19th Century Fiction
BIC code: FBN
See also: Classic Fiction
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£8.99The Adventures Of Roderick Random - - Paperback
Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had been disinherited and has left Scotland leaving his son penniless. -
£6.99The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - - Paperback
Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister smiling countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. In 'Speckled Band', 'The Engineer's Thumb' and nine other stories, Holmes grapples with the very extremes of treachery, duplicity and murderous end. -
£1.99The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - - Paperback
This collection contains the earliest cases of the fictional detective. It comprises 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of Four' and the complete 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', reprinted from the 'Strand Magazine'. -
£6.99The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - - Paperback
This is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the 'Strand' magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The volume includes 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'. -
£9.99Anecdotes Of Scott: Anecdotes Of Sir W. Scott And Familiar Anecdotes Of Sir Walter Scott - - Paperback
James Hogg knew Sir Walter Scott well and, after Scott's death, wrote an affectionate but frank account of their friendship. His original version was withdrawn from publication and later extensively revised. Rubenstein's edition contains both texts. -
£11.95Annals Of The Parish - - Paperback
The three books in this anthology made John Galt's reputation as a serious writer. These novels reflect the changing industrial and social life of Scotland in the early nineteenth century through sharp observation of Ayrshire village life. -
£8.99The Antiquary - - Paperback
The Antiquary is the third of Scott's Waverley novels, and Scott's own particular favourite. Set in Scotland at the end of the 18th century, it centres on a young man who meets Jonathan Oldbuck, the loquacious old antiquary. -
£7.99A Beleaguered City And Other Tales Of The Seen And The Unseen - - Paperback
A Beleaguered City is an extraordinary set of stories about the dead that was written over one hundred years ago. Mrs Oliphant's tales were remarkable explorations of the supernatural at a time when the gothic and ghastly were more popular than realism. -
£6.99Beside The Ocean Of Time - - Paperback
Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, 'Beside the Ocean of Time' mixes myth and reality in an Orkney setting. -
£1.99The Best Of Sherlock Holmes - - Paperback
A collection of 20 of the best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 short stories. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the character of Sherlock Holmes and his companion and chronicler, Doctor John H. Watson.











