Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. A doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and suddenly dies. How are these little mysteries connected? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784871154
- ISBN
- 9781784871154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
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€ 10.38
Paperback. A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of waterways and death. Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840225334
- ISBN
- 9781840225334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.12
€ 7.12
Paperback. Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over, setting them the task of driving out the ghosts from the various rooms and reporting back on Twelfth Night. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847494337
- ISBN
- 9781847494337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.02
€ 10.99
€ 10.02
Hardcover. After the Summer Concert fiasco, Mr Kay resolves to remove Fenn from office and puts his house into special measures, co-opting Kennedy, second prefect of Blackburn's, as reluctant troubleshooter with a brief to turn the place around. But without the backing of Fenn, and the whole house hostile towards him, how can he achieve the impossible..? Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 186 x 19. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591810
- ISBN
- 9781841591810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
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€ 14.95
Paperback. The next Angela Thirkell novel in the hugely successful series of charming English comedies set in the fictional county of Barsetshire. Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349007472
- ISBN
- 9780349007472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486790268
- ISBN
- 9780486790268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.73
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Paperback. A group of people have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185224
- ISBN
- 9780141185224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529941
- ISBN
- 9780099529941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Contains a series of golfing stories: From Evangeline, Bradbury Fisher's fifth wife and a notorious 'golfing giggler', to poor Rollo Podmarsh whose game was so unquestionably inept that 'he began to lose his appetite and would moan feebly at the sight of a poached egg'. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099513872
- ISBN
- 9780099513872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Lamont, Claire. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 624 pages, map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 125 x 30. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199538393
- ISBN
- 9780199538393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.41
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€ 12.41
Hardback. The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Editor(s): Hewitt, David; Lumsden, Alison. Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 792 pages, geneal. table, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DNF; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1092.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 792
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748605705
- ISBN
- 9780748605705
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.72
€ 183.72
Paperback. A fascinating exploration of gender issues and feminist agendas of the New Woman movement of the late 1800s Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FC; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 40. Weight in Grams: 870.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472065080
- ISBN
- 9780472065080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.13
€ 43.99
€ 39.13
Paperback. In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for the bridge to be repaired, they are inspired to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. Translator(s): Chilton, Paul. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443554
- ISBN
- 9780140443554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.41
€ 21.99
€ 19.41
Paperback. A book about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time - or, in truth, of our own. It explores the understanding "that fervent hearts must borrow the disguise of art, if they would win the right to express, in any outward form, the internal fire that consumes them." Editor(s): Williams, Gary. Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218871
- ISBN
- 9780803218871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. Editor(s): Kaufman-McKivigan, Prof. John R., IV; Levine, Robert S.; Stauffer, John. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Critical
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300184624
- ISBN
- 9780300184624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.88
€ 13.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. A masterly evocation of grief and loneliness that bind two very different people together, from the author of The Go-Between. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473612556
- ISBN
- 9781473612556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Hardcover. This volume presents Smollett's 1755 translation of Cervantes' "Don Quixote" in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes discussion of the composition, publication, and reception of the work, and considers it's originality or debt to other versions. Illustrator(s): Hayman, Francis. Editor(s): Brack, O.M. (Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA). Translator(s): Smollett, Tobias. Series: Works of Tobias Smollett S. Num Pages: 1056 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1479.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820324302
- ISBN
- 9780820324302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.08
€ 124.08
Paperback. Set in the reign of Queen Anne, this title presents a story that follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future. Editor(s): Greenfield, Michael. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140430493
- ISBN
- 9780140430493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.78
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€ 15.78
Paperback. A novel originally published in 1751, in which the heroine is courted by several eligible suitors. However her flirtations alienate the right man and she finds herself struggling with the consequences of marrying the wrong man. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 652 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 33. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 620
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111476
- ISBN
- 9781551111476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.81
€ 40.99
€ 29.81
Paperback. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various conditions of men's lives, before returning home in a 'conclusion in which nothing is concluded'. Editor(s): Goring, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Trade Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439709
- ISBN
- 9780141439709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
€ 14.99
€ 11.73