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A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
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- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
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A List Of Plays For Young Players And Others
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- Endorsed by 'the Junior Drama Committee of the British Drama League', this small book lists plays thought suitable for children to perform - each provides characters, scenes, brief synopsis, performance difficulty etc.
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A Modern Comedy (I-III)
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- The sequel to the Forsyte Saga , with 3 novels and 2 'interludes' made up A Modern Comedy: 19: The White Monkey, A Silent Wooing (1924, 1927); 20: The Silver Spoon, Passersby (1926, 1927); 21: Swan Song (1928) in the Grove complete Galsworthy series
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A Short and Plain Instruction for a Better Understanding on the Lord’s Supper
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- Full title: History Of The Book Of Common Prayer And Other Books Of Authority; With An Attempt To Ascertain How The Rubrics And Canons Have Been Understood And Observed From The Accession of George III. ALSO An Account of the state of religion and religio
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A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
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- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
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- 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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Actions and Reactions
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
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An Inland Voyage
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- An Inland Voyage (1878) is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. It is Stevenson's earliest book and a pioneering work of outdoor literature.
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An Outcast of the Islands
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- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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Ballads and Poems
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- Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever
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Beauchamp’s Career
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- Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character Rene de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it "One…
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
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- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Canterbury Tales
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- 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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Caravan I: A Stoic
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- No 16 in Grove series. First published in 1918.
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Caravan III: The First and the Last
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- No 18 in Grove series. This collection of short stories were first publishied between 1910 and 1923.
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Christian Prayers and Holy Meditations
- £40.00
- Collected by Henry Bull in 1566, these Anglican prayers and meditations were reprinted for the Parker Society in 1842.
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Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
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- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
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Cranford, Cage at Cranford, Moorland Cottage
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- The World's Classics No.110; 'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by…
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Debits and Credits
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
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Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
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- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
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Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
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Doctor Thorne
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- Trollope's classic, #298 in OUP's World's Classics series. The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage. But Frank loves the doctor's niece, Mary Thorne, a girl with no money and mysterious parentage. He faces a terrible…
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Eighteenth Century Vignettes (vol I & II)
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- The first two series of Dobson's very popular vignettes (from 1894).
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End of the Chapter (I-III)
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- Final Forsyte trilogy: Maid in Waiting (24: 1931), Flowering Wilderness (25: 1932), Over the River (26: 1933)
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Eothen
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- Subtitled "Traces of travel brought home from the East", it took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near…
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Father Damien: An Open Letter to th Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu
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- Stevenson's famous open letter from 1890 rebutting the claims of Presbyterian minister Charles Hyde that Father Damien (a catholic missionary to Hawaii) was a 'coarse, dirty man' who had contracted leprosy due to 'carelessness'.
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Feats on the Fjord
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- A charming tale of life in the Norwegian fjords, as seen through the eyes of Erica, who believes in sprites and demons. Originally included in a story collection called "Playfellows." Arthur Rackham is perhaps the most well known of the artists in the era dubbed the "Golden Age" of illustration…
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Flaxen Braids: a chapter from a real Swedish life
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- One of the first Puffin books that Penguin published for children, from 1941 with Worzel Gummidge. This was the 20th. Cover illustration by Grace W. Gabler, rest by Dorotjy Bayley.
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Framley Parsonage
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- Everyman's Library #181
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From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
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G. F. Watts (from The Popular Library of Art)
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- Chesterton's appreciation of the work of the symbolist painter and sculptor, G. F. Watts opens: "George Frederick Watts was born on 23rd February 1817, and is still alive." He was not to know that 1904, the year of the book's publication would also be that of Watts' death. Insightful and…
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Great Morning: Being The Third Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand! (St Martin’s Library)
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- The third volume of the author's 4-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume covers the period between 1911 and the First World War, beginning with the author at 18.
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Great Odes, English and American
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- Great Odes, English and American, selected, edited and with an introductory note by William Sharp. Includes Spenser, Byron, Wordsworth, Gray, Shelley, Keats, Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell etc
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Hesperides: Poems by Robert Herrick
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- In the Canterbury poets series: Poems by Robert Herrick. Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye…
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Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
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- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
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House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries (SIGNED)
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- A year in and out of lockdown as experienced by Alan Bennett. The diary takes us from the filming of Talking Heads to thoughts on Boris Johnson, from his father's short-lived craze for family fishing trips, to stair lifts, junk shops of old, having a haircut, and encounters on the…
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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
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- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
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In the Battle Silences: Poems written at the Front
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- Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (1861-1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
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- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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Ivanhoe
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- A pocket edition of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel, the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his…
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Jack Hinton, The Guardsman
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- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, his 3rd novel, was first published in 1843.
