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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. The Water-Babies is an extraordinary children's book that combines fantasy, satire, social comment, and evolutionary theory to create a fairy tale like no other. This attractive new edition reprints the original complete text and illustrations with a lively introduction and notes that reveal the full richness of Kingsley's exuberant story. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 black and white, plus 8 wood-engraved chapter initials. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSY; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199685455
- ISBN
- 9780199685455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. A children's novel written in 1862-1863 as a serial for "Macmillan's Magazine" and published in its entirety in 1863. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143105091
- ISBN
- 9780143105091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 119 x 181 x 18. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007449460
- ISBN
- 9780007449460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.42
€ 5.42
Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
- Publisher
- Macmillan Collector's Library
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909621404
- ISBN
- 9781909621404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.82
€ 15.99
€ 11.82
Paperback. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this book follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. It presents rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, and their awareness of unity and isolation. Editor(s): Flint, Kate. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182711
- ISBN
- 9780141182711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. A title that begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099478270
- ISBN
- 9780099478270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.32
€ 9.99
€ 9.32
Paperback. Regarded by many as Woolf's greatest achievement, The Waves follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age. As the contours of their lives are revealed, a unique novel is unveiled. In this new edition David Bradshaw considers its spellbinding oddness and originality, helping the reader through this most poetic and haunting of novels. Editor(s): Bradshaw, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199642922
- ISBN
- 9780199642922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. A poetic novel that begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 177 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784870843
- ISBN
- 9781784870843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. This book presents a searching exploration of individual and collective identity, and the observations and emotions of life, from the simplicity and surging optimism of youth to the vacancy and despair of middle-age. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840224108
- ISBN
- 9781840224108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.33
€ 6.33
paperback. Throws a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, this novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'. Editor(s): Cochrane, James. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140430127
- ISBN
- 9780140430127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 9.99
€ 14.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. The author paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Melmotte. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853262555
- ISBN
- 9781853262555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.33
€ 6.33
Paperback. When the Melmottes arrive in London everyone agrees their manners are wanting, their taste is execrable and their lineage and background decidedly shadowy. But their money is far from revolting, and city society quickly makes allowances for the mysterious financier and his family. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 880
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099528661
- ISBN
- 9780099528661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. Editor(s): Kermode, Frank. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140433920
- ISBN
- 9780140433920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Clean copy in red quarter cloth over boards with decorative overlay. Fine in red slipcase
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Pomona Press
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KOG0007348
- ISBN
- 9781406790481
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 50.00
€ 50.00
Paperback. Melmotte is an outsider of obscure origins and riches. A ruthless financier, he charms the rich and powerful elite into investing in dubious schemes. He conspires his way to political influence, his rise swift due to the corrupt society he invades. The Way We Live Now is a lurid tale-of-the-times with one of fiction's most memorable villains Editor(s): O'Gorman, Francis. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC. Dimension: 196 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198705031
- ISBN
- 9780198705031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. the sequel to AN INVITATION TO THE WALTZ a novel of searing honesty and a passionate portrayal of forbidden love Series: VMC. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083060
- ISBN
- 9781844083060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
€ 15.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. Nan Shepherd's greatest novel; a masterpiece of Scottish modernism. 'A blazingly brilliant writer' - Robert Macfarlane Series: Canons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 48. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Canongate Canons
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782118862
- ISBN
- 9781782118862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
€ 11.99
€ 10.02
Paperback. First published in 1968, this quietly ironic exploration of the ways in which the parental mould is not easily broken, is one of Elizabeth Taylor's most ambitious novels. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844086559
- ISBN
- 9781844086559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. As a little girl Stephen Gordon always felt different. A talent for sport, a hatred of dresses and a preference for solitude were not considered suitable for a young lady of the Victorian upper-class. But when Stephen grows up and falls in love with another woman, her standing in the county and her place at the home she loves become untenable. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 133 x 41. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784870324
- ISBN
- 9781784870324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191836
- ISBN
- 9780141191836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10