Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. The first translation in over one hundred years of The Countess von Rudolstadt brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece. Translator(s): van Slyke, Gretchen. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812220148
- ISBN
- 9780812220148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
Paperback. Set in the countryside of the author's native province of Berry, this book tells the story of Francois, an orphan boy placed in a rural foster home, and Madeline, the miller's wife who befriends him. Translator(s): Collis, E. Num Pages: 181 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 159 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803258501
- ISBN
- 9780803258501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.33
€ 16.99
€ 16.33
Paperback. The arrival of handsome young Doctor Harrison causes yet further agitation not just because of his revolutionary methods but also because of his effect on the hearts of the ladies. Meanwhile Miss Matty Jenkyns nurses her own broken heart after she was forced to give up the man she loved when she was a young girl. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099518457
- ISBN
- 9780099518457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories; tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. This new selection includes 'An Essay on Novels', Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. Translator(s): Coward, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 45. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539987
- ISBN
- 9780199539987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. A wise and beautiful fairytale for grown-ups, considered one of the greatest novels in the Irish comic tradition. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 195 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KJE0003496
- ISBN
- 9781848547353
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Inspired by Gogol's surreal tales, Dostoevsky's hilarious story has been interpreted by some as a vitriolic piece of social criticism and a veiled attack on the revolutionary philosopher Nikolai Chernyshevsky. Series: Quirky Classics. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847496812
- ISBN
- 9781847496812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.95
€ 10.99
€ 9.95
Paperback. Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190198
- ISBN
- 9780141190198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.45
€ 10.99
€ 9.45
Paperback. Durtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the monstrous fifteenth-century child-murderer thought to be the original for 'Bluebeard'. Bored and disgusted by the vulgarity of everyday life, Durtal seeks spiritual solace by immersing himself in another age. Translator(s): Hale, Terry. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447675
- ISBN
- 9780140447675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 153
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909232044
- ISBN
- 9781909232044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.36
€ 12.36
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331650
- ISBN
- 9780822331650
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Paperback. Wilkie Collins's fifth novel, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter and the recovery of a hidden secret. Set in rugged Cornwall, the novel blends romance with Gothic drama, and in characterization and setting, clearly anticipates the qualities of Collins's next novel, The Woman in White. Editor(s): Nadel, Ira B. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536719
- ISBN
- 9780199536719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
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Paperback. This short collection shows Chekhov in an amusing, playful light, poking fun at the greed, sycophancy and ignorance of his characters, with the moral detachment that also characterizes his major, serious works. Series: Quirky Classics. Num Pages: 117 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 297 x 12. Weight in Grams: 96.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847496867
- ISBN
- 9781847496867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.99
€ 10.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident.. 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
- V9780241251768
- ISBN
- 9780241251768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.52
€ 5.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 5. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307951335
- ISBN
- 9780307951335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.13
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€ 10.13
Paperback. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich - is usually regarded as an amazing narrative of the experience of dying, a search for the meaning of death. It is all that, and more: it's a great questioning of what is and what ought to be in a human life.' Nadine Gordimer Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493637
- ISBN
- 9781847493637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.78
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Paperback. "Over the past hundred years we have had numerous versions .. of [Tolstoy's] major works. This volume, however, is arguably the best so far." -Times Literary Supplement Translator(s): Carson, Peter. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 211 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871402998
- ISBN
- 9780871402998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.36
€ 14.99
€ 14.36
Paperback. In these six late stories Tolstoy explores human relationships and moral choices, raising profound questions about life in gripping fictional form. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is an existential masterpiece, a harrowing tale of the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer. Newly translated, and with a wide-ranging Introduction. Editor(s): Kahn, Andrew. Translator(s): Slater, Nicolas Pasternak. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199669882
- ISBN
- 9780199669882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.73
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paperback. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction. This collection includes "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and nine other stories such as "Hadji Murat", "The Devil", and "War and Peace". Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 39. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099541066
- ISBN
- 9780099541066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
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€ 13.43
Paperback. A devastating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and asks the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time? Editor(s): Briggs, Anthony; Wilks, Ronald; McDuff, David. Translator(s): Briggs, Anthony; Wilks, Ronald; McDuff, David. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New Ed. /
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449617
- ISBN
- 9780140449617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Lodge, Kirsten. Translator(s): Lodge, Kirsten. Series: Broadview Anthology of British Literature Editions. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DQ; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554813223
- ISBN
- 9781554813223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.59
€ 20.99
€ 16.59
Paperback. Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. Translator(s): Tancock, Leonard. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442809
- ISBN
- 9780140442809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.24
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Paperback. An anthology of Decadent short stories reflecting a variety of fin-de-siecle themes. It showcases the short story as the most attractive medium through which writers experiment with Decadent themes and styles. It stresses the role of the magazine culture in the unprecedented explosion of the Decadent short story in the 1890s. Editor(s): Boyiopoulos, Kostas; Choi, Yoonjoung; Tildesley, Matthew Brinton. Num Pages: 432 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 718.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748692149
- ISBN
- 9780748692149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.86
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Paperback. "Rebhorn deserves our gratitude for an eminently persuasive translation.. I celebrate his accomplishment."-Edith Grossman Translator(s): Rebhorn, Wayne A. Num Pages: 1024 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 211 x 47. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393350265
- ISBN
- 9780393350265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
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Paperback. In the summer of 1348, as the "Black Death" ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. In this title, the characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure. Translator(s): McWilliam, G.H. Num Pages: 1072 pages, maps, bibliog. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 53. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449303
- ISBN
- 9780140449303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.36
€ 17.99
€ 13.36