Classic fiction (pre c 1945) books

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This Island Is For The Birds

This Island Is For The Birds

Author: LV Watson
ISBN: 9798318809316
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Carmela's journey from betrayal to empowerment unfolds as she rises from despair, aided by Elisa's selfless support....  Read More >>

Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century: Walt Whitman, Theodore Winthrop, J. S. Lefanu, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter

Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century:...

Author: Various ,  Theodore Winthrop
ISBN: 9780486855455
Format: Paperback
$26.99

This Dover original anthology explores how six authors, including Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde, represented the...  Read More >>

Queen (Faber Editions): Introduced by Sarah Moss

Queen (Faber Editions): Introduced by Sarah Moss

Author: Birgitta Trotzig ,  Sarah Moss
ISBN: 9780571393633
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Lose yourself in this tumultuous Swedish family saga, introduced by Sarah Moss ('a masterpiece').  Read More >>

The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow

The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ,  Eileen M. Hunt (University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9780198892793
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a novel set in the aftermath of climate disaster and a war between Greece and Turkey...  Read More >>

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

Author: Dashiell Hammett ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9798888977033
Format: Paperback
$17.99

One of the top 10 best crime novels of all time, The Maltese Falcon introduced the world to hard boiled detective,...  Read More >>

The Devil in the Flesh

The Devil in the Flesh

Author: Raymond Radiguet (Author) ,  Christopher Moncrieff (Translator)
ISBN: 9781805331575
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Francois, the adolescent narrator, meets Marthe at the start of the First World War. While her husband is away at...  Read More >>

Torikaebaya Monogatari: A Japanese Tale of Gender-Swapped Siblings

Torikaebaya Monogatari: A Japanese Tale of Gender-Swapped...

Author: Rosette F. Willig
ISBN: 9781503646261
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Torikaebaya monogatari is a twelfth-century Japanese tale like no other. As suggested by its title, which literally...  Read More >>

Song of Ancient Lovers: A Novel

Song of Ancient Lovers: A Novel

Author: Laura Restrepo ,  Caro De Robertis
ISBN: 9780063356153
Format: Hardback
$62.99

""Award-winning Colombian author Laura Restrepo weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth in this story of star-crossed...  Read More >>

The Pale Horse

The Pale Horse

Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780008769864
Format: Hardback
$34.99

A priest’s death leads to sinister goings on in an old country pub…  Read More >>

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

Author: Dashiell Hammett ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9798888977026
Format: Hardback
$32.99

One of the top 10 best crime novels of all time, The Maltese Falcon introduced the world to hard boiled detective,...  Read More >>

The Fourth Princess: A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai

The Fourth Princess: A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai...

Author: Janie Chang
ISBN: 9780063308114
Format: Hardback
$62.99

From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China....  Read More >>

Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Empress Collection)

Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Empress Collection)

Author: Sally Minogue ,  Emily Brontë
ISBN: 9781840229165
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A passionate story of the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father....  Read More >>

Backlight

Backlight

Author: Pirkko Saisio ,  Mia Spangenberg
ISBN: 9780241730072
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Operation Heartbreak

Operation Heartbreak

Author: Duff Cooper
ISBN: 9780241799918
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Based on a true wartime incident, Operation Heartbreak tells the story of Willie Maryngton who is too young to fight...  Read More >>

Swann In Love

Swann In Love

Author: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9781035072231
Format: Hardback
$24.99

The self-contained novella from Proust’s classic masterpiece.  Read More >>

Death in Venice

Death in Venice

Author: Thomas Mann
ISBN: 9781035065196
Format: Hardback
$24.99

The most famous work by Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann.  Read More >>

The Angels of Perversity

The Angels of Perversity

Author: Remy de Gourmont ,  Francis Amery
ISBN: 9781912868841
Format: Paperback
$32.99

They are key examples of early Symbolist prose shaped and inspired by the French Decadent consciousness and must...  Read More >>

A Woman's Affair

A Woman's Affair

Author: Liane de Pougy ,  Graham Anderson
ISBN: 9781912868483
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Despite her beauty and her riches, Annhine de Lys, one of the most notorious courtesans of 1890s Paris, is bored...  Read More >>

The Governor's Crown

The Governor's Crown

Author: Topher Olsen
ISBN: 9789189853331
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Pontius Pilate is the Governor of Jersualem, trudging along in a strange land. One day he is confronted with a jewish...  Read More >>

Valerius, A Roman Story

Valerius, A Roman Story

Author: Thomas C. Richardson (Professor of English Emeritus, Mississippi University for Women) ,  Thomas C. Richardson (Professor of English Emeritus, Mississippi University for Women)
ISBN: 9781399553537
Format: Hardback
$219.00

The first critical edition of the final text of Lockhart's Valerius, A Roman Story.  Read More >>

The Battle of Maldon: Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

The Battle of Maldon: Together with the Homecoming of...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien ,  Peter Grybauskas
ISBN: 9780008465865
Format: Paperback
$22.99

First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes...  Read More >>

The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow

Author: Robert W. Chambers
ISBN: 9781782695653
Format: Paperback
$24.99

With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The...  Read More >>

Bird of Ill Omen: The Gothic Tales of Catherine Crowe

Bird of Ill Omen: The Gothic Tales of Catherine Crowe...

Author: Catherine Crowe ,  Ruth Heholt
ISBN: 9780712355995
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Coincides with renewed academic interest in Crowe's important influence on the English Gothic and 'real' ghost story...  Read More >>

Lives of Incomplete People

Lives of Incomplete People

Author: Fazal Abubakkar Esaf
ISBN: 9798233541209
Format: Paperback
$34.29

This collection was born from observation, reflection, and a quiet fascination with incompleteness. In our modern...  Read More >>

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