Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of critical thought and literary interpretation, Howard Felperin's Beyond Deconstruction: The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory presents a rigorous and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageClara Maugham, a girl forged in the cold, repressive furnace of a northern English provincial town, arrives in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe beloved Larkin family returns for one final, sun-drenched romp in A Little of What You Fancy, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grey, cigarette-smoke-filled purgatory of wartime Chicago, a young man named Joseph waits — suspended between the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSpanning centuries of thought, artistry, and human drama, Voices From the Past: Plautus to Saint Augustine...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor any reader seeking to navigate the vast and storied landscape of American literature, Ian Ousby's An Introduction...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand drawing rooms and corridors of Victorian power, Anthony Trollope's The Pallisers unfolds one of English...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet amid the sun-scorched plains and vast pastoral runs of colonial New South Wales in the 1880s, Such...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageVirginia Woolf's The Waves stands as one of the most daring and luminous achievements in twentieth-century...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew names in the literary canon conjure darkness and beauty in equal measure quite like Edgar Allan Poe, and this illustrated collection presents his most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the greatest epics ever written, Virgil's The Aeneid chronicles the legendary journey of Aeneas,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a man's obsessive devotion to his art begins to consume the very love he hoped...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodLong before the age of the graphic novel, one square-jawed detective redefined American popular culture — and The Celebrated Cases...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Faded slipcase. This three-volume Oxford World's Classics set presents Samuel Richardson's final novel, "The History of Sir Charles Grandison," a landmark epistolary...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: vol iv missing. vol ii - moderate annotations in grey lead. Few lives in the annals of European history have matched...

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Edition: fine-paper edition.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn boards with minor marks and flecks. Binding slightly shaky. Markings:...

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The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre, and this revision brings the Arden 3 edition right up-to-date. A completely new...

One of Shakespeare's last plays, The Winter's Tale provides tragedy and comedy in equal measure. The King of Sicily, Leontes, accuses Queen Hermione, his wife, of adultery and sets off...

For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features...

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's enduring villains as the troubled and troubling figure at the heart of this popular succession drama. Traversing the familiar terrain of scheming plots, proposals,...

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings...

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...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: clipped dj, in mylar; minor insect damage. Binding: remains tight; boards - light bumping on corners. In...

Edition: 1st uk ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: whiteout on fep. price clipped dj. Set against the sun-drenched landscapes of postwar Italy, The...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition: ex-library copy showing honest wear consistent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn a literary landscape dominated by towering male voices, Evelyn Waugh's complex, often contradictory portrayals of women stand as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew books have shaped the art of reading and writing fiction as profoundly as The Craft of Fiction, a landmark text in literary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to serve — to surrender one's will, identity, and freedom to the iron machinery of military life? Alfred de...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew writers have captured the raw, unvarnished truth of human nature with the precision and economy of Guy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the depths of nineteenth-century Russia emerges a collection of tales that captures...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn a bitter Christmas Eve in Victorian London, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three supernatural spirits...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the Western literary canon have inspired more reverence, more controversy, and more enduring fascination than...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen thirty-year-old Isadora Wing boards a plane to Vienna with her second husband, she is already dreaming of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAdam Lindsay Gordon's Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes thunders onto the page with the raw energy of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew windows into a literary mind are as candid or as compelling as A Writer's Notebook, the remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in literary history have captivated, troubled, and fascinated writers across centuries quite like the prostitute —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets have bent the English language to their will with such ferocious originality as Gerard Manley Hopkins,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of medieval literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales presents one of the most vivid and enduring...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the wild and windswept Yorkshire moors, a love story unfolds with the ferocity of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of eighteenth-century English letters stands Samuel Johnson — poet, moralist, and arguably the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the teeming, treacherous streets of eighteenth-century London and Westminster, a young man of singular sincerity embarks on a desperate quest —...