Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. The stories in this collection combine realism and fantasy. The themes are familiar from Gaskell's novels, but their treatment is revealingly different, ranging from ghost stories and comic fantasy, to a realistic tale of 17th-century witch trials. Editor(s): Kranzler, Laura. Num Pages: 416 pages, notes, further reading. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140437416
- ISBN
- 9780140437416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
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Paperback. Covering some of the very best of F Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 141 x 27. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141192505
- ISBN
- 9780141192505
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
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Paperback. Part novel, part digression, this book presents a disordered narrative that interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. Editor(s): New, Joan; New, Melvyn. Num Pages: 784 pages, chronology, glossary, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 784
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439778
- ISBN
- 9780141439778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee. Editor(s): Whitehouse, Roger. Translator(s): Whitehouse, Roger. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449631
- ISBN
- 9780140449631
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love, yet know they have only a short time together as society deems their relationship impossible and refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of their feelings. Translator(s): Bowman, Peter James. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141392172
- ISBN
- 9780141392172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. Tomcat Murr is a loveable animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off, two different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the scholar, carouser and brawler, and the hypochondriac genius Kreisler. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446319
- ISBN
- 9780140446319
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Gallimard
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782070360017
- ISBN
- 9782070360017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.75
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Hardback. Illustrator(s): Hische, Jessica. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143124313
- ISBN
- 9780143124313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.94
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Paperback. Features a portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. This book is a haikuesque novel infused with the author's musings on art and nature. Translator(s): McKinney, Meredith. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143105190
- ISBN
- 9780143105190
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the brothers Matu and Muthegi are raised according to customs that, they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. But when the red' strangers come, sunburned Europeans who seek to colonize their homeland, the lives of the two Kikuyu tribesmen begin to change in dramatic new ways. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188508
- ISBN
- 9780141188508
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Condition: New
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Paperback. When Agnes's father loses the family savings, young Agnes determines to make her own living - as a governess. Working for the Bloomfields, her enthusiasm is soon dampened by isolation and the cruelty of the children in her charge. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872397
- ISBN
- 9781784872397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.31
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Paperback. Translator(s): Avsey, Ignat. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782271154
- ISBN
- 9781782271154
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.12
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Hardcover. Using multiple narrators, playing with literary stereotypes and identities, this title tells the story of an aspiring young writer, James Orlebar Cloyster, prepared to do almost anything, first for success and then for gratification. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591926
- ISBN
- 9781841591926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.65
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Paperback. "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Editor(s): Fischer, Victor; Salamo, Lin; Smith, Harriet E.; Blair, Walter. Series: Mark Twain Library. Num Pages: 616 pages, 30 b/w photographs, 192 line illustrations, 5 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 140 x 39. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 616
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 125th Anniversary Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266100
- ISBN
- 9780520266100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.00
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Paperback. Three Diggers Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 124 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Nonsuch Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845880842
- ISBN
- 9781845880842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.24
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199662777
- ISBN
- 9780199662777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.58
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Paperback. The Noli, as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism. This title tells a love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Annotated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143039693
- ISBN
- 9780143039693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.17
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Paperback. Escaping a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium, the hero gets entangled with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, which complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school. Editor(s): Glen, Heather. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140433111
- ISBN
- 9780140433111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
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Hardcover. Set in mid-19th-century Russia, this book tells the story of a married woman's passion for a young officer and of her tragic fate. Translator(s): Maude, Louise; Maude, Aylmer. Num Pages: 964 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 48. Weight in Grams: 890. Some very light soiling and/or shelf wear may be present.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 964
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- 9781857150582
- ISBN
- 9781857150582
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 24.99€ 15.77
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Paperback. Exactly 500 years after its first publication by the great Venetian printing house Aldus Manutius, Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was translated into English and reprinted in full, together with all of its 174 original - and enchanting - woodcut illustrations. Translator(s): Godwin, Joscelyn. Num Pages: 496 pages, 174 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 39. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500285497
- ISBN
- 9780500285497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.36
€ 21.36