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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. Written by the author of "Billy Budd, Sailor" and "Moby-Dick", this novel is unfinished, although published in his lifetime. Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer, the novel is a gloomy satire on American life and the state of distrust that exists between human beings. Editor(s): Matterson, Stephen. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140445473
- ISBN
- 9780140445473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. A title that exposes the complex rivalries of sibling relationships and dramatises the conflict between sexuality and spirituality. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561095
- ISBN
- 9780099561095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853262692
- ISBN
- 9781853262692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.33
€ 6.33
Paperback. Benefiting from Anatole France's meticulous historical research, this fascinating and timeless novel sheds light on a complex world of rival factions and institutions of state terror and vividly portrays the lives and psyches of ordinary people who are complicit in acts of public barbarity. Translator(s): Parmee, Douglas. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493194
- ISBN
- 9781847493194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.42
€ 12.42
Paperback. Written at the same time as Oliver Twist - indeed the serialized version of the novel referred to Mudfog as the protagonist's home town - The Mudfog Papers lampoons all manner of journalistic and scientific writing of the time and showcases the young Dickens at his satirical best. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493484
- ISBN
- 9781847493484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455120
- ISBN
- 9780140455120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007902255
- ISBN
- 9780007902255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.80
€ 5.80
Hardback. A tale told by an adventurous boy, Jim Hawkins, who gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure. Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: D; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141192451
- ISBN
- 9780141192451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
€ 21.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 33. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007350919
- ISBN
- 9780007350919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.17
€ 6.17
Paperback. Lady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of dark plottings, for within the castle lurk some well-connected jewel thieves. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099513797
- ISBN
- 9780099513797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
€ 11.99
€ 10.31
Paperback. The first of Maupassant's six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) is the story of Jeanne de Lamare, the only daughter of wealthy Norman aristocrats whose life is beset by treachery and disillusion. Editor(s): Pearson, Roger. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555512
- ISBN
- 9780199555512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.87
€ 11.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198709985
- ISBN
- 9780198709985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.02
€ 10.99
€ 10.02
Paperback. Covers three different genres and all the telling themes: Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. This title exposes the pomposities of male pride and public success in 1910 from the point of view of an ex-wife unexpectedly returned as her (be)knighted husband's typist. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 182 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781841950037
- ISBN
- 9781841950037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.01
€ 11.99
€ 10.01
Paperback. "Sense and Sensibility" is famously characterised as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of 'civilised' society and the human desire for romantic passion. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847494849
- ISBN
- 9781847494849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.39
€ 10.39
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Birlinn General United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846970733
- ISBN
- 9781846970733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.44
€ 12.44
Paperback. The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationship between artistic ideals and sexual desires. They show Balzac's mastery of the seductions of storytelling, and are among the 19th century's richest explorations of life and art. Translator(s): Collier, Peter. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199571284
- ISBN
- 9780199571284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. One of a series of editions of the author's most famous short stories and novels. Editor(s): Taylor, Andrew. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441405
- ISBN
- 9780141441405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. When Anthony Lammas, minister of the Kirk and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, leaves his home town for London on business, he little imagines that within two days he will be deeply entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Birlinn General United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846970658
- ISBN
- 9781846970658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.42
€ 15.99
€ 15.42
Paperback. Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, "Great Expectations" is a powerful and moving novel suffused with the author's memories of the past and its grip on the present. This edition includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue. Editor(s): Weintraub, Director the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Stanley (Pennsylvania State University). Series: Signet Classics. Num Pages: 508 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 108 x 175 x 32. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Signet
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780451531186
- ISBN
- 9780451531186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.58
€ 9.58
Paperback. Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social satire. Full of incident, and blackly humorous, Kafka's first novel is newly translated by Ritchie Robertson in an edition that includes a full introduction and notes. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199601127
- ISBN
- 9780199601127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 489 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307946775
- ISBN
- 9780307946775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.41
€ 18.99
€ 17.41
Hardcover. The Frozen Assets belong to Edmund Biffen Christopher and they are the legacy of his Godfather which he will receive if he manages to avoid been arrested, something of a habit of Biffen's, until after his thirtieth birthday one week hence. Lord Tilbury, proprietor of the Mammoth publish company, is keen that Biffen does fall foul of the law. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591650
- ISBN
- 9781841591650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. The importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence - have as much relevance today as when they were written, and this superb new translation captures their modernist spirit. Among the fourteen stories included are 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'Gusev', and 'Rothschild's Violin'. Translator(s): Bartlett, Rosamund. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536689
- ISBN
- 9780199536689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. The Khojas who are rigidly orthodox, presiding over acres of ill-kept sugarcane and hoards of jewellery enthusiastically guarded by old Mrs Khoja, seem to have triumphed more by default than by anything else. Only Baby Khoja, who is parcelled off into an arranged marriage with a blustering bus driver, proves an exception to this rule. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141197234
- ISBN
- 9780141197234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.31
€ 17.99
€ 14.31