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1985
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- In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own…
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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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Alaa, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
- £14.00
- At the beginning of the 21st century genes are used to explain almost every aspect of human life, from social inequalities to health, sexuality and criminality. This book offers a crticism of this so called evolutionary psychology, arguing that it rests on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises and unexamined political…
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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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Benjamin Britten: a Commentary on his works from a group of Specialists
- £20.00
- Written to help the understanding of the millions who admire Britten superficially. Contributors include: Earl of Harewood, Dpeter Pears, George Malcolm, Norman del Mar, Imogen Holst, Lennox Berkeley
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Britten’s Gloriana: essays and sources (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)
- £22.00
- This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991. Gloriana has been a source of controversy since its premire as part of the Coronation celebrations in 1953. It was planned as…
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Cairn (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do' Kate Kellaway, Observer. Cairn: A marker on open land, a…
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Changing My Mind (SIGNED)
- £90.00
- A new book from one of our most acclaimed writers. ÔWe always believe that changing our mind is an improvement, bringing a greater truthfulness to our dealings with the world and other people. It puts an end to vacillation, uncertainty, weak-mindedness. It seems to make us stronger and more mature.…
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Creed or Chaos? And other essays in popular theology
- £30.00
- The Greatest Drama Ever Staged, Triumph of Easter, Strong Meat, The Dogma is the Drama, Why Work?, The Other Six Deadly Sins.
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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…
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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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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
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- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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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 Love and Money: Writing Reading Travelling 1969-1987 (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- For Love and Money is the 'part case history, part memoir' of a modern man of letters: a selection of Jonathan Raban's very best essays, reportage, travel writings and literary criticism, linked with a narrative thread that bravely attempts the agonizing and revelatory question 'Why do you write?' 'His writing…
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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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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse (Nonesuch Press)
- £35.00
- First published in 1934, this volume gives a representative selection from the whole body of Swift's work. There are selections from such prose as "Directions to Servants", and the verse selections display the many-sidedness of Swift.
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He Swore an Oath: Biblical Themes from Genesis 12-50
- £20.00
- The papers in this volume, read at the 1993 meeting of the Tyndale Fellowship Old Testament Study Group in Cambridge, reflect the ethos of Tyndale House: to further appreciation of the Bible as both an outstanding ancient text and inspired divine revelation. Genesis 12-50 is both placed within its Near…
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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
- £25.00
- National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writers point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of…
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Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
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I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
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Kipling and War: From ‘Tommy’ to ‘My Boy Jack’
- £15.00
- Although Rudyard Kipling never fought, he was one of Britiain's foremost observers of and commentators on war. Through his writing on the harsh realities of life as a private and accounts of feats of courage and comradeship during the frontier wars in India, 19th century British campaigns in Sudan, the…
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Lamb’s Last Essays
- £20.00
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist best known for his humorous Essays of Elia from which the essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' is taken. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron…
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Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
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- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies & Other Writing
- £40.00
- In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ÔI have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.Õ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from…
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Not So With You
- £18.00
- The spate of recent scandals of power abuse by leaders within the evangelical world suggests something is wrong in our churches. When a leader misuses power, they have misunderstood and misrepresented God and the gospel. This volume addresses the key underlying issue of what a biblical and healthy use of…
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Not That Kind of Girl: a young woman tells you what she’s ‘learned’ (SIGNED)
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- For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham Ð the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBOÕs ÔGirlsÕ Ð as one of the brightest and most original writers working today. ÒIf I could take what…
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O Rare Hoffnung: a memorial garland
- £40.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. This compilation of reflections and memories by some of his many friends and admirers was published the following year, with a foreward by his widow, Annetta, including several colour plates and of course b/w…
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
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- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Pound Wise
- £25.00
- This superb collection of essays bears the strong stamp of Osbert Sitwell's (1892-1967) own character and outlook, as well as that of his genius. They are extremely idiosyncratic, elegant and eloquent; graceful and angry; sometimes prophetic; always generous-hearted, courageous, intensely civilized.The first-rate journalist within the radical aristocrat makes this book…
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
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- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Pure Drivel
- £10.00
- Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: a seasoned actor, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright, and, of course, the ingenious comedian who turned King Tut into a national craze. In this widely praised collection of humourous riffs, Martin shows he is also a master of the written word. From…
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Queen Mary and Others
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- A posthumous anthology of essays by Osbert Sitwell published 5 years after his death, including some previously unpublished. Foreword by his close friend Sir Harold Acton.
