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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardcover. First published in 1925, this traces a day in the life of society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway. It is Woolf's first complete rendering of her "stream of consciousness" mode, which displays the inner workings of the mind as it considers the surface and darker depths of reality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151572
ISBN
9781857151572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. Editor(s): Kermode, Frank. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536573
ISBN
9780199536573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.91

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
€ 10.18

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
€ 10.95

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
€ 11.61

Paperback. This book presents a searching exploration of individual and collective identity, and the observations and emotions of life, from the simplicity and surging optimism of youth to the vacancy and despair of middle-age. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840224108
ISBN
9781840224108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.28

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

€ 7.03

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

€ 6.28

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

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

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

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

€ 171.36

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

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
€ 13.25

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
€ 10.95

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

€ 14.99
€ 11.60

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

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

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

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

€ 28.15

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

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

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
€ 10.95

Paperback. Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185996
ISBN
9780141185996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241302484
ISBN
9780241302484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

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