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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. From the atmospheric recollections of the Palazzo Lampedusa in Palermo at the turn of the twentieth century in 'Childhood Memories' to the delightful fantasy 'The Professor and the Siren', from the gently humorous, bittersweet tones of 'Joy and the Law' to 'The Blind Kittens', this volume showcases Lampedusa's unparalleled narrative skills. Translator(s): Parkin, Stephen. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493989
ISBN
9781847493989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008110628
ISBN
9780008110628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.42

Paperback. First published in 1827 and here presented in a new translation by J.G. Nichols along with Thoughts, Leopardi's own selected pearls of wisdom and gems of social observation, this volume will enchant both those who are familiar with and those who are new to the works of Italy's last great polymath. Translator(s): Nichols, J. G. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847495808
ISBN
9781847495808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied. Then, late one night, in the middle of the English countryside, they landed. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872113
ISBN
9781784872113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Modern Library Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Modern Library
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375751516
ISBN
9780375751516
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.78

Hardcover. Presents the story of Scrooge, a miser who becomes a different man when he is presented with visions of past, present and future by Marley's ghost. Num Pages: 456 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 136 x 30. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
456
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593234
ISBN
9781841593234
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. Transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099554455
ISBN
9780099554455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 129 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
129
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2008 Modern Library Pbk. Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812974782
ISBN
9780812974782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140437638
ISBN
9780140437638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Hardcover. On the surface a traditional Bildungsroman describing the narrator's journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author's lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence. Num Pages: 3152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 168 x 141. Weight in Grams: 3136.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152500
ISBN
9781857152500
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.18
€ 71.73

paperback. An erotic glimpse into the Hungary of the early twentieth century. It collects ten short stories focusing on the poor and dispossessed and describing the human condition and the futility of life. Translator(s): Batki, John. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141193038
ISBN
9780141193038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 181 x 22. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241214992
ISBN
9780241214992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 117 x 15. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
William Collins
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007934416
ISBN
9780007934416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.42

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870294
ISBN
9781784870294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepart out. Overcoming setbacks they race against the clock. Translator(s): Glencross, Michael. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449068
ISBN
9780140449068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

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: 131 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Elibron Classics series
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007420285
ISBN
9780007420285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.73

Paperback. This comic novel describes the boating expedition on the Thames of three friends and their dog, Montmerency. The difficulties and vicissitudes of these innocents abroad are magnified to epic proportions, and give the book an air of fresh innocence. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853260513
ISBN
9781853260513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.33

Hardcover. A tale of injustice, heroism and love that follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine (Anne Hathaway), driven to prostitution by poverty. Translator(s): Denny, Norman. Series: Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 1232 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1044.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846140495
ISBN
9781846140495
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.67

Paperback. Editor(s): Ingham, Patricia. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538300
ISBN
9780199538300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Editor(s): Karetnyk, Bryan. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241299739
ISBN
9780241299739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Hogg's powerful novel combines two stories that hauntingly echo each other, one set in Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders in the early 1820s, and the other set in the Highlands in 1746, the time of Culloden and its devastating aftermath. Editor(s): Hasler, Antony; Mack, Douglas S.; Groves, David. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 34. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748663170
ISBN
9780748663170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571268856
ISBN
9780571268856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Includes stories - ranging from the Boscombe Valley Mystery to the Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Builder to A Case of Identity, but above to the uniquely strange and macabre Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141395500
ISBN
9780141395500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Hardback. Illustrator(s): Hische, Jessica. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143124665
ISBN
9780143124665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.04

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