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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. 'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 113 x 20. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780141049236
ISBN
9780141049236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. With this splendid edition Gary Kelly has recovered a central document of Enlightenment British feminism. Peter Walmsley, McMaster University Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBD; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551110158
ISBN
9781551110158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.95

Paperback. Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, this title presents a story of a fated love triangle that explores the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780141186351
ISBN
9780141186351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his companions know his feelings on the matter. Editor(s): Ross, Angus. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344. Good clean copy showing light age. Prevous owners name to half title page otherwise internally text is clear and remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
496
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSG0020939
ISBN
9780141441429
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 18.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. Presents a semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141185910
ISBN
9780141185910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts. Translator(s): McDuff, David. Num Pages: 1056 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 48. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Edition
Reissue
SKU
9780140449242
ISBN
9780140449242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Hardcover. Translator(s): Woods, John E. Num Pages: 904 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 39. Weight in Grams: 804.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857152890
ISBN
9781857152890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.62

Paperback. A triology of three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571276653
ISBN
9780571276653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.64

Hardcover. This is a three-volume boxed set of Tolstoy's historical chronicle of Russia's struggle with Napoleon. The novel is an affirmation of life itself, focusing on the lives of individuals and the physical reality of human experience and its bewildering complexity. Translator(s): Maude, Louise; Maude, Aylmer. Num Pages: 1744 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 102. Weight in Grams: 1990. Good clean copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9781857150964
ISBN
9781857150964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.88
€ 55.00

Paperback. Kirsteen, from an old but impoverished family, rebels against her father and flees to London. Against the odds she finds work, striving for independence against a world determined to drag her down. Written in the late 1800s, Kirsteen is a startlingly modern novel in its treatment of women and work. Editor(s): Scriven, Anne M. Series: ASLS Annual Volumes. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Assoc Scottish Literary Studies
Condition
New
SKU
V9780948877995
ISBN
9780948877995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 752 pages, black & white illustrations, printed music items. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1048. 752 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 36. Weight: 1006.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Edition
Unabridged
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486474700
ISBN
9780486474700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 109 x 16. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780451531728
ISBN
9780451531728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.20

Paperback. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182681
ISBN
9780141182681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.06

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

€ 17.99
€ 16.51

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
€ 20.68

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

€ 17.06

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

€ 51.70

Hardcover. Set in the years before and after Waterloo, the novel tells the parallel stories of two schoolfriends - the quiet, long-suffering Amelia and her brilliant, scheming friend, Becky Sharp. The novel portrays all the corruption and decadence of 19th-century England. Num Pages: 878 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 42. Weight in Grams: 826. Good clean copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150124
ISBN
9781857150124
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 15.98

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. 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

€ 6.31

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

€ 6.31

Paperback. A collection of Neruda's intimate, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of nineteenth century Prague. These vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech nineteenth century realist. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Series: CEU Press Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 127 x 32. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Central European University Press Hungary
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9789639116238
ISBN
9789639116238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.96

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

€ 53.24
€ 53.16

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
€ 19.30

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