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Canterbury Tales
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #307; Chaucer's wonderful verse tells of a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.
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Framley Parsonage
- £25.00
- Everyman's Library #181
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Jacob Faithful
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #618. A rags to riches story of Jacob Faithful born in dire poverty, from the great Royal Navy captain turned writer Frederick Marryat (famed for his beloved Children of the New Forest).
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
- £20.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Speke's classic account of the expedition to discovery the source of the Nile in Uganda.
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Letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709-1762
- £12.00
- Lady Wortley Montagu travelled through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and…
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 1819-1822
- £25.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Franklin's classic account of the voyage to explore the Polar Seas (he would die in 1845 on the fated journey to find the North West passage). Introduction by Scott of the Antarctic
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Peter Simple
- £9.00
- In this seminal story of naval life during the Napoleonic War, Frederick Murrayat's young hero embarks upon a life at sea and finds it be a rough school indeed. Simple's trials and triumphs, alongside his faithful mentor, Terence O'Brien, Mirror Marryat's personal experience, from the hand-to-hand combat of cutting-out missions…
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Robinson Crusoe
- £9.00
- New unabridged edition in Everyman's Library of the Defoe Classic (#59). Combination of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner; The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
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The Cloister and the Hearth
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #29. The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. The Cloister and the Hearth often…
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The Diary of Fanny Burney – a selection
- £13.00
- Everyman's Library #890. Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters' starting the diary at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and…
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The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the famous Captain Singleton
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #74. Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote a new fiction, the story of an English pirate whose success eclipsed every buccaneer the Atlantic world had seen. Featuring a haunted, unreliable narrator, a daring trek across the continent of Africa, and mercantile adventures in the China…
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The Nicomachaean Ethics
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #547 What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all…
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The Pathfinder
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #78 Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest…
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Troilus and Criseyde
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #992: Chaucer's longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover,…
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Canterbury Tales
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #307; Chaucer's wonderful verse tells of a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.
- Add to basket
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Framley Parsonage
- £25.00
- Everyman's Library #181
- Add to basket
-
Jacob Faithful
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #618. A rags to riches story of Jacob Faithful born in dire poverty, from the great Royal Navy captain turned writer Frederick Marryat (famed for his beloved Children of the New Forest).
- Add to basket
-
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
- £20.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Speke's classic account of the expedition to discovery the source of the Nile in Uganda.
- Add to basket
-
Letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709-1762
- £12.00
- Lady Wortley Montagu travelled through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and…
- Add to basket
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 1819-1822
- £25.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Franklin's classic account of the voyage to explore the Polar Seas (he would die in 1845 on the fated journey to find the North West passage). Introduction by Scott of the Antarctic
- Add to basket
-
Peter Simple
- £9.00
- In this seminal story of naval life during the Napoleonic War, Frederick Murrayat's young hero embarks upon a life at sea and finds it be a rough school indeed. Simple's trials and triumphs, alongside his faithful mentor, Terence O'Brien, Mirror Marryat's personal experience, from the hand-to-hand combat of cutting-out missions…
- Add to basket
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Robinson Crusoe
- £9.00
- New unabridged edition in Everyman's Library of the Defoe Classic (#59). Combination of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner; The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
- Add to basket
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The Cloister and the Hearth
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #29. The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. The Cloister and the Hearth often…
- Add to basket
-
The Diary of Fanny Burney – a selection
- £13.00
- Everyman's Library #890. Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters' starting the diary at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and…
- Add to basket
-
The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the famous Captain Singleton
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #74. Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote a new fiction, the story of an English pirate whose success eclipsed every buccaneer the Atlantic world had seen. Featuring a haunted, unreliable narrator, a daring trek across the continent of Africa, and mercantile adventures in the China…
- Add to basket
-
The Nicomachaean Ethics
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #547 What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all…
- Add to basket
-
The Pathfinder
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #78 Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest…
- Add to basket
-
Troilus and Criseyde
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #992: Chaucer's longest complete poem is the supreme evocation of doomed courtly love in medieval English literature. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, the poem relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover,…
- Add to basket
