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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. Set in 1797, Billy Budd is a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208. Used paperback in very good condition. May have some light shelfwear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF2232033
- ISBN
- 9781853267499
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.99€ 4.99
€ 10.99
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Paperback. William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene. Editor(s): Knapp, Lewis M.; Bouce, Paul-Gabriel. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Sunning to spine
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- KCW0001418
- ISBN
- 9780199538980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 13.99€ 10.53
€ 13.99
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Hardcover. Uses the narrative of a mock travel writer to explore exotic and imaginary locations. This book mounts a scathing attack on the morals, politics and learning of the 18th century, culminating in possibly the greatest satire ever written: the story of the Houyhnhnms. Num Pages: 326 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857150261
- ISBN
- 9781857150261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.53
€ 17.99
€ 12.53
Hardcover. Translator(s): Kilmartin, Terence; Moncrieff, Scott. Num Pages: 700 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 34. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781841598963
- ISBN
- 9781841598963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 18.76
€ 29.99
€ 18.76
Paperback. A doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and suddenly dies. How are these little mysteries connected? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784871154
- ISBN
- 9781784871154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
€ 12.99
€ 10.38
Hardcover. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857152807
- ISBN
- 9781857152807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.10
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€ 15.10
paperback. One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 111 x 8. Weight in Grams: 70.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- 9780241972038
- ISBN
- 9780241972038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
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Paperback. Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career. Editor(s): Ashton, Rosemary. Num Pages: 880 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141439549
- ISBN
- 9780141439549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141391885
- ISBN
- 9780141391885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70
Hardback. For Jay Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing for the one thing that will always be out of his reach. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. Series: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 205 x 28. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141194059
- ISBN
- 9780141194059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
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Paperback. Set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, this novel satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141184241
- ISBN
- 9780141184241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
€ 12.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183930
- ISBN
- 9780141183930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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Paperback. Shows how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099530343
- ISBN
- 9780099530343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and 30s. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099530176
- ISBN
- 9780099530176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099530039
- ISBN
- 9780099530039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.70
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Paperback. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia in 1916-17. This book show how his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of the Revolution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099529569
- ISBN
- 9780099529569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.86
€ 12.99
€ 9.86
Paperback. Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous 'rackman'. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099528692
- ISBN
- 9780099528692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.70
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Paperback. Years after the First World War's end, the narrator returns to Paris. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D. J. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099362715
- ISBN
- 9780099362715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 196 x 10. Weight in Grams: 132. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0000494
- ISBN
- 9781843915287
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. As well as the text itself and an informative introduction, this new edition includes a selection of background documents (also newly translated), which help set the work in the cultural and intellectual context out of which it emerged. Translator(s): Lodge, Kirsten. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554812219
- ISBN
- 9781554812219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.74
€ 20.99
€ 16.74
Paperback. Editor(s): Bernstein, Susan David. Num Pages: 278 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551115665
- ISBN
- 9781551115665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.94
€ 37.99
€ 34.94
CD-Audio. AUDIOBOOK Volume 1 of The Inimitable Jeeves also follows the trials and tribulations of one of the more idiotic of Bertie's chums, Bingo Little, who has a tendency to fall in love.. frequently and disastrously! BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Canongate CSA Audio
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781906147372
- ISBN
- 9781906147372
CD
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.67
€ 19.99
€ 15.67
paperback. A collection of modernist short stories which create a picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. The author stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KOG0001580
- ISBN
- 9780141182452
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 10.99€ 9.35
€ 10.99
€ 9.35
Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; YFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- William Collins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007902163
- ISBN
- 9780007902163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.73
€ 5.73