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... €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... €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 Joyce, James / Finnegans Wake FinnegansWake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle andtheir family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well asall our books. Joyce's last great work, it is not comprised of many borrowedstyles, like... €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... €1.50 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... €1.50 Add to Cart
Quick view Strene, Laurence / The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 'Who has not Tristram Shandy read? Is any mortal so ill bred?' So wrote the young James Boswell in the spring of 1760, when Sterne's comic novel was received with extravagant popular acclaim and some bewilderment. Indeed, how can one describe a... €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 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... €1.50 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... €1.50 Add to Cart
Quick view Shakespeare, William / The Tempest This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies... €1.50 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 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan / The Lost World Headed by the larger than life figure of Professor Challenger, a scientific expedition sets out to explore a mysterious plateau in the Amazon rainforest. The adventurers find themselves trapped in a world lost in time, inhabited by dinosaurs and apemen... €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... €1.50 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... €1.50 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 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
Quick view Homer, / The Iliad With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad... €1.50 Add to Cart
Quick view Keane, John B. / The Contractors A novel that traces the fortunes of the Irish labourers who emigrated to England in the 1950s. John B. Keane gives the reader fascinating details of their daily existence, their exhilerations and their sorrows. He has also written Durango, Letters of a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Stoker, Dacre / Dracula: The Un-Dead The official sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker family. The story begins in 1912, twenty-five years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view James, Henry / The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children... €1.50 Add to Cart
Quick view Twain, Mark / Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Hardy, Jules / Mister Candid He's responsible for the deaths of many people. But everything I've learned about him makes me believe he's fundamentally a good person. Sounds crazy doesn't it? How can he be a good person?' For seventeen years the FBI have been hunting down a killer, a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Plunkett, James / Strumpet City This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. It has been chosen as Dublin City Libraries' One City, One Book for 2013. First published in 1969, it has repeatedly been described as one of the greatest Irish novels of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Haggard, H Rider / She Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titlesAll of our books are second hand, and while you may... €1.50 Add to Cart
Quick view Hawthorne, Nathaniel / The Scarlet Letter A powerful study of bigotry, persecution, obsession and hypocrisy in early American society, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's. "The Scarlet Letter" contains an introduction by Nina Baym and notes by Thomas E. Connolly. Set in the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Mansfield, Katherine / Bliss A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged moments when an individual is most revealing.All of our books are second hand, and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Kennedy Toole, John / A Confederacy of Dunces The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city’s fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Wilde, Oscar / Complete Shorter Fiction For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Keane, John B. / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view McCabe, Patrick / The Butcher Boy When I was a young lad, twenty or thirty or forty years ago, I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent". So speaks Francie Brady, the narrator and anti-hero of THE BUTCHER BOY . When the story begins... €1.50 Add to Cart
Quick view Haggard, H. Rider / King Solomon's Mines & Allan Quatermain In King Solomon's Mines, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry's brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while searching for the legendary treasure trove of a lost... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Tolstoy, Leo / War and Peace Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Hugo, Victor / Les Miserables Translated by Julie Rose Introduction by Adam Gopnik In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is revealed in its full, unabridged glory. A favorite of readers for nearly 150 years,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Williams, John / Stoner To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Hemingway, Ernest / For Whom The Bell Tolls High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dyamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense... €2.00 Add to Cart
