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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Hardcover. A mixture of reality and illusion, this is the story of the besotted Don Quixote and his down-to-earth companion, the faithful Sancho Panza, who set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat. The narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy. Translator(s): Motteux, P.A. Num Pages: 1048 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1008.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150032
- ISBN
- 9781857150032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.36
€ 26.99
€ 20.36
Paperback. Translator(s): Ormsby, John. Num Pages: 922 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 205 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Regan Arts United States
- Number of pages
- 922
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781632060754
- ISBN
- 9781632060754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.88
€ 27.88
Paperback. Editor(s): Lipson, Lesley. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555000
- ISBN
- 9780199555000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. A young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him. Translator(s): O Ceallaigh, Philip. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241189610
- ISBN
- 9780241189610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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€ 11.76
Paperback. Translator(s): Garry, Stephen. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 200 x 27. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241284407
- ISBN
- 9780241284407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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Paperback. Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847496201
- ISBN
- 9781847496201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
hardcover. Long suppressed in its native land, this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical, trenchant, unadulterated voice of dissent. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
- Number of pages
- 446
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150667
- ISBN
- 9781857150667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.91
€ 21.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. A Dog's Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form. Nowadays this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world. Translator(s): Bouis, Antonina W. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847495686
- ISBN
- 9781847495686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
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€ 10.03
Paperback. A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529941
- ISBN
- 9780099529941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.89
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€ 10.89
Paperback. Drawing on the author's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, this title takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099490661
- ISBN
- 9780099490661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Paperback. Contains five satirical stories. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529552
- ISBN
- 9780099529552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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€ 11.76
Paperback. Featuring explorations of the absurd and bizarre, this title, here presented in a new translation, provides a glimpse into the artistic development of the author of "Master and Margarita". Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847494726
- ISBN
- 9781847494726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.02
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€ 10.02
Paperback. A semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers. Editor(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455144
- ISBN
- 9780140455144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author's own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493538
- ISBN
- 9781847493538
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
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Paperback. A satire by the author of "The Master and Margarita" on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New, Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099479321
- ISBN
- 9780099479321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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Paperback. In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells and body bags. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455465
- ISBN
- 9780140455465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
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Paperback. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Edition
- 11th Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540946
- ISBN
- 9780099540946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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Paperback. Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire of the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493712
- ISBN
- 9781847493712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.02
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Paperback. In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. It includes the piece Morphine Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204. 160 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. It includes the piece Morphine. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight: 202. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847492869
- ISBN
- 9781847492869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.02
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Paperback. Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them - such as 'The Cockroach' and 'A Dissolute Man' - published for the first time in the English language. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Classics Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493873
- ISBN
- 9781847493873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
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Paperback. Features a wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip Preobrazhensky who implants the pituitary gland and testicles of a drunken petty criminal into the body of a stray dog. As the dog slowly transforms into a man, and man into a slovenly, lecherous government official, the doctor's life descends into chaos. Editor(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455151
- ISBN
- 9780140455151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
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Paperback. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia in 1916-17. This book show how his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of the Revolution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099529569
- ISBN
- 9780099529569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.86
€ 12.99
€ 9.86
Paperback. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's saga, the author recreates the experience of battles, and also the long pauses that come before and after. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300151459
- ISBN
- 9780300151459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.92
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€ 18.92
Paperback. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 166 x 13. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843914020
- ISBN
- 9781843914020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.89
€ 14.99
€ 13.89