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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, sex, love and marriage. This is an exploration of a young woman's mind, signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries and complexities of life. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140185638
ISBN
9780140185638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. Editor(s): McNichol, Stella. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183411
ISBN
9780141183411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.38

Paperback. In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 179 x 16. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781784870867
ISBN
9781784870867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.80

Paperback. A poetic novel that begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 177 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781784870843
ISBN
9781784870843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 15. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Edition
UK ed.
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007925520
ISBN
9780007925520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.34

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 114 x 30. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007925544
ISBN
9780007925544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.34

paperback. Series: Roads Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Roads Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
KOG0001416
ISBN
9781909399037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

paperback. Series: Roads Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Roads Publishing
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KMK0024669
ISBN
9781909399037
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. This haunting, elegiac tale about the secret love of a man destined shortly to die, was published in the year before the author's death and is her last novel. She also wrote "All Passion Spent", "The Edwardians", "Family History", "Seducers in Ecuador" and "The Heir". Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860685784
ISBN
9780860685784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

paperback. When statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives her youthful ambition to become an artist and gathers some very unsuitable companions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870553
ISBN
9781784870553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Sebastian is the heir of Chevron, a vast and beautiful English country estate. As such he is a fixed part of an eternal round of lavish parties, intrigues, traditions and fashions at the cold, decadent heart of Edwardian high society. Everyone knows the role Sebastian must play, but Sebastian isn't sure he wants the part. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870546
ISBN
9781784870546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Translator(s): Davis, Lydia. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 127 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590173268
ISBN
9781590173268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.09

Paperback. Translator(s): Summerfield, Giovanna. Num Pages: 36 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 4. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
36
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761822639
ISBN
9780761822639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.72

Paperback. Traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. This novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person, to the silent histories they carry. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141198040
ISBN
9780141198040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. An autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. It tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri; Scammell, Michael. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185873
ISBN
9780141185873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due to arrive at this very house soon. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141191478
ISBN
9780141191478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 196 x 22. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185774
ISBN
9780141185774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183756
ISBN
9780141183756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence. Translator(s): Scammell, Michael. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185989
ISBN
9780141185989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185996
ISBN
9780141185996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140184822
ISBN
9780140184822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185767
ISBN
9780141185767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. Editor(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 45. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183459
ISBN
9780141183459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.40

Paperback. The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185262
ISBN
9780141185262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

Paperback. Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 195 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185606
ISBN
9780141185606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

paperback. An annotated edition of "Lolita". It attempts to elaborate on the verbal textures and show how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. It also provides observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185040
ISBN
9780141185040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Paperback. Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184548
ISBN
9780141184548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141181875
ISBN
9780141181875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.57

paperback. Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has other plans. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186528
ISBN
9780141186528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811216746
ISBN
9780811216746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.68

paperback. Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141188515
ISBN
9780141188515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.67

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9788086264431
ISBN
9788086264431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.98

Paperback. Translator(s): Corner, Mark. Num Pages: 204 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 23. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Edition
Classroom
SKU
V9788024632896
ISBN
9788024632896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.94

Paperback. Series: Dover Language Guides French. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 178 x 10. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486276250
ISBN
9780486276250
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.24

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 88. Good copy with some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
SKU
KRA0011569
ISBN
9780486266893
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Series: The Cornell Yeats. Num Pages: 408 pages, 104ill. BIC Classification: DD; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1 New ed
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801429828
ISBN
9780801429828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.22

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift S. Num Pages: 176 pages, music. BIC Classification: 1KBB; FA; FC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162. Series: Dover Thrift S. 176 pages, music. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; FA; FC; HBJK. Dimension: 209 x 132 x 11. Weight: 140.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486280417
ISBN
9780486280417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.48

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bantam Classics
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553213362
ISBN
9780553213362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.04

Paperback. Mystery thriller set in WWI; who was G B Bretherton? How did a British officer come to be dressed in a German general's uniform, lying dead in a ruined chateau? Series: Casemate Classic War Fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 191 x 31. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612003764
ISBN
9781612003764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.78

hardcover. Philip's yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to make his mark as an artist before returning to London to study medicine. Here, a tortured and one-sided love affair with Mildred, a vulgar yet irresistible waitress, changes the course of his life for ever. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 35. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1942
Edition
First Edition Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593692
ISBN
9781841593692
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.18

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