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Jacob Faithful
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- 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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John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
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- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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- 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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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Burns (Vol. I & II)
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- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Burns includes: - Vol I: Tam o' Shanter, Farewell to Ayrshire, On the death of a favourite child, etc - Vol II: A Winter Night, There was a Bonnie Lass, A red…
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Byron (Vol. I & II)
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- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Byron includes: - Vol I: Childe Harold, The Corsair, The Bride of Abydos, Lara - Vol II: Giaour, The Siege of Corinth, Hebrew Melodies; Miscellaneous
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Longfellow (Vol. I & II)
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- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Longfellow includes: - Vol I: Poems on Slavery, The Seaside and Fireside, Birds of Passage, Misc. - Vol II: Hiawatha, Keramos, Later Poems, Translations
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Milton (Vol. I & II)
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- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Milton includes: - Vol I: Paradise Lost - Vol II: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Psalms, Misc poems and translations, Latin poems
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
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- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
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Kim
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his own country. When the Lama recruits Kim as a…
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Lady Anna
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- When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' (Saturday Review)…
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Last Poems (Housman)
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- Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers,…
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Letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709-1762
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- 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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Limits and Renewals
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Lord Jim
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- Everyman's Library (#925). First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also…
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Lord Ormont and His Aminta, a Novel
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- Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894) depicts a woman breaking free from a humiliating marriage and re-establishing her self-worth through a new relationship. It contains a sketch of a school that resembles the one he attended in Neuwied.
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Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor
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- The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water and East Lyn Valley region of Exmoor in North Devon and Somerset, England. John (in West Country dialect, pronounced "Jan") Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the…
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Louise de la Vallière
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- The second volume in the trilogy which begins with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and concludes with The Man in the Iron Mask. It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turmoil. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess d'Orleans?…
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Many Inventions
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- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
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Mature Reflections and Devotions of the Rev. Rowland Hill in his old age
- £100.00
- Rowland Hill (1744-1833) was a celebrated evangelical non-conformist preacher, who built Surrey Chapel in London, with an inheritance from his welathy father. He was an associate of the Countess of Huntingdon, but Surrey Chapel was not part of the Connexion. Sidney had published his biography of Hill in 1834 with…
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Milton’s Earlier Poems
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- Cassell's National Library #34, includes William Cowper's translations of Milton's Latin and Italian poems. Includes Psalms paraphrased, Elegy for Lancelot Andrews, Ode on Nativity etc.
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Moll Flanders
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- Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent' So the title page of this extraordinary novel describes the career of the woman known…
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Multitude and Solitude
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- Sometimes an actor hesitated for his lines, forgot a few words, or improvised others. He drew in his breath sharply, whenever this happened, it was like a false note in music, but he knew that he was the only person there who felt the discord. He found himself admiring the…
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My Lady Ludlow and other tales
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- Vol V (in Knutsford edition) of Complete works of 'Mrs Gaskell'. The short stories in this collection first appeared in 1851-9 and all reflect Mrs Gaskell's response to the confusion and distress caused by intolerance and lack of understanding. With the exception of "Mr Harrison's Confessions", the stories first appeared…
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 1819-1822
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- 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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New Arabian Nights
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- The first volume of Macmillan's Tusitala complete edition of Stevenson's works. First published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his…
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On Forsyte ‘Change
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- No. 22 in Grove series. First published in 1930, deals in the main with the older Forsytes before the events chronicled in The Man of Property. Galsworthy states in a foreword that "They have all been written since Swan Song was finished but in place they come between the Saga…
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Paradise Lost
- £100.00
- Milton's great epic poem first published in 1667 with 10 books, then in 1674 with 12. The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, as stated…
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Person of Christ
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- Andrew Bonar writes with a single-minded zeal and devotion to Christ. Bonar is lost in his rapturous love for Christ. As you read you will be irresistibly drawn to experience the exquisitely sensitive and ardent love that Bonar had for Christ, so much that he reflected Christ throughout his life.…
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Peter Simple
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- 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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Phèdre
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- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
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Plain Tales from the Hills
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: This was Kipling's first published volume of fiction. The stories with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story.
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Poems by Jean Ingelow
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- Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) was a poet and novelist who also wrote short stories for children; her verse impressed Tennyson who became a friend. This edition was made by Andrew Lang (known primarily now for his colour Fairy Books).
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Poems by Mr Gray
- £75.00
- A New Edition' of Gray's poetry published just 7 years after his death in 1771.
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Poems with a Memoir (Clough)
- £60.00
- Having died aged only 42 in 1861 (buried in the English Cemetery in Florence), Clough had a small but important literary output. He had spent 6 years as Florence Nightingale's devoted assistant; his poetry has been quoted often (e.g. Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth), and John Fowles quotes several…
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Poetical Works of Ben Jonson
- £17.00
- Contemporary and probable rival of Shakespeare, Jonson was a towering literary figure, and his influence was enormous for he has been described as 'One of the most vigorous minds that ever added to the strength of English literature'.
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Poetiske Skrifter (vol 1&2)
- £80.00
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) was a Danish poet, literary critic, playwright and historian. These are the first two volumes of several anthologies of his own works of "Poetic Writing".
