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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. First published in 1925, this overlooked classic will please avid fans and readers new to H.G. Wells alike. Now introduced by acclaimed biographer of H.G. Wells, Michael Sherborne, who suggests that this story of a girl who learns her parents are not who she thought was very personal to Wells. BIC Classification: FC; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 49. Weight in Grams: 394. Clean copy in original cloth covers. Covers dulled and showing some age and shelf wear. No dust wrapper. Remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0005478
ISBN
9780720619393
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his Uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 310. Clean copy in original cloth covers. Covers dulled and showing some age and shelf wear. No dust wrapper. Remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
448
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0005473
ISBN
9780141441115
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 15.99
€ 11.39

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 222 x 7. Weight in Grams: 74.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486419251
ISBN
9780486419251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.37

Paperback. Includes translations of the earliest preserved novels in ancient Greek that offer us a glimpse of the beginning of prose fiction in the western world. Translator(s): Trzaskoma, Stephen M. Num Pages: 236 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841924
ISBN
9781603841924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.13

Hardback. Translator(s): Taylor, John. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423726
ISBN
9780857423726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.89

Paperback. These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 40. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Alma Classics
Condition
New
SKU
KSK0000323
ISBN
9781847496331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.17

Paperback. The unsolved riddle at the heart of style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Pudd'nhead Wilson> is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain's novel. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 190 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674059832
ISBN
9780674059832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.63

paperback. From the foreword to the selected bibliography this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive documentary source for the study of Moby-Dick. Editor(s): Parker, Hershel. Series: Norton Critical Editions. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Norton
Edition
Third Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393285000
ISBN
9780393285000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.96

Paperback. Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians. Editor(s): Frankel, Nicholas. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780674066311
ISBN
9780674066311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.48

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 31. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Minor foxing appears but remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0002214
ISBN
9780007350872
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 114. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Foxing on endpages and cover, remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KCW0001962
ISBN
9780141182704
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 9.99
€ 8.40

Paperback. Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness. Editor(s): Gatrell, Simon. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages, one map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 4. Weight in Grams: 340. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Some wear and bumping to spine. Damage to binding on spine, remains good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
496
SKU
KCW0001823
ISBN
9780199537044
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 11.99
€ 10.15

Paperback. Based on the 1848 edition text, the Brontes' gifted biographer provides a superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel. Editor(s): Lutz, Deborah. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
4th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393264876
ISBN
9780393264876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.91

Leather / fine binding.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Canterbury Classics United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
724
Condition
New
SKU
V9781607103141
ISBN
9781607103141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.71

Paperback. Includes tales such as 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus'. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 113 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54. Clean copy with damage to cover but pages remain ini very good condition
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KEA0000181
ISBN
9780141398044
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. As regards his method of dealing with his material and shaping it into mould, he stands even higher than as a pure creator. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. Vintage paperback in good condition, with some light shelfwear.
Publication date
1950
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KRF2232311
ISBN
9780140440096
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Anne Elliot lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146. Paperback in very good condition, with some light shelfwear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF2232239
ISBN
9781853260568
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Set in 1797, Billy Budd is a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208. Used paperback in very good condition. May have some light shelfwear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF2232033
ISBN
9781853267499
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene. Editor(s): Knapp, Lewis M.; Bouce, Paul-Gabriel. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Sunning to spine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reissue
SKU
KCW0001418
ISBN
9780199538980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.80

Paperback. Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness. Editor(s): Gatrell, Simon. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages, one map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 4. Weight in Grams: 340. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Sunning to spine. Previous owners inscription on top and bottom of pages, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
496
SKU
KCW0001250
ISBN
9780199537044
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 10.15

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