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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. 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: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...

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...

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: 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...

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: 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...

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...

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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: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...

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...

Author: Honoré WillsieBinding: HardbackPublished: A. L. Burt Company, 1921Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA compelling work of early 20th-century...

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy...

Author: Honor TracyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light general wear to dust jacket, some tanning along spineHonor Tracy's "The Ballad of Castle...

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 —...

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...

Author: Honor TracyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markings'The Ballad Of Castle Reef' presents a sharply witty and satirical narrative, immersing readers in the eccentricities...

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Instagram sensation Max Francis makes his highly anticipated debut with this atmospheric, gothic, dark academic fantasy of two scholars racing each other to find answers to an invasion in a...

Instagram sensation Max Francis makes his highly anticipated debut with this atmospheric, gothic, dark academic fantasy of two scholars racing each other to find answers to an invasion in a...

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The Top 10 Bestselling historical fiction debut - out now in paperback A man without honour is no man at all . . . France, 1636. The Thirty Years War...

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...

Jack Absolute is returning to England. On the voyage home, Jack helps in the defeat of a privateer, gaining a friend in a charismatic Irishman, Red Hugh McClune, along with...

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...

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...

Author: John David HennesseyBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Discolouration to DJ spine. Minor chipping...

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Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the eyes...

"Terrifically intelligent, moving, and entertaining." -The New York Sun "With snappy dialogue [and] intelligent prose . . . Begley paints a memorable portrait of lasting friendship and of the strength...

Secondhand Literary Classics Bargain Book Box SP4140 Twenty classics and Australian titles in mixed editions: Patrick White’s Voss, Henry Kingsley’s Geoffry Hamlyn, We of the Never-Never, Castaneda’s Don Juan, du...

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...