Quick view Voigt, Cynthia / Homecoming Dicey began to panic. The four of them had been waiting in the car for hours now. Why wasn't their mother back? Why had she just walked off like that? What would they do if she never came back? Dicey had known for a while that something was not... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view James, Henry / The Europeans Felix Young and his sister the Baroness Munster descend upon their Puritan cousins, the Wentworths, in the Arcadian setting of the New England countryside of mid-19th century America. The clash between European Epicureanism and Puritan... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Shakespeare, William / The Taming of the Shrew Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Inchbald, Elizabeth / A Simple Story This novel by Inchbald (1753-1821) follows the original 1791 edition, edited by Tompkins in 1967 for the Oxford English novels series and with a new introduction by Spencer. It is concerned with the question of a woman's "proper education and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Stevenson, Robert Louis / An Apology for Idlers An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Tolstoy, Leo / The Death of Ivan Ilyich Ivan Ilyich is wasting away. He lies alone, dosed up on opium and deceived by doctors, haunted by memories and regrets. His friends come to see him, their faces masks of concern. His faithful servant tends to his every need. But as he forces down... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Runyon, Damon / Guys and Dolls A collection of short stories by Damon Runyon. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Crane, Stephen / The Red Badge of Courage With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.Also included are two short stories:The Veteran * The Open BookThe Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Streatfeild, Noel / A Vicarage Family Once upon a time there were three little girls: Isobel, the eldest, was pretty, gentle and artistic; Louise the youngest, was sweet and talented -- and then there was Vicky, the odd one out, the plain one. Everyone pities the poor vicar, who's got... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Chesterton, G. K. / Father Brown Stories All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Wilde, Oscar / Epigrams of Oscar Wilde There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about', said Oscar Wilde more than a hundred years ago. But this remark seems perhaps even more relevant to our present world where so many seek... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Conrad, Joseph / The Nigger of the "Narcissus" A disturbing and powerful portrait of the sea and sea life. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Carey, Peter / Illywhacker Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with aviators, car salesmen, Chinamen and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Camus, Albert / The Outsider All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Moore, Tara / RSVP RSVP is a sumptuous family saga, packed with sex, love and betrayal.The Granville Midsummer Ball is always an affair to remember. The who's who of Irish society gather at Carrickcross House - the rural family estate - for a night of revelry. But... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Doyal, Arthur Conan / The Extraordinary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Dickens, Charles / Complete Ghost Stories Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Dostoyevsky, Fyodor / The House of the Dead In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Austen, Jane / Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in Penguin Classics.These three short works show Austen... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Shakespeare, William / King Richard III This play charts the rise and fall of a Machiavellian villain who, by scheming and by infanticide, claws his way to the throne of England. It contains a mixture of poetry and politics, tragedy and sardonic wit. All of our books... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Henry, O. / 41 Stories The Master of Irony Readers the world over recognize O. Henry as the best short story writer of the early twentieth century. Widely known as a master of irony, O. Henry also displays here dazzling wordplay and a wry combination of pathos and humor... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Haggard, H. Rider / Allan Quatermain This adventure story tells of three men and their guide Umslopogaas who trek into the remote interior of Africa in search of a lost white race. Through unknown territories their perilous journey takes them to Zu-vendis, a kingdom ruled by the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Fleming, Ian / The Spy Who Loved Me - James Bond 007 Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Butler, Samuel / The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler was one of the Victorian era's greatest iconoclasts. Once, he said that after reading Darwin's "The Origin of Species," that the theory of evolution had replaced Christianity for him. And this -- after Butler had originally studied... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Scott, Sir Walter / The Heart of Midlothian This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Barrow, John / Mutiny of the Bounty All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view James, Henry / The Bostonians The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870's. F.R. Leavis called it one of "the 2 most brilliant novels in the language. "The novel's many allusions to the historical and social background of Boston society... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Greene, Graham / Monsignor Quixote All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich / The Duel A further collection of stories by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). consists of "The Duel", "Murder", "The Wife", "The Black Monk", "Terror" and "Big Volodya and Small Volodya", and complements two existing anthologies of short stories, "Lady With Lapdog... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Hornung, E.W. / Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Gissing, George / Born in Exile Godwin Peak, despite his education, feels alienated by his lower-class background and attempts to find some way to fit in Victorian society All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Shakespeare, William / Measure for Measure The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Stendhal, / The Red and the Black In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Gaskell, Elizabeth / Wives and Daughters Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view McCaughrean, Geraldine / Silver Myths And Legends Of The World These are the stories our ancestors told to explain how the world began; or they are legends of half-remembered heroes or people whose lives were changed by magic. Brilliantly retold in the sparkling, energetic prose of one of the great names in... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Kilroy, Claire / All Names Have Been Changed All Names Have Been Changed is set in Dublin in the mid-1980s - a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity College, it tells of their fascination with the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Behn, Aphra / Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Edgeworth, Maria / Castle Rackrent and Ennui Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent (1800). Thady will defend his masters to the end, but eventually his naivety and blind... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Zola, Emile / Nana Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Voltaire, / Candide This tale begins with the hero, Candide, being expelled from the Westphalian castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh for making love to the Baron's daughter, Cunegonde. So begins a series of disastrous misadventures on a fantastic odyssey for Candide,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Trollope, Anthony / Framley Parsonage Tells the story of Mark Roberts, a young clergyman, who is the close friend of Lord Lufton and is appointed to the living of Framley by the latter's widowed mother. However, he conducts himself in such a way as to incur the displeasure of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Anonymous, / The Way of a Man with a Maid The Way of a Man with a Maid' is a foray into pleasure, pain, lesbianism and etiquette - told from the viewpoint of a quintessential Edwardian gent. Having first appeared in Parisian journals around the turn of the century, it is widely... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Trollope, Anthony / The Duke's Children Plantagenet Palliser suffers a series of personal tragedies following his retirement as Prime Minister in Victorian England All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Trollope, Anthony / The Eustace Diamonds The central plot of "The Eustace Diamonds" (1872) involves the theft and ultimate discovery of a diamond necklace - the Eustace family heirloom. A splendid sense of the absurd permeates the novel and allows Trollope to examine "truth" in may... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Bowen, Elizabeth / The Last September The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view James, Henry / The Aspern Papers All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Trollope, Anthony / The Prime Minister All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Murdoch, Iris / Under The Net Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Rutherford, Mark / Clara Hopgood 'Mark Rutherford'is the pseudonym of William Hale White(1831-1913),who worked briefly for the WESTMINSTER REVIEW,where he met George Eliot,before becoming a civil servant.He continued to supplement his income with parliamentary and literaryjournalism,and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view De Maupassant, Guy / Bel-ami Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in Penguin Classics.Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Chekhov, Anton / Selected Stories With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University. Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Plato, / The Republic Plato's "Republic" is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual... €2.00 Add to Cart
