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THE ODYSSEY (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By: ), Homer ( translated by E. V. Rieu

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin: 1982

Seller ID: RWARE0000051371

ISBN: 0140440011

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

This work recounts the story of Odysseus' return to Ithica from the Trojan war and tells how he encountered many trials before being united with his f aithful wife Penelope, at the end of his wanderings.
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: ¥400.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 1969

Seller ID: RWARE0000051376

ISBN: 0140430474

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (BARNES & NOBLE CLASSICS)

By: Austen, Jane

Price: ¥650.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics: 2004

Seller ID: RWARE0000051967

ISBN: 1593082010

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and p ages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contempora...
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: ¥1,200.00

Publisher: Collier Books: 1962

Seller ID: RWARE0000052238

ISBN: 0020423500

Binding: Mass Market Pa

Condition: Good

A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a strange world inhabi ted by all sorts of unusual characters.
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PERIL AT END HOUSE

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: ¥1,500.00

Publisher: MODERN AGE BOOKS: 1938

Seller ID: RWARE0000009843

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Small crease and chip to top part of cover, o/w in great condition, no unde rlining,not an ex-lib.
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THE ROVER

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: ¥20,000.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co: 1923

Seller ID: RWARE0000010972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+/Very Good+

A tight clean copy, of this first American edition, protected in a new brod art wrapper, no chips or tears to dustwrapper, not price clipped, or any ma rkings throughout, pages all clean and bright.
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LORD JIM (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 1989

Seller ID: RWARE0000050385

ISBN: 0140180923

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Jim, first mate on board the Patna, is 'a simple and sensitive character', a raw youth dreaming dreams of heroism. But when the Patna threatens to sin k, Jim takes the cowardly way out, and jumps clear. His unbearable guilt an d its consequences are shaped into a rich narrative.
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THE NIGGER OF THE `NARCISSUS' AND OTHER STORIES (PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS)

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1963

Seller ID: RWARE0000050468

ISBN: 0140020616

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A disturbing and powerful portrait of the sea and sea life.
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THE HIDDEN FORCE

By: Couperus, Louis

Price: ¥2,400.00

Publisher: University of Massachusetts: 1990

Seller ID: RWARE0000012651

ISBN: 0870237152

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

A tight clean copy.
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MOLL FLANDERS

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1982

Seller ID: RWARE0000046164

ISBN: 0192815709

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. First published in 1722, MOLL FLANDERS is called the first social novel in English. It is the tale of the unfortunate Moll Flanders, forced into a life of prostitution and crime until fate bestows fortune upon her. Racy, ironic, rich in realistic sociological detail, it is also a tale of romance, with Moll in quest of a familial paradise where she can reside at its charmed center.
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MOLL FLANDERS: THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF THE FAMOUS MOLL FLANDERS (PE NGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY)

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 1978

Seller ID: RWARE0000051829

ISBN: 0140431071

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Purports to be the autobiography of the daughter of a woman who had been transported to Virginia for theft after her child's birth. The child is brought up in the house of the mayor of Colchester. The story relates her seduction, her marriages and liaisons, and her visit to Virginia.
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ROBINSON CRUSOE (WORDSWORTH CLASSICS)

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd: 1997

Seller ID: RWARE0000052002

ISBN: 1853260452

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adv entures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a l ife for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man's footp rint in the sand.
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES (WORDSWORTH CLASSICS)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions: 1993

Seller ID: RWARE0000052043

ISBN: 1853260398

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

"A Tale of Two Cities" is a Dickens masterpiece set against the era of the bloody French Revolution. In fact, the original subtitle of the novel was: "A Story of the French Revolution." In the novel, Paris and London, with th eir respective charms and chasms, form the backdrop against which both good and bad men attempt to keep their heads above water. It was indeed the bes t of times and the worst of times--like all times have been, are, and alway s will be. Dickens' "tale of two cities" turns out, in actuality, to be the tale of all cities.
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MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: ¥650.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000051341

ISBN: 0140436146

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become sus picious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortun e in America. In depicting Martin's journey - an experience that teaches hi m to question his inherited self-interest and egotism - Dickens created man y vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to gain...
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DOMBEY AND SON (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 2002

Seller ID: RWARE0000051355

ISBN: 0140435468

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' st ruggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's pride, edited w ith an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders in Penguin Classics. To Pau l Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family lif e as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only per son he cares for is his frail son, grooming him for entry into the family b usiness; his daughter Florence, abandoned and ignored, craves affection fro m her unloving father, who sees her only as a 'base coin that couldn...
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BLEAK HOUSE (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 2003

Seller ID: RWARE0000051361

ISBN: 0141439726

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Charles Dickens's masterful assault on the injustices of the British legal system As the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada a nd Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal co sts; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deep ening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspe ctor Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the ...
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LITTLE DORRIT (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 2004

Seller ID: RWARE0000051396

ISBN: 0141439963

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imp risonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens 's Little Dorrit is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, h e takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in th e affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long i mprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the liv...
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THE SIGN OF FOUR

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics/Macmillan: 2019

Seller ID: RWARE0000051132

ISBN: 0141395486

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

THE CRACK-UP

By: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: New Directions: 1993

Seller ID: RWARE0000051966

ISBN: 0811212475

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

"The Crack-Up" was first published by New Directions in 1945 and is now bei ng rediscovered by a new generation of readers. Compiled and edited by Edmu nd Wilson shortly after Fitzgerald's death, "The Crack-Up" tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success an d glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery. This vigorous and revealing collection of essays and letters renders the tale o f a man whose personality still charms us all and whose reckless gaiety and genious made him a living symbol and the Jazz Age. For those who grew ...
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THE PARADISE MYSTERY

By: Fletcher, J.S.

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publ: 2014

Seller ID: RWARE0000031948

ISBN: 1499256582

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Like New

J.S. Fletcher was a British author who wrote over 200 books, and though he wrote on many subjects, his most famous works were in the genre of detectiv e fiction. For that reason, he has long been considered one of the best in the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction"
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Category: Classical Literature