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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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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'.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
The Essays of Elia
- £25.00
- Part of the Temple Classics series (ed. Israel Gollancz), originally published the previous year in 1897.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket