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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
paperback. Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan's foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include: "Rashomon"; "In a Bamboo Grove"; "The Nose"; "O-Gin"; "Loyalty"; "Death Register"; "The Life of a Stupid Man"; and "Spinning Gears". Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449709
- ISBN
- 9780140449709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
€ 13.99
€ 11.13
Paperback. Translator(s): Mathers, S. L. MacGregor. Series: Dover Occult. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; VXWM; VXWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368. 268 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; VXWM; VXWT. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 18. Weight: 358. Translator(s): Mathers, S. L. MacGregor.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Number of pages
- 268
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Edition
- 2nd Facsimile edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486232119
- ISBN
- 9780486232119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.16
€ 19.99
€ 18.16
Paperback. Part of Sade's The Crimes of Love cycle, this shocking tale - which was among the writings banned for publication until the twentieth century - tests the limits of morality and portrays the disastrous consequences of freedom and pleasure. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130. 150 pages. Part of Sade's The Crimes of Love cycle, this shocking tale - which was among the writings banned for publication until the twentieth century - tests the limits of morality and portrays the disastrous consequences of freedom and pleasure. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FP. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 10. Weight: 130.
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Number of pages
- 150
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847492975
- ISBN
- 9781847492975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.35
€ 16.99
€ 14.35
Paperback. Includes stories that are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, and full of eccentric unconventional situations. Editor(s): Munro, H. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184494
- ISBN
- 9780141184494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Explores the buttoned-up world of the British upper classes. This book includes stories, in which, an imaginative teenager gives a visitor the fright of his life, the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core, and 'Laura' expresses the hope of revenge via reincarnation. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 208 x 40. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784871918
- ISBN
- 9781784871918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172. 136 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight: 168.
- Publisher
- Non Basic Stock Line
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907970009
- ISBN
- 9781907970009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.76
€ 11.76
Hardback. Editor(s): Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Num Pages: 400 pages, Please figure on drawing one simple map of the Arab world. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149228
- ISBN
- 9780231149228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.96€ 86.38
€ 112.96
€ 86.38
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099511892
- ISBN
- 9780099511892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
paperback. Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while the author was hiding from the Gestapo, this title tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571244744
- ISBN
- 9780571244744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Hardback. intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, this title situates the work in terms of its biographical context, its intertextual references, and as a vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571246380
- ISBN
- 9780571246380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 5.70
€ 21.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than "Molloy". The sound I liked best had nothing noble about it. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571244638
- ISBN
- 9780571244638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
paperback. Includes the novellas "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled". Editor(s): Dukes, Gerry. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141180151
- ISBN
- 9780141180151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.75
€ 9.75
Paperback. The Unnamable - so named because he knows not who he may be - is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones..') as diversions from the need to stop speaking altogether. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571244645
- ISBN
- 9780571244645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
CD-Audio. Keywords: "Bestsellers, Beckett, Samuel, General, The Classics, Literary Classics, English, Age (feature_two_browse-bin), Audio CD"
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks Dublin
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9789626343371
- ISBN
- 9789626343371
CD
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.80
€ 29.99
€ 21.80
paperback. Includes the novellas "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled". Editor(s): Dukes, Gerry. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 92. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0019016
- ISBN
- 9780141180151
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 9.75
€ 9.75
paperback. Throws a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, this novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'. Editor(s): Cochrane, James. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140430127
- ISBN
- 9780140430127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 9.99
€ 14.99
€ 9.99
Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Peixotto, Ernest C. Num Pages: 240 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FC; YFJ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 218 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 466. Hardback in very good condition. With dustjacket.
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF0027409
- ISBN
- 9780781807159
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various conditions of men's lives, before returning home in a 'conclusion in which nothing is concluded'. Editor(s): Goring, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Trade Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439709
- ISBN
- 9780141439709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.90
€ 15.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. Rasselas and his companions leave the 'happy valley' in search of 'the choice of life'. Johnson's philosophical tale considers such things as the nature of poetry, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and the pursuit of happiness. This new edition relates the novel to Johnson's life and the political and social context. Editor(s): Keymer, Thomas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199229970
- ISBN
- 9780199229970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Written by Samuel Lover, an Irish writer, musician and artist; this title features a collection of poems. Including bar-room legends and fireside fables, it has been illustrated by the author. Series: Nonsuch Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Nonsuch Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845882006
- ISBN
- 9781845882006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.35
€ 9.35
Paperback. Andy Rooney is a fellow who had 'the most singularly ingenious knack of doing everything the wrong way'. Written by Samuel Lover, author, artist and musician; this volume focuses on tales of Irish folklore. Series: Nonsuch Classics. Num Pages: 539 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Nonsuch Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845881986
- ISBN
- 9781845881986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.35
€ 9.35
Paperback. Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome sexual advances. Editor(s): Ross, Angus. Num Pages: 1536 pages, music. BIC Classification: 2BMH; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 146 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1186.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 1536
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140432152
- ISBN
- 9780140432152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.99
€ 33.99
€ 28.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Keymer, Thomas; Wakely, Alice. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536498
- ISBN
- 9780199536498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Based on actual events, Pamela is the story of a young girl who goes to work in a private residence and finds herself pursued by her employer's son, described as a "gentleman of free principles." Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393001662
- ISBN
- 9780393001662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.46
€ 12.46