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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. Can he forgive his wife, and most importantly, himself? Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561149
ISBN
9780099561149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 125 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561064
ISBN
9780099561064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his father's roguish friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561125
ISBN
9780099561125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. A title that exposes the complex rivalries of sibling relationships and dramatises the conflict between sexuality and spirituality. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561095
ISBN
9780099561095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561132
ISBN
9780099561132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.42

Paperback. Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. This book tells the vivid stories of Isherwood's life that, together with The Berlin Novels, were to have comprised his unfinished epic novel. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Vintage Classics London
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561088
ISBN
9780099561088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. In November 1929, the author - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. In this book, he recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561071
ISBN
9780099561071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 136 pages, 15 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD2; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 171 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192804419
ISBN
9780192804419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.59

Paperback. First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground in its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, it follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her family from drought-ridden southern Alberta to a new life in the Peace River region. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771120715
ISBN
9781771120715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199561537
ISBN
9780199561537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.25

Paperback. Two former lovers embark on a game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an innocent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest of a married woman. But the consequences prove to be more serious, than they could have guessed. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Translator(s): Constantine, Helen. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 330.
Edition
New
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449570
ISBN
9780140449570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Translator(s): Briggs, Anthony. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 191 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843913658
ISBN
9781843913658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.94

Paperback. Editor(s): Blank, Antje; Todd, Janet. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112749
ISBN
9781551112749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.68

Paperback. Series: Tramp Press Recovered Voices Series. Num Pages: 415 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 654.
Edition
1st
Publisher
Tramp Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
9780992817046
ISBN
9780992817046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.00
€ 6.62

Paperback. Presents the horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 111 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54. Good clean copy
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780141397412
ISBN
9780141397412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.16

Paperback. A collection of writings from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most important American feminist of the early twentieth century. Includes the chilling and hugely influential 'The Yellow Wallpaper', which documents the powerless of women in Victorian marriage. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844085583
ISBN
9781844085583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere. How could these women survive without man's knowledge, experience and strength, not to mention reproductive power? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870522
ISBN
9781784870522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110. 128 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 8. Weight: 110.
Edition
New
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486404295
ISBN
9780486404295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.41

Paperback. Offers a collection of short stories including "The Yellow Wall-Paper", the novel "Herland", and poems. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143105855
ISBN
9780143105855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Shulman, Robert. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538843
ISBN
9780199538843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.62

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