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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Hardcover. Psmith helps acting editor Billy Windsor change the image of Cosy Moments magazine and they are stalked by gangsters when their expose of slum tenements angers an unscrupulous landlord. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591568
ISBN
9781841591568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.12

Paperback. Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. Editor(s): Bradbury, Malcolm. Num Pages: 336 pages, chronology. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140430400
ISBN
9780140430400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins are overflowing with spectacular events. Twain shows us conjoined twins, babies exchanged in the cradle, acts of cross-dressing and racial masquerade, duels, a lynching, and a murder mystery. Editor(s): Hsu, Hsuan L. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 275 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 525.
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554812660
ISBN
9781554812660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 28.24

Paperback. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain's most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America. Editor(s): Berger, Sidney E. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 254 x 35. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393925357
ISBN
9780393925357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. The unsolved riddle at the heart of style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Pudd'nhead Wilson> is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain's novel. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 190 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674059832
ISBN
9780674059832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089512
ISBN
9781844089512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.71

Paperback. What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? This title shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184012
ISBN
9780141184012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Translator(s): Krailsheimer, A. J. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538751
ISBN
9780199538751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

paperback. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183923
ISBN
9780141183923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846687853
ISBN
9781846687853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Edwards, P. D. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 322. Clean copy in green quarter cloth over boards with decorative overlay. Fine in pale green slipcase
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KOG0007347
ISBN
9780199537761
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 25.00

Paperback. Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is arguably the best known of Horatio Alger's American rags-to-riches stories. Editor(s): Hoeller, Hildegard. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393925890
ISBN
9780393925890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.61

Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 110 x 172 x 14. Weight in Grams: 104.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Signet Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780451469595
ISBN
9780451469595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.07

paperback. Translator(s): Tancock, Leonard. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140441734
ISBN
9780140441734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.29

paperback. Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan's foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include: "Rashomon"; "In a Bamboo Grove"; "The Nose"; "O-Gin"; "Loyalty"; "Death Register"; "The Life of a Stupid Man"; and "Spinning Gears". Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449709
ISBN
9780140449709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.13

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. 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. Translator(s): King, Brendan. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517659
ISBN
9781903517659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.46

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812972078
ISBN
9780812972078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.08

Paperback. Set in the summer of 1765, Redgauntlet centres around a third, fictitious Jacobite rebellion and a plot to enthrone the exiled Prince Charles Edward Stewart. The last of Scott's major Scottish novels, this is the only available critical edition. It reprints the Magnum text of 1832. Editor(s): Sutherland, Kathryn. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199599578
ISBN
9780199599578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 196 x 9. Weight in Grams: 104.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184456
ISBN
9780141184456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance. Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England. But his homecoming is marred by the mysterious suicide of his parents' quiet and reliable parlour-maid. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530237
ISBN
9780099530237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Gustafson, Richard F. Translator(s): Maude, Louise Shanks. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555765
ISBN
9780199555765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. Tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. This title describes the social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century. Translator(s): Briggs, Anthony. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140424638
ISBN
9780140424638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

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