Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.17
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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
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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
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€ 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
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€ 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
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€ 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
€ 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
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€ 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
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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
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Paperback. In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him the prestigious Pushkin Prize when it was published in 1887. This volume represents a clear milestone in the writer's passage from the youthful author of slight comic sketches, to the master of the short-story genre. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847493835
- ISBN
- 9781847493835
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 7.81
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€ 7.81
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
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€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 25.22
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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
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€ 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€ 15.91
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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 12.99
€ 9.67
Paperback. Editor(s): Davies, Richard A. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811212
- ISBN
- 9781554811212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.10
€ 32.10
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
€ 112.72€ 99.06
€ 112.72
€ 99.06