Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

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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: 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...

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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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA masterwork of savage wit and unflinching psychological realism, The Way of All Flesh is Samuel Butler's searing semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles four generations of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOn the wild and desolate moors of Yorkshire, a love story unfolds that is as brutal as it is transcendent — Wuthering Heights chronicles the all-consuming,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat happens when a brilliant, manipulative mind decides to test the strength of human love and moral conviction? Published in 1970, Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the quiet English village of Cranford, where propriety reigns supreme and genteel poverty is worn with dignified grace, a cast of indomitable women navigate the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingSpanning more than two millennia of human thought, this magnificent collection from the Heron Books series brings...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodLaughter, it turns out, is one of the most faithfully recorded phenomena in human history — and The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes is its...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodThere is a particular art to the after-dinner story — the perfectly timed anecdote, the slow-burn wit, the punchline that lands like a well-placed...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to love another person — and can philosophy answer what the heart...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when a newlywed husband, desperate to conceal his innocent but compromising predicament from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the golden age of British comic writing comes What A Scream! And Other Stories,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodNew York City has never felt so intimate, so electric, or so achingly human as it does...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeneath the sun-scorched island of Crete lies a labyrinth said to be the prison of the Minotaur —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt a time when the ancient scriptures felt increasingly remote from everyday life, J. B. Phillips undertook a monumental...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works of world poetry, the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám presents Edward FitzGerald's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst performed in 1610, Ben Jonson's The Alchemist stands as one of the most brilliantly constructed comedies in...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when D. H. Lawrence's reputation remained fiercely contested, F. R. Leavis mounted one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of myth, morality, and human suffering stands the enduring tradition of Greek tragedy — and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA king undone by his own pride — Shakespeare's Richard II stands as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMeet the Ruggles — a boisterous, warm-hearted working-class family living on One End Street, where Mr. Ruggles is...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe final, devastating installment of Edna O'Brien's celebrated Country Girls trilogy, Girls in their Married Bliss chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the quiet devastation of ordinary lives, Edna O'Brien's The Love Object presents a masterful collection of short...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the thunder of battle-horns to the whisper of courtly betrayal, The Nibelungenlied stands as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of post-war British fiction, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes thrusts the reader into the morally tangled life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a perfectly ordinary fog-bound evening descends into gloriously anarchic chaos in Thorne Smith's The Bishop's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sunlit theatres of ancient Athens comes the electrifying dramatic genius of Euripides, the most...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Jane Austen's most morally complex novel stands Fanny Price — a timid, impoverished girl...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rolling countryside of Regency England, two sisters stand at the crossroads of love, loss,...

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