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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909621466
ISBN
9781909621466
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.68

Paperback. Setting out to make his fortune, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, and is given a home among its handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this ideal community has its faults.. This is a humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs. Editor(s): Mudford, Peter. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140430578
ISBN
9780140430578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.29

Paperback. Translator(s): Boehm, Philip. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 204 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590173411
ISBN
9781590173411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.73

Paperback. In this collection of 20 short stories, the editor Richard Ford has selected his personal favourites of Chekhov's work. Includes are "The Kiss", "The Darling", as well as lesser known tales such as "A Blunder", "Hush" and "Champagne". Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781862073005
ISBN
9781862073005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.20

Paperback. One of the great novels of London life and labour in the 1890s, Esther Waters is the story of a single mother struggling against prejudice and injustice. It vividly brings to life a world of horse racing, gambling, and public houses and was groundbreaking in its approach. This is the only available edition of this powerful novel. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583010
ISBN
9780199583010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.58

Paperback. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141389400
ISBN
9780141389400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zenia, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success. Editor(s): Showalter, Elaine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538096
ISBN
9780199538096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.11

Paperback. On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 7. Weight in Grams: 92.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840224085
ISBN
9781840224085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.31

Paperback. Translator(s): Javadi, Hasan; Davis, Dick. Num Pages: 140 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Mage Publishers United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933823225
ISBN
9781933823225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.57

Paperback. Set in 1820s Russia, this title follows the fates of three men and three women. It offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Editor(s): Mitchell, Stanley. Translator(s): Mitchell, Stanley. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140448108
ISBN
9780140448108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Translator(s): Nabokov, Vladimir. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 1056 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DCF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1026.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
1056
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691019048
ISBN
9780691019048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.19
€ 51.06

Paperback. Eugene Onegin - presented here in a sparkling translation by Roger Clarke, along with extensive notes and commentary - was the founding text of modern Russian literature. Translator(s): Clarke, Roger. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 39. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Dual language ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847494177
ISBN
9781847494177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.33

Paperback. Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the fates of three men and three women. It was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. Translator(s): Falen, James E. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538645
ISBN
9780199538645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household with exacting miserly attention and his wife and daughter suffer a Spartan existence. On the evening of his daughter Eugenie's twenty third birthday his foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eugenie has never known passion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099560869
ISBN
9780099560869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.68

Paperback. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. Translator(s): Crawford, Marion. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1955
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140440508
ISBN
9780140440508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. One of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie Humaine, Eugenie Grandet (1833) is a story of family conflict, unrequited love and self-sacrifice set against the aftermath of the French Revolution. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Translator(s): Raphael, Sylvia. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555895
ISBN
9780199555895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. Colliding with the manners and customs of a society she doesn't understand, she finds herself without hope that she should ever deserve the attention of the man she loves. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141198866
ISBN
9780141198866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.21

Paperback. Written in secret and copied for her publisher in disguised handwriting, Frances Burney's first novel appeared anonymously in 1778. Subtitled "The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World", it records in letters its heroine's encounters with an education at the hands of London society. Num Pages: 560 pages, further reading list. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140433470
ISBN
9780140433470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.12

Paperback. Editor(s): Bloom, Edward A. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages, 3 black and white frontispieces. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536931
ISBN
9780199536931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486796260
ISBN
9780486796260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 254 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781910263082
ISBN
9781910263082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.91

Paperback. Written for the very audience it portrays, "The Excursion" introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's "gentle" society and its glittering pastimes. Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel in the tradition of Elize Haywood and Henry Fielding for her novel's plot structure. Series: Eighteenth-century Novels by Women. Num Pages: 224 pages, references. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; FC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813108810
ISBN
9780813108810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 243 x 32. Weight in Grams: 724.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624664472
ISBN
9781624664472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.68

Hardback. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 35. Weight in Grams: 848.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624664489
ISBN
9781624664489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.36
€ 66.41

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