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Practical Discourses upon the Divinity and Wonderful Works of Jesus Christ
- £40.00
- Companion to the 1st volume of Reeve's work, Practical Discourses on the Perfections and Wonderful Works of God
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Prayers and Graces: A little book of extraordinary piety
- £10.00
- A charming and useful (in most cases) pocket sized collection of forty-two short prayers and graces. Text on RHS, illustration on LHS. For example, "A Benison on Wartime High Tea". "Upon this scanty meal, O Lord, Bestow a blessing in accord: Pour Thy grace in measure small, Lest it more…
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Puck of Pook’s Hill
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Playing in the gardens of their home, Dan and Una come across Puck, an ancient fairy with a gift for storytelling. Plucking figures from history to weave his magical stories, Puck takes the children from the Norman conquest to the signing of the Magna Carta. Set in…
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Robinson Crusoe
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- 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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Romance
- £6.00
- A great story of the Spanish Main first published in 1903
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Scholar-Gipsies
- £35.00
- Scholar Gypsies" is the first non-fiction work by John Buchan published in 1896. This is a collection of various essays that Buchan considers, like the beauty of nature, the essence of human talent, the wandering spirit of scholars, and others. The essays included in the collection are: "Scholar-Gipsies," "April in…
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Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
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- ÒSelected Poems of Francis ThompsonÓ is a fantastic collection of some of Francis Thompson's best poetry, together with an introductory chapter by editor Paul Beard. Contents include: ÒPoems on ChildrenÓ, ÒFrom Sister SongsÓ, ÒLove in Dian's LapÓ, and ÒMiscellaneous PoemsÓ. Francis Thompson (1859Ð1907) was an English mystic and poet. Thompson…
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Sesame and Lillies, Three Lectures
- £25.00
- John Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", first published in 1865, is regarded as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. There were many reprintings within Ruskin's lifetime. Contents: Preface; Lecture I: Of King's Treasures; Lecture II: Of Queen's Gardens; Lecture III: The Mystery of Life…
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Shirley
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- Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) is perhaps the most admired of the Bronte sisters. Jane Eyre is her greatest and most loved novel. The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male…
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Smut: Stories
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- One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient…
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St Thomas Aquinas
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- For Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas is a man of mystery, who though born into a noble Neapolitan family chose the life of a mendicant friar. Shy and lumbering, his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox". However he was to lead a revolution in Christian thought. Chesterton's portrayal will engage, enlighten and…
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St. Ives, being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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- An unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British.
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Stalky & Co
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 (following serialisation in the Windsor…
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Stevenson’s Poems (including Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel)
- £9.00
- The author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is known all over the world as a master storyteller, yet his achievements as a poet have been strangely neglected. This book reveals how much we have been missing. Fascinated by a wide variety of verse techniques, Robert Louis…
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Strong Meat
- £18.00
- Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 Ð 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteriesthat feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that…
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Tales from Shakespeare
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays for children.
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Tales of a Wayside Inn
- £40.00
- In his lifetime Longfellow was recognized as one of the America's great poets, though he became temporarily less fashionable after his death. A great admirer of the European tradition, he contributed greatly to the American intellectual life against the contemporary grain of isolationalism.
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Tales of Unrest, and Typhoon
- £25.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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The Alchemist (Anniversary Pocket Edition)
- £15.00
- A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers…
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The Arrow Of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes (Benn’s Essex Library)
- £9.00
- Published in 1919 and originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920. Set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features…
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The Bird-Cage (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Andrew Young (1885-1971) was a Scottish poet and Presbyterian then Anglican clergyman. This is his 7th volume of poems to be published. Sometimes associated with the Georgian poets who were his contemporaries.
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The Book of Snobs Etc Etc
- £20.00
- The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as "The Snobs of England,…
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The Christian’s Great Interest
- £10.00
- All of GuthrieÕs teaching and pastoral experience were poured into this work Ð his only book. The remarkable fact that is has gone through more than eighty editions and been translated into several languages testifies to its value. This book describes in a clear and attractive style what it means…
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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 Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed
- £10.00
- Small, pocket edition (135cm x 105cm) of Sheridan's masterpiece. It was first staged at Drury Lane Theatre in 1779, and is a burlesque on stage acting and play production conventions, and Sheridan considered the first act to be his finest piece of writing. One of its major roles, Sir Fretful…
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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 Duchess of Padua
- £50.00
- Written in 1882-83 and first produced in 1891. The first edition consisted of twenty prompt copies.
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The Early Lives of Dante (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio. Along with the other sources included in this volume, they provide a wealth of insight and information into Dante's unique character and life, from his susceptibility to the torments of passionate love, his…
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The Ebb-tide
- £15.00
- The Ebb-Tide, a short novel published the year of Stevenson's death, is a rollicking seafaring adventure, narrating the voyage of a stolen ship whilst exploring such themes as imperialism, violence, dishonesty, Christianity and corruption.
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The Englishman in Greece (an anthology)
- £20.00
- 1st edition of this Oxford anthology of English poets writing in and about Greece, reflecting the British obsession with the Classical world over many generations.
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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 Evidence and Authority of the Christian Revelation
- £100.00
- Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) was a Scottish minister, considered to be the greatest Scottish churchman of his age. He wrote on many different areas of theology, politics and economics.
