Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the depths of nineteenth-century Russia, Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov crafts a portrait of human nature at...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the smoky industrial backdrop of the Five Towns in the English Midlands during the latter half...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA man returns from the brink of death only to find that survival has shattered everything he once...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age of revolution, religious strife, and dynastic upheaval, one voice cut through the chaos with uncommon...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt just twenty-six years old, David Hume produced one of the most ambitious and daring works in the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be a master of the dramatic craft? Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a South Africa torn apart by civil war and authoritarian collapse, a quiet, disfigured man named Michael K sets out on an extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the suffocating atmosphere of provincial Bordeaux, François Mauriac's The Unknown Sea charts the moral and spiritual disintegration of a bourgeois family consumed by...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionFour masterfully crafted novellas, bound together under the title The Grandmothers, present Doris Lessing at the height of her...

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Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn one of the most daring and consequential revisions in the history of psychoanalytic thought, Sigmund Freud's Beyond...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent heart of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, a young woman's fate hangs on the thinnest thread of justice. The Heart of Midlothian chronicles the gripping...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedByron's Don Juan is one of the most audacious and virtuosic poems in the English language, and Jerome J. McGann's Don Juan in Context is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA towering figure in mid-twentieth-century literary criticism, L. C. Knights — King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedStep into a world of shadows, deception, and razor-sharp wit with Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes, a masterfully curated anthology that gathers some of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the rugged, windswept landscapes of late 18th-century Cornwall, Jeremy Poldark is the third instalment in Winston Graham's celebrated Poldark saga —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingIn the riotous and anarchic world of J.P. Donleavy's Leila, the irrepressible Darcy Dancer finds himself once again entangled in the magnificent chaos...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of art and craft, Aspects of the Novel stands as one of the most illuminating and enduring...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA sweeping tale of courage, exile, and belonging, The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn transports readers from the quiet English countryside to the rugged, untamed...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the fog-drenched flatlands of the Po Valley, a battle of wills rages between two of Italian fiction's most beloved and irascible characters —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA titan of twentieth-century American letters, Edmund Wilson presents in The Shores of Light a brilliant and panoramic survey of the literary landscape that defined two...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingBeneath the gilded surface of post-Napoleonic French society, obsession and ruin lurk in the most respectable drawing rooms — and Honoré de Balzac knew...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat if a mild-mannered Edwardian clergyman harboured a secret life as a dog in a former incarnation — and a fine Imperial Tokay was all it...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingThere are books that make you laugh, and then there are the Dornford Yates Berry novels — gloriously witty, warmly nostalgic, and utterly irresistible...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFrom the gaslit streets of Edwardian England to the shadowy corridors of Continental Europe, The Father Brown Stories presents one of literature's most unlikely...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1929, Practical Criticism stands as one of the most groundbreaking and influential works in the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the golden age of the gentleman adventurer comes Blood Royal, a gripping tale of intrigue, danger, and...

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