Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Hardcover. Special collector's film tie-in hardback of the best-selling classic, featuring the complete story with a sumptuous cover design inspired by THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and brand new reproductions of all the drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 b/w illus, (2 x red & black maps). BIC Classification: FC; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Special Collector’s edition
- SKU
- 9780007487301
- ISBN
- 9780007487301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.88
€ 19.99
€ 13.88
Paperback. Donne, an ambitious skipper, leads a multiracial crew up an unnamed river in the rainforest. He is searching for the indigenous people of the forest to exploit as cheap labour on his plantation. But the journey is beset with obstacles, and as the crew progress and their relationships develop, it takes on a more spiritual significance. Num Pages: 138 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571260515
- ISBN
- 9780571260515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.54
€ 17.54
Paperback. Based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer, this work offers insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. It also features six short stories and seven 'conversational portraits' including one of Marilyn Monroe, the 'beautiful child' and a dope-smoking cleaning lady doing her rounds in New York. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141184616
- ISBN
- 9780141184616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.39
€ 9.39
Paperback. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. This title tells the story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. Editor(s): Judt, Tony. Translator(s): Buss, Robin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185132
- ISBN
- 9780141185132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.59
€ 9.99
€ 8.59
Paperback. With its loveable, impressionable heroine and its themes of growing up and learning to live in the real world, Northanger Abbey remains one of Jane Austen's most irresistible and up-to-date novels. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Headline Book Publishing
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755331444
- ISBN
- 9780755331444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.40
€ 14.99
€ 11.40
Hardcover. This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Hans Christian Andersen's classic. In addition to stories by Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, it includes works by Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Wilde, selections from Andrew Lang's fairy books, and Alexandre Dumas's The History of a Nutcracker. Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 241 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1256.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781435160699
- ISBN
- 9781435160699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.49
€ 37.99
€ 27.49
Mass Market Paperback.
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 936
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553212167
- ISBN
- 9780553212167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.86
€ 9.99
€ 8.86
Paperback. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784870140
- ISBN
- 9781784870140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.97
€ 13.99
€ 9.97
Paperback. Series: The Detective Club. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008216474
- ISBN
- 9780008216474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.57
€ 11.99
€ 9.57
Paperback. In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for the bridge to be repaired, they are inspired to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. Translator(s): Chilton, Paul. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443554
- ISBN
- 9780140443554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.94
€ 21.99
€ 16.94
Paperback. Andy Rooney is a fellow who had 'the most singularly ingenious knack of doing everything the wrong way'. Written by Samuel Lover, author, artist and musician; this volume focuses on tales of Irish folklore. Series: Nonsuch Classics. Num Pages: 539 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 124 x 10. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Nonsuch Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845881986
- ISBN
- 9781845881986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.08
€ 9.08
Paperback. A collection of Neruda's intimate, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of nineteenth century Prague. These vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech nineteenth century realist. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Series: CEU Press Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 127 x 32. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789639116238
- ISBN
- 9789639116238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.66
€ 16.66
Paperback. Mary Lennox was horrid, selfish and spoilt, and was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the entrance to a secret garden a change overcomes her. With a local boy and her cousin the three children work magic in themselves and those around them. Series: Wordsworth's Children's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; YFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- V9781853261046
- ISBN
- 9781853261046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.58
€ 5.58
Paperback. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, this novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state. Translator(s): Hogarth, C. J. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853262869
- ISBN
- 9781853262869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.58
€ 5.58
Paperback. Tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- 9780141198965
- ISBN
- 9780141198965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.30
€ 10.99
€ 8.30
Paperback. Presents the tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century Spain. Translator(s): Peden, Margaret Sayers. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300141993
- ISBN
- 9780300141993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.14
€ 15.14
Paperback. In 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his-Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice. Editor(s): Corngold, Stanley. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393924794
- ISBN
- 9780393924794
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.15
€ 21.15
Paperback. Based again on Robert M. Adams's highly regarded translation of Stendhal's 1831 novel of ambition, love, and betrayal, this Second Norton Critical Edition of The Red and the Black is the most comprehensive and up-to-date edition available. Editor(s): Lee, Susanna. Translator(s): Adams, Robert M. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 656 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 652
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393928839
- ISBN
- 9780393928839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.57
€ 17.57
Paperback. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182681
- ISBN
- 9780141182681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.67
€ 12.99
€ 9.67
Mass Market Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 109 x 16. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780451531728
- ISBN
- 9780451531728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.63
€ 9.99
€ 9.63