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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

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 WOMAN IN WHITE

By: Collins, Wilkie

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 2005

Seller ID: RWARE0000047766

ISBN: 1593082800

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. Novel by Wilkie Collins, published serially in All the Year Round (November 1859-July 1860) and in book form in 1860. Noted for its suspenseful plot and unique characterization, the successful novel brought Collins great fame; he adapted it into a play in 1871. This dramatic tale, inspired by an actual criminal case, is told through multiple narrators. Frederick Fairlie, a wealthy hypochondriac, hires virtuous Walter Hartright to tutor his beautiful n...
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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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ROXANA: THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1996

Seller ID: RWARE0000046147

ISBN: 0192824597

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. Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own "wicked" life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. This edition uses the rare first edition text, with a ne...
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1985

Seller ID: RWARE0000051344

ISBN: 0140430032

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

This endearing tale of Pip and the mysterious fortune that changes his life will be in theaters this fall from 20th Century Fox/Knickerbocker Films, s tarring Robert DeNiro, Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Anne Bancroft.
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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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THE PICKWICK PAPERS (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: ¥650.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000051342

ISBN: 0140436111

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and t imeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatment s, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text i s accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for th e modern reader. Dicken's first novel began as a romp, a series of amusing observations based on the travels of Mr Pickwick and his friends Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, Tracy Tupman and valet Sam Weller. Their adventures increasingly highlight hypocrisy and avarice in the lives of ever...
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NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: ¥650.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000051345

ISBN: 0140435123

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

'The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast o f heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth and de sperate poverty live cheek-by-jowl' Jasper Rees, The Times When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appea ls to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. His adventu res gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rog ues and ec...
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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 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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A ROOM WITH A VIEW (ESSENTIAL PENGUIN)

By: Forster, E.M.

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Gardners Books: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000051269

ISBN: 0140282637

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. A brilliant social comedy about the English middle classes abroad and at ho me, A ROOM WITH A VIEW is one of E.M. Forster's most popular novels. The medieval beauty of Florence is the setting for the emotional awakening of Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman travelling abroad for the first time with her cousin Charlotte. On her return to England, in her relationships with her cousin, the unconventional Emersons and her supercilious fiance Cecil, Lucy is...
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Category: Classical Literature