Classic Fiction from The Real Book Shop

Leather bound with gilt inlaid design to boards and spine. Raised bands on spine. Satinized pastedowns. Gilt edges. Quarto. 346pp. 'Notes from the Archives' insert. Classic tale of a failed revolutionary who seeks refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the 'green mansions' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal… Read more about this item

Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish (b/w). Black cloth boards with gilt text to spine. Used, very good. DJ not price clipped; moderate wear. Book: light wear to boards' edges. No inscriptions. Internally extremely clean. Binding very good.

Classic Sci Fi, beautifully presented - would make an ideal gift. For those who know anything of the most outstanding British authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the name of Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) needs little introduction, for he wrote on many subjects. He is principally remembered as one of the 'Fathers of Science Fiction' and this… Read more about this item

Written in the original French

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of… Read more about this item

Classic philosophical writing.