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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
paperback. Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include "A Christmas Carol", "The Chimes", "The Battle of Life" and "The Cricket on the Hearth". Illustrator(s): Landseer, Edward; Maclise, Daniel; Stanfield, Clarkson; Stone, Frank; Doyle, Richard; Leech, John; Tenniel, Sir John. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853262685
- ISBN
- 9781853262685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.01
€ 7.01
paperback. Throws a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, this novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'. Editor(s): Cochrane, James. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140430127
- ISBN
- 9780140430127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 9.99
€ 14.99
€ 9.99
paperback. The Reverend Josiah Crawley faces ruin and disgrace when he is accused of stealing a cheque. Crawley's predicament divides the community between those who seek to help, and those who, like Mrs Proudie, are convinced of his guilt. The last volume in the Barsetshire series, The Last Chronicle is a moving conclusion for its many familiar characters. Editor(s): Small, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 816 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199675999
- ISBN
- 9780199675999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
paperback. Anna Karenina is one of the loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. This book addresses the very nature of society at various levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. Translator(s): Maude, Aylmer; Maude, Louise. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 40. Weight in Grams: 530. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear. Gift inscription to half title
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMO0001248
- ISBN
- 9781853262715
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W B Yeats, T S Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 41. Weight in Grams: 464. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001315
- ISBN
- 9781840226355
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
paperback. A young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. This book describes the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148. A young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. This book describes the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001595
- ISBN
- 9781853260292
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. "Esau and Jacob" is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level, the story of Brazil itself, it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman. Assis presents a study of the doubts and insecurities of the human condition, rather than an heroic bible fable. Editor(s): Borges, Dain (Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, USA). Translator(s): Lowe, Elizabeth. Series: Library of Latin America. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195108118
- ISBN
- 9780195108118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.97
€ 31.97
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Wilder Publications, Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604597356
- ISBN
- 9781604597356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.45
€ 18.45
paperback. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141442297
- ISBN
- 9780141442297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
paperback. Deals with the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780143106036
- ISBN
- 9780143106036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of machine-gunners in the Second World War, as they argue, joke, swear, cadge a loaf of bread or a cigarette, combat both boredom and horror in the swamps and pine forests - and discover that war will make or break them. Translator(s): Yamaguchi, Liesl. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141393650
- ISBN
- 9780141393650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
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: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226971377
- ISBN
- 9780226971377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.91
€ 29.99
€ 22.91
paperback. In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, "The Cossacks" describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Editor(s): McDuff, David. Translator(s): McDuff, David. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 440 x 27. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- Annotated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140449594
- ISBN
- 9780140449594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
paperback. Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the inheritor of his fortune. Editor(s): James, Simon. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141441108
- ISBN
- 9780141441108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 9.99
€ 16.99
€ 9.99
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
€ 11.99
€ 9.67
Paperback. Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 118 x 181 x 15. Weight in Grams: 136. T
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241962527
- ISBN
- 9780241962527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.20
€ 11.99
€ 11.20
Num Pages: 899 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 152 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1471.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Advantage Publishers Group United States
- Number of pages
- 899
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607103127
- ISBN
- 9781607103127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.26
€ 26.99
€ 22.26
Paperback. Set in 1482, this novel presents a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853260681
- ISBN
- 9781853260681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.33
€ 6.33
Series: Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne S. Num Pages: 475 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1043.
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 475
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813005997
- ISBN
- 9780813005997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white halftones, colour illust. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624663451
- ISBN
- 9781624663451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 39.06
€ 53.99
€ 39.06
paperback. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183923
- ISBN
- 9780141183923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.83
€ 12.99
€ 10.83
paperback. Nineteen year old Lily Bart is in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to gossip. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1006.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Edition
- 150th Anniversary ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780143106555
- ISBN
- 9780143106555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.14
€ 24.99
€ 18.14
Paperback. This is a new English translation of a classic work of medieval Islamic learning. In this rich allegorical fable the animals pursue a case against humanity. They rebuke and criticise human weakness, deny man's superiority, and make powerful demands for greater justice and respect for animals. Editor(s): Goodman, Lenn E.; McGregor, Richard. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK; FC; HBLA1; HBLC1; HP; HRHT; JFCX; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199642519
- ISBN
- 9780199642519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.03
€ 56.03
At the end of "Little Women, " Jo March inherits the Plumfield estate. Now she and her husband have turned it into an experimental school for boys. Here is the continued story of Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Revised reissue. Series: Signet Classics. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 173 x 104 x 28. Weight in Grams: 183.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Signet
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780451532237
- ISBN
- 9780451532237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.60
€ 8.60