Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded facade of mid-century American prosperity lurks George Smith, a mysteriously wealthy recluse obsessed with building himself the grandest mausoleum the world has...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep into the candlelit world of eighteenth-century Leipzig, where the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach unfolds not through the grand sweep of history,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedBeneath the manicured lawns and dinner-party facades of Tarbox, Massachusetts, ten affluent couples are quietly unravelling — and John Updike's Couples chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingA sweeping portrait of colonial privilege and quiet devastation, Lucinda Brayford chronicles the life of a beautiful Australian woman whose marriage into...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThree of the greatest storytelling traditions in world literature converge in Folk-Lore and Fable, a landmark volume in the celebrated Harvard Classics series, edited by Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most intimate and luminous documents to survive from the ancient world, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon transports the reader directly...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; damaged spineStep into a world where furniture holds the power of magic and every wish opens a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the beloved world of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, where the world's most extraordinary veterinarian and polyglot, Dr. John Dolittle,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the gaslit streets of Melbourne, a city buzzing with gold-rush prosperity and social ambition, a man is found dead inside a...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of literature and political history stands a period so turbulent and transformative that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the cafés of Paris and the sun-drenched bullrings of Pamplona, a generation stripped of innocence by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodSet against the brutal backdrop of World War One's Italian front, A Farewell to Arms chronicles the passionate and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the brutal backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls chronicles four...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn Thurber Country, one of America's most beloved comic writers turns his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor any reader venturing into the labyrinthine worlds of James Joyce, William York Tindall's authoritative companion stands as an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1923, The Prophet stands as one of the most luminous and enduring works of spiritual literature...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: First Ed. Age tanning throughout, price clipped inside front dust jacket.Nancy Mitford's Don't Tell Alfred is a sparkling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the wickedly inventive mind that brought the world Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach comes Two Fables, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhat if the secret to getting ahead in life had nothing to do with talent, hard work, or merit —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the Western canon carry the moral weight and sweeping grandeur of Les Misérables, Victor Hugo's monumental 1862 masterpiece set against the turbulent backdrop...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the annals of Georgian England captured the public imagination quite like Jack...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: sandglass laid-inOne of the most celebrated biographies ever written, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. stands as a towering monument of English literature,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels in the Western canon have seized the conscience of humanity with the thunderous moral force of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. Set...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of ancient philosophical poetry stands Titus Lucretius Carus, whose monumental work De Rerum Natura (On...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew works in the Western canon have endured with the raw, spiritual urgency of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the full arsenal of literary criticism is unleashed upon a bear of very little brain?...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the depths of 14th-century England comes one of the most profound and enduring works of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the mythic archipelago of Earthsea, where magic is the lifeblood of civilization, a darkness is spreading —...

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This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice,...

The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For centuries, poetry anthologies shaped the way that generations of British...

'I really did have an empire, you know,? said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me? ? Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful...

Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about...

A tale of unbridled greed and an insatiable thirst for power set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth has long been recognized as Shakespeare's fastest-moving tragedy, combining relentless narrative momentum with a...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: clipped, chipped dj with some insect damage; binding remains tight; clean textFew novels have ever...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the heart of one of literature's most towering achievements stands a Russia torn apart by the Napoleonic Wars — and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: light bumping on corners and spine. Before artificial intelligence became a cultural obsession, Isaac Asimov imagined it...