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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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.90

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

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

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

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

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.39

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

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.26

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.52

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

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

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099283621
ISBN
9780099283621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.03

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

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

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

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

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

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