Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the bleak and luminous landscape of Ill Seen Ill Said, Samuel Beckett presents one of his most hauntingly distilled visions of human endurance...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersWhat happens when one of the great comic minds of the early twentieth...

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Edition: First UK ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew authors in the English literary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a rain-soaked, bombed-out London that never recovered...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the chaotic aftermath of the Russian Revolution, one writer captured the absurdity of Soviet life with an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a post-apocalyptic America where science has become a sin and cities are outlawed by constitutional amendment, two...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew storytellers have captured the boundless wonder of childhood imagination quite like Hans Christian Andersen, whose timeless tales...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn a quiet Long Island town, Ethan Allen Hawley — a once-proud man from an old New England family, now...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThe open ocean has always called to those restless souls who refuse to be landlocked — and no writer answers that call more compellingly than Alexei...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the poverty-stricken backstreets of Nizhny Novgorod emerges one of Russian literature's most haunting memoirs — Maxim Gorky's Childhood chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the teeming, restless world of late nineteenth-century Russia, three boyhood friends—Ilya Lunyev, Pavekin, and Grazhdanin—grow up side...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn a storm-lashed night in the South China Sea, a young officer named Cyril Trewsbury finds himself adrift...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the greatest visionary minds of the twentieth century comes The King Who...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Top edge discoloured from tanning.What does it take to create the greatest...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew writers have wielded wit as precisely and as lethally as Hector Hugh Munro, better known to the literary world...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the sweltering heat of pre-revolutionary Russia, Boris Pasternak's The Last Summer presents a haunting, lyrical portrait of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the volatile intersection of music, mysticism, and Russian Symbolism stands Andrey Bely's The Dramatic Symphony — a pioneering work that blurs the boundary between...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew writers of the twentieth century command the literary stage with the authority of Thomas Mann, and this sweeping omnibus edition brings together eight of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA haunting and intensely personal narrative, A Voice Through a Cloud is Denton Welch's autobiographical account of his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Victorian England's sharpest social satire stands old Martin Chuzzlewit, a wealthy patriarch surrounded by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew Victorian novels dissect the corrosive power of pride and commerce with the surgical precision of Charles Dickens'...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA wry and incisive observer of mid-twentieth-century British life, William Cooper presents in You Want the Right Frame of Reference another of his characteristically...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersOne of French literature's most haunting and morally complex...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rolling hills of rural Natal, South Africa, a humble Zulu pastor named Stephen Kumalo embarks on a desperate journey to...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean to be truly noble in a world that no longer recognises nobility? Sons of Kings, originally published in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the celebrated Foulsham's Home Library imprint comes a timeless treasury of wit and laughter — Humorous Stories & Recitations...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFrom one of Britain's most versatile and quietly commanding storytellers comes The Lily Hand and Other Stories, a collection that showcases Edith...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: minor nicks/tears on endpapers. Price clipped dj. In the quiet English countryside, a woman arrives to inhabit...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of post-revolutionary Russia, Cruelty is a morally charged novella that chronicles the story of Venka Malyshin, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBeneath the sun-drenched glamour of Hollywood lies a world of ambition, compromise, and quiet moral erosion — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA simmering portrait of ambition, loyalty, and moral collapse, Like Men Betrayed is a taut and psychologically charged novel set...

Edition: 5th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated and enduring works of modern Chinese literature, The True Story of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Text: English. Slightly crushed spine - otherwise internally sound, clean text. A suffocating portrait of...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: GoodCondition remarks: dj - large piece missing from the front panel - preserved within mylar. Light foxing on book block. Clean text; internally...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded and worn black cloth. Bumping on corners and spine. Yellowed...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: dj - price clipped. What do you do after you've accidentally discovered the meaning of life, narrowly escaped the destruction...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThree of Victorian literature's most enduring masterworks are gathered in this essential omnibus edition from The Library of World Classics, uniting Thomas Hardy's unflinching vision of...