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The Fair Maid of Perth
- £20.00
- Scott's 1828 novel, one of the Waverley novels was inspired by the bizarre, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch. It is set in Perth (known at the time as Saint John's Toun, i.e. John's Town) and other parts of Scotland around 1400.
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The Five Nations
- £10.00
- The Five Nations is a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in late 1903, both in UK & USA. Some of the poems were new; some had been published before (notably "Recessional", of 1897), sometimes in different versions. (format identical to…
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The Forsyte Saga (I): The Man of Property
- £15.00
- The Forsyte Saga won Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. The original sequence was: 12. The Man of Property (1906); 13Indian Summer of a Forsyte, In Chancery (1918, 1920), Awakening, To Let (1920, 1921)
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The Irish Sketch Book
- £25.00
- Primarily a travel diary, the author had a keen eye for humour and a turn of phrase that will attract many. Travelling from Dublin through Kildare, Wicklow, Cork, Galway, Killarney and many more locations, and back once more to Dublin, this book paints a portrait of Ireland, in the 1840's…
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The King of the Golden River – a legend of Stiria
- £6.00
- First published in 1851, John Ruskin’s Victorian story tells the tale of the Black brothers: the kind-natured 11-year old Gluck and his two nasty older brothers, Hans and Schwartz. For Gluck, play is cleaning the floors, and his education consists of a wholesome quantity of punches. One stormy evening, Gluck…
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The Last Chronicle Of Barset (The World’s Classics)
- £12.00
- All Hogglestock believed their parson to be innocent; but then all Hogglestock believed him to be mad.' Josiah Crawley lives with his family in the parish of Hogglestock, East Barsetshire, where he is perpetual curate. Impoverished like his parishioners, Crawley is hard-working and respected but he is an unhappy, disappointed…
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson I: 1868-1880 (Scotland, France, California)
- £12.00
- First of the 4-volume edition edited by Sidney Colvin (containing 150 new letters previously unavailable).
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The life and death of the Mayor of Casterbridge
- £10.00
- The Scholar's Library edition of Hardy's masterpiece. 'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only…
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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 Light That Failed
- £9.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited…
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The Longest Journey
- £15.00
- Forster's 2nd novel, published in 1907 two years after Where Angels Fear to Tread. Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not…
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The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
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The Moon Endureth: tales and fancies
- £12.00
- A collection of short stories and poetry by John Buchan (1875-1940) was a British novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. The collection includes the following short stories and poems. The stories Streams of Water in the South and The…
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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 Other Six Deadly Sins
- £25.00
- An Address Given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, 1941
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The Patch And Other Poems
- £12.00
- Anthology of religious verse
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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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The Poems of Robert Burns (vol II)
- £9.00
- From Bell & Daldy's Pocket series - Burns Poems in 3 Vols (of which this is Vol II).
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The Poems of Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- World's Classics series XVI: Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (with a memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes)
- £35.00
- A new edition after the original in 1854, with the memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes
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The Problem of Evil
- £50.00
- Reconciling belief in a good and all-powerful God with the obvious presence of suffering and evil in the world is one of the classic problems for Christian (and indeed Jewish) philosophy and theology. The Book of Job famously examines this problem from various angles, and rejects several inadequate explanations. Numerous…
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The Rescue: A romance of the shallows
- £6.00
- Part of what is sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad’s experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer’s Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in…
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The Ring and the Book
- £10.00
- The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem, and, more specifically, a verse novel, of 21,000 lines, written by Robert Browning. It was published in four volumes from 1868 to 1869 by Smith, Elder & Co. The book tells the story of a murder trial in Rome…
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- £12.00
- Beautifully illustrated version of famous translation by Fitzgerald (1809-1883). Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Gilbert James.
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The Sire de Malétroit’s Door
- £15.00
- A short story published for the 1st time in this edition - Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Malétroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Malétroit family honour. 145x102mm
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The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a Well-known Story
- £12.00
- A novel written in 1880 by George Meredith, at great speed, written soon after his critical turning point novel, The Egoist.
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The Vicar of Wakefield – A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself
- £20.00
- Sir Walter Scott introduces the novel by the famed Irish writer Oliver Goldsmiths, one of the most widely-read books in the Victorian era. Often described as a sentimental novel, it displays the belief in the innate goodness of human beings. But it can also be read as a satire on…
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The Vicar Of Wakefield: A tale (in 2 vols)
- £1,200.00
- The Vicar of Wakefield is a Victorian novel that is narrated by Dr. Charles Primrose, the fictional Vicar of Wakefield. Specifically, it follows the Primrose family, humble and moral in spite of its material wealth and indicative of Goldsmith's idealization of pastoral life, after they fall into poverty and subsequent…
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The Warden (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 1)
- £10.00
- In "The Warden", a crusading young physician seeks to expose corruption in the operation of an old age home by the facility's administrator, the respected Rev. Septimus Harding. Unfortunately, the young doctor fancy's Harding's daughter. Trollope's "Chronicles of Barsetshire" has been prized by readers for its entertaining exploration of the…
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The Waste Land and other poems
- £5.00
- Published in 1922, The Waste Land is a brilliant exploration of a faithless, immoral society trying to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Great War. Rich in literary references and steeped in allusive and evocative imagery, 'The Waste Land' is widely considered to be the pinnacle of modernist poetry.…
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The Works of William Shakespeare (vol XII)
- £20.00
- Contains the classical works: Pericles, Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets; plus A lover's complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets to sundry notes of music; Phoenix and the Turtle.
