Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the greatest visionary minds of the twentieth century comes The King Who...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Top edge discoloured from tanning.What does it take to create the greatest...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew names in the English language carry the weight of William Shakespeare, whose works have endured for over four centuries as the pinnacle of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the volatile intersection of music, mysticism, and Russian Symbolism stands Andrey Bely's The Dramatic Symphony — a pioneering work that blurs the boundary between...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of the most electrifying works in the American dramatic canon are gathered in this essential Penguin Plays...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat would it mean if the greatest playwright who ever lived were not a relic of the past,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the Western canon have matched the shattering emotional power of The Tragedy of King Lear, William Shakespeare's towering masterpiece of pride, betrayal, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA haunting and intensely personal narrative, A Voice Through a Cloud is Denton Welch's autobiographical account of his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Victorian England's sharpest social satire stands old Martin Chuzzlewit, a wealthy patriarch surrounded by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA wry and incisive observer of mid-twentieth-century British life, William Cooper presents in You Want the Right Frame of Reference another of his characteristically...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersOne of French literature's most haunting and morally complex...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the celebrated Foulsham's Home Library imprint comes a timeless treasury of wit and laughter — Humorous Stories & Recitations...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFrom one of Britain's most versatile and quietly commanding storytellers comes The Lily Hand and Other Stories, a collection that showcases Edith...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of post-revolutionary Russia, Cruelty is a morally charged novella that chronicles the story of Venka Malyshin, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBeneath the sun-drenched glamour of Hollywood lies a world of ambition, compromise, and quiet moral erosion — and...

Edition: 2nd aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerLong before Winnie-the-Pooh captured the world's imagination, A. A. Milne gifted children and adults alike...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA simmering portrait of ambition, loyalty, and moral collapse, Like Men Betrayed is a taut and psychologically charged novel set...

Edition: 5th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated and enduring works of modern Chinese literature, The True Story of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Text: English. Slightly crushed spine - otherwise internally sound, clean text. A suffocating portrait of...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: GoodCondition remarks: dj - large piece missing from the front panel - preserved within mylar. Light foxing on book block. Clean text; internally...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded and worn black cloth. Bumping on corners and spine. Yellowed...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: dj - price clipped. What do you do after you've accidentally discovered the meaning of life, narrowly escaped the destruction...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Text: English & Russian. Price clipped dj. From one of the Soviet Union's most daring and celebrated voices comes Stolen Apples, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew voices in literary history burn with the same fierce, incandescent brilliance as Percy Bysshe Shelley's — a poet who turned radical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as T. S. Eliot, and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThree of Victorian literature's most enduring masterworks are gathered in this essential omnibus edition from The Library of World Classics, uniting Thomas Hardy's unflinching vision of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sunbaked villages and dreaming spires of Victorian England, Jude Fawley — a stonemason of fierce intellect and crushing ambition — reaches desperately toward...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the restless, modernising England of the Victorian era, Thomas Hardy's A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day presents a compelling portrait of a woman caught...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodTime is a treacherous and transparent membrane in Vladimir Nabokov's slim but staggering novella, Transparent Things, a work that chronicles the four visits of Hugh...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Some damage to jacket on spine - still intact.From the turbulent twilight of Tsarist Russia emerges the unflinching voice of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersWhat if the story of Jesus of Nazareth was not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when the brooding genius of Russian literature meets the compassionate social critic of Victorian England? Dostoevsky and Dickens: A Study of Literary...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersA haunting masterpiece of psychological tension, Madame Solario unfolds...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the chaotic crossroads of Symbolism, Surrealism, and outright theatrical anarchy stands Alfred Jarry — the maverick French writer whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long and luminous a shadow as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Romantic visionary whose poetry, prose, and letters together constitute...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew writers have charted the abyss of the human soul with the relentless precision of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Malcolm V. Jones's Dostoyevsky:...

Edition: trade ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great literary legend lies a private voice, and in Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters: 1917–1961, that voice...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew works in the Western canon have confounded, enchanted, and rewarded readers in equal measure like James Joyce's Finnegans...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crumbling heart of a fading Irish estate, a young man of impeccable breeding and catastrophically dwindling fortune stumbles headlong into a world...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Jacket in mylar sleeve. Before the world knew of Lady Chatterley's Lover, there was its raw, unguarded ancestor...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew writers have captured the tremors of ordinary life with such devastating precision as Elizabeth Bowen, and The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to sit across from one of literature's greatest enigmas and simply talk? Gustav Janouch's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the fertile imagination of one of Soviet Russia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Badgers, a searing portrait of a nation tearing itself apart at...