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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Hardback. For Jay Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing for the one thing that will always be out of his reach. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. Series: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 205 x 28. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141194059
ISBN
9780141194059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.29

Paperback. It s so interesting the way all Gatsby s wealth doesn t really make him very happy. Shane, 14" Editor(s): Nowlin, Michael. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551117874
ISBN
9781551117874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.27

Paperback. Editor(s): Prigozy, Ruth. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages, map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 150 151pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press Oxford
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
9780199536405
ISBN
9780199536405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 8.05

Paperback. This edition of The Great Gatsby contains pictures and an extensive section on Fitzgerald's life and works. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496140
ISBN
9781847496140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.15

Paperback. New, lavishly produced paperback with a beautiful cover with foil and illustrations by Art Deco artist George Barbier. Here presented in a new fully edited and annotated version, it contains an extensive apparatus on Fitzgerald's life and works. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 256.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Alma Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847492586
ISBN
9781847492586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.13

Paperback. The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 13. Weight in Grams: 108.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007368655
ISBN
9780007368655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.36

Paperback. Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach! Everybody who is anybody is seen at his parties. For Gatsby, always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 15. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Publication date
2006
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141023434
ISBN
9780141023434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.31

Paperback. An experiment into the sources of the human brain through the mind of a young woman has gone horribly wrong. She has seen the great God Pan and will die giving birth to a daughter, Helen Vaughan. Helen Vaughan becomes the source of much fevered speculation when, twenty years later, she is feted as a society hostess of great charm. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
140
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906998165
ISBN
9781906998165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.36

Paperback. Winner of Hesperus' 'Uncover a Classic' competition The Great Meadow is a romantic saga of young love on the Kentucky trail in colonial America. A long neglected American classic. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843913887
ISBN
9781843913887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.65

Paperback. Translator(s): Singerman, Alan J (Davidson College). Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271063928
ISBN
9780271063928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.79

Paperback. The mysterious scientific phenomenon of the green ray is unpredictable and elusive. When Helena hears of its apparent mystical effects on the mind and soul she enlists her uncles and two very different suitors, to find it. They travel to Scotland to seek to catch a glimpse of green rays which shoot out from the sunset. Translator(s): Loukes, Karen. Num Pages: 223 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd.
Number of pages
223
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905222124
ISBN
9781905222124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.28

Paperback. Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore. Editor(s): Tatar, Maria. Translator(s): Tatar, Maria. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393338560
ISBN
9780393338560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.91

Paperback. A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER series Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753829141
ISBN
9780753829141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435023
ISBN
9780140435023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.83

paperback. Here are 10 stories that represent some of the best short work by American master Melville, including Bartleby, the Scrivener, The Happy Failure, and The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids. Series: Short Story Collections. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 199.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harper Perennial United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780061773754
ISBN
9780061773754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.70

Hardback. The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas are given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891.

Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, with an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.

Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 150 x 93 x 19. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509827824
ISBN
9781509827824
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.56

Paperback. These fantasies and true-to-life fables were created by Oscar Wilde for his own sons. Here is the tale of the Prince who is not as happy as he seems, of the Selfish Giant who learns how to love children, and of the Star-Child who suffers bitter trials when he rejects his parents. Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; YFA; YFU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 132 x 5. Weight in Grams: 62.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781853261237
ISBN
9781853261237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. These fantasies and true-to-life fables were created by Oscar Wilde for his own sons. Here is the tale of the Prince who is not as happy as he seems, of the Selfish Giant who learns how to love children, and of the Star-Child who suffers bitter trials when he rejects his parents. Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; YFA; YFU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 132 x 5. Weight in Grams: 62. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0003066
ISBN
9781853261237
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 177 x 15. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008110642
ISBN
9780008110642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.33

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

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

€ 7.25

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
€ 9.82

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
€ 14.64

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
€ 11.01

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
€ 10.61

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
€ 10.82

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
€ 10.74

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
€ 10.85

Paperback. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, this novel talks about different kinds of justice - that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. It is based on an anonymous letter received by the author in 1817. Editor(s): Inglis, Tony. Num Pages: 864 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 79. Weight in Grams: 616.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
864
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140431292
ISBN
9780140431292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.66

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
€ 12.25

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

€ 139.16
€ 130.84

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

€ 54.21

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. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSK0000743
ISBN
9780140443554
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

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

€ 39.93

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

€ 18.72

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
€ 10.87

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

€ 161.12

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
€ 15.46

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

€ 42.99
€ 29.87

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
€ 11.62

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