Classics

Honoré de Balzac - Old Goriot ( Translated by M.A Crawford) Vintage Penguin PB 1953

'His blue eyes, formerly so lively, seemed to have turned a sad leaden grey...People either pitied him or were shocked by him'Monsieur Goriot is one of a select group of lodgers at Madame Vauquer's...

Sophocles - Electra and Other Plays ( Translated by E.F Watling) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB 1965

All three of the great tragic poets of ancient Greece produced plays about the Electra myth. If Sophocles (496-406 Bc) lacks the archaic grandeur of Aeschylus or the neurotic intensity of Euripides,...

John Broderick - The Pilgrimage - PB - BRAND NEW

Banned on its 1961 release and long overlooked, The Pilgrimage returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire, secrecy and small‑town conformity. John Broderick’s fearless debut follows Julia...

Graham Greene / Brighton Rock.. (Vintage Paperback)

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John Fowles / The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Paperback)

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Thomas Hardy / Tess of the d'Urbervilles.. (Vintage Paperback)

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Laurie Lee / Cider With Rosie. (Vintage Paperback)

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Harry Levin / The Essential James Joyce1 (Vintage Paperback)

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J. G. Farrell / Troubles (Vintage Paperback)

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Joseph Conrad / Lord Jim (Vintage Paperback)

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Jane Austen / Mansfield Park (Vintage Paperback)

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Saul Bellow / Herzog (Vintage Paperback)

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Mark Twain / Pudd'nhead Wilson (Vintage Paperback)

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A. J. Cronin / The Spanish Gardener (Vintage Paperback)

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A. J. Cronin / Adventure of a Black Bag (Vintage Paperback)

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Elizabeth Gaskell / Mary Barton (Vintage Paperback)

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Jane Austen / Sense and Sensibility (Vintage Paperback)

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Shawna Mullen ( Editor) / The Wisdom of Jane Austen (Large Paperback)

The perfect companion for Austen’s devoted following.  For over 180 years, Jane Austen has charmed readers with her keen observations and satirical wit. Although set in the parlors and ballrooms of...

William Langland / Piers Plowman (Large Paperback) - E. Talbot Donaldson (Translator) (Norton Critical Edition)

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John Matthews (Editor) / From the Isles of Dream (Large Paperback)

Visionary stories and poems of the Celtic Renaissance A marvelous anthology of stories and poems by writers of the early twentieth century Celtic Renaissance - including work from Ireland, Scotland...

Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus - Dual Language Text - HB

From the library of the late writer Seamus Deane, and with his signature to teh title page, no other marks or damage noted.  This reprint published by Hogarth Press UK, translations of Rilke'e work...

William Langland / Piers Plowman(Large Paperback)

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Jean Toomer / Cane (Large Paperback)

Alexander Pope / Essay on Man and Other Poems (Large Paperback)

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Euripidesi / Medea (Large Paperback)

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Moliere / Tartuffe (Large Paperback)

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Jean Racine / Phedre (Large Paperback)

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Rudyard Kipling / The Light that Failed (Large Paperback)

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Alice Walker / You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (Large Paperback)

Short Stories A natural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated. These are...

Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett) - The Sword of Welleran - HB 1908 UK 1ST Edition

Hardcover, first edition ( date in Roman numerals as mcmviii [1908] to title page) published by George Allen & Sons, London.  Predates the (slightly commoner) US 1916 1st Edition ( Edward Luce,...

James Stephens - The Demi-Gods - HB 1914

Hardcover, published by Macmillan UK, 1914, a small format hardcover in green cloth, rubbed and lightly edgeworn, titles in gilt to front cover, and embossed to spine ( possibly originally in gilt...

James Stephens / The Crock of Gold (Vintage Paperback)

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Henry Van Dyke / The Story of the Other Wise Man (Large Paperback)

Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar had agreed to wait ten days for Artaban, one of the Persian magi, to journey from his home in Ecbatana. But they could wait no longer, for they had to leave to pay...

Henry Miller / Black Spring (Large Paperback)

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Mary Lavin - Tales From Bective Bridge - PB - 1978

Originally published in 1943, this is a Poolbeg paperback reprint, 1978.  Light edgewear to the back cover, scratches where the price tag was previously.    First published in 1943, Tales from...

Frances Burney / Evelina (Large Paperback)

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David Pierce ( Editor) - Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century : A Reader - PB 2001

With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, it could be argued that modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our...

Horace ( Edited & Translated by C.E Bennett) - Odes and Epodes - HB - 1927

Published by William Heinemann, London & New York, 1927, small format hardcover, edited and translated by C.E Bennett  of Cornell University, originally published 1914.  Moderate to heavy underlining...

Arthur Quiller-Couch ( Editor) - Oxford Book of English Prose - HB - 1930 ( Originally 1925)

A selection of prose in English, from Chaucer to Rupert Brooke, hardcover published by OUP/ Clarendon Press, originally published in 1925, in this edition 1930.  1092 pages, previous owners name in...

Dodie Smith / I Capture the Castle(Large Paperback)

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Charles Dickens - The Cricket on the Hearth - HB - Illustrated 1969

John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a...

Ciaran Carson / The Tain (Hardback)

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George Moore - The Lake - PB ( 1980, Originally 1905)

A paperback Colin Smythe Publishing reprint, 1980. This edition with an afterword by Richard Cave.  Condition, very good, spine uncreased, previous owner's name and date to blank endpage. 

James Healy / Songs of Percy French (Large Paperback)

William Percy French was one of Ireland's favourite sons and his influence on traditional Irish Music can still be felt.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

James Morier - The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan ( Iran) - 2 Vol HB - 1895

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan is a satirical Oriental novel, written in 1824 by James Justinian Morier, a former British envoy who lived in Qajar dynasty Iran (Persia) in 1808–1809 and...

Flynn Berry / Northern Spy (Large Paperback)

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Thomas Kilroy - The Big Chapel - HB - 1st Edition 1971 - Faber

A novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, it deals with events in Ireland in teh 1870's. Thomas Kilroy has written an anatomy...

Edward Fitzgerald (Translator) - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - HB 1965

Illustrations by Robert Stewart Sheriffs Hardcover in a leatherette effect covers, published in this reprint by Collins UK , 1965. Uneven sunfade to the spine, rubbing and wear to the top and tail of...

Graham Greene / The Captain and the Enemy (Hardback)

A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain,...

D.H Lawrence / The Rainbow (Large Paperback)

     

F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Beautiful and Damned (Large Paperback)

One of the great American writers whose works enjoy popular appeal as well as critical acclaim, F. Scott Lyric, highly readable novel traces the meteoric rise and fall of glittering young socialites...

Edgar Wallace - Again the Three - Vintage Pan PB

A vintage Pan paperback, published in this edition 1968, originally published in 1928. Previous bookshop stamp to the front endpage, prebvious owners name also on same page, covers clean, light...