Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. In a masterful novel that vividly recreates the world of Ancient Greece, Mary Renault tells the story of Simonides, an ugly boy destined to create beauty through his extraordinary poetic talent. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a great novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient world vividly to life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844089604
- ISBN
- 9781844089604
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.18
€ 11.99
€ 10.18
Paperback. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault masterfully brings the ancient world to life in this page-turning drama of the Peloponnesian War. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844089611
- ISBN
- 9781844089611
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. The King Must Die retells the story of Theseus, bringing mythology vividly to life. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844089635
- ISBN
- 9781844089635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient Greek stage thrillingly to life. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844089567
- ISBN
- 9781844089567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.91
€ 13.99
€ 10.91
Paperback. This historical romance is based on the author's experience of living on a Cuban slaveholder's plantation from 1833 to 1835. It centres on the visit of Helen Wentworth to a friend's plantation and the love affair between Juanita, a beautiful slave with whom the plantation owner's son falls in love. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1port. BIC Classification: FC; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919560
- ISBN
- 9780813919560
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Condition: New
€ 33.99
€ 33.99
Paperback. The original SEX AND THE CITY. First published in 1963, THE GROUP, set in the 1930s, follows the lives of eight college friends as they begin their adult lives. 'A brilliant novel:honest, engaging and sharp as a tack' Sarah Waters Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844085934
- ISBN
- 9781844085934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.72
€ 14.99
€ 11.72
Paperback. Published in 1942, Mary McCarthy's first novel creates a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844085941
- ISBN
- 9781844085941
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
€ 13.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. Editor(s): Ty, Eleanor. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; FC; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555406
- ISBN
- 9780199555406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.61
€ 13.99
€ 11.61
Paperback. The Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores her frustrated heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. This is the only edition of a fascinating work, and reproduces uncut the first edition of 1864. Editor(s): Pykett, Lyn. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 57 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199549801
- ISBN
- 9780199549801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.23
€ 15.23
Paperback. Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction, a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young, beautiful - and very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely? What, exactly, is the dark secret this seductive outsider carries with her? Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141198842
- ISBN
- 9780141198842
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.19
€ 11.99
€ 10.19
Paperback. Draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140435849
- ISBN
- 9780140435849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
€ 13.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. Editor(s): Edwards, P. D. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 53. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555161
- ISBN
- 9780199555161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.42
€ 14.99
€ 12.42
hardcover. Intensely autobiographical novels, "The Captain and the Colonel" and "Two Years - or The Way We Lived Then" are Chesnut's fictionalized accounts of the world as women experienced it in the mid-19th century Civil War South. These short, unfinished novels address a range of subjects related to women. Series: Southern Texts Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; FC; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920580
- ISBN
- 9780813920580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.51
€ 54.51
Paperback. Translator(s): Wynn, Thomas; McMorran, Will; Wynn, Thomas; McMorran, Will. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 5X; FC; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141394343
- ISBN
- 9780141394343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.07
€ 16.99
€ 12.07
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099821601
- ISBN
- 9780099821601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.22
€ 25.99
€ 19.22
Paperback. Justine's attachment to virtue attracts nothing but misfortune, and she is subjected to an unending catalogue of sexual abuse. Sade's best-known novel, it overturns all religious, moral, and political norms, and still has the power to shock. This new translation of the 1791version is the first for over 40 years, and the first critical edition. Translator(s): Phillips, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FP; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199572847
- ISBN
- 9780199572847
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.45
€ 14.99
€ 12.45
Paperback. Accounts the education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Penguin Classics Deluxe ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143039013
- ISBN
- 9780143039013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.17
€ 17.99
€ 13.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 816
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099629603
- ISBN
- 9780099629603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.41
€ 21.99
€ 16.41
Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540426
- ISBN
- 9780199540426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.77
€ 11.99
€ 10.77
Paperback. Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories; tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. This new selection includes 'An Essay on Novels', Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. Translator(s): Coward, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 45. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539987
- ISBN
- 9780199539987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.61
€ 13.99
€ 11.61