Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183619
- ISBN
- 9780141183619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.48
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CD-Audio. Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and beautifully repackaged. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Unabridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008154660
- ISBN
- 9780008154660
CD
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.15
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Paperback. Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, this title opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571249527
- ISBN
- 9780571249527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.41
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Paperback. A novel, in which, one man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571276639
- ISBN
- 9780571276639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.05
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Paperback. A triology of three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571276653
- ISBN
- 9780571276653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.61
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Paperback. Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and pulsing with the energy of the author's previous novel Invisible, this title is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571258802
- ISBN
- 9780571258802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.48
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paperback. 'Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin ..' In this book, the explosion that detonates the narrative also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs' oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571276615
- ISBN
- 9780571276615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.61
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Paperback. Tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers as he gives in to his darkest impulses. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182209
- ISBN
- 9780141182209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
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Paperback. "If in doubt, wash!" What is it like to be a cat? Find out in this classic animal story from the renowned writer Paul Gallico. Series: Essential Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007395194
- ISBN
- 9780007395194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.91
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Paperback. A milestone of picaresque literature, The Comic Romance spawned countless imitations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was championed in the nineteenth century by eminent literary figures such as Theophile Gautier and Gerard de Nerval. Translator(s): Houis, Jacques. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272. 384 pages. A milestone of picaresque literature, The Comic Romance spawned countless imitations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was championed in the nineteenth century by eminent literary figures such as Theophile Gautier and Gerard de Nerval. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight: 272. Translator(s): Houis, Jacques.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Classics
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847492203
- ISBN
- 9781847492203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.31
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Paperback. Editor(s): Salzman, Dr Paul. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DQ; DSBD; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540570
- ISBN
- 9780199540570
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Num Pages: 672 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 117 x 43. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195063257
- ISBN
- 9780195063257
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Every night, the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights. Translator(s): Lyons, Malcolm; Lyons, Ursula. Num Pages: 1008 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 44. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1008
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449389
- ISBN
- 9780140449389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.99€ 18.21
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Paperback. The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. This title provides tales that range from the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers". Illustrator(s): Harvey, William. Translator(s): Dawood, N. J. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Harmondsworth, Middlesex
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442892
- ISBN
- 9780140442892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
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Paperback. Three Diggers Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 124 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Nonsuch Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845880842
- ISBN
- 9781845880842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.41
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909232280
- ISBN
- 9781909232280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.15
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Paperback. Most likely written by an advisor of Nero, this title recounts the adventures of Encolpius and his companions as they travel around Italy. Estimated to date from 63 - 65 AD, and only surviving in fragments, it offers a satirical portrait of the age of Nero, in all its excesses and chaos. Translator(s): Sullivan, J. P. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140448054
- ISBN
- 9780140448054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
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Paperback. Editor(s): Walsh, P. G. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539215
- ISBN
- 9780199539215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.28
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Paperback. Petronius lived during the reign of the notorious emperor Nero, a writer in a decadent empire, and in Frederic Raphael he finds a translator who brings his words vividly alive. Translator(s): Raphael, Frederic. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547832
- ISBN
- 9781857547832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.17
€ 27.99
€ 23.17