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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Talks about the narrator's dream-like adventures in fairyland, where he confronts tree-spirits and the shadow, sojourns to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. This tale aims to convey a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292. A Faerie Romance. 185 pages. Talks about the narrator's dream-like adventures in fairyland, where he confronts tree-spirits and the shadow, sojourns to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. This tale aims to convey a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 14. Weight: 292.
Publisher
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Number of pages
185
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1959
Edition
15th ptg.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802860606
ISBN
9780802860606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.01

Paperback. The Killers is a tale of gang violence, revenge, kidnapping, racial and ethnic conflict, international intrigue, and working-class triumph. Based on the real-life events of a Philadelphia race riot, this long-out-of-print sensational novella showcases the political and literary interests of its author, bestselling novelist George Lippard. Editor(s): Cohen, Matt; Wong, Edlie L. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223743
ISBN
9780812223743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Mr Charles Pooter has just moved into a home in Holloway with his dear wife Carrie. Unfortunately neither his friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, nor the butcher, the greengrocer's boy and the Lord Mayor seem to recognise Mr Pooter's innate gentility, and his disappointing son Lupin has gone and got himself involved with a most unsuitable fiancee. Num Pages: 176 pages, b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540885
ISBN
9780099540885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, young clerks and wayward friends? And what is he to do about his son Lupin's distinctly unsuitable choice of bride? However hard he tries, life piles its little mishaps on his head - but he's not about to give up. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 117 x 181 x 15. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Viking
Number of pages
240
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241956861
ISBN
9780241956861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.73

Paperback. The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle classes during the great Victorian Age. Illustrator(s): Grossmith, Weedon. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853262012
ISBN
9781853262012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.31

Paperback. The greatest of English realist novelists, famous for New Grub Street, the author creates an astonish picture of characters caught in the vortex of London, struggling to understand how they can make sense of their lives in a society of remorseless faithlessness and social snobbery. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141395647
ISBN
9780141395647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Gill, Stephen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538287
ISBN
9780199538287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.44

Paperback. Editor(s): Ingham, Patricia. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538300
ISBN
9780199538300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. New Grub Street (1891), generally regarded as Gissing's finest novel, is the story of the daily lives and broken dreams of men and women forced to earn a living by the pen. It tells of a group of novelists, journalists, and scholars caught in the literary and cultural crisis that hit Britain in the closing years of the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Mullin, Katherine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198729181
ISBN
9780198729181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.36

Paperback. Very good clean copy showing minor age and wear. Clothbound with title in gilt to spine. Some scuffs to dust jacket. Interior is very clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
768
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0025596
ISBN
9780199538485
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

hardcover. Weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him towards Zionism. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 133 x 44. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857151633
ISBN
9781857151633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 166 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551117577
ISBN
9781551117577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.83

hardcover. Illustrator(s): Hische, Jessica. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 43. Weight in Grams: 872.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780143123811
ISBN
9780143123811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.42

In this heartwarming classic, a gentle linen weaver named Silas Marner is wrongly accused of theft actually committed by his best friend. Silas exiles himself to a rustic village, where he finds spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love of an abandoned child. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 110 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 105.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Signet Classics
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780451530622
ISBN
9780451530622
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 7.05

Paperback. Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 197 x 43. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141199795
ISBN
9780141199795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Editor(s): Lovesey, Oliver. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 589 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551114675
ISBN
9781551114675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.31

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 91 x 40. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Random House Inc
Edition
Modern Library
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679783312
ISBN
9780679783312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.08

Paperback. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. Editor(s): Carroll, David. Num Pages: 272 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Publication date
2003
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
SKU
KKD0002186
ISBN
9780141439754
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 204 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1000.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780141196893
ISBN
9780141196893
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.99
€ 20.34

Paperback. Features Dorothea Brooke; Dr Lydgate; spendthrift Fred Vincy; and steadfast Mary Garth. This book explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 757.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
800
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143107729
ISBN
9780143107729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Hardcover. From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences of renunciation. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 128 x 44. Weight in Grams: 848.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
598
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151121
ISBN
9781857151121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career. Editor(s): Ashton, Rosemary. Num Pages: 880 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
880
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141439549
ISBN
9780141439549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. Editor(s): Byatt, A. S. Num Pages: 640 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141439624
ISBN
9780141439624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate. This title includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 41. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853262371
ISBN
9781853262371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.74

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