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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction, a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young, beautiful - and very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely? What, exactly, is the dark secret this seductive outsider carries with her? Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141198842
ISBN
9780141198842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. When beautiful Lucy Graham becomes Lady Audley, her future looks secure. But her past is shrouded in mystery, and the disappearance of a young man sparks an investigation that will reveal her dark secret.. This new edition explores the novel in the context of nineteenth-century sensation fiction and the lively debates it provoked. Editor(s): Pykett, Lyn. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199577033
ISBN
9780199577033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. Editor(s): Ty, Eleanor. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; FC; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555406
ISBN
9780199555406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.61

Paperback. Published in 1942, Mary McCarthy's first novel creates a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844085941
ISBN
9781844085941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. The original SEX AND THE CITY. First published in 1963, THE GROUP, set in the 1930s, follows the lives of eight college friends as they begin their adult lives. 'A brilliant novel:honest, engaging and sharp as a tack' Sarah Waters Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844085934
ISBN
9781844085934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

Paperback. This historical romance is based on the author's experience of living on a Cuban slaveholder's plantation from 1833 to 1835. It centres on the visit of Helen Wentworth to a friend's plantation and the love affair between Juanita, a beautiful slave with whom the plantation owner's son falls in love. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1port. BIC Classification: FC; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919560
ISBN
9780813919560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.43

Paperback. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient Greek stage thrillingly to life. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089567
ISBN
9781844089567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. The King Must Die retells the story of Theseus, bringing mythology vividly to life. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089635
ISBN
9781844089635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault masterfully brings the ancient world to life in this page-turning drama of the Peloponnesian War. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089611
ISBN
9781844089611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. In a masterful novel that vividly recreates the world of Ancient Greece, Mary Renault tells the story of Simonides, an ugly boy destined to create beauty through his extraordinary poetic talent. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a great novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient world vividly to life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089604
ISBN
9781844089604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. A sparkling, unconventional social comedy set in bohemian 1930s London. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089529
ISBN
9781844089529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089598
ISBN
9781844089598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089574
ISBN
9781844089574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. The sequel to Mary Renault's classic The King Must Die, which continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from Crete. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089628
ISBN
9781844089628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. In the second novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089581
ISBN
9781844089581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089512
ISBN
9781844089512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.44

Paperback. Tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141198965
ISBN
9780141198965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.39

Paperback. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Rep Dlx
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143105039
ISBN
9780143105039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Hardcover. The most important and complete annotated volume of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ever compiled appears for the 200th anniversary of the original publication. Editor(s): Klinger, Leslie S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 250 color and black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216. .
Publisher
Liveright
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871409492
ISBN
9780871409492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.99

Hardback. Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 139 x 31. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9780141393391
ISBN
9780141393391
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.29

Paperback. Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its creator and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy Frankenstein and all that he holds dear. Editor(s): Hindle, Maurice. Num Pages: 352 pages, chronology, further reading, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
9780141439471
ISBN
9780141439471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.92

Paperback. Strongly autobiographical, Mary and The Wrongs of Woman powerfully complement Wollstonecraft's non-fictional writing, inspired by the French Revolution and the social upheavals that followed. Editor(s): Kelly, Gary. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538904
ISBN
9780199538904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.40

Paperback. Includes stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In "Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary", the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man after the loss of her child. Editor(s): Todd, Janet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; FC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005140
ISBN
9780140433715
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Paley, Morton D. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199552351
ISBN
9780199552351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

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