From Austen to Zola, from medieval to the modern day - all genres are catered for between the covers of these coveted classics.
Classics Books
Everyman The Golden Bowl
Book SynopsisJames' novel featuring a complex and bizarre battle between two wives - the shy Maggie, who marries an Italian prince, and the prince's former mistress, who marries Maggie's widowed father. Determined to take back her lover, the brilliant Charlotte is nevertheless defeated by her rival.
£999.99
Everyman The Makioka Sisters
Book SynopsisHailed as the greatest Japanese novel of the Twentieth century, THE MAKIOKA SISTERS is a subtle tale of domestic oppression worthy of Balzac or Chekhov, In this saga of the once prosperous but now declining Makioka family struggling to marry off one of their daughters, Tanizaki presents the picture of a family and a society striving to preserve their self-respect as they come to terms with disturbing new ways in a classic confrontation of innovasion and tradition. A wonderful portrait of Japanese life in the first half of the twentieth century.
£12.34
Turtle Point Press Smoke
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£999.99
Atlas Press Liberty Or Love! And Mourning For Mourning:
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£14.25
Atlas Press The Living Are Few, The Dead Many: Selected Works
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£11.40
Canongate Books A Christmas Carol
Book SynopsisChristmas would not be the same without the most famous Christmas story ever written. A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly shortened to A Christmas Carol, is a true classic. Its central character, Ebeneezer Scrooge, is the meanest, most miserly and most miserable person in the whole world. However, he is surrounded by many other characters who veritably bubble over with life, warmth and the cheery spirit of Christmas. These include Bob Cratchit, the kindest and most forgiving of men, and various 'ghosts of Christmas' who come to visit Scrooge in the night and endeavour to show him the error of his ways...but will he heed their lessons?Trade ReviewThe enduring popularity of the tale is fully vindicated in this gloriously spirited (no pun intended) production. * * audiobooksreview.co.uk * *
£17.74
Norvik Press The Misadventures of the New Satan
Book SynopsisSatan has a problem: God has come to the conclusion that it is unfair to send souls to hell if they are fundamentally incapable of living a decent life on earth. If this is the case, then hell will be shut down, and the human race written off as an unfortunate mistake. Satan is given the chance to prove that human beings are capable of salvation - thus ensuring the survival of hell - if he agrees to live as a human being and demonstrate that it is possible to live a righteous life. St Peter suggests that life as a farmer might offer Satan the best chance of success, because of the catalogue of privations he will be forced to endure. And so Satan ends up back on earth, living as Jurka, a great bear of a man, the put-upon tenant of a run-down Estonian farm. His patience and good nature are sorely tested by the machinations of his scheming, unscrupulous landlord and the social and religious hypocrisy he encounters. The Misadventures of the New Satan is the last novel by Estonia's greatest twentieth-century writer, Anton Tammsaare (1876-1940), and it constitutes a fitting summation of the themes that occupied him throughout his writing: the search for truth and social justice, and the struggle against corruption and greed. Tammsaare combines a satire on the inequalities of rural life and absurdly rigid social attitudes with biblical themes, mythology, and bawdy folklore. The novel has proved to be an enduring classic of European literature.
£13.25
Solis Press A Dissertation Upon Second Fiddles
Book Synopsis"A Dissertation Upon Second Fiddles", first published in 1902 is a collection of four, slightly interconnected, stories. O'Sullivan's characters flit between the stories, all of which have a slightly moralistic purpose. However, O'Sullivan's macabre sense of humour ensures that the tales do not preach, and he puts his black wit to good use in this hard-to-find collection. "Of Kindred" describes a mysterious German stranger proffering advice to the large and corpulent Sir Hugh Anger so that he can resolve his hypochondria and live a longer, healthier life. "Of Accomplices" is the story of Shawlcoat Vellery, a good and virtuous man, who rather bored with his righteousness, comes across the anarchical and nihilistic Labour Argan. Vellery decides to act as Argan's henchman in various schemes but the results are not as anticipated. "Of Friends" describes Nicolas and his wife Hester. The pompous Nicolas is persuaded to make a speech for a local politician but it ends disastrously when Nicolas is attacked and beaten by ruffians. While Nicolas is recovering in bed, the MP, a portly gentleman of some 50 years, who has admired Nicolas's russet-haired wife with her "strong white neck, and the perfect and most pleasing harmony of her whole frame", takes his chance to try "to beat down the guard" of the unfortunate Hester. "Of Enemies" is the tale of a flighty, yet pretty, novelist, Mrs Ardour, who comes across a short story in an obscure magazine. She decides to steal the plot and sets on writing a novel based on the story. When the original writer discovers this plagiarism, Mrs Ardour uses all her skills and wiles to ruin him completely.Table of ContentsSection I: Of Kindred Section II: Of Accomplices Section III: Of Friends Section IV: Of Enemies
£8.99
Parapara Books Candide ou l'Optimisme/Candide: Or, the Optimist
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£999.99
Imperial War Museum Trial By Battle
Book SynopsisOctober 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India and taken under the wing of the dogmatic, overbearing Acting-Captin Sam Holl. Following the Japanese advance on Singapore, the men are deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and the futility of war.Trade Review"A visceral depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare." * Radio Times *"A tremendous rediscovery of a brilliant novel. Extremely well written, its effects are both sophisticated and visceral. Remarkable." -- William Boyd"One of the most absorbing and painful books about jungle warfare that I have read." -- V. S. Naipaul
£8.54
Imperial War Museum To All the Living
Book SynopsisMonica Felton's 1945 novel gives a lively account of the experiences of a group of men and women working in a munitions factory during the Second World War.
