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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. Translator(s): Heppenstall, Rayner. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
New Impression
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140442328
ISBN
9780140442328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.93

Paperback. Is it possible to die a happy death? This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. Translator(s): Howard, Richard. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186580
ISBN
9780141186580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183961
ISBN
9780141183961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9788086264462
ISBN
9788086264462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.03

Paperback. William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Jack Draper is a teacher whose wife is cheating on him. Edith Stone is the daughter of the English master who falls in love with the most popular boy in school. In this book, their stories twine together in the confines of the small community of Dorset Academy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099518587
ISBN
9780099518587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. Translator(s): Myers, Alan. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 195 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555086
ISBN
9780199555086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.06

Hardcover. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1929
Edition
Limited
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909621411
ISBN
9781909621411
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 489 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307946775
ISBN
9780307946775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.95

Paperback. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 166 x 13. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843914020
ISBN
9781843914020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.28

Paperback. Poet, lover and spy, Christopher Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. This title re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. It brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099541394
ISBN
9780099541394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. This selection of twenty-seven stories in a lively new transltion shows Maupassant as his comic, cruel, and brillant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's own decline into madness. Translator(s): Coward, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555789
ISBN
9780199555789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. Lady Maud, the young daughter of the Earl of Marshmoreton, is confined to her home, Belpher Castle in Hampshire, under aunt's orders because of an unfortunate infatuation. George Bevan, an American who writes songs for musicals and is so smitten with Maud that he descends on Hampshire's rolling acres to see off his rival and claim her heart. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Edition
1st Arrow paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514138
ISBN
9780099514138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia in 1916-17. This book show how his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of the Revolution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
9780099529569
ISBN
9780099529569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.86

Anne Weamys's Arcadia offers an alternate perspective on the genre of historical romance. Shorter and comparatively more direct than the form of its derivation, the Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia exploits the genre's capacity for fantasy and nuance while celebrating its more subversive uses as political statement. Editor(s): Cullen, Patrick Colborn. Series: Women Writers in English, 1350-1850. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DC; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
New York
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195087192
ISBN
9780195087192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.20

Paperback. The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism. Yet it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. This edition reproduces more than 40 of Dan Beard's original drawings. Illustrator(s): Beard, Daniel Carter. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540587
ISBN
9780199540587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.34

Paperback. The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to boss the whole country inside of three weeks. And so he does. Emerging as The Boss, he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot - with unexpected results. Illustrator(s): Beard, Daniel Carter. Editor(s): Stein, Bernard L. Series: Mark Twain Library. Num Pages: 504 pages, 222 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
504
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Edition, Edited by Bernard L. Stein. Origina
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520268166
ISBN
9780520268166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.43

Hardcover. First published in 1962, this edition is compiled and edited by the author's biographer, who restores the text of the novel as the author originally wrote it. It includes a selection of interviews, articles, reviews and other materials. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
Heinemann
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780434021512
ISBN
9780434021512
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.82

Paperback. Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184654
ISBN
9780141184654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardback. A first-ever trade edition of the original manuscript of the beloved Christmas classic. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Facsimile
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393608649
ISBN
9780393608649
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.41

Paperback. A graphic novel that features Scrooge who gets a rude awakening to how his life is, and how it should be. Illustrator(s): Collins, Mike; Roach, David; Offredi, James. Editor(s): Wilson, Sean Michael. Num Pages: 160 pages, 717. BIC Classification: 5AN; FC; FXL; YFA; YFW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (JC) Children's (6-12); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 246 x 169 x 10. Weight in Grams: 526. Quick Text. 160 pages, 717. Illustrator(s): Collins, Mike; Roach, David; Offredi, James. Editor(s): Wilson, Sean Michael. A graphic novel that features Scrooge who gets a rude awakening to how his life is, and how it should be. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (JC) Children's (6-12); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. BIC Classification: 5AN; FC; FXL; YFA; YFW. Dimension: 246 x 169 x 10. Weight: 542.
Publisher
Classical Comics
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
British English ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906332181
ISBN
9781906332181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.36

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