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The Wrecker
- £15.00
- The Wrecker (1892) is an ocean adventure novel written by Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. It is only…
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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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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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Vittoria
- £10.00
- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
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Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
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Why Work?
- £35.00
- Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective.Transcript of an Address Delivered at Eastbourne, April 23rd, 1942.
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Wild Flowers: Pastoral and Local Poetry
- £100.00
- Bloomfield was a labouring class poet who was self-taught like Mary Collier and John Clare. Includes a lovely extended dedication to his son Charles. Unfortuantely, 6 years later, his publisher of Vernor & Hood went bust, causing Bloomfield significant hardship.
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William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
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Youth And Gaspar Ruiz
- £10.00
- Youth was not my first contribution to " Maga " * It was the second. But that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, with whom my relations have grown very intimate in the course of years. The origins of that gentleman (nobody as far…
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Youth: A Narrative; Heart of Darkness; End of the Tether
- £25.00
- Combination of Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), The End of the Tether (1902)
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A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
- £25.00
- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
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A List Of Plays For Young Players And Others
- £15.00
- Endorsed by 'the Junior Drama Committee of the British Drama League', this small book lists plays thought suitable for children to perform - each provides characters, scenes, brief synopsis, performance difficulty etc.
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A Modern Comedy (I-III)
- £36.00
- The sequel to the Forsyte Saga , with 3 novels and 2 'interludes' made up A Modern Comedy: 19: The White Monkey, A Silent Wooing (1924, 1927); 20: The Silver Spoon, Passersby (1926, 1927); 21: Swan Song (1928) in the Grove complete Galsworthy series
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A Short and Plain Instruction for a Better Understanding on the Lord’s Supper
- £40.00
- Full title: History Of The Book Of Common Prayer And Other Books Of Authority; With An Attempt To Ascertain How The Rubrics And Canons Have Been Understood And Observed From The Accession of George III. ALSO An Account of the state of religion and religio
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A Week in London or How to View the Metropolis… in Seven Days.
- £50.00
- An historical and descriptive sketch of the City of London 'from the earliest period to the present time', with a tour mapped out over one week. Incl small map on verso ffep. (#18 in the 'New Library of Useful Knowledge' series). A fascinating snaphot of the city in the mid-nineteenth…
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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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Actions and Reactions
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
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An Inland Voyage
- £8.00
- An Inland Voyage (1878) is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. It is Stevenson's earliest book and a pioneering work of outdoor literature.
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An Outcast of the Islands
- £15.00
- Conrad's 2nd novel, published in 1896, inspired by experiences as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust…
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Ballads and Poems
- £30.00
- Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever
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Beauchamp’s Career
- £10.00
- Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself thought it his best novel, and the character Rene de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. The Penguin Companion to Literature calls it "One…
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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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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Caravan I: A Stoic
- £15.00
- No 16 in Grove series. First published in 1918.
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Caravan III: The First and the Last
- £10.00
- No 18 in Grove series. This collection of short stories were first publishied between 1910 and 1923.
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Christian Prayers and Holy Meditations
- £40.00
- Collected by Henry Bull in 1566, these Anglican prayers and meditations were reprinted for the Parker Society in 1842.
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Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
- £15.00
- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
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Cranford, Cage at Cranford, Moorland Cottage
- £10.00
- The World's Classics No.110; 'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by…
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Debits and Credits
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
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Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- £45.00
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
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Departmental Ditties and other verses (in 2 vols)
- £25.00
- Methuen 'Service Edition' of Kipling's works: Poetry with a military theme, particularly of the English Raj period of time late in Queen Victoria's reign.
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Doctor Thorne
- £10.00
- Trollope's classic, #298 in OUP's World's Classics series. The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage. But Frank loves the doctor's niece, Mary Thorne, a girl with no money and mysterious parentage. He faces a terrible…
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Eighteenth Century Vignettes (vol I & II)
- £25.00
- The first two series of Dobson's very popular vignettes (from 1894).
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End of the Chapter (I-III)
- £30.00
- Final Forsyte trilogy: Maid in Waiting (24: 1931), Flowering Wilderness (25: 1932), Over the River (26: 1933)
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Eothen
- £10.00
- Subtitled "Traces of travel brought home from the East", it took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near…
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Father Damien: An Open Letter to th Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu
- £20.00
- Stevenson's famous open letter from 1890 rebutting the claims of Presbyterian minister Charles Hyde that Father Damien (a catholic missionary to Hawaii) was a 'coarse, dirty man' who had contracted leprosy due to 'carelessness'.
