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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. In the second novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089581
ISBN
9781844089581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. The sequel to Mary Renault's classic The King Must Die, which continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from Crete. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089628
ISBN
9781844089628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089574
ISBN
9781844089574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089598
ISBN
9781844089598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A sparkling, unconventional social comedy set in bohemian 1930s London. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089529
ISBN
9781844089529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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
€ 11.09

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
€ 11.00

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.43

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

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

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

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. When beautiful Lucy Graham becomes Lady Audley, her future looks secure. But her past is shrouded in mystery, and the disappearance of a young man sparks an investigation that will reveal her dark secret.. This new edition explores the novel in the context of nineteenth-century sensation fiction and the lively debates it provoked. Editor(s): Pykett, Lyn. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199577033
ISBN
9780199577033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

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
€ 11.02

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

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

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

€ 55.24

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
€ 12.95

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