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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social satire. Full of incident, and blackly humorous, Kafka's first novel is newly translated by Ritchie Robertson in an edition that includes a full introduction and notes. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199601127
ISBN
9780199601127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141199771
ISBN
9780141199771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. Translator(s): Reynolds, Sian. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241258552
ISBN
9780241258552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This title brings together some of the best of his short writings, including "The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat", "Baa Baa, Black Sheep", "Mary Postgate" and "The Gardener". Editor(s): Montefiore, Jan. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141442358
ISBN
9780141442358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. A collection of stories that concern relationships, sports and household pets. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591636
ISBN
9781841591636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Paperback. .
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089666
ISBN
9781844089666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Hardcover. Translator(s): Frye, David. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 39. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
541
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872206694
ISBN
9780872206694
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.02
€ 40.81

Paperback. Translator(s): Frye, David. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 792.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
541
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872207356
ISBN
9780872207356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.05

Paperback. Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. Translator(s): Maclean, Ian. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140445800
ISBN
9780140445800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.35

Hardcover. Offers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters, Joan and Richard Maple and their entwined lives. This book traces the decline and fall of a marriage, they also illumine a history in many ways happy, of growing children and a million mundane moments shared. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 124 x 21. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596037
ISBN
9781841596037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance concerns a group of American expatriates in mid-nineteenth century Italy, and their tragic encounter with the faun-like Italian count, Donatello. It is both a murder story and a parable of the Fall of Man, dominated by the fragility and durability of human life and art. Editor(s): Manning, Susan. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199554072
ISBN
9780199554072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. The Marble Faun mingles fable with fact in a mysterious tale of American artists liberated from New England mores in Rome. Hawthorne's novel is ultimately less about freedom than its costs. The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Marble Faun in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 39. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050280
ISBN
9780674050280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.97
€ 47.63

Paperback. Brings together eight short stories by the intense 19th-century German author. Translator(s): Luke, D.; Reeves, N. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443592
ISBN
9780140443592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment. Editor(s): Sollors, Werner. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 576 pages, 24 photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393934144
ISBN
9780393934144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.68

Paperback. Gathers for the first time all of the Irish work Harold Frederic completed in his lifetime. The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories brings together the four sixteenth-century stories that Frederic finished and published in magazines in 1895-96, and two of his stories set in the west of Ireland of the second-half of the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Morgan, Professor Jack. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813227818
ISBN
9780813227818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.29

Hardback. Features the Marvellous Captain Corcoran - he is charming to ladies, courteous to true gentlemen, death to pirates and merciless to the English. He speaks several languages, can bend an iron bar with his bare hands, and has adventured his way across the seven seas with his faithful friend Louison by his side. Translator(s): Miller, Sam. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 b/w etchings. BIC Classification: FC; FJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872304
ISBN
9781784872304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.13

Paperback. The sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz sees our hero, a young boy named Tip, escaping from evil witch Mombi and fleeing to the Emerald City. This timeless tale is given a new lease of life in a stunning new edition any adult or child would be proud to own. Num Pages: 155 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hesperus Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843913917
ISBN
9781843913917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.01

Paperback. Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient Greek stage thrillingly to life. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089567
ISBN
9781844089567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells and body bags. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140455465
ISBN
9780140455465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338.
Edition
11th Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540946
ISBN
9780099540946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

hardcover. Long suppressed in its native land, this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical, trenchant, unadulterated voice of dissent. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
Number of pages
446
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150667
ISBN
9781857150667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. This novel is set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, in the French Indies and in the North American wilderness. The story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in 19th-century fiction - James Durie, Master of Ballantrae. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434460
ISBN
9780140434460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Pearson, Roger. Translator(s): Walton, Thomas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536917
ISBN
9780199536917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529330
ISBN
9780099529330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

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