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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate is forever altered. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478263
- ISBN
- 9780099478263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. Follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099982807
- ISBN
- 9780099982807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, sex, love and marriage. This is an exploration of a young woman's mind, signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries and complexities of life. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140185638
- ISBN
- 9780140185638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. 'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478294
- ISBN
- 9780099478294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.12
€ 7.12
Paperback. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853261916
- ISBN
- 9781853261916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.31
€ 6.31
Paperback. Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099478287
- ISBN
- 9780099478287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.06
€ 11.99
€ 9.06
Paperback. Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen. Now, an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations, notes. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853262395
- ISBN
- 9781853262395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.05
€ 8.05
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 135 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0018216
- ISBN
- 9780375757273
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, this work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war. Editor(s): Bishop, Edward. Series: Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631177227
- ISBN
- 9780631177227
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.83
€ 175.83
paperback. Provides the author's own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is most clear when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853260919
- ISBN
- 9781853260919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.01
€ 7.01
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 5 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Copy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955379239
- ISBN
- 9780955379239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. This haunting, elegiac tale about the secret love of a man destined shortly to die, was published in the year before the author's death and is her last novel. She also wrote "All Passion Spent", "The Edwardians", "Family History", "Seducers in Ecuador" and "The Heir". Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860685784
- ISBN
- 9780860685784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. CHALLENGE was written in 1920, but at the last moment it was withdrawn from publication because of the scandal it would have caused. It was inspired by Vita's relationship with Violet Trefusis. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087655
- ISBN
- 9781844087655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
paperback. Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him. To please his father, Antonio agrees to marry the beautiful Barbara. A year after their marriage however - scandal erupts. Barbara is still a virgin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Classic
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141189062
- ISBN
- 9780141189062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.29
€ 15.99
€ 11.29
Paperback. Focusing on several central themes, this title illustrate with clarity the changing face and fortunes of this great city, Belfast during the century of so after the Great Irish Famine (1845-50). It includes images that have been drawn from the collections of the Ulster Museum. Series: In Old Photographs. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 171 x 9. Weight in Grams: 366. 8vo.Illustrated. Belfast History. Very good clean copy. First edition
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- KEX0287338
- ISBN
- 9780750917544
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314. Clean copy showing some shelf wear and foxing to edges
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- CATBIRD PRESS
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0001082
- ISBN
- 9780945774174
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Translator(s): Katz, Michael R. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801489037
- ISBN
- 9780801489037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 188 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241953242
- ISBN
- 9780241953242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel, a 'maddening masterpiece' documenting her infidelities, written by one of her lovers and given to the doctor, she appears as My Laura. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191164
- ISBN
- 9780141191164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. 'Look at the harlequins ..Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141198033
- ISBN
- 9780141198033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02