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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. When his sister's boat is wrecked in the Pacific, he becomes trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a 2,000 mile voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable waters. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529989
ISBN
9780099529989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

paperback. Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530091
ISBN
9780099530091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France. However, during his stay the Nazis invade and he is forced to try to escape back to England with the two small children of some friends who are forced to stay behind in order to help the Allied war effort. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530220
ISBN
9780099530220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe, endeavours to fly a doctor in to help but this proves more difficult than he imagined. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530145
ISBN
9780099530145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance. Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England. But his homecoming is marred by the mysterious suicide of his parents' quiet and reliable parlour-maid. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530237
ISBN
9780099530237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Stanton Laird is sent from his town in America to work in a remote outpost in Western Australia. While out there he befriends Regan family and falls in love with the daughter Mollie. However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realize that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realize. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529996
ISBN
9780099529996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious savior is an escaped convict, and his determination to help him leads Stenning into a tense and dramatic adventure of intrigue, drug-running and murder. Num Pages: 272 pages, map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530077
ISBN
9780099530077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. John Turner, a young man with a checkered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: a snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a black G I accused of attempted rape. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530022
ISBN
9780099530022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530251
ISBN
9780099530251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with minor creases to the cover.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
9780099530268
ISBN
9780099530268
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099530039
ISBN
9780099530039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and 30s. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099530176
ISBN
9780099530176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other women and children whom the Japanese force to walk for miles through the jungle leading to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous spirit, Jean takes on the role of leader of the sorry gaggle of prisoners. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Publication date
2015
Format
Paperback
SKU
9781784870027
ISBN
9781784870027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.99
€ 5.80

Paperback. New translation of a classic from Italian literature. This edition contains a new translation of G.W.F. Hegel's 'Machiavelli's The Prince and Italy', notes and apparatus on Machiavelli's life and works, four pages of pictures and the first pages of The Prince in the original Italian. Translator(s): Nichols, J. G. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493231
ISBN
9781847493231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.08

Paperback.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
542
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822309451
ISBN
9780822309451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.09

Paperback. Presenting Gogol's comic novel about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, this translation is accompanied by an introduction and by appendices that outline excerpts from the translator's work on other Gogol texts, and by letters Gogol wrote around the time he was writing this novel. Editor(s): Fusso, Ms. Susanne. Translator(s): Guerney, Bernard Guilbert. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Subsequent
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300060997
ISBN
9780300060997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.98

Hardback. Relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on its inhabitants, all to win the love of the most beautiful girl in town. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 187 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143122487
ISBN
9780143122487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.91

Paperback. A biting satire of social pretensions and pomposity, Dead Souls, here presented in a brand new translation, is part of Alma Classics Evergreens series of popular classics. Translator(s): Rayfield, Donald. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496287
ISBN
9781847496287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.99

paperback. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'dead souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat. Translator(s): Maguire, Robert A. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140448078
ISBN
9780140448078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

paperback. Collected here are superb new translations of the finest tales - from the founding master of Russian surreal allegory and irony Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Granta
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847084217
ISBN
9781847084217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

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