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Redefining Christian Britain Post-1945 Perspectives
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- Redefining Christian Britain brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields - history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This…
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Roundabout Papers, from “The Cornhill Magazine”
- £45.00
- Three years before he died, Thackeray took on the editorship of The Cornhill Magazine in 1860, despite far prefering the job of writing pieces for his 'Roundabout Papers' column. These were published in this anthology soon after his death in 1863. This is the 1st edition, with occasional illustrations by…
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Satires and Personal Writings
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- Several Swift essays, combined with letters, prayers and poems. First published with Eddy's introduction and notes in 1932
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Selected Essays 1917-1932
- £100.00
- In this magisterial volume, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: 'For myself this book is a kind of historical record of…
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Sing High! Sing Low! A Book of Essays
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- From the cover: Though not, stricttly speaking, a book of travel, many of these essays take the reader to distant parts of the world which now he can reach by no other means [due to the 2nd World War]: Central America, the West indies, with glimpses of China and other…
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Sing High! Sing Low! A Book of Essays
- £16.00
- From the cover: Though not, stricttly speaking, a book of travel, many of these essays take the reader to distant parts of the world which now he can reach by no other means [due to the 2nd World War]: Central America, the West indies, with glimpses of China and other…
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Splendours and Miseries
- £40.00
- Sacherverell Sitwell's anthology of short stories and essays. Sitwell was an English writer and poet. He produced many works on art, music and architecture and over 50 volumes of poetry. He was best known as an art and music critic. This book was published in the context of the Second…
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Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of its Inhabitants
- £60.00
- Fourteen humorous portraits of typical theatre characters, including the hero, the villain, the lawyer, the Irishman, the comic lovers, the detective, and the heroine.
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Stories; Plays and Poems; Essays and Letters (Folio)
- £100.00
- Folio 3-volume set of Wilde's work: includes 'Essays and Letters'; 'Stories', and 'Plays and Poems'.
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T.S. Eliot: A symposium
- £40.00
- A fine festschrift for Eliot on his 60th Birthday, in the year that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), including contributions by Auden, Aiken, Moore, Lewis, Betjeman, Durrell, Spender, Muir and many others. It was compiled by Richard March and the Sri Lankan poet (and founder of…
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T.S. Eliot: Selected Essays (3rd ed)
- £35.00
- In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: 'For myself this book is a kind…
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The Bible & The Christian Life: a collection of essays by C. E. B. Cranfield
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- Illuminating essays on the authority of the Christian preacher, Christian-Jewish relations, the Christian's political responsibility, the Church's ministry to the poor, New Testament eschatology, and the Church's attitude toward divorce and remarriage.
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The Britten Companion
- £25.00
- Not only a companion but a guide: the most complete to his oeuvre that has yet been published. All the major compositions are discussed, and the final works can now be seen in their proper perspective. Includes a chronology, a bibliography, and is generously illustrated with music examples and with…
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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics
- £22.00
- Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, at teachers and at graduate students. It will be useful as well to ministers and other professionals within the church. Its eighteen…
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The Cambridge Companion to Descartes
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- Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life…
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The Creative Gift: The Arts and the Christian Life: Arts and Christian Life
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- The World is desperately short of men and women who will use their creative gifts. Too often Christians have exercised their gifts only within the church. In this book, H R Rookmaaker calls Christ's people to creative involvement in the wider world.
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The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal: for Nov 1814É Feb 1815 (vol XXIV)
- £50.00
- Started on 10 October 1802 by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Henry Brougham, and Francis Horner, it was published by Archibald Constable in quarterly issues until 1929. It began as a literary and political review.
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The Essays of Elia
- £25.00
- Part of the Temple Classics series (ed. Israel Gollancz), originally published the previous year in 1897.
