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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Most likely written by an advisor of Nero, this title recounts the adventures of Encolpius and his companions as they travel around Italy. Estimated to date from 63 - 65 AD, and only surviving in fragments, it offers a satirical portrait of the age of Nero, in all its excesses and chaos. Translator(s): Sullivan, J. P. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140448054
ISBN
9780140448054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

Multiple-component retail product, slip-cased. 2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most important novelists, Charles Dickens. This title includes six of his works. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 239 x 140. Weight in Grams: 4264.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780141198415
ISBN
9780141198415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.27
€ 100.00

Paperback. Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned. But his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186313
ISBN
9780141186313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardcover. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC; YFA; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909621633
ISBN
9781909621633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. Hungry Hill' is a passionate story told with du Maurier's unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill to which their fortunes and fates are so closely bound. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844084524
ISBN
9781844084524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardback. A pocket hardback edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 100 x 19. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509827961
ISBN
9781509827961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.70

Hardcover. The tiny 19th-century German state of Grunewald seems to be a principality of the world of fairy-tale. But its ruler is beset in public by the forces of modern politics, and troubled in private by an unhappy marriage. Ill-prepared to deal with either, Otto is forced to choose between them. Editor(s): Irvine, Robert P. Series: The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748645237
ISBN
9780748645237
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.81
€ 102.37

Paperback. Originally published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables remains one of the most beloved heroines of all time. This beautiful new edition contains an exclusive Introduction from L.M. Montgomery's granddaughter that reminds us beauty can be found anywhere..with the right amount of imagination. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 212 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402288944
ISBN
9781402288944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. Originally published in 1904; previously published by Oxford University Press in 1992. Editor(s): Sutherland, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199554942
ISBN
9780199554942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.29

Paperback. Lord and Lady Clonbrony are more concerned with fashionable London society than with their responsibilities to those who live and work on their Irish estates. Concerned by this negligence, their son goes incognito to Ireland to observe the situation. Can he find a solution that will bring prosperity and contentment to every level of society? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140436457
ISBN
9780140436457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. The classic novel brought to life in full colour. A respectable household is shocked when a strange man visits them shortly after dinner and proceeds to unravel their prejudices and lies. Illustrator(s): Volley, Will. Translator(s): Cobley, Jason. Num Pages: 144 pages, chiefly col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AN; FC; FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 247 x 9. Weight in Grams: 436. Original Text. 144 pages, chiefly col. Illustrations. Illustrator(s): Volley, Will. The classic novel brought to life in full colour. A respectable household is shocked when a strange man visits them shortly after dinner and proceeds to unravel their prejudices and lies. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 5AN; FC; FX. Dimension: 171 x 247 x 9. Weight: 480. Translator(s): Cobley, Jason.
Publisher
Classical
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
British English ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906332327
ISBN
9781906332327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. .
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679642428
ISBN
9780679642428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.53

Paperback. Act as miniatures that aim to be regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. These tales with their prose and wordplay, include 104 stories that reveal a world, in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a pear tree, a scholar recounts his incarnations, and a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her. Translator(s): Minford, John. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447408
ISBN
9780140447408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140390247
ISBN
9780140390247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.43

Paperback. Translator(s): Appelbaum, Stanley. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 84. Series: Dover Thrift S. 96 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Dimension: 209 x 134 x 7. Weight: 88. Translator(s): Appelbaum, Stanley.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486290300
ISBN
9780486290300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.57

Paperback. Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed whereupon the prince she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman. Num Pages: 494 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143129141
ISBN
9780143129141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Paperback. Bertie Wooster has been overdoing metropolitan life a bit, and the doctor orders fresh air in the depths of the country. But after moving with Jeeves to his cottage at Maiden Eggesford, Bertie soon finds himself surrounded by aunts - not only his redoubtable Aunt Dahlia but an aunt of Jeeves's too. Series: Jeeves & Wooster. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513971
ISBN
9780099513971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Series: Bantam Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 16. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
Publication date
1984
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553211375
ISBN
9780553211375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.92

Paperback. Tells the story of young clerk Peter Pentecost, who has a claim to the throne, and a tale of intrigue against King Henry VIII, where 'under the blanket of the dark all men are alike and all are nameless'. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Birlinn General United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846970726
ISBN
9781846970726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Written in the sixteenth century, this book tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China's most famous religious heroes, and his four supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Editor(s): Yu, Anthony C. Translator(s): Yu, Anthony C. Num Pages: 440 pages, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226971391
ISBN
9780226971391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.66

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