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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 195 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781843913924
ISBN
9781843913924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.23

Paperback. Illuminates the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. This title covers egoism, sentimentality and the power of comedy. It features the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140430349
ISBN
9780140430349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Sebastian is the heir of Chevron, a vast and beautiful English country estate. As such he is a fixed part of an eternal round of lavish parties, intrigues, traditions and fashions at the cold, decadent heart of Edwardian high society. Everyone knows the role Sebastian must play, but Sebastian isn't sure he wants the part. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870546
ISBN
9781784870546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. *One of Rosamond Lehmann's most acclaimed novels * A widely acclaimed novel by one of Virago Modern Classic's bestselling and best-loved classic novelists Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083121
ISBN
9781844083121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires.. Editor(s): Birch, Dinah. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140433449
ISBN
9780140433449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Hardcover. Num Pages: 760 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 42. Weight in Grams: 832.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
The uncut original version
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593784
ISBN
9781841593784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. Series: Art of the Novella S. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Melville House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935554493
ISBN
9781935554493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.91

Paperback. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811223010
ISBN
9780811223010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.31

Paperback. Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on path to a decent, respectable life at last. Editor(s): Buss, Robin. Translator(s): Buss, Robin. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449549
ISBN
9780140449549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Originally published in Household World in 1855 as 'The Ostler', but recast and expanded two decades later, The Dream Woman is a powerfully dark and suspenseful multi-narrative novella from the master of the mystery genre and the author of some of the most enduringly popular novels of the Victorian era. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 144. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Alma Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0003197
ISBN
9781847494061
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Provides a detailed portrait of provincial nineteenth-century life. Adhering to a naturalist approach, this book eschews many of the characteristics of the author's other novels of the "Rougon-Macquart" cycle - such as a pronounced polemical agenda or a gritty subject matter - offering instead a lyrical tale of love and innocence. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493118
ISBN
9781847493118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.41

Paperback. Translator(s): Rabassa, Gregory. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 84.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143106364
ISBN
9780143106364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.51

Paperback. The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496034
ISBN
9781847496034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.15

Paperback. The Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores her frustrated heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. This is the only edition of a fascinating work, and reproduces uncut the first edition of 1864. Editor(s): Pykett, Lyn. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 57 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199549801
ISBN
9780199549801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 203 x 29. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804169127
ISBN
9780804169127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Editor(s): Hill, Susan. Num Pages: 368 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140431247
ISBN
9780140431247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.24

Paperback. Series: Hesperus Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 124 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843910053
ISBN
9781843910053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.93

Paperback. It's not easy being a Provincial Lady in Devonshire in the 1920s, juggling a grumpy husband, mischievous children and a host of domestic dilemmas - from rice mould to a petulant cook. But this Provincial Lady will not be defeated; not by wayward flower bulbs, not by unexpected houseguests, not even by the Blitz. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141191812
ISBN
9780141191812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, young clerks and wayward friends? And what is he to do about his son Lupin's distinctly unsuitable choice of bride? However hard he tries, life piles its little mishaps on his head - but he's not about to give up. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 117 x 181 x 15. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Viking
Number of pages
240
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241956861
ISBN
9780241956861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.79

Paperback. Mr Charles Pooter has just moved into a home in Holloway with his dear wife Carrie. Unfortunately neither his friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, nor the butcher, the greengrocer's boy and the Lord Mayor seem to recognise Mr Pooter's innate gentility, and his disappointing son Lupin has gone and got himself involved with a most unsuitable fiancee. Num Pages: 176 pages, b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540885
ISBN
9780099540885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to be seen as the epitome of English suburban life. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's hilarious illustrations and is complemented by an introduction detailing the book's social background. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, line drawings by Weedon Grossmith. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540150
ISBN
9780199540150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.12

Paperback. Mark Twain's gloriously funny "Diary of Adam and Eve", which John Updike recently described as 'a paradigm of the relations between sexes', is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer's interest in this most famous biblical story. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847494382
ISBN
9781847494382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Follows two young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184883
ISBN
9780141184883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's criticism and philosophy. The stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century and present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's skill and artistry. Editor(s): Gustafson, Richard F. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199553990
ISBN
9780199553990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

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