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Feats on the Fjord
- £40.00
- A charming tale of life in the Norwegian fjords, as seen through the eyes of Erica, who believes in sprites and demons. Originally included in a story collection called "Playfellows." Arthur Rackham is perhaps the most well known of the artists in the era dubbed the "Golden Age" of illustration…
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Flaxen Braids: a chapter from a real Swedish life
- £8.00
- One of the first Puffin books that Penguin published for children, from 1941 with Worzel Gummidge. This was the 20th. Cover illustration by Grace W. Gabler, rest by Dorotjy Bayley.
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Framley Parsonage
- £25.00
- Everyman's Library #181
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From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
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G. F. Watts (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £25.00
- Chesterton's appreciation of the work of the symbolist painter and sculptor, G. F. Watts opens: "George Frederick Watts was born on 23rd February 1817, and is still alive." He was not to know that 1904, the year of the book's publication would also be that of Watts' death. Insightful and…
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Great Morning: Being The Third Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand! (St Martin’s Library)
- £25.00
- The third volume of the author's 4-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume covers the period between 1911 and the First World War, beginning with the author at 18.
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Great Odes, English and American
- £12.00
- Great Odes, English and American, selected, edited and with an introductory note by William Sharp. Includes Spenser, Byron, Wordsworth, Gray, Shelley, Keats, Longfellow, Emerson, Lowell etc
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Hesperides: Poems by Robert Herrick
- £20.00
- In the Canterbury poets series: Poems by Robert Herrick. Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye…
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Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, etc
- £16.00
- Full title: Hints on Girl Guide Tests: Tenderfoot, Second Class, First class, and Able Sea Guide. Official Girl Guides publication - 1st thus of revisred edition (1st in 1939).
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House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A year in and out of lockdown as experienced by Alan Bennett. The diary takes us from the filming of Talking Heads to thoughts on Boris Johnson, from his father's short-lived craze for family fishing trips, to stair lifts, junk shops of old, having a haircut, and encounters on the…
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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
- £16.00
- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
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In the Battle Silences: Poems written at the Front
- £35.00
- Frederick George Scott CMG DSO FRSC (1861-1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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Ivanhoe
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel, the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his…
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Jack Hinton, The Guardsman
- £12.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, his 3rd novel, was first published in 1843.
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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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John BetjemanÕs Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of BirkenheadÕs compilation
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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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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Burns (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Burns includes: - Vol I: Tam o' Shanter, Farewell to Ayrshire, On the death of a favourite child, etc - Vol II: A Winter Night, There was a Bonnie Lass, A red…
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Byron (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Byron includes: - Vol I: Childe Harold, The Corsair, The Bride of Abydos, Lara - Vol II: Giaour, The Siege of Corinth, Hebrew Melodies; Miscellaneous
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Longfellow (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Longfellow includes: - Vol I: Poems on Slavery, The Seaside and Fireside, Birds of Passage, Misc. - Vol II: Hiawatha, Keramos, Later Poems, Translations
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Milton (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Milton includes: - Vol I: Paradise Lost - Vol II: Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, Psalms, Misc poems and translations, Latin poems
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
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Kim
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his own country. When the Lama recruits Kim as a…
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Lady Anna
- £9.00
- When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' (Saturday Review)…
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Last Poems (Housman)
- £20.00
- Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers,…
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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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Limits and Renewals
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Lord Jim
- £15.00
- Everyman's Library (#925). First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also…
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Lord Ormont and His Aminta, a Novel
- £10.00
- Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894) depicts a woman breaking free from a humiliating marriage and re-establishing her self-worth through a new relationship. It contains a sketch of a school that resembles the one he attended in Neuwied.
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Lorna Doone: a romance of Exmoor
- £9.00
- The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water and East Lyn Valley region of Exmoor in North Devon and Somerset, England. John (in West Country dialect, pronounced "Jan") Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the…
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Louise de la Vallière
- £8.00
- The second volume in the trilogy which begins with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and concludes with The Man in the Iron Mask. It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turmoil. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess d'Orleans?…
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Many Inventions
- £15.00
- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
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Mature Reflections and Devotions of the Rev. Rowland Hill in his old age
- £100.00
- Rowland Hill (1744-1833) was a celebrated evangelical non-conformist preacher, who built Surrey Chapel in London, with an inheritance from his welathy father. He was an associate of the Countess of Huntingdon, but Surrey Chapel was not part of the Connexion. Sidney had published his biography of Hill in 1834 with…
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Milton’s Earlier Poems
- £14.00
- Cassell's National Library #34, includes William Cowper's translations of Milton's Latin and Italian poems. Includes Psalms paraphrased, Elegy for Lancelot Andrews, Ode on Nativity etc.
