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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141199825
ISBN
9780141199825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

paperback. .
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155950
ISBN
9781903155950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.19

Paperback. Mapp and Lucia are the centrepiece of E.F. Benson's series of Lucia novels, bringing together the eponymous middle-aged doyennes of polite 1930s society, Miss Mapp and Miss Lucas. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141187686
ISBN
9780141187686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy Tube platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little caterpillar. And a telephone, what could be scary about that? There's no need for a ticking clock, a limping footstep, or a knock at the door to start you trembling. There's nothing to be scared of. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784871901
ISBN
9781784871901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

paperback. These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 46. Weight in Grams: 426.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840226744
ISBN
9781840226744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.33

Paperback. Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling.. until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to her friends. No one could compete, surely, with Lucia's formidable armoury: her duchesses, her Italian, her financial speculations, her celebrated recipe for Lobster a la Riseholme. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099528425
ISBN
9780099528425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, this collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Carribbean in the twentieth century. Editor(s): Fallaize, Elizabeth. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583171
ISBN
9780199583171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. The definitive collection of Dylan Thomas' short stories, showing just why he is considered one of the 20th century's finest writers. Also featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780227306
ISBN
9781780227306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Ten marvellously evocative short stories inspired by the events of Dylan Thomas' youth. Featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780227276
ISBN
9781780227276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Ourika is the story of an African girl growing up in France: based on a true story, it was a runaway bestseller following its first publication in Paris in 1823. This is a corrected and updated reprint of the 1998 second edition of this text. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 160 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895736
ISBN
9780859895736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.29

paperback. In the final adventure of the Musketeers, the Man in the Iron Mask sees D'Artagnan remain in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have gone their separate ways. Meanwhile a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask languishes in the Bastille, where he has been for eighteen years. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim; Rogers, Jacqueline. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140439243
ISBN
9780140439243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English. Editor(s): Overland, Orm (Professor of English, University of Bergen, Norway). Translator(s): Overland, Orm; Thorson, Gerald. Series: The Longfellow Series of American Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 194 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 293.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801868818
ISBN
9780801868818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.64

paperback. Editor(s): Hingley, Ronald. Translator(s): Coulson, Jessie. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
New
SKU
9780199540518
ISBN
9780199540518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 11.29

paperback. Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, this novel castigates the fanaticism of the country's revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. It presents a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a study of terrorism. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 51. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
768
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099140016
ISBN
9780099140016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 254 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781910263082
ISBN
9781910263082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.91

Paperback. When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher. But Madamoiselle Julie's life is not as straightforward as Olivia imagines and the school year is destined to end abruptly in tragedy. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 88.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099511885
ISBN
9780099511885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Hardback. Levy explores the classic Chinese novel The Story of the Stone(also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber), illuminating the work by interpreting its four major themes: the inversion of traditional family dynamics, the function of illness and medicine in a Buddhist society, the role of poetry in a dynastic Chinese society, and the use of poetry as a vehicle for spiritual retribution. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231114066
ISBN
9780231114066
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.19
€ 83.75

Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC; YFA; YFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509843732
ISBN
9781509843732
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
1032
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691150437
ISBN
9780691150437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.27
€ 51.34

Paperback. Tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
3rd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571322862
ISBN
9780571322862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

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