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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. Affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters. This work traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141442112
- ISBN
- 9780141442112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. You might find it hard to imagine that those ageing spinsters living quietly in small English towns ever led lives of passion or hardship, that they ever possessed beauty or romantic ideals. This title tells the story of two such old wives, sisters Constance and Sophia, from youth, through marriage, heartbreak, triumphs and disasters, to old age. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 149 x 40. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099595359
- ISBN
- 9780099595359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
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€ 14.33
Paperback. * Black comedy in the style of The Dud Avocado * 'Definitely demonic, exquisitely carved, deadly murderous comedy' Dawn Powell, Book Week Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844081240
- ISBN
- 9781844081240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
€ 11.99
€ 10.31
Paperback. Editor(s): Trainer, James. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199549740
- ISBN
- 9780199549740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world. Illustrator(s): Browne, Hablot K., (Phiz); Cattermole, George; Maclise, Daniel; Williams, Samuel. Editor(s): Page, Professor Norman. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140437423
- ISBN
- 9780140437423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. One of Dickens's most haunting and bizarre novels, The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of 'Little Nell' and her persecution by the grotesque and lecherous Quilp. This edition uses the Clarendon text, the definitive edition of the novels of Charles Dickens, and includes the original illustrations, five appendices of deleted passages, and details of Little Nell on stage. Illustrator(s): "Phiz". Editor(s): Brennan, Elizabeth M. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages, illustrations by Cattermole and 'Phiz'. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 42. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199538232
- ISBN
- 9780199538232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.18
€ 9.99
€ 9.18
Paperback. A translation that presents Homer's poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. Translator(s): Fagles, Robert. Num Pages: 560 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC; FC; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 149 x 38. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140268867
- ISBN
- 9780140268867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.58
€ 23.99
€ 16.58
Paperback. Editor(s): Ingham, Patricia. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199538300
- ISBN
- 9780199538300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.47
€ 16.99
€ 13.47
Hardback. Captures better than any other story a child's wonder at Christmas. This book features enchanting images of sugar plums and nutcrackers, mistletoe and the Kingdom of the Dolls - continues to cast its fantastical spell on readers of all ages. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 188 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143122500
- ISBN
- 9780143122500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.52
€ 21.99
€ 18.52
Paperback. Translator(s): Tancock, Leonard. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443004
- ISBN
- 9780140443004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.31
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€ 14.31
Paperback. Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material. Translator(s): Goulbourne, Russell. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555246
- ISBN
- 9780199555246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.31
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Paperback. A landmark in the development of the twentieth-century novel, the Notebooks is the story of a young Danish aristocrat , told in a series of notes that explore Malte's life in Paris, childhood memories and reflections in highly crafted poetic prose. A radical departure from literary realism, it is an archetypal confrontation with the modern. Translator(s): Vilain, Robert. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJC; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199646036
- ISBN
- 9780199646036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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€ 11.76
Paperback. While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Critical ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182216
- ISBN
- 9780141182216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. With this pair of absurd, comic stories, the author indulges his imagination and delights readers. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141397528
- ISBN
- 9780141397528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.54
€ 5.54
Paperback. First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume "Bonaventura," this is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, in which the narrator and anti-hero is not Bonaventura, but a night watchman named Kreuzgang, a failed poet, actor, and puppeteer who claims to be the spawn of the devil himself. Translator(s): Gillespie, Gerald. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226141565
- ISBN
- 9780226141565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.41
€ 18.99
€ 18.41
Hardback. Relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on its inhabitants, all to win the love of the most beautiful girl in town. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 187 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143122487
- ISBN
- 9780143122487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.22
€ 21.99
€ 18.22
Paperback. A triology of three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571276653
- ISBN
- 9780571276653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.64
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€ 10.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590171622
- ISBN
- 9781590171622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.07
€ 23.07
Paperback. A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. Editor(s): James, Simon. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439990
- ISBN
- 9780141439990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Hardcover. The most important and complete annotated volume of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ever compiled appears for the 200th anniversary of the original publication. Editor(s): Klinger, Leslie S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 250 color and black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216. .
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871409492
- ISBN
- 9780871409492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36