£8.54
Parthian Books Rhapsody and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThese sharp, ironic and compelling stories are perfect hard gems of observationabout the truths of everyday life: kindness and friendship balance precariouslywith obsession and desire.
£8.54
Dedalus Ltd This Woman, This Man: Elle et Lui
Book SynopsisGeorge Sand''s fictionalised account of her notorious affair with the poet Alfred de Musset caused a sensation on its publication two years after his death, in 1859. It also prompted a volley of claim and counter-claim: two more novels rapidly appeared in the following months, Lui Et Elle, by Musset?s brother, defending his reputation; and Lui, by Louise Colet, Flaubert?s former mistress and briefly Musset?s. Then the journalists and commentators of the day joined in, with Eux, by Gaston Lavalley, and Eux Et Elles, by Adolphe de Lescure, satirising the whole sordid business.
£9.49
Clive Gilson Pot-Likker: Folklore, Fairy Tales and Settler
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£26.25
UEA Publishing Project Time: The Present: Selected Stories
Book SynopsisTime: The Present collects the best short stories of one of the finestAmerican writers of the 1930s, Tess Slesinger. An Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Tess Slesinger was one of the most innovative and original short story writers of her generation.She dealt with issues of sexuality, economics, race, and the complexrelationships between men and women in and out of marriage thatremain highly relevant today. Slesinger’s stories can be satirical, comic, bittersweet, or tragic—but most of all, always immediate. As Vivian Gornick puts it in her eloquentintroduction, Slesinger’s ‘feeling for life’s unavoidable sorrow remainshaunting.’ Taking great stylistic risks, Slesinger freed her stories of theconstraints of period and place and created works that are timeless in their impact and approach. Time: The Present restores Slesinger’s rightful place as one of the greats of the 20th century short story form. It includes numerous stories from The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other magazines collected here for the first time.Time: The Present continues Recovered Books’ mission to bring long forgotten books of exceptional merit and resounding relevance to today’s readers.
£14.24
Jantar Publishing Ltd The Science of the Stars
Book SynopsisWritten and published in 1856, before Jules Verne published any of his novels. A young explorer sets off to map the stars in a balloon. The first ever SF novel written in Slovak.
£14.25
£7.61
Globland Books Cedomir Ilic
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£12.34
Sprigleaf Pty Ltd Forever Remain: Roxton Letters Volume Two:: A
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£13.59
Sprigleaf Pty Ltd Midnight Marriage: A Georgian Historical Romance
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£24.69
Sprigleaf Pty Ltd Diabolico Dair: Un Romanzo Storico Georgiano
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£999.99
Sprigleaf Pty Ltd Autumn Duchess: A Georgian Historical Romance
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£24.69
Norilana Books The Secret Garden
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£16.46
Melville House Publishing Parnassus On Wheels
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£10.44
Alta Hensley Delicate Revenge: A Dark Secret Society Romance
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£11.24
Random House USA Inc The Awakening: A Novel
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£10.66
Public Park Publishing The Awakening: and Selected Short Stories
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£15.97
Public Park Publishing Sense and Sensibility
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£16.12
Lasavia Publishing Ltd Stench
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£999.99
Rod Flint The Year 1102 - Jaws of Borrowdale
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£11.12
Hachette Livre - BNF Du Désarmement Des Arabes Considéré Comme
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£12.40
Hachette Livre - BNF Fatal N ° 13
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£11.53
Hachette Livre - BNF Oeuvres de Jean Racine. Iphigénie, Phèdre,
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£19.00
Hachette Livre - BNF Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Edition 2, Tome 4
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£13.30
Hachette Livre - BNF Au Pays Du Silence
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£14.00
Hachette Livre - BNF Histoire de la Littérature Hindoui Et
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£23.75
Hachette Livre - BNF Histoire de la Littérature Hindoui Et
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£27.55
Hachette Livre - BNF Oeuvres Complètes de Henri de Latouche. Olivier
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£16.00
Hachette Un sac de billes
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£11.31
Larousse Le Jeu De L'amour Et Du Hasard
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£6.59
Editions Larousse Lettre a Menecee
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£7.24
Gallimard Contes de ma mere l'Oye
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£999.99
Editions Flammarion La recherche de l'absolu/La messe de l'athee
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£999.99
Gallimard Gatsby le magnifique
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£999.99
Librairie generale francaise Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
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£7.24
Librairie generale francaise Gatsby le magnifique (film tie-in)
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£6.68
Pocket Un jour je m'en irai sans avoir tout dit
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£999.99
Books on Demand Ben-Hur: le gladiateur qui était roi
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£23.28