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The History Today Companion to British History
- £14.00
- Six British historians contribute to a comprehensive dictionary which not only is a reference work for events, people and places from 43 AD, but also acknowledges that history is as much about the writing of what happened as what actually did happen. It also includes information on historical concepts and…
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The Hunters and the Hunted
- £16.00
- This work, written in the concluding months or years of war, has for subject the tentative returning of the arts of peace. Through its pages, by way of interior drama, there runs some thread of connection with the Tales of Hoffmann. The same characters are invoked, but the larger frame…
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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: A book for an Idle Holiday
- £25.00
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886 in London, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the authorÕs second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of JeromeÕs better works, and in spite of…
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The Lost Childhood and other essays
- £75.00
- Greene's collection of literary essays about authors such as Henry James, the Young Dickens, John Buchan, Ford Madox Ford and Beatrix Potter.
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The Sacred Wood, essays on poetry and criticism
- £12.00
- First published by Methuen in 1920 and compiled from various journals, this University Paperbacks edition was first published in 1960.
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The Satires of Jonathan Swift
- £25.00
- From the master of satire, Jonathan Swift, a collection of his classic satirical works as well as some of his poetry and letters. An Argument Against the Abolishment of Christianity, A Modest Proposal, A True and Faithful Narrative, A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, Predictions for the Year 1708, and The…
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The Spice of Life, a new collection of essays hitherto unpublished in book form
- £50.00
- A collection of essays compiled in book form for the first time, nearly 30 years after Chesterton's death in 1936. Arranged in 5 groups of essays: I. Literature, II. Partiuclar Books & Writers, III. Thought & Belief, IV. At Home & Abroad, V. Spice of Life.
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The Sun Shines Bright
- £12.00
- Essays discuss the sun, stars, planets, the moon, elements, the cell, scientists, human nature, secret weapons, population growth, and altruism
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The Vagrant Mood, Six Essays
- £7.00
- The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary…
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The Works of Francis Thompson (3 volumes)
- £100.00
- This set of Thompson's works (2 vols of poetry, 1 vol of prose) was edited by Wilfrid Meynell, a British newspaper publisher and editor. Francis Thompson was an English poet and mystic. He lived on the streets of London for years supporting himself with menial labour in order to pursue…
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The Works of Jonathan Swift D.D., Dean of St Patrick’s Dublin
- £150.00
- The Works Of The Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean Of St. Patrick's Dublin. Carefully Selected With a Life of the Author and original and Authentic Notes.
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Tour de France
- £15.00
- An anthology of essays by the renowned Oxford professor of history, about the France that was his lifelong passion.
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Tribute to Benjamin Britten on his Fiftieth Birthday
- £75.00
- As a ttribute, a group of Britten's friends were invited to contribute to a symposium of articles about matters of mutual interest, ranging from the Suffolk countryside, to Mozart's Cosi and a chapter from an unfinished novel by E. M. Forster. Contributors include: William Plomer, Imogen Holst, the Earl of…
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Untold Stories
- £12.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Untold Stories
- £15.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Up in the Old Hotel: Reportage from “the New Yorker”
- £16.00
- The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwan. Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink…
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Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- £9.00
- Collection of essays, introduced by the author's letter to William Ernest Henley; on Girls and Boys (tr. of title), English Admirals, potraits by Raeburn etc. Orig pub in 1881
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
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- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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What Am I Doing Here
- £35.00
- In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and…
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What the Dog Saw and other adventures
- £15.00
- In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. 'Masterpieces in the art of the…
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Who Was Jesus?: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue
- £22.00
- Who Was Jesus? is a collection of articles revolving around the dialogue between Jewish New Testament scholar Peter Zaas and Christian apologist William Craig, with a focus on the differing Jewish and Christian assessments of Jesus of Nazareth, and the question of Jewish-Christian relations. Their points of agreement and disagreement,…
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World Brain
- £180.00
- World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936Ð1938.[1] Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that…
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Writing Home
- £9.00
- Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years…
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1985
- £50.00
- In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own…
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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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Alaa, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
- £14.00
- At the beginning of the 21st century genes are used to explain almost every aspect of human life, from social inequalities to health, sexuality and criminality. This book offers a crticism of this so called evolutionary psychology, arguing that it rests on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises and unexamined political…
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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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Benjamin Britten: a Commentary on his works from a group of Specialists
- £20.00
- Written to help the understanding of the millions who admire Britten superficially. Contributors include: Earl of Harewood, Dpeter Pears, George Malcolm, Norman del Mar, Imogen Holst, Lennox Berkeley
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Britten’s Gloriana: essays and sources (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)
- £22.00
- This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991. Gloriana has been a source of controversy since its premire as part of the Coronation celebrations in 1953. It was planned as…
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Cairn (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do' Kate Kellaway, Observer. Cairn: A marker on open land, a…
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Changing My Mind (SIGNED)
- £90.00
- A new book from one of our most acclaimed writers. ÔWe always believe that changing our mind is an improvement, bringing a greater truthfulness to our dealings with the world and other people. It puts an end to vacillation, uncertainty, weak-mindedness. It seems to make us stronger and more mature.…
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Creed or Chaos? And other essays in popular theology
- £30.00
- The Greatest Drama Ever Staged, Triumph of Easter, Strong Meat, The Dogma is the Drama, Why Work?, The Other Six Deadly Sins.
