Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. Policarpo Quaresma - fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, self-styled visionary - is a defender of all things Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his ventures, whether it is petitioning for Brazil's national language to be changed, buying a farm to prove the richness and fertility of the land. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141395708
- ISBN
- 9780141395708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.34
€ 18.99
€ 16.34
Paperback. From Collins Classics and the author of 'The Great Gatsby' a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007449484
- ISBN
- 9780007449484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.41
€ 5.41
Paperback. Highsmith blends savage humour with brilliant social satire in this dark tale. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349004891
- ISBN
- 9780349004891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of a disintegrating Russian culture, this collection of short fiction centres around dark, erotic liaisons told in prose. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847494740
- ISBN
- 9781847494740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.68
€ 13.99
€ 11.68
Paperback. No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 928
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141199641
- ISBN
- 9780141199641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 141 x 38. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143123149
- ISBN
- 9780143123149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.55
€ 23.99
€ 17.55
Paperback. Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. Translator(s): Parmee, Douglas. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443158
- ISBN
- 9780140443158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes. Translator(s): Muir, Edwin; Muir, Willa. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099428640
- ISBN
- 9780099428640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486434094
- ISBN
- 9780486434094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
€ 11.99
€ 10.10
Hardcover. Tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593456
- ISBN
- 9781841593456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.63
€ 23.99
€ 16.63
Hardback. Presents the story of a young man's painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald's own career. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141194097
- ISBN
- 9780141194097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.53
€ 23.99
€ 16.53
hardcover. Examines the conflict of attitudes in mid-19th-century Russia, as distant pre-echoes of the Revolution continue to rumble through the remote rural landscape. The story follows the Kirsanov family, representatives of the old regime, and the violent character of the anti-hero Bazarov. Translator(s): Pyman, A. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 247
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150179
- ISBN
- 9781857150179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. The novel traces the course of her education and ends with the death of her childhood. It is one of James's finest studies of lost innocence. Editor(s): Poole, Adrian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199538591
- ISBN
- 9780199538591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.72
€ 12.72
Paperback. Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143107323
- ISBN
- 9780143107323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.45
€ 10.99
€ 9.45
Paperback. Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uninvited guests converge upon them - from a Balkan exile to Ken's old flame and the siblings' own raffish father - the household struggles to preserve its precious peace. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529323
- ISBN
- 9780099529323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.50
€ 20.50
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547870
- ISBN
- 9781857547870
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.91
€ 19.99
€ 15.91
Paperback. Within the ivied walls of Blandings Castle there are snakes in the rolling parkland ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth, when he least expects it. Empress of Blandings, in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class, is off her food - and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language. Series: Blandings Castle. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099513834
- ISBN
- 9780099513834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Talks about the narrator's dream-like adventures in fairyland, where he confronts tree-spirits and the shadow, sojourns to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. This tale aims to convey a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292. A Faerie Romance. 185 pages. Talks about the narrator's dream-like adventures in fairyland, where he confronts tree-spirits and the shadow, sojourns to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. This tale aims to convey a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 14. Weight: 292.
- Publisher
- William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 185
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1959
- Edition
- 15th ptg.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802860606
- ISBN
- 9780802860606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.01
€ 19.99
€ 19.01
Paperback. A classic and hugely influential thriller. May 1914, Richard Hannay is asked for help by an American spy who has uncovered an assasination plot. The spy is promptly murdered in Hannay's flat, and Hannay is compelled to flee and prevent the assasination while on the run from the police in Scotland. Introduced by Stuart Kelly. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Birlinn General United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846971983
- ISBN
- 9781846971983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.31
€ 10.31
Paperback. Editor(s): Nagel, James. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811274
- ISBN
- 9781554811274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.50
€ 18.99
€ 15.50