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A Long Drink of Cold Water
- £30.00
- Collection of Campbell's articles from Lilliput magazine
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A Moving Target
- £30.00
- Collection of 16 short essays (divided into "Places" and "Ideas"), plus the author's preface.
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A Sense of Place
- £25.00
- A collection of three essays about France by the renowned Oxford professor of history: 1. Becoming a historian; 2. 'L'Affaire Perken'; 3. Seduction and Pregnancy in Revolutionary Lyon.
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
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Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (Phoenix Library)
- £10.00
- The first of Huxley's travel essay collections: 22 essays in four sections: 'Travel', 'Places', 'Works of Art' and 'By the Way'
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 41 (Autumn 2013)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Areté has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
- £25.00
- No 49 in Cassell's National Library; 1st edition thus; Introduction Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit; Letters on the Inspiration of the Scriptures; An Essay on Faith; Notes on the Book of Common Prayer; A Nightly Prayer; A Sailor's Fortune; Essays I-VI.
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Essays in Orthodox Dissent
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- Not to be confused with the so-called comedian, Bernard Lord Manning was the son of a Congregationalist minister. Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and university lecturer in medieval history. Always Congregationalist by conviction, Manning had wide sympathies and appreciated many different Christian traditions. This is shown in his writings, which…
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Essays Literary & Critical
- £15.00
- Vol XXVIII of Stevenson's complete works: Topics include:- Essays in the Art of Writing; Juvenilia; The Pentland Rising; Scientific Papers; Wellington; The Late Sam Bough RSA; & Criticisms
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Essays of Today and Yesterday: G. K. Chesterton
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- Collection of Chesterton essays: A Defence of Nonsense; Pickwick Papers; Charless II; Thomas Carlyle; A Meditation in Broadway; The Spirit of England; Two Stones in a Square.
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Excursions in the Real World
- £15.00
- Autobiographical essays, about people and places, personal enthusiasms and fascinations, that have remained snagged in William Trevor's memory over the years. He writes of childhood, school and university, early days in Dublin, writing in London. The New Yorker called William Trevor 'probably the greatest living writer of short stories in…
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Finders Keepers – Selected Prose 1971-2001
- £25.00
- Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces.
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For the Time Being: collected journalism
- £20.00
- Dirk Bogarde returned to London in the late 1980s, having lived in France for 20 years, and at that point was asked by the Daily Telegraph to review a clutch of books. There followed eight years of exceptional writings that are collected for the first time in this book: pieces…
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A Long Drink of Cold Water
- £30.00
- Collection of Campbell's articles from Lilliput magazine
- Add to basket
-
A Moving Target
- £30.00
- Collection of 16 short essays (divided into "Places" and "Ideas"), plus the author's preface.
- Add to basket
-
A Sense of Place
- £25.00
- A collection of three essays about France by the renowned Oxford professor of history: 1. Becoming a historian; 2. 'L'Affaire Perken'; 3. Seduction and Pregnancy in Revolutionary Lyon.
- Add to basket
-
Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
- Add to basket
-
Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (Phoenix Library)
- £10.00
- The first of Huxley's travel essay collections: 22 essays in four sections: 'Travel', 'Places', 'Works of Art' and 'By the Way'
- Add to basket
-
Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 41 (Autumn 2013)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Areté has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
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Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
- £25.00
- No 49 in Cassell's National Library; 1st edition thus; Introduction Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit; Letters on the Inspiration of the Scriptures; An Essay on Faith; Notes on the Book of Common Prayer; A Nightly Prayer; A Sailor's Fortune; Essays I-VI.
- Add to basket
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Essays in Orthodox Dissent
- £10.00
- Not to be confused with the so-called comedian, Bernard Lord Manning was the son of a Congregationalist minister. Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and university lecturer in medieval history. Always Congregationalist by conviction, Manning had wide sympathies and appreciated many different Christian traditions. This is shown in his writings, which…
- Add to basket
-
Essays Literary & Critical
- £15.00
- Vol XXVIII of Stevenson's complete works: Topics include:- Essays in the Art of Writing; Juvenilia; The Pentland Rising; Scientific Papers; Wellington; The Late Sam Bough RSA; & Criticisms
- Add to basket
-
Essays of Today and Yesterday: G. K. Chesterton
- £10.00
- Collection of Chesterton essays: A Defence of Nonsense; Pickwick Papers; Charless II; Thomas Carlyle; A Meditation in Broadway; The Spirit of England; Two Stones in a Square.
- Add to basket
-
Excursions in the Real World
- £15.00
- Autobiographical essays, about people and places, personal enthusiasms and fascinations, that have remained snagged in William Trevor's memory over the years. He writes of childhood, school and university, early days in Dublin, writing in London. The New Yorker called William Trevor 'probably the greatest living writer of short stories in…
- Add to basket
-
Finders Keepers – Selected Prose 1971-2001
- £25.00
- Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces.
- Add to basket
-
For the Time Being: collected journalism
- £20.00
- Dirk Bogarde returned to London in the late 1980s, having lived in France for 20 years, and at that point was asked by the Daily Telegraph to review a clutch of books. There followed eight years of exceptional writings that are collected for the first time in this book: pieces…
- Add to basket