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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…
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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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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
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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 Love and Money: Writing Reading Travelling 1969-1987 (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- For Love and Money is the 'part case history, part memoir' of a modern man of letters: a selection of Jonathan Raban's very best essays, reportage, travel writings and literary criticism, linked with a narrative thread that bravely attempts the agonizing and revelatory question 'Why do you write?' 'His writing…
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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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G.K.C. As M.C. being a collection of thirty-seven introductions
- £100.00
- A rare anthology (only 2500 printed) of Chesterton's essays, introducing a range of subjects such as Boswell, the Book of Job, Aesop, The Book of Snobs and Thackeray, George Macdonald, Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as his own The Man Who Was Thursday. Frontispiece: b/w drawing of Chesterton 'Bibliophilus Maximus'…
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Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse (Nonesuch Press)
- £35.00
- First published in 1934, this volume gives a representative selection from the whole body of Swift's work. There are selections from such prose as "Directions to Servants", and the verse selections display the many-sidedness of Swift.
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He Swore an Oath: Biblical Themes from Genesis 12-50
- £20.00
- The papers in this volume, read at the 1993 meeting of the Tyndale Fellowship Old Testament Study Group in Cambridge, reflect the ethos of Tyndale House: to further appreciation of the Bible as both an outstanding ancient text and inspired divine revelation. Genesis 12-50 is both placed within its Near…
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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
- £25.00
- National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writers point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of…
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Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
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I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
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Kipling and War: From ‘Tommy’ to ‘My Boy Jack’
- £15.00
- Although Rudyard Kipling never fought, he was one of Britiain's foremost observers of and commentators on war. Through his writing on the harsh realities of life as a private and accounts of feats of courage and comradeship during the frontier wars in India, 19th century British campaigns in Sudan, the…
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Lamb’s Last Essays
- £20.00
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist best known for his humorous Essays of Elia from which the essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' is taken. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron…
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Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies & Other Writing
- £40.00
- In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ÔI have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.Õ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from…
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Not So With You
- £18.00
- The spate of recent scandals of power abuse by leaders within the evangelical world suggests something is wrong in our churches. When a leader misuses power, they have misunderstood and misrepresented God and the gospel. This volume addresses the key underlying issue of what a biblical and healthy use of…
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Not That Kind of Girl: a young woman tells you what she’s ‘learned’ (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham Ð the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBOÕs ÔGirlsÕ Ð as one of the brightest and most original writers working today. ÒIf I could take what…
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O Rare Hoffnung: a memorial garland
- £40.00
- Gerard Hoffnung was a German-born musician and artist who died tragically young at 34 in 1959. This compilation of reflections and memories by some of his many friends and admirers was published the following year, with a foreward by his widow, Annetta, including several colour plates and of course b/w…
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Papers Presented to the PAST & PRESENT CONFERENCE on Literature and the Historians (1967 UCL)
- £20.00
- Papers from a conference held July 10, 1967, forcusing on literature in a historical context with seven scholarly papers presented, covering the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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Pound Wise
- £25.00
- This superb collection of essays bears the strong stamp of Osbert Sitwell's (1892-1967) own character and outlook, as well as that of his genius. They are extremely idiosyncratic, elegant and eloquent; graceful and angry; sometimes prophetic; always generous-hearted, courageous, intensely civilized.The first-rate journalist within the radical aristocrat makes this book…
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Pure Drivel
- £10.00
- Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: a seasoned actor, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright, and, of course, the ingenious comedian who turned King Tut into a national craze. In this widely praised collection of humourous riffs, Martin shows he is also a master of the written word. From…
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Queen Mary and Others
- £20.00
- A posthumous anthology of essays by Osbert Sitwell published 5 years after his death, including some previously unpublished. Foreword by his close friend Sir Harold Acton.