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Moll Flanders
- £8.00
- Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent' So the title page of this extraordinary novel describes the career of the woman known…
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Multitude and Solitude
- £15.00
- Sometimes an actor hesitated for his lines, forgot a few words, or improvised others. He drew in his breath sharply, whenever this happened, it was like a false note in music, but he knew that he was the only person there who felt the discord. He found himself admiring the…
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My Lady Ludlow and other tales
- £35.00
- Vol V (in Knutsford edition) of Complete works of 'Mrs Gaskell'. The short stories in this collection first appeared in 1851-9 and all reflect Mrs Gaskell's response to the confusion and distress caused by intolerance and lack of understanding. With the exception of "Mr Harrison's Confessions", the stories first appeared…
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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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New Arabian Nights
- £8.00
- The first volume of Macmillan's Tusitala complete edition of Stevenson's works. First published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his…
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On Forsyte ‘Change
- £15.00
- No. 22 in Grove series. First published in 1930, deals in the main with the older Forsytes before the events chronicled in The Man of Property. Galsworthy states in a foreword that "They have all been written since Swan Song was finished but in place they come between the Saga…
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Paradise Lost
- £100.00
- Milton's great epic poem first published in 1667 with 10 books, then in 1674 with 12. The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, as stated…
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Person of Christ
- £20.00
- Andrew Bonar writes with a single-minded zeal and devotion to Christ. Bonar is lost in his rapturous love for Christ. As you read you will be irresistibly drawn to experience the exquisitely sensitive and ardent love that Bonar had for Christ, so much that he reflected Christ throughout his life.…
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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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Phèdre
- £14.00
- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: This was Kipling's first published volume of fiction. The stories with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story.
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Poems by Jean Ingelow
- £15.00
- Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) was a poet and novelist who also wrote short stories for children; her verse impressed Tennyson who became a friend. This edition was made by Andrew Lang (known primarily now for his colour Fairy Books).
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Poems by Mr Gray
- £75.00
- A New Edition' of Gray's poetry published just 7 years after his death in 1771.
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Poems with a Memoir (Clough)
- £60.00
- Having died aged only 42 in 1861 (buried in the English Cemetery in Florence), Clough had a small but important literary output. He had spent 6 years as Florence Nightingale's devoted assistant; his poetry has been quoted often (e.g. Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth), and John Fowles quotes several…
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Poetical Works of Ben Jonson
- £17.00
- Contemporary and probable rival of Shakespeare, Jonson was a towering literary figure, and his influence was enormous for he has been described as 'One of the most vigorous minds that ever added to the strength of English literature'.
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Poetiske Skrifter (vol 1&2)
- £80.00
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) was a Danish poet, literary critic, playwright and historian. These are the first two volumes of several anthologies of his own works of "Poetic Writing".
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Practical Discourses upon the Divinity and Wonderful Works of Jesus Christ
- £40.00
- Companion to the 1st volume of Reeve's work, Practical Discourses on the Perfections and Wonderful Works of God
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Prayers and Graces: A little book of extraordinary piety
- £10.00
- A charming and useful (in most cases) pocket sized collection of forty-two short prayers and graces. Text on RHS, illustration on LHS. For example, "A Benison on Wartime High Tea". "Upon this scanty meal, O Lord, Bestow a blessing in accord: Pour Thy grace in measure small, Lest it more…
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Puck of Pook’s Hill
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Playing in the gardens of their home, Dan and Una come across Puck, an ancient fairy with a gift for storytelling. Plucking figures from history to weave his magical stories, Puck takes the children from the Norman conquest to the signing of the Magna Carta. Set in…
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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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Romance
- £6.00
- A great story of the Spanish Main first published in 1903
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Scholar-Gipsies
- £35.00
- Scholar Gypsies" is the first non-fiction work by John Buchan published in 1896. This is a collection of various essays that Buchan considers, like the beauty of nature, the essence of human talent, the wandering spirit of scholars, and others. The essays included in the collection are: "Scholar-Gipsies," "April in…
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Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
- £9.00
- ÒSelected Poems of Francis ThompsonÓ is a fantastic collection of some of Francis Thompson's best poetry, together with an introductory chapter by editor Paul Beard. Contents include: ÒPoems on ChildrenÓ, ÒFrom Sister SongsÓ, ÒLove in Dian's LapÓ, and ÒMiscellaneous PoemsÓ. Francis Thompson (1859Ð1907) was an English mystic and poet. Thompson…
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Sesame and Lillies, Three Lectures
- £25.00
- John Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", first published in 1865, is regarded as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. There were many reprintings within Ruskin's lifetime. Contents: Preface; Lecture I: Of King's Treasures; Lecture II: Of Queen's Gardens; Lecture III: The Mystery of Life…
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Shirley
- £8.00
- Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) is perhaps the most admired of the Bronte sisters. Jane Eyre is her greatest and most loved novel. The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male…
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Smut: Stories
- £7.00
- One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient…
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St Thomas Aquinas
- £15.00
- For Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas is a man of mystery, who though born into a noble Neapolitan family chose the life of a mendicant friar. Shy and lumbering, his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox". However he was to lead a revolution in Christian thought. Chesterton's portrayal will engage, enlighten and…
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St. Ives, being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
- £15.00
- An unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British.
