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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
paperback. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, the author creates a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. It shows you a wily fox being outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock the author. Editor(s): Temple, Robert K.G. Translator(s): Temple, Olivia; Temple, Robert K.G. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140446494
- ISBN
- 9780140446494
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paperback. Brings together eleven of the author's shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". This title includes fairy stories that range from traditional fantasy - good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dream worlds. Num Pages: 384 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140437379
- ISBN
- 9780140437379
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paperback. Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss' 'sweet girl', and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only blot on Lucy's happiness is the shadowy figure of Wemyss' first wife, Vera, who died in mysterious circumstances. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784872335
- ISBN
- 9781784872335
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paperback. As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom. Series: Vintage Classics Bronte Series. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 178 x 45. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784870737
- ISBN
- 9781784870737
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.85
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paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 102.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241282618
- ISBN
- 9780241282618
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.72
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paperback. Includes the stories "Metamorphosis"; "Meditation"; "The Judgement"; "The Stoker"; and "The Aeroplanes at Brescia". Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 213 x 22. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780143105244
- ISBN
- 9780143105244
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
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paperback. With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her complex feelings, first for school's English doctor and then for dictatorial professor. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141199887
- ISBN
- 9780141199887
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paperback. At first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters - accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione. Translator(s): Horrocks, David. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 208.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141192093
- ISBN
- 9780141192093
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
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paperback. A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141186191
- ISBN
- 9780141186191
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Condition: New
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Paperback. A pornographic fantasy in which the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185385
- ISBN
- 9780141185385
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Condition: New
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paperback. Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183718
- ISBN
- 9780141183718
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Condition: New
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paperback. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Translator(s): Clark, Carol; Collier, Peter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141180359
- ISBN
- 9780141180359
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Condition: New
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paperback. A walk in the woods takes a sinister turn for police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton when they stumble across the body of a young girl. Incarcerated in the ground, all the initial evidence indicates that she has been scared to death. But as Sara embarks on the autopsy, something even more horrifying comes to light. Series: Grant County Series. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099553090
- ISBN
- 9780099553090
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Condition: New
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paperback. Confronted by elemental and human threats - snowstorms, shipwrecks and attempts on his life - Titus' bravery is tested and he must fight to free himself from the claims of his past. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. Maeve Gilmore, based on a fragment by Mervyn Peake
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099552765
- ISBN
- 9780099552765
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Condition: New
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paperback. Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends of New York's high society. But time and again Lily cannot bring herself to make the final decisive move. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 264.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099540762
- ISBN
- 9780099540762
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Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.57
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paperback. A collection of seven short stories themed around troubled relations. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099518594
- ISBN
- 9780099518594
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Condition: New
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paperback. The silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the river is brutal and unknown threats lurk in the darkness. Marlow's decision to hunt down the mysterious Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader who is the subject of sinister rumours, leads him into more than just physical peril. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099511540
- ISBN
- 9780099511540
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Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.57
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paperback. Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099511281
- ISBN
- 9780099511281
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.75
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paperback. Describes the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century and exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D. J. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099362517
- ISBN
- 9780099362517
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.14
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Hardcover. An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double. Hogg's 1824 novel, set in 17th century Scotland, anticipates Dostoevsky's great dramas of sin, self-accusation and damnation by half a century. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151268
- ISBN
- 9781857151268
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
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hardcover. Weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him towards Zionism. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 133 x 44. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857151633
- ISBN
- 9781857151633
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 13.91
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hardcover. Together with Voltaire, Diderot was a remarkable figure of the French Enlightenment, as a philosopher, journalist and novelist. In this book, a young girl's enforced enclosure in a convent gives Diderot the chance to explore themes such as religious hypocrisy and sexual repression. Translator(s): Birrell, Francis. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 209 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857150902
- ISBN
- 9781857150902
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Condition: New
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paperback. Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing skill in a range of literary styles. The stories include: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire" and "The Happy Prince". Editor(s): Small, Ian. Num Pages: 320 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141439693
- ISBN
- 9780141439693
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 9.75
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hardcover. A collection of stories such as: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", a fairy tale of unlimited wealth; the sad and hilarious stories of Hollywood hack Pat Hobby; and, "The Lost Decade". Series: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 139 x 41. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141194103
- ISBN
- 9780141194103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.68
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