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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Clean and bright set. Some foxing on book blocks. All plates and frontis present. No loose hinges/cracked joints. This twenty volume set...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew literary titans loom as large over the French tradition as Honoré de Balzac, and Mary F. Sandars' comprehensive...

Translated by Sylvia Raphael, this edition fully captures the wit and elegance of the original stories One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter...

'Envy remained hidden in her heart, like a plague germ which may come to life and devastate a city' Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ursule Mirouët is a richly crafted work of classic French fiction by...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A masterwork of psychological realism, Cousin Bette is one of Honoré de...

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the razor-sharp pen of Honoré de Balzac, Domestic Peace and Other Stories draws readers into the intricate...

A remarkably powerful yet simple tale of the struggle and triumph of innocence reviled, which Balzac considered his 'remarkable tour de force' In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac...

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...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of French literary realism, Domestic Peace and Other Stories presents...

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the...

One of the earliest and finest of Balzac's works, exploring the tragedy that comes with obsession. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew literary figures loom as large over the nineteenth century as Honoré de Balzac, and Félicien Marceau's Balzac and His World presents...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Two of...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few literary lives burn as brilliantly —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: **DUTCH TEXT ONLY**Few writers have ever captured the ribald spirit of the French Renaissance with...

Author: BalzacBinding: HardbackPublished: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tanning and foxing on top of book block.A poignant work of 19th-century French realism,...

The best of nineteenth-century 'fantastic' literature From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Intact. An extraordinary gathering of literary voices, Two Centuries of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew documents capture the glittering and scandalous heart of nineteenth-century Parisian literary life quite like the diary kept...

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The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke. September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the shimmering, labyrinthine streets of Alexandria, Egypt, Balthazar is the second and perhaps most philosophically daring instalment of Lawrence Durrell's...

Author: Dominic Bliss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 From Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature. The book...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the shimmering, sun-drenched city of Alexandria, Egypt, love, art, and truth collide in ways that shatter every certainty —...

Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...

Shortlisted, National Book Council 'Banjo' Award 1996 Shortlisted, Fantasy Division and Horror Division, Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction 1995 'Mme Lecault met Mme Berry after twenty-seven nights...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the tradition of rigorous academic...

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...

Behind every great fortune, lies a great crime - Honore de Balzac New Bethlehem, Connecticut. Picture-perfect lawns, manicured hedges, multi-million dollar homes. But beneath the designer yoga gear and country...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the rich tapestry of early twentieth-century Paris, Suzanne and Joseph Pasquier immerses readers in the intimate and turbulent lives...

Jack Ryan defends the USA against economic sabotage from the East that escalates into war in Tom Clancy's record-breaking Sunday Times No 1 bestseller - now reissued in a new...

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Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: clipped, chipped dj with some insect damage; binding remains tight; clean textFew novels have ever...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA work of literary fiction, "The Honorary Consul" follows a botched kidnapping in a remote Argentine town where a group...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA masterwork of literary suspense and moral ambiguity, The Honorary Consul chronicles the accidental kidnapping of a...

Secondhand Literary Classics Bargain Book Box SP4025 Six Trollopes from the Barsetshire and Palliser novels in Oxford World’s Classics, with Conrad, Hemingway, Borges, Hesse, Camus, Nietzsche, Wilde, Henry James, Maugham,...