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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. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, and a consumate musician. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 400. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
First Paperback Edition
SKU
KSS0006148
ISBN
9780749397548
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Viking
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
First
SKU
KSS0006081
ISBN
9780670854899
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. For nine years, John Dowell and his wife spend the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exteriors lie the destructive passions of men and women. This text includes biographical and critical apparatus. Series: Ford Madox Ford programme. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 313. 8vo. Illustrated. Near fine copy in slipcase
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The Folio Society London
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
New
SKU
KSG0022657
ISBN
9781857543001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 35.00

Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1944
Publisher
Constable
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KLJ0020890
ISBN
9780094533509
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

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. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
KKD0007532
ISBN
9780140620429
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KKD0007501
ISBN
9780140431391
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling Suite Francaise, this title tells the story of Silvio, his cousin's wife Helene, her second husband Francoise, and of the truths, deaths, marriages, children, houses and mills that bind them with love and hatred, deception and betrayal. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007486
ISBN
9780099516095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New
SKU
KKD0007475
ISBN
9780747546214
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Penguin Books 1997
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007386
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007383
ISBN
9780140064162
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Enthralled by Dorian Gray' own exquisite portrait, he exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. Editor(s): Mighall, Robert. Num Pages: 320 pages, chronology, further reading, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228 253pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Edition
01st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
9780141439570
ISBN
9780141439570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.10

Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141014548
ISBN
9780141014548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.08

Paperback. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H. T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780749386429
ISBN
9780749386429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352 436pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571238804
ISBN
9780571238804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.67

Paperback. A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived "in accordance with nature", Stoicism called for restraint of animal instincts and severing of emotional ties. Seneca's contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into an inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind. Editor(s): Campbell, Robin. Translator(s): Campbell, Robin. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140442106
ISBN
9780140442106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.93

Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Picador
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002139
ISBN
9780330320993
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence. A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204. Clean copy.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New
SKU
KEX0216115
ISBN
9780747561576
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Pan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprints
SKU
KSS0004336
ISBN
9780330319478
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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