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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Based again on Robert M. Adams's highly regarded translation of Stendhal's 1831 novel of ambition, love, and betrayal, this Second Norton Critical Edition of The Red and the Black is the most comprehensive and up-to-date edition available. Editor(s): Lee, Susanna. Translator(s): Adams, Robert M. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 656 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
652
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393928839
ISBN
9780393928839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.71

Paperback. In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his-Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice. Editor(s): Corngold, Stanley. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393924794
ISBN
9780393924794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.75

Paperback. Presents the tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century Spain. Translator(s): Peden, Margaret Sayers. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300141993
ISBN
9780300141993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.17

Hardcover. One of a complete set of Jane Austen's novels collating the editions published during the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts. The books are illustrated with 19th-century plates and incorporate revisions by experts in the light of subsequent research. Series: Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen. Num Pages: 624 pages, plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 188 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1963
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192547057
ISBN
9780192547057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.23

Paperback. Provides a glimpse of the bright young things of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties in the city and in the shires; firmly ensconced at home or making a go of it abroad; and what the upper classes really got up to in peace and in war. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1020. Good clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780241239476
ISBN
9780241239476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 17.01

Paperback. Presents the horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 111 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54. Good clean copy
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780141397412
ISBN
9780141397412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.82

Paperback. Tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
9780141198965
ISBN
9780141198965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.06

Paperback. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, this novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state. Translator(s): Hogarth, C. J. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853262869
ISBN
9781853262869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.33

Paperback. Mary Lennox was horrid, selfish and spoilt, and was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the entrance to a secret garden a change overcomes her. With a local boy and her cousin the three children work magic in themselves and those around them. Series: Wordsworth's Children's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; YFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
Edition
New edition
SKU
V9781853261046
ISBN
9781853261046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.29

Paperback. Translator(s): Yang, Shuhui; Yang, Yunqin. Series: A Ming Dynasty Collection. Num Pages: 792 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
792
Condition
New
Edition
New Ed
SKU
V9780295985688
ISBN
9780295985688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.49

Paperback. Dona Barbara is a beautiful and mysterious woman - rumored to be a witch - with a ferocious power over men. When her cousin Santos Luzardo returns to the plains in order to reclaim his land and cattle, he reluctantly faces off against Dona Barbara, and their battle becomes simultaneously one of violence and seduction. Translator(s): Malloy, Robert. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Tra Rep
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226279206
ISBN
9780226279206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.45

Paperback. Andy Rooney is a fellow who had 'the most singularly ingenious knack of doing everything the wrong way'. Written by Samuel Lover, author, artist and musician; this volume focuses on tales of Irish folklore. Series: Nonsuch Classics. Num Pages: 539 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Nonsuch Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845881986
ISBN
9781845881986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.35

Paperback. In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for the bridge to be repaired, they are inspired to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. Translator(s): Chilton, Paul. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443554
ISBN
9780140443554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.68

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 134 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486415871
ISBN
9780486415871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.24

Paperback. Series: The Detective Club. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008216474
ISBN
9780008216474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.61

Paperback.
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
936
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780553212167
ISBN
9780553212167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.42

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781435160699
ISBN
9781435160699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.27

Paperback. With its loveable, impressionable heroine and its themes of growing up and learning to live in the real world, Northanger Abbey remains one of Jane Austen's most irresistible and up-to-date novels. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Headline Book Publishing
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755331444
ISBN
9780755331444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.94

Paperback. Donne, an ambitious skipper, leads a multiracial crew up an unnamed river in the rainforest. He is searching for the indigenous people of the forest to exploit as cheap labour on his plantation. But the journey is beset with obstacles, and as the crew progress and their relationships develop, it takes on a more spiritual significance. Num Pages: 138 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571260515
ISBN
9780571260515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.63

Paperback. Translator(s): Wyllie, David. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150. 176 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Dimension: 209 x 133 x 12. Weight: 150. Translator(s): Wyllie, David.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486470610
ISBN
9780486470610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.37

mass_market.
Publication date
1920
Publisher
Bantam Classics
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780553213928
ISBN
9780553213928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.54

Hardcover. This sumptuous gift set includes a replica of the very rare first edition of The Hobbit, the only edition where one can now read the original version of the story before Tolkien re-edited it to become the one enjoyed by readers since 1951. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: FC; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 211 x 36. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007440832
ISBN
9780007440832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 21.99

Paperback. The vital, inventive and humorous tale of Sylvia Scarlett, acclaimed as 'one of the few really great women in fiction'. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 199 x 39. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Murray Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848547681
ISBN
9781848547681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Hardcover. Elizabeth Taylor's most famous novel, shortlisted for the 1975 Booker Prize, is published in VMC designer hardback. Cover by Celia Birtwell. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089338
ISBN
9781844089338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.10

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