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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped in the ether. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Arrow Paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514121
ISBN
9780099514121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. A portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. It tells the story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the author's experiences during childhood and youth. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183312
ISBN
9780141183312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula but she, the Laodicean of the title, is torn between his admiration and that of Captain De Stancy. Editor(s): Schad, John. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, facsim., map. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435061
ISBN
9780140435061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a dangerous mission far away from the girl he loves. While Jerry risks his life, his sweetheart Mona sets about clearing her lover's name.. but will she be too late? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530053
ISBN
9780099530053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. A collection of stories such as "Peasants", "The House with the Mezzanine" and "My Life", in which, the author paints a picture of the conditions of the poor and of their powerlessness in the face of exploitation and hardship. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliography, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140447873
ISBN
9780140447873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Collects three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors: "Lady Susan", "The Watsons" and "Sanditon". This book examines the works in the context of her major novels and her life, and discusses the social background of her fiction. Editor(s): Drabble, Margaret. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140431025
ISBN
9780140431025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781840226966
ISBN
9781840226966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.66

Paperback. Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants. 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
V9780241251331
ISBN
9780241251331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.74

Paperback. An outsider by birth and instinct, the author was one of the most undeservedly neglected figures in Russian literature. He combined a profoundly religious spirit with a fascination for crime, an occasionally lurid imagination and a great love for the Russian vernacular. This volume includes a collection of his stories. Translator(s): McDuff, David. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141396743
ISBN
9780141396743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an invalid. Constance nurses him and tries to be the dutiful wife. Partly encouraged by Clifford to seek a lover, she embarks on a passionate affair with the gamekeeper, Mellors. Through their liaison Lawrence explores the complications of sex, love and class. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099541653
ISBN
9780099541653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Hardback. Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of the central characters caused this controversial book, now considered a masterpiece, to be banned as pornography until 1960. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMN; 3JJG; FC; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Unabridged, Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509843190
ISBN
9781509843190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford. Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man of their own class. Editor(s): Poplawski, Paul; Squires, Michael. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441498
ISBN
9780141441498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who is impotent. Oppressed by her dreary life, she is drawn to Mellors the gamekeeper. Breaking out against the constraints of society she yields to her instinctive desire for him and discovers the transforming power of physical love which leads them both towards fulfillment. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 114 x 20. Weight in Grams: 182.
Edition
50th UK ed.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Viking
Number of pages
320
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241951545
ISBN
9780241951545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband's return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her forever. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
SKU
KRA0010343
ISBN
9781840224887
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 109 x 27. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007925551
ISBN
9780007925551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.74

Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 126 x 26. Weight in Grams: 358. Preface by Lawrence Aurrell, edited and with an introduction by Ronald Friedland. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing on endpapers, minor nicks and bumps on cover but remains a clean copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
Number of pages
304
SKU
KSS0008058
ISBN
9781782122753
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 10.99
€ 9.48

Paperback. When beautiful Lucy Graham becomes Lady Audley, her future looks secure. But her past is shrouded in mystery, and the disappearance of a young man sparks an investigation that will reveal her dark secret.. This new edition explores the novel in the context of nineteenth-century sensation fiction and the lively debates it provoked. Editor(s): Pykett, Lyn. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199577033
ISBN
9780199577033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction, a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young, beautiful - and very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely? What, exactly, is the dark secret this seductive outsider carries with her? Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141198842
ISBN
9780141198842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435849
ISBN
9780140435849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Orgel, Stephen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537716
ISBN
9780199537716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Translator(s): Evans, Faith. Num Pages: 142 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Daunt Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781907970535
ISBN
9781907970535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. Editor(s): Lethbridge, Robert. Translator(s): Dorday, Elinor. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198801894
ISBN
9780198801894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. This new translation successfully combines a feeling for the formal proprieties of Dumas's style with a supple and colloquial liveliness that once again proves this story irresistible. Translator(s): Coward, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540341
ISBN
9780199540341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

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

€ 17.01

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