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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
paperback. Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the inheritor of his fortune. Editor(s): James, Simon. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141441108
- ISBN
- 9780141441108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 9.99
€ 16.99
€ 9.99
paperback. In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, "The Cossacks" describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Editor(s): McDuff, David. Translator(s): McDuff, David. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 440 x 27. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- Annotated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140449594
- ISBN
- 9780140449594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
paperback. Written in the sixteenth century, this book tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China's most famous religious heroes, and his four supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Editor(s): Yu, Anthony C. Translator(s): Yu, Anthony C. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226971377
- ISBN
- 9780226971377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.91
€ 29.99
€ 22.91
Paperback. Follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of machine-gunners in the Second World War, as they argue, joke, swear, cadge a loaf of bread or a cigarette, combat both boredom and horror in the swamps and pine forests - and discover that war will make or break them. Translator(s): Yamaguchi, Liesl. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141393650
- ISBN
- 9780141393650
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
paperback. Deals with the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780143106036
- ISBN
- 9780143106036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
paperback. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141442297
- ISBN
- 9780141442297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Wilder Publications, Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604597356
- ISBN
- 9781604597356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.45
€ 18.45
paperback. "Esau and Jacob" is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level, the story of Brazil itself, it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman. Assis presents a study of the doubts and insecurities of the human condition, rather than an heroic bible fable. Editor(s): Borges, Dain (Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, USA). Translator(s): Lowe, Elizabeth. Series: Library of Latin America. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195108118
- ISBN
- 9780195108118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.97
€ 31.97
paperback. A young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. This book describes the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148. A young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. This book describes the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001595
- ISBN
- 9781853260292
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Anna Karenina is one of the loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. This book addresses the very nature of society at various levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. Translator(s): Maude, Aylmer; Maude, Louise. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 40. Weight in Grams: 530. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear. Gift inscription to half title
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMO0001248
- ISBN
- 9781853262715
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. The Reverend Josiah Crawley faces ruin and disgrace when he is accused of stealing a cheque. Crawley's predicament divides the community between those who seek to help, and those who, like Mrs Proudie, are convinced of his guilt. The last volume in the Barsetshire series, The Last Chronicle is a moving conclusion for its many familiar characters. Editor(s): Small, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 816 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 3JH; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199675999
- ISBN
- 9780199675999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
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. Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include "A Christmas Carol", "The Chimes", "The Battle of Life" and "The Cricket on the Hearth". Illustrator(s): Landseer, Edward; Maclise, Daniel; Stanfield, Clarkson; Stone, Frank; Doyle, Richard; Leech, John; Tenniel, Sir John. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853262685
- ISBN
- 9781853262685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.01
€ 7.01
paperback. Presents a story woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Classic
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141199559
- ISBN
- 9780141199559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.06
€ 10.99
€ 9.06
paperback. Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly-knit mining community, and his powerful description of Paul Morel's relationships make this novel as relevant now as when it was first published. Editor(s): Trotter, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford Paperbacks
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199538881
- ISBN
- 9780199538881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
€ 13.99
€ 11.14
paperback. Presents the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. This title also discusses the conflict between London's support of socialism and Martin's powerful self-will. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin USA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140187724
- ISBN
- 9780140187724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
hardcover. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 103 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Macmillan Collector's Library
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781909621565
- ISBN
- 9781909621565
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. An expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century, Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853262166
- ISBN
- 9781853262166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.33
€ 6.33
paperback. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Edmund Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 50. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions U.K.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853267338
- ISBN
- 9781853267338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.01
€ 7.01
paperback. BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853262876
- ISBN
- 9781853262876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.01
€ 7.01