Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. 'A pointless anecdote told in 99 different ways, or a work of genius in a brilliant translation by Barbara Wright. In fact it's both. Endlessly fascinating and very funny.' Philip Pullman This special edition contains a foreword by Umberto Eco with an essay by Italo Calvino. Translator(s): Wright, Barbara. Num Pages: 224 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Special edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847492418
- ISBN
- 9781847492418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.69
€ 10.99
€ 9.69
Paperback. Translator(s): Cuningham, Rupert Copeland. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
- Publisher
- Calder Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714544564
- ISBN
- 9780714544564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Series: French Literature Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 382. 279 pages. The long-awaited new translation of the most dazzling and unclassifiable work of fiction in any language. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 23. Weight: 384. Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564786241
- ISBN
- 9781564786241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.90
€ 16.99
€ 16.90
Paperback. This is a masterful novel about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from WWI to the three women who love him. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844086986
- ISBN
- 9781844086986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
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€ 10.71
Paperback. * Set during the Edwardian era, this is a poignant and beautifully told story of family love and family feuds, and of musical and artistic aspirations. * Introduction by Rebecca West's biographer, Victoria Glendinning. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844086993
- ISBN
- 9781844086993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.45
€ 14.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. Presents a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories. Legendary for its magnificent and vivid set battle scenes, this book is filled with intimate human dramas and emotions, contemplating Buddhist themes of suffering and separation, as well as universal insights into love, loss and loyalty. Translator(s): Tyler, Royall; Watson, Michael. Num Pages: 784 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143107262
- ISBN
- 9780143107262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.25
€ 26.99
€ 18.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 570 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 244 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629966621
- ISBN
- 9789629966621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.60
€ 20.99
€ 20.60
Paperback. Translator(s): Burton, Richard F. Num Pages: 570 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 108 x 172 x 36. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Signet
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780451530592
- ISBN
- 9780451530592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.50
€ 11.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. The second novel in the Rhondda Trilogy - 'the most sustained literary examination of Welsh industrial history ever published and certainly the least ideologically distorted' - A Time to Laugh (1937) is set in a coal-mining valley on the eve of the 20th century, against a background of industrial unrest and social change. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910409114
- ISBN
- 9781910409114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.95
€ 13.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143106876
- ISBN
- 9780143106876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Hardback. This book begins with two fatal duels, as the most apt introduction to a literary period best defined by its antagonisms. Exploring three publishing phenomena of the age; the novels of Walter Scott, Byron's Don Juan, and the new literary magazines, it attempts a radical reconfiguration of our understanding of literary culture after Waterloo. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSBF; FC; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1648. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004409
- ISBN
- 9780199582532
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Translator(s): Burton, Sir Richard Francis. Series: Dover Thrift. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FM; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486419176
- ISBN
- 9780486419176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.06
€ 9.06
Hardback. Gooch examines the American legal system, banks, labor; American policy toward Native Americans and blacks; he includes a condemnation of New York City government and its electoral process, among other topics. Num Pages: 237 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 26. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823215942
- ISBN
- 9780823215942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.37
€ 68.37
Paperback. Follows the religious and romantic adventures of its hero, a young Oxford man, who, living in retirement with his mother in the country, decides to become an evangelist, although mainly from the lack of any other more interesting occupation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Nonsuch Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845886004
- ISBN
- 9781845886004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.31
€ 13.31
Paperback. Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 20. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185859
- ISBN
- 9780141185859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
€ 14.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. A collection of stories of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women in the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099518570
- ISBN
- 9780099518570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
€ 13.99
€ 10.83
Hardcover. Written by the author who whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour. Num Pages: 696 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 134 x 39. Weight in Grams: 706.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 696
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593173
- ISBN
- 9781841593173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.99
€ 21.99
€ 15.99
Paperback. Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. He has turned out to be the heroic soldier he imagined and his experience of battle principally involves fear and confusion. Back home, his mother Alice puts all her hopes in her son, and dreams of his return and starting a new life for them both. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099518631
- ISBN
- 9780099518631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune that he won't touch in case it compromises his art. She in turn is never quite certain of what is expected of her. All she knows is that everyone else seems, somehow, happier. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099518648
- ISBN
- 9780099518648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.44
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Paperback. William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding school. Jack Draper is a teacher whose wife is cheating on him. Edith Stone is the daughter of the English master who falls in love with the most popular boy in school. In this book, their stories twine together in the confines of the small community of Dorset Academy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099518587
- ISBN
- 9780099518587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.72
€ 16.99
€ 13.72