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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire. His dalliance with the dairymaid affects the lives of many in their small rural community. This new edition of Eliot's pioneering classic of social realism uses the definitive Clarendon text. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199203475
ISBN
9780199203475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Although not among George Eliot's most admired works, this story is set in Florence at the end of the 15th century. It re-creates the picturesque complexion of the city and the characters of the historical figures, Charles VIII, Machiavelli and Savanorola. Editor(s): Barrett, Dorothea. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434705
ISBN
9780140434705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. A beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive hotel. She is aware of, and resents, the gaze of an unusual young man, a stranger, who seems to judge her, and find her wanting. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099577294
ISBN
9780099577294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.00

Paperback. Dorothea is beautiful and rebellious and has married the wrong man. Lydgate is an ambitious doctor and has married the wrong woman. They long to make a positive difference in the world. But they and other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 622.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Random House UK
Number of pages
912
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099516231
ISBN
9780099516231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. When the young Harold Transome returns to England with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But, after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs becomes apparent. Editor(s): Mugglestone, Lynda. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434354
ISBN
9780140434354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. The best-known and most autobiographical of George Eliot's novels is now available as a Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Christ, Carol T. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 131 x 65. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393963328
ISBN
9780393963328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.59

Paperback. Scenes of Clerical Life consists of three short novellas in which the lives of ordinary men and women in a provincial Midlands town are portrayed with tender sympathy and understanding. Eliot brought a new level of literary realism to her tales of Amos Barton, Mr Gilfil, and Janet Dempster in her first published work of fiction. Editor(s): Noble, Thomas A. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199689606
ISBN
9780199689606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Follows lives of the beautiful but spoiled Gwendolene Harleth and selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, this book charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 752 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 125 x 40. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1996th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853261763
ISBN
9781853261763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.31

Paperback. Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves. Editor(s): Reynolds, Margaret. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140436648
ISBN
9780140436648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series of popular classics, Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age. This edition is thoroughly edited and extensively annotated and includes pictures and a comprehensive section on Eliot's life and works. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496041
ISBN
9781847496041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.15

Hardcover. After he is wrongly accused of a crime and expelled from his community, weaver Silas Marner becomes a miser and a recluse. A strange sequence of events, and the appearance of a small child, transforms his life in this realistic tale of rural life, and symbolic drama of sin and repentance. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 214 x 22. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151411
ISBN
9781857151411
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, this book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853261923
ISBN
9781853261923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.31

Paperback. Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. Meanwhile, Godfrey Cass, son of the squire, contracts a secret marriage. Editor(s): Atkinson, Juliette. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC. Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198724643
ISBN
9780198724643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.28

Paperback. Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both willful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss, Tom's self-righteous stubbornness and Maggie's emotional intensity increasingly brings them into conflict, particularly when Maggie's beauty sparks some ill-fated attachments. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099519065
ISBN
9780099519065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Tells the story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124.
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
9781853262210
ISBN
9781853262210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.01

Paperback. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother Tom, their fates are played out on an epic scale. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141198910
ISBN
9780141198910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

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. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141389455
ISBN
9780141389455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.45

Paperback. Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. Editor(s): Cave, Terence. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
896
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434279
ISBN
9780140434279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Hardcover. A story which evokes a bygone rural life, and is charged with a personal passion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150599
ISBN
9781857150599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

Paperback. The Lifted Veil (1859) is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works. Editor(s): Small, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555055
ISBN
9780199555055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.93

Paperback. Features stories that contain the author's earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her novels: the impact of religious controversy and social change in provincial life, and the power of love to transform the lives of individual men and women. Editor(s): Gribble, Jennifer. Num Pages: 416 pages, map. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140436389
ISBN
9780140436389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.18

Paperback. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot's last great novel, charts the intertwined lives of spirited Gwendolen Harleth and the idealistic Deronda. Both are damaged by their pasts, and alienated from the society around them, in a story set against the backdrop of economic crisis, political uncertainty, and proto-Zionism. Editor(s): Handley, Graham. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199682867
ISBN
9780199682867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

hardcover. A tale of quiet lives in an early 19th-century English provincial town which engages the reader at every level, from the author's chronicle of everyday details to the most exacting philosophical and moral reflection. Num Pages: 743 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 43. Weight in Grams: 822.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
743
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150063
ISBN
9781857150063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.35

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198707530
ISBN
9780198707530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

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