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Redefining Christian Britain Post-1945 Perspectives
- £15.00
- Redefining Christian Britain brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields - history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This…
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Roundabout Papers, from “The Cornhill Magazine”
- £45.00
- Three years before he died, Thackeray took on the editorship of The Cornhill Magazine in 1860, despite far prefering the job of writing pieces for his 'Roundabout Papers' column. These were published in this anthology soon after his death in 1863. This is the 1st edition, with occasional illustrations by…
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Satires and Personal Writings
- £10.00
- Several Swift essays, combined with letters, prayers and poems. First published with Eddy's introduction and notes in 1932
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Selected Essays 1917-1932
- £100.00
- In this magisterial volume, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: 'For myself this book is a kind of historical record of…
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Sing High! Sing Low! A Book of Essays
- £7.00
- From the cover: Though not, stricttly speaking, a book of travel, many of these essays take the reader to distant parts of the world which now he can reach by no other means [due to the 2nd World War]: Central America, the West indies, with glimpses of China and other…
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Sing High! Sing Low! A Book of Essays
- £16.00
- From the cover: Though not, stricttly speaking, a book of travel, many of these essays take the reader to distant parts of the world which now he can reach by no other means [due to the 2nd World War]: Central America, the West indies, with glimpses of China and other…
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Splendours and Miseries
- £40.00
- Sacherverell Sitwell's anthology of short stories and essays. Sitwell was an English writer and poet. He produced many works on art, music and architecture and over 50 volumes of poetry. He was best known as an art and music critic. This book was published in the context of the Second…
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Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of its Inhabitants
- £60.00
- Fourteen humorous portraits of typical theatre characters, including the hero, the villain, the lawyer, the Irishman, the comic lovers, the detective, and the heroine.
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Stories; Plays and Poems; Essays and Letters (Folio)
- £100.00
- Folio 3-volume set of Wilde's work: includes 'Essays and Letters'; 'Stories', and 'Plays and Poems'.
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T.S. Eliot: A symposium
- £40.00
- A fine festschrift for Eliot on his 60th Birthday, in the year that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), including contributions by Auden, Aiken, Moore, Lewis, Betjeman, Durrell, Spender, Muir and many others. It was compiled by Richard March and the Sri Lankan poet (and founder of…
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T.S. Eliot: Selected Essays (3rd ed)
- £35.00
- In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: 'For myself this book is a kind…
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The Bible & The Christian Life: a collection of essays by C. E. B. Cranfield
- £6.50
- Illuminating essays on the authority of the Christian preacher, Christian-Jewish relations, the Christian's political responsibility, the Church's ministry to the poor, New Testament eschatology, and the Church's attitude toward divorce and remarriage.
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The Britten Companion
- £25.00
- Not only a companion but a guide: the most complete to his oeuvre that has yet been published. All the major compositions are discussed, and the final works can now be seen in their proper perspective. Includes a chronology, a bibliography, and is generously illustrated with music examples and with…
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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics
- £22.00
- Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, at teachers and at graduate students. It will be useful as well to ministers and other professionals within the church. Its eighteen…
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The Cambridge Companion to Descartes
- £22.00
- Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life…
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The Creative Gift: The Arts and the Christian Life: Arts and Christian Life
- £10.00
- The World is desperately short of men and women who will use their creative gifts. Too often Christians have exercised their gifts only within the church. In this book, H R Rookmaaker calls Christ's people to creative involvement in the wider world.
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The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal: for Nov 1814É Feb 1815 (vol XXIV)
- £50.00
- Started on 10 October 1802 by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Henry Brougham, and Francis Horner, it was published by Archibald Constable in quarterly issues until 1929. It began as a literary and political review.
