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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

paperback. Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has other plans. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186528
ISBN
9780141186528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

paperback. When Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair. Translator(s): Berlin, Isaiah. Num Pages: 112 pages, chronology. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443356
ISBN
9780140443356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.98

Hardback. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
9780141196640
ISBN
9780141196640
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.29

Paperback. Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York but reluctant to finally commit herself to a husband. In her search for freedom and the happiness she feels she deserves, Lily is ultimately ruined by scandal. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 193 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141199023
ISBN
9780141199023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. Told in the author's trademark humorous style and presented in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, The Same Old Story - Goncharov's first novel, preceding his masterpiece Oblomov by twelve years - is a study of lost illusions and rude spiritual awakening in the modern world. Translator(s): Pearl, Stephen. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847495624
ISBN
9781847495624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.30

Paperback. June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. This book tells what men thought and felt and did as France fell. Translator(s): Hopkins, Gerard. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186573
ISBN
9780141186573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 96 pages, 18ill. BIC Classification: FC; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 133 x 7. Weight in Grams: 86. A Romance of Many Dimensions. Series: Dover Thrift S. 96 pages, 18ill. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FL. Dimension: 209 x 133 x 7. Weight: 86.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486272634
ISBN
9780486272634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.72

paperback. When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome. Series: Vintage Classics Bronte Series. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 181 x 42. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870751
ISBN
9781784870751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Hardcover. A story of passionate love, travail and final triumph. The relationship between the heroine and Mr Rochester is only one episode, albeit the most important, in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 134 x 36. Weight in Grams: 688.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Number of pages
284
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150100
ISBN
9781857150100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. A tale that presents life in the prisons, alleyways and underworlds of eighteenth-century London. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099518877
ISBN
9780099518877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. The Kampfs have risen swiftly up the ranks of 1930s Parisian society. Painfully aware of her working-class roots, and desperate to win acceptance, Madame Kampf decides to throw a huge ball to announce her arrival to society. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099493976
ISBN
9780099493976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. As the head of the aristocratic family, Don Fabrizio is accustomed to knowing his own place in the world and expects his household to run accordingly. He is aware of the changes which are rapidly making men obsolete but he remains attached to the old ways. But Don Fabrizio will make few accommodations for the modern world. Translator(s): Colquhoun, Archibald. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099512158
ISBN
9780099512158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008182298
ISBN
9780008182298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.93

Paperback. Helps you celebrate the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. This book takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 161 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141397078
ISBN
9780141397078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.52

Paperback. When Dr Watson ends up renting rooms in Baker Street with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes, he finds that he has let himself in for a great deal more than he imagined. He is called upon to help the budding detective solve a perplexing mystery, involving a dead body found in a locked room. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue, Media Tie In
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530534
ISBN
9780099530534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. A nameless young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Editor(s): Bromwich, David. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441351
ISBN
9780141441351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.27

Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 1032 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JD; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue, Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509844760
ISBN
9781509844760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.82

Paperback. Effi Briest is steered into marriage with a man twenty years her senior, and taken to live in a remote Baltic seaport. Isolated and bored, she drifts into an affair, which is quickly ended. Years later the past catches up with Effi, with profound consequences. Fontane's masterpiece, the novel is an acute portrait of Prussian society. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199675647
ISBN
9780199675647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.80

Paperback. Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. Editor(s): Cave, Terence. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
896
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434279
ISBN
9780140434279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

hardcover. A tale of quiet lives in an early 19th-century English provincial town which engages the reader at every level, from the author's chronicle of everyday details to the most exacting philosophical and moral reflection. Num Pages: 743 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 43. Weight in Grams: 822.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
743
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150063
ISBN
9781857150063
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.35

Hardcover. The Small Bachelor Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591889
ISBN
9781841591889
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529330
ISBN
9780099529330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.74

Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white halftones, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 179 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Atlas Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900565462
ISBN
9781900565462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.71

Paperback. Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of the south-west of England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity. The story of the wooing of Bathsheba Everdene by three suitors is here presented in a critical text with a new introduction, bibliography and chronology. Editor(s): Falck-Yi, Suzanne B. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537013
ISBN
9780199537013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.26

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