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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

paperback. Features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. This title shows how, forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town, she develops a passionate sense of social justice, and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141198927
ISBN
9780141198927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.85

Paperback. Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Editor(s): Daly, Macdonald. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140434644
ISBN
9780140434644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.59

Paperback. Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-19th century. Mary Barton was published in 1848, at a time of great social ferment in Europe, and it reflects its revolutionary moment through an English lens. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 24. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781840226898
ISBN
9781840226898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.01

Paperback. Contains six of her finest stories that have been selected to demonstrate the variety and accomplishment of her shorter fiction, and to trace the development of her art. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840224511
ISBN
9781840224511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.28

Hardback. Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty. Editor(s): Ingham, Patricia. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
9780141442549
ISBN
9780141442549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007902255
ISBN
9780007902255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.80

Paperback. Follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the north. This book uses a love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a industrial society. It traces the origins of problems and possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years later. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853260933
ISBN
9781853260933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.31

Paperback. Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect. Editor(s): Foster, Shirley. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538355
ISBN
9780199538355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 36. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141389462
ISBN
9780141389462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.02

Paperback. Series: Art of the Novella S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 126 x 7. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Melville House Publishing United States
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612192185
ISBN
9781612192185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.34

Paperback. Ruth Hilton, an orphan and dressmaker's assistant, is seduced and then heartlessly deserted by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. A dissenting minister advises her to pass as a widow and be employed as a governess with the tyrannical Mr Bradshaw. However, the deceit brings grievous consequences. Editor(s): Easson, Angus. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434309
ISBN
9780140434309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Cranford is a vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, dominated by its independent and refined women, a blend of social comedy and astute observation. This edition includes two related short works by Gaskell and contemporary comment on the novel, household management, fashion, and financial scandals. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199558308
ISBN
9780199558308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. When the author's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, she is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Editor(s): Ingham, Patricia. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434248
ISBN
9780140434248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Paperback. According to many critics, Wives and Daughters is Elizabeth Gaskell's masterpiece. Set in a provincial English town, the novel is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms. Editor(s): Easson, Angus. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
784
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538263
ISBN
9780199538263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.79

Paperback. Milton is a northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops, she starts to see Milton in a different light. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099511489
ISBN
9780099511489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.43

Paperback. Editor(s): Easson, Angus. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537006
ISBN
9780199537006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.26

Hardback. Elizabeth Gaskell's Victorian love story, set in the mill towns of the industrial North of England Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; 3JH; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 100 x 32. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509827947
ISBN
9781509827947
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. The stories in this collection combine realism and fantasy. The themes are familiar from Gaskell's novels, but their treatment is revealingly different, ranging from ghost stories and comic fantasy, to a realistic tale of 17th-century witch trials. Editor(s): Kranzler, Laura. Num Pages: 416 pages, notes, further reading. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140437416
ISBN
9780140437416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the nineteenth century's most significant novelists, was widely held to be the social conscience of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Editor(s): Recchio, Thomas. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 672 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
649
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393930634
ISBN
9780393930634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.62

Paperback. Set in 1790 in Monkshaven, where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic wars. One of their victims is Charley Kinraid, who captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia's cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himself and, in order to win her, withholds crucial information with devastating consequences. Editor(s): Foster, Shirley. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434224
ISBN
9780140434224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. This representative selection includes five tales of very different kinds written in the 1850s and the longer Cousin Phillis. Immensely readable and sophisticated works of art, they show Gaskell's mastery of the genre, in an edition that celebrates her achievements in shorter fiction and the context in which they first appeared. Editor(s): Glen, Heather; Glen, Heather. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199239498
ISBN
9780199239498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Gaskell's depiction of a fallen woman as her heroine shocked contemporary readers. Ruth is seduced and heartlessly abandoned but finds shelter and love with her illegitimate child until a twist of fate brings her past back to haunt her. This new edition explores the novel's radicalism and cultural influence. Editor(s): Dolin, Tim. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199581955
ISBN
9780199581955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepfather. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Num Pages: 720 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434781
ISBN
9780140434781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

Paperback. Set in a fictional Whitby at the turn of the eighteenth century, Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is a compelling story of an ordinary girl's tragic passion for a man who disappears. This wide-ranging new edition includes freshly researched notes and considers the novel's debates with the legacy of the Brontes. Editor(s): O'Gorman, Francis. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199656738
ISBN
9780199656738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

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