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Pather Panchali: Song of the Road (Folio)
- £12.00
- In the idyllic village of the Abode of Contentment, Durga and her little brother, Opu, grow up in a world of woods, orchards and adventure. Nurtured on their aunt's songs and stories, they dream of secret magical lands, forbidden gardens and the distant railroad. The grown-up world of debts, resentment…
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Rebecca (Folio)
- £25.00
- On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim,…
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Rob Roy (Folio)
- £20.00
- For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the…
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Rumpole (Folio)
- £25.00
- Mortimer selects and introduces this Folio Society edition of an anthology of Rumpole of the Bailey 10 short stories.
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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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The Brownings, a biography compiled from contemporary sources (Folio Society)
- £10.00
- A biography of the Brownings - Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , with four black and white illustrations of the poets.
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The Canterbury Tales (2 Vols)
- £50.00
- The Folio double-volume edition of the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Edna Whyte's woodcuts
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The Civilisation Of The Renaissance In Italy: An Essay (Folio)
- £24.00
- Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Basel, May 25, 1818 Ð August 8, 1897 in Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history,albeit in a form very different from how…
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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
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The Complete Novels of the Brontë Sisters (7 volumes)
- £150.00
- The Brontë sisters' complete works in a beautiful Folio edition; Agnes Grey 172 pp (illus. Harry Brockway); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 385 pp (illus. Ian Stephens), Wuthering Heights, 293 pp (illus. Peter Forster) The Professor 226 pp (illus. George Tute), Villette, 450 pp (illus. Peter Reddick); Jane Eyre, 436…
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The Creevey Papers
- £15.00
- A selection from the correspondence & diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M. P. (1768-1838)
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The Diary of a Country Parson
- £12.00
- Parson Woodforde's diary provides an unrivalled portrayal of traditional rural life in Georgian England, but it is the diarist's humour and unpretentiousness which ensure its continuing place among the classics of English literature.
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The Folio Golden Treasury: The best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language
- £30.00
- The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in English Language chosen and introduced by James Michie. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by various artists selected by Simon Brett. Arranged by poet's date of birth (from Thomas Wyatt to Thom Gunn, including Betjeman, Joyce, GKChesterton, John Masefield, TSEliot et al.
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The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
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The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54 (Folio)
- £12.00
- The love letters written by Dorothy Osborne to William Temple (from the last two years of a seven year courtship which ended with their marriage in 1654) stand with the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn as fascinating personal documents of one of the most eventful periods in British history.
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Pather Panchali: Song of the Road (Folio)
- £12.00
- In the idyllic village of the Abode of Contentment, Durga and her little brother, Opu, grow up in a world of woods, orchards and adventure. Nurtured on their aunt's songs and stories, they dream of secret magical lands, forbidden gardens and the distant railroad. The grown-up world of debts, resentment…
- Add to basket
-
Rebecca (Folio)
- £25.00
- On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim,…
- Add to basket
-
Rob Roy (Folio)
- £20.00
- For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the…
- Add to basket
-
Rumpole (Folio)
- £25.00
- Mortimer selects and introduces this Folio Society edition of an anthology of Rumpole of the Bailey 10 short stories.
- 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
-
The Brownings, a biography compiled from contemporary sources (Folio Society)
- £10.00
- A biography of the Brownings - Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , with four black and white illustrations of the poets.
- Add to basket
-
The Canterbury Tales (2 Vols)
- £50.00
- The Folio double-volume edition of the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Edna Whyte's woodcuts
- Add to basket
-
The Civilisation Of The Renaissance In Italy: An Essay (Folio)
- £24.00
- Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Basel, May 25, 1818 Ð August 8, 1897 in Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history,albeit in a form very different from how…
- Add to basket
-
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (3 vols.)
- £55.00
- A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The first, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is picked up immediately in 1916 with…
- Add to basket
-
The Complete Novels of the Brontë Sisters (7 volumes)
- £150.00
- The Brontë sisters' complete works in a beautiful Folio edition; Agnes Grey 172 pp (illus. Harry Brockway); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 385 pp (illus. Ian Stephens), Wuthering Heights, 293 pp (illus. Peter Forster) The Professor 226 pp (illus. George Tute), Villette, 450 pp (illus. Peter Reddick); Jane Eyre, 436…
- Add to basket
-
The Creevey Papers
- £15.00
- A selection from the correspondence & diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M. P. (1768-1838)
- Add to basket
-
The Diary of a Country Parson
- £12.00
- Parson Woodforde's diary provides an unrivalled portrayal of traditional rural life in Georgian England, but it is the diarist's humour and unpretentiousness which ensure its continuing place among the classics of English literature.
- Add to basket
-
The Folio Golden Treasury: The best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language
- £30.00
- The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in English Language chosen and introduced by James Michie. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by various artists selected by Simon Brett. Arranged by poet's date of birth (from Thomas Wyatt to Thom Gunn, including Betjeman, Joyce, GKChesterton, John Masefield, TSEliot et al.
- Add to basket
-
The Grand Tour 1592-1796
- £15.00
- Generously illustrated Folio Society volume presenting an account of the Grand Tour - the 'edifying' excursion many young Englishmen took to continental europe - through the writings of a selection of authors. Many of the writers assembled here do not strictly fall within the strict definition of Grand Tourists being…
- Add to basket
-
The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54 (Folio)
- £12.00
- The love letters written by Dorothy Osborne to William Temple (from the last two years of a seven year courtship which ended with their marriage in 1654) stand with the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn as fascinating personal documents of one of the most eventful periods in British history.
- Add to basket