Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. Translator(s): Heppenstall, Rayner. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Edition
- New Impression
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442328
- ISBN
- 9780140442328
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.90
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Paperback. In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society that he had written. In this title, the twin themes of redemption and rebirth are illuminated by a consistently passionate rejection of both philosophic and practical materialism in favour of love. Translator(s): Adamson, Donald. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141396705
- ISBN
- 9780141396705
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.88
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Paperback. Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household with exacting miserly attention and his wife and daughter suffer a Spartan existence. On the evening of his daughter Eugenie's twenty third birthday his foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eugenie has never known passion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099560869
- ISBN
- 9780099560869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.46
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Paperback. Translator(s): Krailsheimer, A. J. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199538751
- ISBN
- 9780199538751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career as Napoleon's aide-de-camp at the battle of Montereau. Translator(s): Adamson, Donald. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442373
- ISBN
- 9780140442373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.69
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paperback. Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Translator(s): McCannon, Olivia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449723
- ISBN
- 9780140449723
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. One of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie Humaine, Eugenie Grandet (1833) is a story of family conflict, unrequited love and self-sacrifice set against the aftermath of the French Revolution. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Translator(s): Raphael, Sylvia. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555895
- ISBN
- 9780199555895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.57
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Hardcover. In this novel of obsessive passion the author tells stories of Old Goriot and the ungrateful daughters he adores; young Rastignac, a country lad determined to make his way in Paris; and Vautrin, his satanic tempter. Their lives all cross in the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris. Translator(s): Marriage, E. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150377
- ISBN
- 9781857150377
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
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Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486406541
- ISBN
- 9780486406541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.42
€ 11.42
Hardcover. The "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" of Homer (eighth century BCE) are the two oldest European epic poems. The former tells of Achilles s anger over an insult to his honour during the Trojan War, and of its consequences for the Achaeans, the Trojans, and Achilles himself. Translator(s): Murray, A.T. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 660 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 119 x 34. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Loeb
- Number of pages
- 660
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1925
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674995802
- ISBN
- 9780674995802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.92
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Paperback. A translation that presents Homer's poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. Translator(s): Fagles, Robert. Num Pages: 560 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC; FC; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 149 x 38. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140268867
- ISBN
- 9780140268867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.65
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Hardcover. The "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" of Homer (eighth century BCE) are the two oldest European epic poems. The former tells of Achilles s anger over an insult to his honour during the Trojan War, and of its consequences for the Achaeans, the Trojans, and Achilles himself. Translator(s): Murray, A.T. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 168 x 31. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Loeb
- Number of pages
- 598
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1924
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674995796
- ISBN
- 9780674995796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.92
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paperback. Robert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist minister. He comes to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined to be saved, while others are damned. Editor(s): Miller, Karl. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441535
- ISBN
- 9780141441535
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.39
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Paperback. Translator(s): Claeson, Eva. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714530611
- ISBN
- 9780714530611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.43
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€ 15.43
Paperback. Star-crossed lovers struggle against their families, upbringings and values in Hilda Vaughan's first and arguably finest novel, The Battle to the Weak. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998257
- ISBN
- 9781906998257
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Condition: New
€ 12.26
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Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811218504
- ISBN
- 9780811218504
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.52
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Paperback. Now, exploring the psychological narrative implicit in that mass of documents, Parker recreates episode after episode that will prove stunningly new, even to Melvilleans. Num Pages: 998 pages, 40, 40 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 248 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 928
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801881855
- ISBN
- 9780801881855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 42.02
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€ 42.02
paperback. At first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione. Translator(s): Horrocks, David. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141192093
- ISBN
- 9780141192093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099283621
- ISBN
- 9780099283621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.03
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Paperback. Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him into an enchanted, Faust-like underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters, romantic, freakish and savage by turn, Haller begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth. Translator(s): Creighton, Basil. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 17. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780241951521
- ISBN
- 9780241951521
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 129 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 129
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2008 Modern Library Pbk. Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812974782
- ISBN
- 9780812974782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.13
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- (38th printing)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141984612
- ISBN
- 9780141984612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. Translator(s): Jones, W. Glyn. Series: Dedalus European Classics. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 300. Series: Dedalus European Classics. 278 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight: 300. Translator(s): Jones, W. Glyn.
- Publisher
- Dedalus Limited
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907650734
- ISBN
- 9781907650734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.48
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paperback. Here are 10 stories that represent some of the best short work by American master Melville, including Bartleby, the Scrivener, The Happy Failure, and The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids. Series: Short Story Collections. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780061773754
- ISBN
- 9780061773754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.49
€ 11.49