×


 x 

Shopping cart

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Results 2737 - 2760 of 3230

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

paperback. Editor(s): Menikoff, Barry. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 9. Weight in Grams: 141.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804713993
ISBN
9780804713993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.80

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780008195588
ISBN
9780008195588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 7.81

Paperback. Part of the "Penguin Threads" series, this title features cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780143106470
ISBN
9780143106470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.61

Paperback. Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial school teacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society. As he pursues the idea of marrying to gain promotion, he descends into paranoia, arson, torture and murder. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141392936
ISBN
9780141392936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. A portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. It tells the story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is based on the author's experiences during childhood and youth. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183312
ISBN
9780141183312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.61

Paperback. A collection of one novella and six short stories - "The Gambler", "Bobok", "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", "A Christmas Party and a Wedding", "A Nasty Story" and "The Meek One". Translator(s): Meyer, Ronald. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140455090
ISBN
9780140455090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights. Translator(s): Lyons, Malcolm; Lyons, Ursula. Num Pages: 880 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140449402
ISBN
9780140449402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 15.12

Paperback. Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. Editor(s): Gard, Roger. Translator(s): Gard, Roger. Num Pages: 608 pages, endnotes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140447644
ISBN
9780140447644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.07

Paperback. Act as miniatures that aim to be regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. These tales with their prose and wordplay, include 104 stories that reveal a world, in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a pear tree, a scholar recounts his incarnations, and a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her. Translator(s): Minford, John. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140447408
ISBN
9780140447408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in the Parisian literary circles of the early 19th century. Translator(s): Hunt, Herbert James. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140442519
ISBN
9780140442519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.37

Paperback. Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking "New Woman". Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society, and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Editor(s): Taylor, Dennis; Ingham, Patricia. Num Pages: 528 pages, map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780140435382
ISBN
9780140435382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 7.97

Paperback. Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Editor(s): Daly, Macdonald. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140434644
ISBN
9780140434644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.07

Paperback. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor entrenched in the "Great House" at Allington. His sister-in-law lives at the adjacent "Small House" with her two daughters and the action centres on the relations between the two houses and on the romantic entanglements of the girls. Editor(s): Thompson, Julian. Num Pages: 752 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780140433258
ISBN
9780140433258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Setting out to make his fortune, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, and is given a home among its handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this ideal community has its faults.. This is a humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs. Editor(s): Mudford, Peter. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140430578
ISBN
9780140430578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.27

Paperback. A Room of One's Own has become a classic feminist essay; The Voyage Out is highly significant as her first novel. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781840226799
ISBN
9781840226799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 6.44

Paperback. Series: Princeton Library of Asian Translations. Num Pages: 1032 pages, 40 line illus. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691169828
ISBN
9780691169828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 25.22

Paperback. One of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie Humaine, Eugenie Grandet (1833) is a story of family conflict, unrequited love and self-sacrifice set against the aftermath of the French Revolution. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Translator(s): Raphael, Sylvia. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780199555895
ISBN
9780199555895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 8.55

Paperback. "[A] masterly study of the inner workings of the disordered minds whose aim is destruction, violence, and the overturning of law and order by means of bombs."-The Observer (1907) Editor(s): Niland, Richard. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Critical
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393937442
ISBN
9780393937442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.13

Paperback. A wise and beautiful fairytale for grown-ups, considered one of the greatest novels in the Irish comic tradition. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 195 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Murray Press
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KJE0003496
ISBN
9781848547353
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella at Satis House; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever. Editor(s): Mitchell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 560 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003409
ISBN
9780141439563
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003388
ISBN
9780241310663
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.99
€ 9.67

Hardcover. Num Pages: 872 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1135.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
872
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674387836
ISBN
9780674387836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.47
€ 101.23

Paperback. Translator(s): Corner, Mark. Num Pages: 204 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 23. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Edition
Classroom
SKU
V9788024632896
ISBN
9788024632896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.28

Paperback. Translator(s): Corner, Mark. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
Classroom
SKU
V9788024632858
ISBN
9788024632858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.28

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!