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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Offers a narrative that interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 192 x 29. Weight in Grams: 438.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141199993
ISBN
9780141199993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Can we truly know the one we love? In this book, the author looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle, also broods on why we are driven to try and possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever reclaim those careless days of first love. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110 x 7. Weight in Grams: 66.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872694
ISBN
9781784872694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.08

Paperback. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this book follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. It presents rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, and their awareness of unity and isolation. Editor(s): Flint, Kate. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141182711
ISBN
9780141182711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155844
ISBN
9781903155844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.34

Paperback. A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of waterways and death. Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840225334
ISBN
9781840225334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.09

Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Rackham, Arthur. Series: Calla Editions. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: FC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 262 x 184 x 19. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606600412
ISBN
9781606600412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.30

Hardcover. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue, Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909621626
ISBN
9781909621626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.77

Paperback. Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. Translator(s): Raffaelli, Lara Gochin. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143106746
ISBN
9780143106746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Hardcover. Set in south-west Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 1707 Union, The Black Dwarf was intended to be a story about the first, abortive, Jacobite uprising of 1708. Instead it developed into a gothic tale of the supernatural. Editor(s): Garside, Professor P. D. (University of Edinburgh). Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
238
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748604517
ISBN
9780748604517
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.57
€ 128.95

Paperback. In the Cite, a seedy neighborhood where criminals gather, Rodolphe encounters a young prostitute of breathtaking purity who goes by the name Songbird. He saves her from an attack by a ruffian called the Slasher, setting off the dominoes of an epic narrative traversing the ranks of French society. Num Pages: 1392 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1108.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
1392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143107125
ISBN
9780143107125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.17

Paperback.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
O'Brien Press Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847172471
ISBN
9781847172471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.33

Paperback. From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wife's death in childbirth, the author conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life. Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series. Num Pages: 1296 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 215 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1152.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784871949
ISBN
9781784871949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Hardcover. Psmith helps acting editor Billy Windsor change the image of Cosy Moments magazine and they are stalked by gangsters when their expose of slum tenements angers an unscrupulous landlord. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591568
ISBN
9781841591568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

hardcover. Long suppressed in its native land, this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical, trenchant, unadulterated voice of dissent. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
Number of pages
446
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150667
ISBN
9781857150667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.84

Paperback. Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099589747
ISBN
9780099589747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Introducing the first in a long line of underground's characters, Poor People, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction, is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Alma Books
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493125
ISBN
9781847493125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008195557
ISBN
9780008195557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.35

Paperback. John Ridd is a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones. Editor(s): Allen, Michelle; Madison, R.D. Num Pages: 752 pages, map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 614.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143039327
ISBN
9780143039327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. Series: Dover Thrift S. 272 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 208 x 132 x 17. Weight: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
272
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486284736
ISBN
9780486284736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.82

Paperback. Series: Roads Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Roads Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9781909399273
ISBN
9781909399273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349141510
ISBN
9780349141510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 116 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
116
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375760990
ISBN
9780375760990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.59

Paperback. Abacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels for a new audience. In The Gorse Trilogy, Patrick Hamilton creates one of fiction's most captivating anti-heroes. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349141497
ISBN
9780349141497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition of Fathers and Children is presented in a new translation with a wealth of material. Translator(s): Pursglove, Michael. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847494894
ISBN
9781847494894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.36

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