Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA masterpiece of eighteenth-century satirical fiction, The Spiritual Quixote: or The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, A Comic Romance...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFirst published in 1824, James Hogg's masterwork of psychological terror and theological dread presents the chilling confession of Robert Wringhim, a fanatical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy corridors of late eighteenth-century England, a young man's insatiable curiosity destroys his world — this is the gripping premise of William...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished in 1792, Anna St. Ives stands as one of the most radical novels of the English Jacobin literary movement,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels of the eighteenth century capture the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian Britain with the same riotous energy as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat begins as a prince's restless flight from paradise becomes one of the most searching philosophical meditations in the English...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe curtain falls — but not without ceremony — on one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary sequences in Anthony Powell's Hearing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMaxim Gorky — the pen name of Alexei Maximovich Peshkov — was not merely a witness to Russian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Russian literature's most sweeping family sagas stands The Artamonovs, Maxim Gorky's masterful chronicle of a merchant...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of W.G. Sebald's haunting masterwork Austerlitz is a man adrift in time — Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the twilight of Tsarist Russia, a man's quiet, provincial life becomes a mirror reflecting an entire nation's soul —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFrom the visionary mind of one of Victorian literature's most spiritually luminous figures comes A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA Modern Comedy is John Galsworthy's masterful continuation of his celebrated Forsyte Chronicles, a sweeping omnibus that binds together three novels — The White...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA treasury of the English-speaking world's finest verse, The Poets' World: An Anthology of English Poetry is a landmark collection that chronicles the rich...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. No. 28 Apr. When the ancient wizard Shazam bestows the powers of gods and legends upon young...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of language, being, and existence, Martin Heidegger's An Introduction to Metaphysics presents one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen a mysterious conspiracy threatens to unravel the fabric of Victorian order, only the world's greatest detective stands in its way — and The Glendower...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon have captured the brutal realities of Victorian poverty with such unflinching moral force as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. Published...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Perfect candidate for rebinding. Pages in good condition with minimal foxing (refer to title page).In an age of religious uncertainty and institutional reckoning, John...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMatthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism (First Series) stands as one of the most influential works of...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew figures loom as large in the origins of the English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew American writers captured the tragicomedy of ordinary life with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to laugh, to love, and to be redeemed through the art of theatre? In A Natural Perspective, the...

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...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Minor foxing to page edge, tanned DJ with minor tears.Few figures in the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ is damaged with multiple tears to spine.At the glittering heart of the Restoration stage stands William Congreve, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary treasures rival the breadth and beauty of The Greek Anthology, a monumental collection of ancient Greek...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTwo of the greatest love stories...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gulag to the Russian countryside, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Stories and Prose Poems presents a searing and intimate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the modern age of reason, a young Scottish philosopher set out to place the...

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...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner annotations in margins / underlining - all in pencilFew poets have so thoroughly reshaped...

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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: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew British writers of the twentieth century have inspired as much fascination, controversy, and devoted readership as Evelyn Waugh — and Evelyn Waugh and His...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMeet Hägar, the lovably bumbling Viking warrior whose epic misadventures between the fjords of Scandinavia and the taverns...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew poets have conjured the numinous from the everyday with the same quiet mastery as Walter de la Mare, and this curated...

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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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew writers of the twentieth century commanded the English novel with the effortless authority of W. Somerset Maugham,...

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...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce...

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...