Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at Measure for Measure with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual...

Edition: bceCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhen a seemingly timid young woman finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation, Perry Mason — the...

Edition: bceCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the comic genius behind Doctor in the House comes another riotously funny chapter in the misadventures of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the fog-shrouded streets of postwar London, a city still haunted by the wounds of war, Margery Allingham's The Tiger...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew works in the canon of American literature have shaken the foundations of poetry quite like Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman's revolutionary, lifelong masterpiece...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWhat begins as a seemingly innocent seaside holiday quickly unravels into a wickedly observed comedy of desire, manipulation, and human frailty in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markThe world's most dangerous man is about to meet his match — and his name is Auric Goldfinger. In Goldfinger,...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the high-stakes world of American corporate ambition, Cameron Hawley's The Lincoln Lords chronicles the story of Ade Quincy,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as an unlikely friendship between two teachers at a London comprehensive school spirals into an electrifying...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers in the English literary canon wielded wit, paradox, and social critique with as much devastating precision...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA razor-sharp comedy of plutocratic excess, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich transports readers to the fictional Plutoria...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA master of comic absurdity at the height of his powers, Stephen Leacock's Literary Lapses is a riotous collection of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased spineFrom the shadowy, blood-soaked courts of Jacobean England emerge three of the most electrifying dramas ever...

Edition: 14th aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the lonely marshes of the Essex coast, where the great grey birds wheel and cry against a leaden...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the brooding landscapes of Yorkshire to the mythic world of animal and elemental forces, Ted Hughes crafted...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew writers of the twentieth century command the narrative range and psychological precision of W. Somerset Maugham, and Far and Wide: Nine...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe open sea is both refuge and battleground in Alexander Kent's Stand into Danger, the gripping second installment in the acclaimed Richard Bolitho series set...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew writers of the twentieth century captured the breadth of human experience with the precision and elegance of W. Somerset...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the smoky gaslit world of Edwardian music halls in the final months before the First...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodTwo early masterworks from one of Britain's most versatile literary talents are united in this handsome omnibus volume, offering readers both the romantic escapism of Adam...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingTwo masterworks of mid-century British fiction are united in this compelling omnibus edition by one of England's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the teeming, indifferent sprawl of 1930s London, two young northerners — Rose Salter and Edward Fielding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers of the twentieth century possessed J. B. Priestley's rare gift for finding profound joy in...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the grey, grinding heart of 1930s London, a small, unremarkable veneer-trading firm called Twigg & Dersingham...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the grand tradition of English comic fiction, Let the People Sing is a boisterous, warm-hearted romp...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the breathtaking wilderness of colonial America's Lake Glimmerglass in the 1740s, The Deerslayer: or The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, as the guillotine claims aristocratic head after aristocratic head, a mysterious English vigilante known...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew works of literature have wielded satire with such devastating precision as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English literary canon have captured the anguish of social ambition and the hunger...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels have cut as deeply into the hypocrisy of Victorian family life as Samuel Butler's The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers of the eighteenth century captured the warmth, wit, and gentle irony of English life as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the cloistered world of a mid-Victorian cathedral city, a bitter war for ecclesiastical power ignites the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have endured with such fierce and universal appeal as Jane Austen's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the thunderous backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Mr. Midshipman Easy is a rollicking nautical adventure...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the quiet, genteel village of Cranford, where the elegant economy of its predominantly female inhabitants reigns...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew names in all of literature carry the electric charge of Sherlock Holmes — the world's greatest consulting detective — and this sumptuous two-volume...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched plains of the Australian outback to the rowdy life of the bush, A Vision Splendid:...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew legends of the English-speaking world burn as brightly as that of Robin Hood —...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: new in original plastic wrapper; First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia stands as one of the most audacious and enduring works of...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: new in original plastic wrapper; Few legends have captured the hearts and imaginations of readers across centuries quite like that of Robin Hood...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodIn the imagined Welsh seaside village of Llareggub, a single spring day unfolds in all its glorious, bawdy, and lyrical chaos — and Dylan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOliver Goldsmith stands as one of the most brilliantly versatile figures of eighteenth-century English literature, and this collected volume brings together three of his most celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most savage and brilliant works of satirical fiction ever written, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels chronicles the extraordinary voyages of Lemuel Gulliver — ship's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSet along the banks of the River Floss in rural England, The Mill on the Floss chronicles the turbulent life of Maggie Tulliver, a fiercely intelligent...