Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

"The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays alive and vividly present." - Greg Doran, RSC Artistic...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedy of love, jealousy and explosive racial politics. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's bleakest and most profound tragedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's epic retelling of the Wars of the Roses. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's anarchic comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great comedy of love, folly and mistaken identity. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great exploration of patriotism and war. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's journey into the Forest of Arden. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated play. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magical vision. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of...

Edition: First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Small marking on reverse fep (top left corner); otherwise, internally sound. Binding remains tight. Unclipped dj. In...

Edition: Limited Numbered and Signed Edition - No. 90 0f 250 copies. Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Signed and Numbered by the artist. In a hole...

Edition: First Edition, First PrintingCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markSomewhere beneath the fluorescent hum of modern consumerism, an unnamed narrator finds himself sleepwalking through a life he...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a celebration of love quickly curdles into something far more unsettling in Alberto...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA novel of shattering intensity, Beautiful Losers plunges the reader into a fractured, hallucinatory world where an unnamed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century, a young woman steps off a train in Chicago with little...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet morally ambiguous world of 1930s New York, BUtterfield 8 chronicles the turbulent life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in twentieth-century British theatre crackle with as much wit, sophistication, and emotional precision as that of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if you surrendered every decision in your life — no matter how trivial or terrifying — to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies, As You Like It whisks its audience into...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a work of extraordinary scholarly ambition, Robert Graves resurrects the ancient world of gods, heroes, and monsters...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThere are holidays, and then there are the Larkins — and when Pop, Ma, and their wonderfully chaotic...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA blazing, irreverent portrait of the artist as a holy fool, The Horse's Mouth chronicles the misadventures of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works in the Western canon have matched the terrifying grandeur of Dante Alighieri's The Divine...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the misty halls of Arthurian legend emerges one of the most thrilling and morally complex tales of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gaslit streets and shadowed back alleys of nineteenth-century Paris emerges a woman who cannot outrun the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sleek, high-stakes world of post-war American capitalism, Cash McCall introduces one of fiction's most magnetic and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the labyrinthine corridors of the Court of Chancery, where cases stretch across generations and justice is perpetually...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew novels in the American literary canon have commanded as much critical fascination as Henry James's The Portrait...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the shimmering, labyrinthine world of Alexandria, Egypt, Mountolive is the third volume of Lawrence Durrell's celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSix women, six lives, six moments of quiet revelation — H.E. Bates's A Party for the Girls presents...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Patrick White's monumental The Eye of the Storm lies Elizabeth Hunter, a formidable and once-beautiful Sydney socialite now...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and challenging literary voices comes The Cockatoos, a collection of shorter novels and stories that distils...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Juliet, there was Rosaline. Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons boldly reclaims the silenced voice of Romeo's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched plains of the Po Valley, a stubborn parish priest and an equally obstinate Communist mayor wage an eternal, affectionate war —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the English literary tradition as Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th-century poet whose vivid imagination and masterful verse transformed the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most audacious and brilliantly satirical works ever written, Candide and Other Romances follows the relentlessly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the chaos of wartime Shanghai, a young English boy named Jim is separated from his parents and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Good for age - Binding: slightly shaky; minor marks on boards;...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets have shaped the English literary canon with the visionary...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA childhood frozen in amber, shimmering with the golden haze of a vanishing England — Cider with Rosie...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the turbulent backdrop of Soviet Russia's forced collectivisation campaign of the early 1930s,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew voices in the English literary canon burn with such concentrated, spiritual intensity as that of Gerard Manley...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the golden age of British theatre comes a definitive collection of four landmark works by one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers captured the glittering, brittle world of 1920s British high society with the razor-sharp wit and theatrical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets have inspired as much passion, controversy, and critical debate as George Gordon, Lord Byron — and Byron: A Symposium gathers...