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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Paperback. Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome sexual advances. Editor(s): Ross, Angus. Num Pages: 1536 pages, music. BIC Classification: 2BMH; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 146 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140432152
- ISBN
- 9780140432152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 18.27
€ 32.99
€ 18.27
Hardcover. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
- Publisher
- Macmillan Collector's Library
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909621374
- ISBN
- 9781909621374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.45
€ 15.99
€ 12.45
Paperback. Editor(s): Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DQ; DSBB; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149235
- ISBN
- 9780231149235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.73
€ 45.99
€ 32.73
Hardback. Editor(s): Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Num Pages: 400 pages, Please figure on drawing one simple map of the Arab world. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149228
- ISBN
- 9780231149228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.98€ 83.42
€ 108.98
€ 83.42
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Arcturus Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785995088
- ISBN
- 9781785995088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.49
€ 12.99
€ 11.49
Paperback. No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Serious, good-natured and full of incoherent ambition, Edwin's hopes and dreams for the future are just taking shape, even as they are put to the test by challenges from Edwin's father. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 39. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872359
- ISBN
- 9781784872359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.58
€ 14.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable. Unfortunately, things don't end there. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099514077
- ISBN
- 9780099514077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FJW; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 28. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634504973
- ISBN
- 9781634504973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.79
€ 16.99
€ 15.79
Paperback. Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 118 x 182 x 16. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 240
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241951514
- ISBN
- 9780241951514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house. Behind him, he has a troubled adolescence, a failed marriage and a little daughter, but his meeting with the quiet and beautiful Rachel heralds a new start. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000767
- ISBN
- 9780099518532
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Hardback. M. R. James's classic ghost stories are some of the finest in English, creating menace and terror in lonely country houses and remote inns. This is the only one-volume edition to include all James's published stories, an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story, and a critical introduction and notes. Editor(s): Jones, Darryl. Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FKC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 148 x 43. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198797364
- ISBN
- 9780198797364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.25
€ 21.99
€ 17.25
Paperback. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 44. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House India
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143425052
- ISBN
- 9780143425052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.90
€ 19.99
€ 16.90
Hardcover. Written over a period of more than half a century, this volume include short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Num Pages: 1856 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 91. Weight in Grams: 1826.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152432
- ISBN
- 9781857152432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.50€ 47.35
€ 63.50
€ 47.35
Hardcover. This volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici. The stories range from tiny fragments to substantial narratives which have been arranged to illuminate one another and to illustrate Kafka's evolution as a writer. Editor(s): Josipovici, Gabriel. Translator(s): Muir, Willa; Muir, Edwin. Num Pages: 503 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 55. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151459
- ISBN
- 9781857151459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.95
€ 23.99
€ 16.95
Paperback. Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. Editor(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 45. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 816
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183459
- ISBN
- 9780141183459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.47
€ 20.99
€ 15.47
Hardcover. This selection covers the full range of Kipling's short stories throughout his career, with the subject matter ranging from the Indian to the occult and from animals to domestic comedy. Num Pages: 911 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 45. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 911
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151992
- ISBN
- 9781857151992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.70
€ 24.99
€ 17.70
Paperback. The definitive collection of Dylan Thomas' short stories, showing just why he is considered one of the 20th century's finest writers. Also featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780227306
- ISBN
- 9781780227306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.61
€ 14.99
€ 11.61
Hardcover. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 890 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 928. 870pp. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe Porter. With an introduction by Daniel Johnson
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857151961
- ISBN
- 9781857151961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 13.27
€ 21.99
€ 13.27
Paperback. Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. This title brings together the finest comic stories from medieval Iceland. It examines how the stories satirised old-style sagas while exploiting their classic themes of quests and revenge. Editor(s): Kellogg, Robert. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447743
- ISBN
- 9780140447743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.13
€ 16.99
€ 13.13
Paperback. George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185699
- ISBN
- 9780141185699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.06
€ 11.99
€ 10.06
hardcover. Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country house on his millionaire American cousin, J Wendell Stickney. Wendell wishes he could be rid of his embarrassing aunt Kelly, while Kelly wants to escape her financial dependence on Wendell. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591827
- ISBN
- 9781841591827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.24
€ 15.99
€ 12.24
Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales by the celebrated playwright and poet include "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" and "A House of Pomegranates." Revised reissue. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FM; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 21. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Signet
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780451531070
- ISBN
- 9780451531070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 8.03
€ 8.03
Hardback. The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one and Montague Rhodes James was a master of it. This volume contains all his timeless masterpieces from the four collections of his eerie tales. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 254 x 28. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509827725
- ISBN
- 9781509827725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.25
€ 14.99
€ 12.25
Paperback. Includes James Joyce's three novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. It also includes the short story collection, Dubliners. Series: Special Editions. Num Pages: 1488 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840226775
- ISBN
- 9781840226775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.50
€ 8.50