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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
€ 17.99
€ 12.37
Paperback. Mr Harding is a good man, the warden to an alms house which provides a peaceful home to twelve old men. The young and zealous John Bold is also a good man, but he believes he sees in Harding's comfortable existence an injustice which must be exposed. The law, the church and the self-righteous press all have their say in the scandal that ensues. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099528654
- ISBN
- 9780099528654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.99€ 5.70
€ 7.99
€ 5.70
Hardback. Num Pages: 420 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490466
- ISBN
- 9781611490466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.66
€ 158.66
Paperback. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes a collection of Stevenson's short stories Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853260612
- ISBN
- 9781853260612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.43
€ 6.43
Paperback. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfather's servant, Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love. Illustrator(s): Browne, Hablot K., (Phiz). Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 832 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 45. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853262050
- ISBN
- 9781853262050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.54
€ 7.54
paperback. This is a drama of revolution in which Karl Marx assumes the roles of both the historian and playwright. It provides a useful analysis of a social and political crisis, so much so that it has been taken up and developed by theorists, notably Lenin and Gramsci, ever since. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 202 x 8. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- International Publishers United Kingdom
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853155942
- ISBN
- 9780853155942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.15
€ 18.99
€ 17.15
paperback. When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he reveals involves the mysterious Lydia Gwilt: flame-haired temptress, bigamist, laudanum addict and husband-poisoner. Editor(s): Sutherland, John. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140434118
- ISBN
- 9780140434118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.33
€ 12.99
€ 9.33
Paperback. In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for the bridge to be repaired, they are inspired to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. Translator(s): Chilton, Paul. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443554
- ISBN
- 9780140443554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.02
€ 21.99
€ 17.02
Paperback. A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099530039
- ISBN
- 9780099530039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.15
€ 13.99
€ 9.15
paperback. First published in 1980, this is the fourth novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series. Series: Ripley Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349006253
- ISBN
- 9780349006253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.67
€ 12.99
€ 9.67
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 394 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307946812
- ISBN
- 9780307946812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.95
€ 16.99
€ 15.95
Hardcover. Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Grim in theme and setting, the book nevertheless seduces by its combination of superbly drawn characters, narrative brilliance and manic comedy. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 574 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 136 x 30. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857150353
- ISBN
- 9781857150353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 14.11
€ 24.99
€ 14.11
Paperback. Series: Art of the Novella S. Num Pages: 70 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 126 x 7. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 70
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612191096
- ISBN
- 9781612191096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.05
€ 11.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in history and his story has inspired hundreds of retellings. This title includes a wide range of appendices that situate Defoe's 1719 novel amidst castaway narratives, economic treatises, reports of cannibalism, and Defoe's own writings on slavery and the African trade. Editor(s): Davis, Evan R. Num Pages: 422 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551119359
- ISBN
- 9781551119359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.60
€ 27.60
Paperback. Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141199344
- ISBN
- 9780141199344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.03
€ 10.99
€ 8.03
Paperback. James Joyce's 'Ulysses': the untouched text, repunctuated and reformatted for easier reading Num Pages: 656 pages, 3. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1010. Good copy with light shelf wear. Small dent to top of page edges. Light nicks, remains a good readable copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Music Ireland
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0019665
- ISBN
- 9780955097447
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Lizzie Eustace's determination to hold on to a fabulous diamond necklace entangles her in a web of deceit that involves her cousin and his fiancee in a story that is part sensation fiction, part detective novel, part political satire and part romance. Hugely engaging, the novel is also a highly revealing study of Victorian Britain. Editor(s): Small, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199587780
- ISBN
- 9780199587780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.32
€ 13.99
€ 11.32
Paperback. When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot. This is a darkly comic consideration of the nature of human nature and society. Illustrator(s): Beard, Daniel Carter. Editor(s): Kaplan, Justin. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 290. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005142
- ISBN
- 9780140430646
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript. Editor(s): Mahdi, Muhsin; Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Translator(s): Haddawy, Husain. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 135 x 31. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 538
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393928082
- ISBN
- 9780393928082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.84
€ 19.99
€ 17.84
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
€ 11.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. Eliza Haywood (1693-1756), was one of the first women in England to earn a living writing fiction. Her early tales of amorous intrigue were popular and controversial. Originally published in 1723, these two narratives represent Haywood's contribution to the development of the novel as a genre. Series: Eighteenth-century Novels by Women. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813109619
- ISBN
- 9780813109619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.04
€ 47.04
Hardback. This book begins with two fatal duels, as the most apt introduction to a literary period best defined by its antagonisms. Exploring three publishing phenomena of the age; the novels of Walter Scott, Byron's Don Juan, and the new literary magazines, it attempts a radical reconfiguration of our understanding of literary culture after Waterloo. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSBF; FC; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1648. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004409
- ISBN
- 9780199582532
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. Series: The Penguin English Library. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141199085
- ISBN
- 9780141199085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.82
€ 10.99
€ 8.82
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780767920858
- ISBN
- 9780767920858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.25
€ 18.99
€ 16.25