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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. The timeless boyhood adventures of a mischievous lad in 19th-century New England, in a new edition for today's readers. Illustrator(s): White, A.B. Series: Hardscrabble Classics. Num Pages: 314 pages, 71 drawings. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874517941
ISBN
9780874517941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.63

Paperback. A pornographic fantasy in which the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141185385
ISBN
9780141185385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually she becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself. Translator(s): Bussy, Dorothy. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185248
ISBN
9780141185248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Martin Danahays edition of Jekyll and Hyde is a treasure trove of biographical, cultural, and historical materials. John Kucich, University of Michigan Editor(s): Danahay, Martin A. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554810246
ISBN
9781554810246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.26

Paperback. Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare, that has thrilled readers ever since. Also included in this edition are a number of short stories and essays of the 1880s and extracts from writings on personality disorder that set the works in their historical context. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536221
ISBN
9780199536221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.18

Paperback. Act as miniatures that aim to be regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. These tales with their prose and wordplay, include 104 stories that reveal a world, in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a pear tree, a scholar recounts his incarnations, and a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her. Translator(s): Minford, John. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447408
ISBN
9780140447408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198709985
ISBN
9780198709985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.20

Paperback. Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in a village, until a visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity's relation to her father and her lover, this title delves into dark cultural territory: repressed sexuality, small-town prejudice, and, in subtle hints, incest. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140186796
ISBN
9780140186796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.43

Paperback. A captivating comic novel from Angela Thirkell's much-loved 1930s Barsetshire series: trainee barrister Colin Keith makes an ill-advised foray into teaching at Southbridge School. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089697
ISBN
9781844089697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared. Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty - from Galahad Threepwood to the Efficient Baxter, chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler seems deeply embroiled. Series: Blandings Castle. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513827
ISBN
9780099513827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Poor Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart! Not only does he own in Walsingford Hall one of the least attractive stately homes in the country, but he has to take in paying guests to keep it upright. So when it seems a rich (if not very nice) continental princess might buy it, he's overjoyed. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514169
ISBN
9780099514169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Translator(s): Corner, Mark. Num Pages: 204 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 23. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Edition
Classroom
SKU
V9788024632896
ISBN
9788024632896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. "Sunjata" is an African aural epic which details the exploits of its hero as he defeats his greatest adversary, and establishes himself as master of a growing empire. This edition contains two renditions of the tale which have been transcribed and translated from by African Grigots. Editor(s): Duran, Lucy; Furniss, Graham. Translator(s): Innes, Gordon; Sidibe, Bakari. Num Pages: 160 pages, maps, chronologies. BIC Classification: DN; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447361
ISBN
9780140447361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.76

Hardcover. In a classic plot, Vicky Underwood is parted from her fiance, Jeff Bennison, which means that her uncle, Galahad Threepwood, has to engineer a complicated plot to bring them back together. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 390 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591988
ISBN
9781841591988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and pulsing with the energy of the author's previous novel Invisible, this title is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571258802
ISBN
9780571258802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection gathers them, providing an insight into the author's storytelling apprenticeship and his steady growth towards excellence. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188. Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection gathers them, providing an insight into the author's storytelling apprenticeship and his steady growth towards excellence. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Dimension: 200 x 131 x 15. Weight: 190.
Publisher
Alma Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847492272
ISBN
9781847492272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.94

Hardcover. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875801940
ISBN
9780875801940
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; FA; FC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 256 x 181 x 17. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Edition
3rd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585101825
ISBN
9781585101825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. Swann in Love is the story of Charles Swann and his infatuation with Odette de Crecy and the revealing psychological turmoil his relations with her involves. A study in jealousy and the indirections of desire; it is here that Proust first works through his devastating theory of love. Editor(s): Watt, Adam. Translator(s): Nelson, Brian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198744894
ISBN
9780198744894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.95

Paperback. In its centennial year, Marcel Proust's masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Lee, Susanna. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393919165
ISBN
9780393919165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.37

Paperback. The foremost Proust scholar of our time offers a brilliantly revised and annotated edition of the first volume of the twentieth century's most acclaimed novel Editor(s): Carter, William C. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. Series: In Search of Lost Time. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 192 x 28. Weight in Grams: 888.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300185430
ISBN
9780300185430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.20

Paperback. From his barber shop in Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders selected customers to steal their money and valuables. Some suspect he is up to no good, but no one knows how he actually kills his victims. How does he dispose of the bodies? And what is his connection with Mrs Lovett who runs a popular pie shop nearby? Illustrator(s): Shalvey, Declan; Cardy, Jason; Nicholson, Kat. Editor(s): Bryant, Clive. Translator(s): Wilson, Sean Michael. Num Pages: 168 pages, 905. BIC Classification: FC; FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 171 x 11. Weight in Grams: 558. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. 168 pages, 905. Illustrator(s): Shalvey, Declan; Cardy, Jason; Nicholson, Kat. Editor(s): Bryant, Clive. From his barber shop in Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders selected customers to steal their money and valuables. Some suspect he is up to no good, but no one knows how he actually kills his victims. How does he dispose of the bodies? And what is his connection with Mrs Lovett who runs a popular pie shop nearby?. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FX. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 11. Weight: 560. Translator(s): Wilson, Sean Michael.
Publisher
Classical
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
British English ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906332792
ISBN
9781906332792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

paperback. From his barber shop in Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders selected customers to steal their money and valuables. Some suspect he is up to no good, but no one knows how he actually kills his victims. How does he dispose of the bodies? And what is his connection with Mrs Lovett who runs a popular pie shop nearby? Illustrator(s): Shalvey, Declan; Cardy, Jason; Nicholson, Kat. Editor(s): Bryant, Clive. Translator(s): Wilson, Sean Michael. Num Pages: 168 pages, 905. BIC Classification: FC; FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 171 x 11. Weight in Grams: 558. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. 168 pages, 905. Illustrator(s): Shalvey, Declan; Cardy, Jason; Nicholson, Kat. Editor(s): Bryant, Clive. From his barber shop in Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders selected customers to steal their money and valuables. Some suspect he is up to no good, but no one knows how he actually kills his victims. How does he dispose of the bodies? And what is his connection with Mrs Lovett who runs a popular pie shop nearby?. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FX. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 11. Weight: 558. Translator(s): Wilson, Sean Michael.
Publisher
Classical
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
British English ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906332808
ISBN
9781906332808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Fauna, the latest madam at the Bear Flag brothel, Doc, still there for everyone else but feeling strangely sad himself, and Suzy, the new hustler in town who might just be the girl to save him. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185521
ISBN
9780141185521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

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