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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Carroll's college, the dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down. Illustrator(s): Tenniel, Sir John. Editor(s): Haughton, Hugh. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AK; FC; YFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141439761
ISBN
9780141439761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.18

Paperback. Describes how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of Wonderland and back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141199689
ISBN
9780141199689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.69

Hardback. Published in association with the National Museum of Mathematics, New York. Illustrator(s): Dali, Salvador. Editor(s): Burstein, Mark. Num Pages: 136 pages, 19 color illus. 5 halftones. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 264 x 190 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
150th Anniversary
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691170022
ISBN
9780691170022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.44

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; YFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 177 x 112 x 12. Weight in Grams: 100. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0008945
ISBN
9780007350827
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Edition
Main
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571279562
ISBN
9780571279562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.93

Paperback. A novel set in Dublin in the mid-1980s - a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity College, it tells of their fascination with the formidably talented but troubled writer Glynn, and the darkly exhilarating journey this leads them on. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236. Some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KTG0007647
ISBN
9780571242399
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 9.99
€ 8.31

Paperback. A novel set in Dublin in the mid-1980s - a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity College, it tells of their fascination with the formidably talented but troubled writer Glynn, and the darkly exhilarating journey this leads them on. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KRA0011085
ISBN
9780571242399
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 9.99
€ 8.31

Paperback. A novel set in Dublin in the mid-1980s - a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity College, it tells of their fascination with the formidably talented but troubled writer Glynn, and the darkly exhilarating journey this leads them on. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236 270pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571242399
ISBN
9780571242399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.31

Paperback. When statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives her youthful ambition to become an artist and gathers some very unsuitable companions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870553
ISBN
9781784870553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

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
€ 10.73

Paperback. Also containing 'The Baby Party', 'Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr - nce of W - les', 'The Adjuster', 'Hot and Cold Blood', 'The Sensible Thing' and 'Gretchen's Forty Winks' - all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited - All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 189 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228. 288 pages. Also containing 'The Baby Party', 'Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr - nce of W - les', 'The Adjuster', 'Hot and Cold Blood', 'The Sensible Thing' and 'Gretchen's Forty Winks' - all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited - All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 136 x 189 x 18. Weight: 226.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847493040
ISBN
9781847493040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Offers a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models. This title includes: "The Rich Pay Late", "Friends in Low Places", "The Sabre Squadron", and "Fielding Gray". Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 610.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
896
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561323
ISBN
9780099561323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.52

Paperback. Presents an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one explosion, blackmail, gambling, illness, madness, lots of parties and plenty of sex. This title includes "Bring Forth the Body" and "The Survivors". Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 194 x 35. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561347
ISBN
9780099561347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.00

Paperback. Deals with the English upper-class misbehaving that is set against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. This volume includes: "The Judas Boy", "Places Where they Sing", "Sound the Retreat", and "Come Like Shadows". Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 37. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
848
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561330
ISBN
9780099561330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.52

Paperback. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 416.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189383
ISBN
9780141189383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
KKD0006935
ISBN
9780241277027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Hardback. Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller. Editor(s): Hughes, Gillian. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 714.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748618934
ISBN
9780748618934
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.55

Paperback. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Series: Dedalus European Classics. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194. Series: Dedalus European Classics. 172 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 16. Weight: 194. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull.
Publisher
Dedalus Limited
Number of pages
172
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517895
ISBN
9781903517895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, Black and white illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 204 x 15. Weight in Grams: 226. Selected Stories. 192 pages, Black and white illustrations throughout. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Dimension: 132 x 204 x 15. Weight: 226.
Publisher
Daunt
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907970047
ISBN
9781907970047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.67

Paperback. Translator(s): Searls, Damion. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590174920
ISBN
9781590174920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.74

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

€ 15.99
€ 12.95

Paperback. The classic novel brought to life in full colour. A respectable household is shocked when a strange man visits them shortly after dinner and proceeds to unravel their prejudices and lies. Illustrator(s): Volley, Will. Translator(s): Cobley, Jason. Num Pages: 144 pages, chiefly col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AN; FC; FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 247 x 9. Weight in Grams: 436. Original Text. 144 pages, chiefly col. Illustrations. Illustrator(s): Volley, Will. The classic novel brought to life in full colour. A respectable household is shocked when a strange man visits them shortly after dinner and proceeds to unravel their prejudices and lies. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 5AN; FC; FX. Dimension: 171 x 247 x 9. Weight: 480. Translator(s): Cobley, Jason.
Publisher
Classical
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
British English ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906332327
ISBN
9781906332327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.92

Paperback. The full story in quick modern English for a fast-paced read. A respectable household is shocked when a strange man visits them shortly after dinner and proceeds to unravel their prejudices and lies. Illustrator(s): Volley, Will. Translator(s): Cobley, Jason. Num Pages: 144 pages, chiefly col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AN; FC; FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 172 x 12. Weight in Grams: 478. Quick Text. 144 pages, chiefly col. Illustrations. Illustrator(s): Volley, Will. The full story in quick modern English for a fast-paced read. A respectable household is shocked when a strange man visits them shortly after dinner and proceeds to unravel their prejudices and lies. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 5AN; FC; FX. Dimension: 246 x 172 x 12. Weight: 474. Translator(s): Cobley, Jason.
Publisher
Classical
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
British English ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906332334
ISBN
9781906332334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.95

Paperback. Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix. But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland their destinies are inextricably bound by the events that unfold there. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530121
ISBN
9780099530121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

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