Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhen a spirited young orphan named Billy arrives uninvited on the doorstep of three confirmed bachelor brothers in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedBefore Jane Austen gifted the world with Pride and Prejudice and Emma, she was already a writer of remarkable wit...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent literary world of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, satire was not a gentle art — it was a...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the twilight of a crumbling English estate on a single summer's day, Concluding presents one of twentieth-century literature's most...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the Romantics reshaped English verse, William Cowper was quietly revolutionising poetry from his modest retreat in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the sun-drenched flatlands of the Po Valley, a thunderous village priest and a wily Communist mayor wage...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the Roman stage rang with laughter, it was Plautus and Terence who held the crowd — and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA restless Yorkshire farmer, a spinster escaping her dreary small-town life, and a schoolmaster with...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA sweeping saga of ambition, inheritance, and the relentless passage of time, The Tontine by Thomas B. Costain is a monumental work of historical fiction that...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew anthologies have shaped the English-speaking world's relationship with poetry as profoundly as The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900 — a landmark collection that chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBen Jonson stands as one of the towering figures of the English Renaissance, a contemporary and rival of Shakespeare whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the rich intersection of two literary giants, R.S. White's Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare presents a meticulous and illuminating study of how...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the violent corridors of King David's court emerges one of the Bible's most harrowing and overlooked stories — Dan...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the shadow of Nazi-occupied France, a wealthy lawyer named Louis Chavel makes a desperate and damning bargain: to buy his...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedOne of the twentieth century's most luminous literary minds steps beyond verse to speak directly to the reader in Essays...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodSet against the roaring backdrop of Elizabethan England and the treacherous seas of the Spanish Main, Westward...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedSet against the opulent and treacherous courts of Mughal India during the reign of Emperor Akbar, The Root and the Flower is a sweeping...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWith the sharp wit of a born satirist and the elegant...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: unclipped dj. Long before Sybylla Penelope Melvyn became an iconic figure in Australian literature, Miles Franklin conceived her as a...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGraham Greene's Collected Essays assembles one of the twentieth century's most penetrating literary minds into a single, essential volume — a...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Light foxing on book block. Cowardice has never been so entertaining — and so...

Edition: 1st uk ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the fog-drenched streets of Victorian London, a dangerous man has returned from the far edges of the...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the respectable facade of a pretty English woman lies a life of quiet delusion and relentless self-deception — Miss Herbert...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. Few writers of the twentieth century command the raw narrative power of Christina...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. Nestled on the shores of Lake Geneva in postwar Switzerland, The Little Hotel draws...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets of the English Restoration have provoked as much fascination, scandal, and scholarly debate as John Wilmot, the second...