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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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. Ruth Hilton, an orphan and dressmaker's assistant, is seduced and then heartlessly deserted by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. A dissenting minister advises her to pass as a widow and be employed as a governess with the tyrannical Mr Bradshaw. However, the deceit brings grievous consequences. Editor(s): Easson, Angus. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 304. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0007568
ISBN
9780140434309
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very 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

€ 16.99
€ 15.91

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

€ 20.99
€ 16.66

Paperback. Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Translator(s): Holden, George. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KKD0007667
ISBN
9780140442632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

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
€ 10.50

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
€ 8.40

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
€ 12.97

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. 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
€ 11.91

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
€ 9.74

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
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KSS0008143
ISBN
9780007351008
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing sea monster. However, he discovers that the beast is metal - it is a giant submarine called the Nautilus built by the renegade scientist Captain Nemo. So begins an underwater adventure that takes them from the South Pole to the submerged lost city of Atlantis. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099528531
ISBN
9780099528531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 5.99

Paperback. Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in an accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099541271
ISBN
9780099541271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.07

Paperback. A collection of stories that range from a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 117 x 182 x 16. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
9780241956854
ISBN
9780241956854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 5.80

Paperback. Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living during the Depression from his motor boat in Key West, Florida. Although he normally takes out fishing parties, sometimes his boat can be put to other uses. If the money offered is worth his while, Harry will run guns, rum and men to and from Cuba. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781784872021
ISBN
9781784872021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pulp! The Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9781843443971
ISBN
9781843443971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 5.96

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