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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. This book captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. Translator(s): Glad, John. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140186956
ISBN
9780140186956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. A story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. It chronicles Antoine's struggle with the realisation that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning. Translator(s): Baldick, Robert. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; FA; FC; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141185491
ISBN
9780141185491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Features an epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 180 x 31. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141394886
ISBN
9780141394886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. With its loveable, impressionable heroine and its themes of growing up and learning to live in the real world, Northanger Abbey remains one of Jane Austen's most irresistible and up-to-date novels. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Headline Book Publishing
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755331444
ISBN
9780755331444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781435160699
ISBN
9781435160699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.01

Paperback.
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
936
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780553212167
ISBN
9780553212167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.37

Paperback. Series: The Detective Club. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008216474
ISBN
9780008216474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.37

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 134 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486415871
ISBN
9780486415871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.95

Paperback. In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for the bridge to be repaired, they are inspired to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. Translator(s): Chilton, Paul. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140443554
ISBN
9780140443554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Andy Rooney is a fellow who had 'the most singularly ingenious knack of doing everything the wrong way'. Written by Samuel Lover, author, artist and musician; this volume focuses on tales of Irish folklore. Series: Nonsuch Classics. Num Pages: 539 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Nonsuch Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845881986
ISBN
9781845881986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.34

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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

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

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

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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

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