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The Essays of Elia
- £25.00
- Part of the Temple Classics series (ed. Israel Gollancz), originally published the previous year in 1897.
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The History Today Companion to British History
- £14.00
- Six British historians contribute to a comprehensive dictionary which not only is a reference work for events, people and places from 43 AD, but also acknowledges that history is as much about the writing of what happened as what actually did happen. It also includes information on historical concepts and…
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The Hunters and the Hunted
- £16.00
- This work, written in the concluding months or years of war, has for subject the tentative returning of the arts of peace. Through its pages, by way of interior drama, there runs some thread of connection with the Tales of Hoffmann. The same characters are invoked, but the larger frame…
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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: A book for an Idle Holiday
- £25.00
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886 in London, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the authorÕs second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of JeromeÕs better works, and in spite of…
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The Lost Childhood and other essays
- £75.00
- Greene's collection of literary essays about authors such as Henry James, the Young Dickens, John Buchan, Ford Madox Ford and Beatrix Potter.
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The Sacred Wood, essays on poetry and criticism
- £12.00
- First published by Methuen in 1920 and compiled from various journals, this University Paperbacks edition was first published in 1960.
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The Satires of Jonathan Swift
- £25.00
- From the master of satire, Jonathan Swift, a collection of his classic satirical works as well as some of his poetry and letters. An Argument Against the Abolishment of Christianity, A Modest Proposal, A True and Faithful Narrative, A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, Predictions for the Year 1708, and The…
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The Spice of Life, a new collection of essays hitherto unpublished in book form
- £50.00
- A collection of essays compiled in book form for the first time, nearly 30 years after Chesterton's death in 1936. Arranged in 5 groups of essays: I. Literature, II. Partiuclar Books & Writers, III. Thought & Belief, IV. At Home & Abroad, V. Spice of Life.
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The Sun Shines Bright
- £12.00
- Essays discuss the sun, stars, planets, the moon, elements, the cell, scientists, human nature, secret weapons, population growth, and altruism
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The Vagrant Mood, Six Essays
- £7.00
- The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary…
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The Works of Francis Thompson (3 volumes)
- £100.00
- This set of Thompson's works (2 vols of poetry, 1 vol of prose) was edited by Wilfrid Meynell, a British newspaper publisher and editor. Francis Thompson was an English poet and mystic. He lived on the streets of London for years supporting himself with menial labour in order to pursue…
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The Works of Jonathan Swift D.D., Dean of St Patrick’s Dublin
- £150.00
- The Works Of The Rev. Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean Of St. Patrick's Dublin. Carefully Selected With a Life of the Author and original and Authentic Notes.
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Tour de France
- £15.00
- An anthology of essays by the renowned Oxford professor of history, about the France that was his lifelong passion.
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Tribute to Benjamin Britten on his Fiftieth Birthday
- £75.00
- As a ttribute, a group of Britten's friends were invited to contribute to a symposium of articles about matters of mutual interest, ranging from the Suffolk countryside, to Mozart's Cosi and a chapter from an unfinished novel by E. M. Forster. Contributors include: William Plomer, Imogen Holst, the Earl of…
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Untold Stories
- £12.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Untold Stories
- £15.00
- Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional…
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Up in the Old Hotel: Reportage from “the New Yorker”
- £16.00
- The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwan. Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink…
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Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- £9.00
- Collection of essays, introduced by the author's letter to William Ernest Henley; on Girls and Boys (tr. of title), English Admirals, potraits by Raeburn etc. Orig pub in 1881
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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What Am I Doing Here
- £35.00
- In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and…
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What the Dog Saw and other adventures
- £15.00
- In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. 'Masterpieces in the art of the…
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Who Was Jesus?: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue
- £22.00
- Who Was Jesus? is a collection of articles revolving around the dialogue between Jewish New Testament scholar Peter Zaas and Christian apologist William Craig, with a focus on the differing Jewish and Christian assessments of Jesus of Nazareth, and the question of Jewish-Christian relations. Their points of agreement and disagreement,…
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World Brain
- £180.00
- World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936Ð1938.[1] Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that…
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Writing Home
- £9.00
- Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years…
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