Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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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
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.17
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
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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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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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
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
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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€ 13.39
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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
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Condition: New
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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
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
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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€ 11.05
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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
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
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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
€ 16.89
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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€ 23.30
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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
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.29
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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€ 9.42
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€ 9.42