, the American Colonel, Richard Cantrell, falls in love with Renata, an Italian countess who has 'a profile that could break Read more...
€7.78 (RRP €9.16)
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The Matisse Stories by a. S. Byatt
(Paperback 160 pages)A collection of three stories, each haunted in a different way by the spirit of Matisse, from the winner of the 1990 Booker Prize for "Possession". Read more...
€8.89 (RRP €10.47)
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Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
(Paperback 144 pages)Contains short stories, featuring men, who are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by woman's hand. Read more...
€6.67 (RRP €7.85)
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway(Paperback 144 pages)Presents Hemingway stories, in which men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from the haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Read more...
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The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald(Paperback 192 pages)The Golden Child, Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the 'Golden Child' at a London museum. Read more...
€10.01 (RRP €11.78)
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