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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Paperback. Set within a framing narrative told by Chrystal Croftangry, these three stories are set in the years following the Jacobite defeat and all feature characters who are leaving Scotland to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Editor(s): Lamont, Claire. Num Pages: 480 pages, chronology, notes, glossary. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140439892
ISBN
9780140439892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. Pons is an ageing musician, and believes that fame has fallen to nothing. Living with his friend, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. This novel concerns French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature. Translator(s): Hunt, Herbert James. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140442052
ISBN
9780140442052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Dezso, Andrea. Num Pages: 568 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: FC; FYT; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 209 x 45. Weight in Grams: 804.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691173221
ISBN
9780691173221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.45

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Edition
Reissue
SKU
9780007449408
ISBN
9780007449408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.57

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 21. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007558063
ISBN
9780007558063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.99
€ 5.66

Paperback. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with minor creases to the cover.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
9780099530268
ISBN
9780099530268
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. This work follows Daniel Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. Here we see a city transformed - some of its streets suspiciously empty and some overwhelmingly full of the sounds and smells of human suffering. Editor(s): Bristow, Christopher. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps, chronology, glossary, notes, index. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140437850
ISBN
9780140437850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.51

Paperback. Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join King's Louis XIII's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141442341
ISBN
9780141442341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Hardcover. One of a complete set of Jane Austen's novels collating the editions published during the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts. The books are illustrated with 19th-century plates and incorporate revisions by experts in the light of subsequent research. Series: Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen. Num Pages: 446 pages, plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 125 x 27. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1963
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
446
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192547019
ISBN
9780192547019
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.17

Paperback. A portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and irony, it is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KKD0007544
ISBN
9781853262272
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Editor(s): Blythe, Dr. Ronald. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007552
ISBN
9780140432978
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. "Shamela" is a parody of Samuel Richardson's "Pamela", in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. "Joseph Andrews", Fielding's first novel, can also be seen as a response to Richardson, as the lascivious Lady Booby sets out to seduce her comically chaste servant Joseph. Editor(s): Hawley, Judith. Num Pages: 432 pages, facsims. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0006000
ISBN
9780140433869
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed-new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Editor(s): Mahdi, Muhsin. Translator(s): Haddawy, Husain. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FC; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
New Deluxe Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393332469
ISBN
9780393332469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. This novel, by the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (originally published in 1900), is one of the unrecognized classics of the turn of the century. This translation provides an informative introduction and notes by John Gledson, which set the novel in its historical context. Translator(s): Gledson, John. Series: Library of Latin America. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc New York
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195103090
ISBN
9780195103090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486790268
ISBN
9780486790268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets. Hence, Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099511243
ISBN
9780099511243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.78

Paperback. Translator(s): Jones, W. Glyn. Series: Dedalus Europe 2013. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232303
ISBN
9781909232303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.35

Hardcover. A story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window. Written in 1890 by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford, it all starts when Alfred Salteena, who is 'not quite the right side of the blanket', takes young Ethel Montacue to stay with his friend Bernard Clarke.. Illustrator(s): Simmonds, P. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148. From the library of George Eogan. Good copy with some shelf wear, wear with nicks and tears to cover and spine, yellowing of pages
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0008070
ISBN
9780701127251
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. An illustrated, full-colour edition of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 103 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear, all edges gilt
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0008271
ISBN
9781509825448
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140187977
ISBN
9780140187977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Series: Barnes & Noble classics. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 34. Weight in Grams: 416. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing on endpapers, minor nicks and bumps on cover but remains a clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fine Communications,US United States
Condition
Used, Good
Number of pages
496
SKU
KSS0008056
ISBN
9781593082260
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 13.99
€ 11.64

Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 126 x 26. Weight in Grams: 358. Preface by Lawrence Aurrell, edited and with an introduction by Ronald Friedland. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing on endpapers, minor nicks and bumps on cover but remains a clean copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
Number of pages
304
SKU
KSS0008058
ISBN
9781782122753
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 10.99
€ 9.48

paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 9. Weight in Grams: 76. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
William Collins
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KSS0008143
ISBN
9780007351008
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike. Series: Dedalus European Classics. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517864
ISBN
9781903517864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.37

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