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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561132
ISBN
9780099561132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

paperback. Draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising powers of planet earth that have turned us all into machines. Editor(s): Harris, Oliver. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189789
ISBN
9780141189789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. The greatest of English realist novelists, famous for New Grub Street, the author creates an astonish picture of characters caught in the vortex of London, struggling to understand how they can make sense of their lives in a society of remorseless faithlessness and social snobbery. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141395647
ISBN
9780141395647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. A translation of Cervantes' masterpiece. Translator(s): Montgomery, James H. Num Pages: 896 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1198.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
896
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209589
ISBN
9780872209589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.34

Paperback. Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; FC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 114.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Hackett Pub Co London
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872201934
ISBN
9780872201934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.53

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Modern Library Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
First PB Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780375757327
ISBN
9780375757327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.99
€ 7.86

Paperback. This novel is set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, in the French Indies and in the North American wilderness. The story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in 19th-century fiction - James Durie, Master of Ballantrae. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434460
ISBN
9780140434460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A fully annotated scholarly edition of Austen's most popular novel. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 176 x 30. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Signet
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780451530783
ISBN
9780451530783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.24

Hardcover. Explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the city's ageless paradoxes. Editor(s): Keates, Jonathan. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 125 x 25. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596228
ISBN
9781841596228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

Hardcover. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. 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
V9781909621756
ISBN
9781909621756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.70

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Schorr, David. Translator(s): Shapiro, Norman. Num Pages: 520 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 33. Weight in Grams: 806.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
520
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252073816
ISBN
9780252073816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society. Editor(s): Peters, Catherine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 41. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
880
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538157
ISBN
9780199538157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.48

Paperback. Fauna, the latest madam at the Bear Flag brothel, Doc, still there for everyone else but feeling strangely sad himself, and Suzy, the new hustler in town who might just be the girl to save him. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185521
ISBN
9780141185521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

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
€ 11.05

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

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
€ 11.05

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

€ 17.99
€ 13.44

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Gallimard
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
SKU
V9782070360017
ISBN
9782070360017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.89

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
€ 23.30

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

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
€ 9.42

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