Classics

Stewart Ross / Robinson Crusoe

Dive into the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, who escapes a storm and shipwreck only to be stranded on a desert island all alone... Will he survive? Find out in the adaptation of this classic,...

Sir J. M. Barrie / Peter Pan

Wendy knows that all children have to grow up... all apart from the magical Peter Pan! When Peter flies through the nursery window and invites Wendy and her brothers, John and Michael, to come to...

James Clavell / King Rat: The Fourth Novel of the Asian Saga (Vintage Paperback)

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Sir Compton Mackenzie / Sylvia Scarlett (Vintage Paperback)

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Dylan Thomas / Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices (Aldine Paperbacks) (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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E. E."Doc" Smith / Children of the Lens (Lensman Series) (Vintage Paperback)

Children of the Lens is the sixth and concluding volume of the six classic Lensman books, long recognized as the greatest space opera ever written. Twenty years have passed since the events portrayed...

A.J. Cronin / Beyond This Place (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Paul Mathry, a student about to graduate and embark upon a teaching career, finds out that his father was convicted for murder, a secret that his mother had hidden from him since his childhood...

Laura Ingalls Wilder / Little Town on the Prairie (Puffin Books) (Vintage Paperback)

Laura turns fourteen and goes to work in town on a new-fangled sewing machine, and after a town social young Mr Wilder offers to walk her home     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture...

J.P. Donleavy / The Ginger Man (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Set in Dublin, Ireland, in the post-war year of 1947, this novel tells the story of a group of college students at Trinity College. Written by Irish-American author J. P. Donleavy (whose own...

James Herriot / If Only They Could Talk (Vintage Paperback) (5)

When newly qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea what to expect. How will he get on with his new boss? Herriot's books form the basis of the...

Alison Lurie / The War Between the Tates (Vintage Paperback)

Originally published in 1974, a humorous novel set against an American academic background, telling of how a professor's stable relationship and family life comes apart when he embarks upon an...

Forster, E, M. And Stallybrass, O. (Ed) / Aspects of the Novel (Vintage Paperback)

A volume of the novelist's literary criticism, first published in 1972, originally a course of Clark Lectures at Cambridge     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual...

D.H. Lawrence / Women in Love (Vintage Paperback)

Dark, but filled with bright genius, Women in Love is a prophetic masterpiece steeped in eroticism, filled with perceptions about sexual power and obsession that have proven to be timeless and true...

Flora Thompson / Lark Rise to Candleford (Modern Classics) (Vintage Paperback)

Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. The trilogy of Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green tells...

Charles Darwin / The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin's research interests - a central pillar of his 'human' series. This book engaged some of...

William Wordsworth / Poetical Works

Wordsworth's visionary intensity and simplicity of style made him one of the most popular Romantic poets. Wordsworth's major theme was the influence of nature on man, and this was explored and...

Robert A. Heinlein / Time Enough for Love

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Ursula K. Le Guin / The Left Hand of Darkness.

A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / Frankenstein

Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment, which leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Astrid Lindgren / Emil and the Great Escape.

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Mary Oliver / Wild Geese

Mary Oliver is one of America s best-loved poets. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman,...

James Hilton / Lost Horizon

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of this magical and well-loved classic. Following a plane crash, Conway, a British consul; his deputy; a missionary; and an American financier find themselves in the...

L. M. Montgomery / Rilla of Ingleside

Rilla of Ingleside is the final installment of L. M. Montgomery's much-loved Anne Shirley novels. It follows Rilla Blythe, Anne's youngest daughter, as she grows up against the backdrop of the First...

Joseph Jacobs / Celtic Fairy Tales. (Hardback)

Embodying the charming humour and wit of the Celtic folk-tales, Jacobs has rendered his own particular style to the collection. This anthology of charming tales is captivating and one of the most...

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada / Bhagavad-Gita as it is (Hardback)

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William Strunk / The Elements of Style (Hardback)

You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by...

Antoine De Saint Exupery / The Little Prince (Hardback)

A newly presented edition of The Little Prince with all the original illustrations newly coloured and the text translated into English. Le Petit France was first published in France in 1943, as a...

Jacob Grimm / The Shoemaker and the Elves (Hardback)

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Edith Olivier / The Love Child (Large Paperback)

What was she? Not a child, for she was seventeen, and taller than Kitty: not a girl, for she floated like a feather, and flew into trees like a bird; not a spirit - she was human to touch. But...

Constance Elizabeth Maud / No Surrender (Large Paperback)

No Surrender is a classic novel, important in the Women's Suffrage movement in the early 20th century     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Elizabeth Von Arnim / The Solitary Summer (Large Paperback)

Work from the successful late 19th Century British novelist and member of the German nobility     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Patricia Highsmith / The Price of Salt (Large Paperback)

A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter...

Franz Kafka / Amerika (Large Paperback)

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents...

Henri Barbusse / The Inferno (Large Paperback)

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Joseph Conrad / Lord Jim (Vintage Paperback) (2)

A young man named Jim decides to go to work at sea. He quickly rises through the ranks. Jim has a cherished dream. He wants to become a real hero. Finally he gets his a long-awaited chance. One day,...

Laurence Sterne / The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (English Library) (Vintage Paperback)

No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the...

Iris Murdoch / An Accidental Man (Vintage Paperback) (1)

A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmas Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England,...

Laurie Lee / As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Vintage Paperback) (3)

It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one...

Laurie Lee / As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Vintage Paperback) (2)

It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one...

Laurie Lee / As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Vintage Paperback) (1)

It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one...

Kingsley Amis / Jake's Thing (Vintage Paperback)

A lecherous Oxford don, rapidly approaching sixty and horrified at the dwindling resources of his normally hyperactive libido, seeks professional advice and tours the modern inferno of self-awareness...

C.S. Lewis / The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Puffin Books) (Vintage Paperback)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Paperback – 1978 by C S Lewis (Author),? Pauline Illustrated by Baynes (Illustrator)     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book...

Edgar Wallace / The Four Just Men (Vintage Paperback) (1)

The Four Just Men A classic who-dunnit mystery thriller. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Philip Ramon) is threatened. These letters are of such a character that they cannot be ignored...

A.A. Milne / When We Were Very Young (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Leo Tolstoy / War and Peace Vol.2: V. 2 (Classics) (Vintage Paperback)

Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families, together with critical and textual notes     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown...

Saul Bellow / Mr Sammler's Planet (Vintage Paperback)

"Sammler, a New Yorker in his seventies, a refugee from Nazism, a thinker of complex thoughts, a touchstone around whom a heterogeneous group revolves, is not simply the protagonist but the prime...

Corrie ten Boom / The Hiding Place (Vintage Paperback)

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Nevil Shute / No Highway (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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H.E. Bates / The Four Beauties: The Simple Life; the Four Beauties; the Chords of Youth; the White Wind (Vintage Paperback)

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Kingsley Amis / Lucky Jim (Vintage Paperback)

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Iris Murdoch / An Accidental Man (Vintage Paperback)

A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmas Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England,...

Pearl S. Buck / Three Daughters of Madame Liang (Vintage Paperback)

An excellent book about 3 daughters deciding to move back to China during the time of Chairman Mao. The mother is an incredible portrait of Old China adapting to new ways. A must read for Buck fans!...