Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markOne of the most intimate and revealing documents in the English language, The Diary of Samuel Pepys transports readers directly into the heart...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Tears on spineIn the rolling hills of Scotland and the distant, dangerous mission fields of China, The Keys of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew voices in American literature resonate with the same raw, tender intensity as Tennessee Williams, and Collected Stories presents the full breadth of his singular...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of Victorian literature's most versatile and celebrated voices comes Memories and Portraits, a rich collection of autobiographical and critical essays that draws...

Edition: 1st eng ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of France's most singular and subversive literary voices comes The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA masterwork of restrained passion and psychological acuity, Dominique stands as one of the most celebrated French...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew literary titans loom as large over the French tradition as Honoré de Balzac, and Mary F. Sandars' comprehensive...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels dare to dramatise a real-life tragedy of passion and politics with...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedFew novels of the nineteenth century ignited as fierce a cultural firestorm as Eugène Sue's The Wandering...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the golden age of British popular fiction, three authors — Dornford Yates, John Buchan, and Sapper — conjured a world of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedIn the cloistered world of a Cambridge college, a scandal threatens to unravel the carefully maintained fabric...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the twentieth century's most audacious literary achievements opens with a line that immediately signals its ambition: an eighty-one-year-old homosexual novelist,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew authors have provoked as divided and passionate a critical response as Joseph Conrad, and Conrad: The Critical Heritage assembles the most significant contemporary...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary reputations have been as fiercely contested—and ultimately as triumphant—as that of Vladimir Nabokov, and Nabokov: The Critical Heritage assembles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew writers have shaped the contours of modern fiction as profoundly as Gustave Flaubert, and Jonathan Culler's Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark collection in the tradition of literary education, Short Fiction of the Masters gathers some of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**A landmark in the annals of French literary criticism, Figures II stands as the second volume in Gérard Genette's celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markFrom the shadowed corridors of Soviet Moscow emerges a master of moral introspection: Yuri Trifonov's Another Life and The House on the Embankment...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe final curtain falls on one of English literature's most celebrated family sagas in End of the Chapter, John Galsworthy's triumphant conclusion to his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the canon of Western literature are as towering — or as demanding — as James Joyce, and C. H. Peake's James...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Behind the razor-sharp wit and darkly comic tales of Edwardian England stood a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLong before the legends of Camelot were written by men, women held the sacred knowledge of Avalon — and The Mists of Avalon reclaims that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket - otherwise fine. A single letter becomes the rallying cry of a nation in Vassilis...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacket.In...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Behind the grand facade of a crumbling English manor lies...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingEdmund Wilson, one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds, steps beyond his celebrated role as critic and chronicler to present...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA sinister recurring dream, an enigmatic Greek island, and a conspiracy rooted in ancient paganism collide in John Buchan's gripping thriller The Dancing Floor....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.First published in 1807, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Few works have made the genius of William Shakespeare as universally...

Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacket A body discovered in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the windswept coasts and political intrigues of early nineteenth-century Scotland, The Free Fishers is a gripping tale of loyalty, danger, and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowed jungles of a fictional South American republic, Richard Hannay's old comrade Sandy Arbuthnot embarks on one of the most audacious missions...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have launched a literary career with such explosive joy as Charles Dickens's first, The Pickwick Papers — a...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFrom the pen of America's most beloved humorist comes a riotous collection that launched a literary legend —...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the fall of Troy, one man is chosen by fate to carry the legacy of a dying civilization across storm-tossed seas and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFew figures in modern literature embody the turbulent contradictions of an entire nation quite like Alexei Maximovich Peshkov — the...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: dj: worn edges with small chip and sticker residue. Binding - remains tight. Clean and bright...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the fog of middle-aged longing and quiet desperation, As A Man Grows Older chronicles the ill-fated romantic obsession of Emilio Brentani,...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsLondon, 1942: bombs fall nightly, and in the smouldering ruins of a city at war, a...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsSet against the backdrop of a fictional African empire teetering on the edge of modernity, Black Mischief is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the backdrop of bohemian London in the 1930s, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNestled in the cobblestoned heart of nineteenth-century Prague, Malá Strana Stories is a masterwork of Czech literature that...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the world's most fastidious detective decides to retire? In The Labours of Hercules, Agatha Christie's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the trembling backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia, The Last Summer is a luminous novella that chronicles a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHenrik Ibsen, the father of modern drama, unleashed a storm of controversy upon the Victorian world with Ghosts,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA mind as penetrating and graceful as E.M. Forster's was never content to be confined to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shimmering heat of ancient India, a young Brahmin's son abandons a life of privilege to pursue...