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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

CD-Audio. Tells the story of an engagingly vague Lord Emsworth battles to prevent a pig-napping, Lord Tillbury lurks, desperate to filch Gally Threepwood's sensational memoirs, and those formidable sisters, Julia and Constance, will do anything to sabotage the nuptials of Ronnie Fish and chorus girl Sue. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Format
CD
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906147235
ISBN
9781906147235
CD
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 17.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Walsh, P. G. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199539215
ISBN
9780199539215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

paperback. Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while the author was hiding from the Gestapo, this title tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571244744
ISBN
9780571244744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. When the Melmottes arrive in London everyone agrees their manners are wanting, their taste is execrable and their lineage and background decidedly shadowy. But their money is far from revolting, and city society quickly makes allowances for the mysterious financier and his family. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
880
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099528661
ISBN
9780099528661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Using experimental montage techniques borrowed from the cinema, descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, and jumbled case histories of a picaresque cast of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, the author constructs a portrait of New York City as a futuristic machine filled with motion, drama and human tragedy. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd England
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184487
ISBN
9780141184487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. A collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature - from enchantments and horrors to subtler, psychological terrors. It includes Hoffmann's "The Sandman", Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Dickens' "The Signal-Man", and works from celebrated writers including Honore de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott and Guy de Maupassant. Editor(s): Calvino, Italo. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141190129
ISBN
9780141190129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Paperback. A special UNESCO City of Literature edition with full annotation. Editor(s): Menikoff, Barry. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298. 432 pages. Set deep in the Scottish landscape, this novel of travel and adventure gives an account of remote places and dangerous action in the Highlands in the years following Culloden. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight: 330.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841957593
ISBN
9781841957593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.27

Paperback. Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths about his choices. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529736
ISBN
9780099529736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident.. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 111. .
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
128
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241251768
ISBN
9780241251768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.74

Paperback. A translation of "Les Forceurs de Blocus". In this book, the author moves between Scotland and the southern states of the US during the American Civil War. Scottish industrialist James Playfair must run a daring Federalist blockade of a Charleston harbour in an effort to trade supplies for cotton, and to rescue a young girl's father. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FJH; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905222209
ISBN
9781905222209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Mandarin Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749386474
ISBN
9780749386474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
900
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841598987
ISBN
9781841598987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.67

Paperback. Takes you on a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title includes stories, poems, essays satirical and ideas. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 160 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141397481
ISBN
9780141397481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.74

Paperback. .
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493248
ISBN
9781847493248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. One of the most famous novels of the 20th century. A gothic tale of love, murder and secrets. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition
New Ed
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844080380
ISBN
9781844080380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardcover. A collection of short stories that starts with "Broomsticks and Other Tales of 1925", with its twelve stories, and continues with "The Lord Fish of 1933" with seven stories. The famous story called 'The Riddle' is also included as it is a story that appeals equally to adults and children. Editor(s): de la Mare, Giles. Num Pages: 508 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 898.
Publisher
Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
508
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900357036
ISBN
9781900357036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.07

Hardcover. One of the most famous novels of the 20th century, available in a beautiful new hardback VMC set of Daphne du Maurier classics. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 204 x 37. Weight in Grams: 586.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Little Brown Hardbacks (a & C)
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844088799
ISBN
9781844088799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140184495
ISBN
9780140184495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. Translator(s): Bellos, David. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 202 x 10. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141392738
ISBN
9780141392738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Paperback. When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Num Pages: 976 pages, b/w illust. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099511465
ISBN
9780099511465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Translator(s): Moore, David. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590176221
ISBN
9781590176221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.60

Paperback. A coming of age story, which draws on the author's New England childhood. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141182230
ISBN
9780141182230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Translator(s): Szirtes, George. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590174456
ISBN
9781590174456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.21

Paperback. Translator(s): Kilmartin, Terence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590173046
ISBN
9781590173046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

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