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Stalky & Co
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 (following serialisation in the Windsor…
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Stevenson’s Poems (including Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel)
- £9.00
- The author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is known all over the world as a master storyteller, yet his achievements as a poet have been strangely neglected. This book reveals how much we have been missing. Fascinated by a wide variety of verse techniques, Robert Louis…
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Strong Meat
- £18.00
- Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 Ð 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteriesthat feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that…
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Tales from Shakespeare
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays for children.
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Tales of a Wayside Inn
- £40.00
- In his lifetime Longfellow was recognized as one of the America's great poets, though he became temporarily less fashionable after his death. A great admirer of the European tradition, he contributed greatly to the American intellectual life against the contemporary grain of isolationalism.
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Tales of Unrest, and Typhoon
- £25.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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The Alchemist (Anniversary Pocket Edition)
- £15.00
- A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers…
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The Arrow Of Gold. A Story Between Two Notes (Benn’s Essex Library)
- £9.00
- Published in 1919 and originally titled "The Laugh" and published serially in Lloyd's Magazine from December 1918 to February 1920. Set in Marseille in the 1870s during the Third Carlist War. The characters of the novel are supporters of the Spanish Pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Curiously, the novel features…
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The Bird-Cage (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Andrew Young (1885-1971) was a Scottish poet and Presbyterian then Anglican clergyman. This is his 7th volume of poems to be published. Sometimes associated with the Georgian poets who were his contemporaries.
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The Book of Snobs Etc Etc
- £20.00
- The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as "The Snobs of England,…
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The Christian’s Great Interest
- £10.00
- All of GuthrieÕs teaching and pastoral experience were poured into this work Ð his only book. The remarkable fact that is has gone through more than eighty editions and been translated into several languages testifies to its value. This book describes in a clear and attractive style what it means…
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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 Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed
- £10.00
- Small, pocket edition (135cm x 105cm) of Sheridan's masterpiece. It was first staged at Drury Lane Theatre in 1779, and is a burlesque on stage acting and play production conventions, and Sheridan considered the first act to be his finest piece of writing. One of its major roles, Sir Fretful…
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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 Duchess of Padua
- £50.00
- Written in 1882-83 and first produced in 1891. The first edition consisted of twenty prompt copies.
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The Early Lives of Dante (SIGNED)
- £250.00
- Brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio. Along with the other sources included in this volume, they provide a wealth of insight and information into Dante's unique character and life, from his susceptibility to the torments of passionate love, his…
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The Ebb-tide
- £15.00
- The Ebb-Tide, a short novel published the year of Stevenson's death, is a rollicking seafaring adventure, narrating the voyage of a stolen ship whilst exploring such themes as imperialism, violence, dishonesty, Christianity and corruption.
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The Englishman in Greece (an anthology)
- £20.00
- 1st edition of this Oxford anthology of English poets writing in and about Greece, reflecting the British obsession with the Classical world over many generations.
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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 Evidence and Authority of the Christian Revelation
- £100.00
- Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) was a Scottish minister, considered to be the greatest Scottish churchman of his age. He wrote on many different areas of theology, politics and economics.
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The Fair Maid of Perth
- £20.00
- Scott's 1828 novel, one of the Waverley novels was inspired by the bizarre, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch. It is set in Perth (known at the time as Saint John's Toun, i.e. John's Town) and other parts of Scotland around 1400.
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The Five Nations
- £10.00
- The Five Nations is a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in late 1903, both in UK & USA. Some of the poems were new; some had been published before (notably "Recessional", of 1897), sometimes in different versions. (format identical to…
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The Forsyte Saga (I): The Man of Property
- £15.00
- The Forsyte Saga won Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. The original sequence was: 12. The Man of Property (1906); 13Indian Summer of a Forsyte, In Chancery (1918, 1920), Awakening, To Let (1920, 1921)
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The Irish Sketch Book
- £25.00
- Primarily a travel diary, the author had a keen eye for humour and a turn of phrase that will attract many. Travelling from Dublin through Kildare, Wicklow, Cork, Galway, Killarney and many more locations, and back once more to Dublin, this book paints a portrait of Ireland, in the 1840's…
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The King of the Golden River – a legend of Stiria
- £6.00
- First published in 1851, John Ruskin’s Victorian story tells the tale of the Black brothers: the kind-natured 11-year old Gluck and his two nasty older brothers, Hans and Schwartz. For Gluck, play is cleaning the floors, and his education consists of a wholesome quantity of punches. One stormy evening, Gluck…
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The Last Chronicle Of Barset (The World’s Classics)
- £12.00
- All Hogglestock believed their parson to be innocent; but then all Hogglestock believed him to be mad.' Josiah Crawley lives with his family in the parish of Hogglestock, East Barsetshire, where he is perpetual curate. Impoverished like his parishioners, Crawley is hard-working and respected but he is an unhappy, disappointed…
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson I: 1868-1880 (Scotland, France, California)
- £12.00
- First of the 4-volume edition edited by Sidney Colvin (containing 150 new letters previously unavailable).
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The life and death of the Mayor of Casterbridge
- £10.00
- The Scholar's Library edition of Hardy's masterpiece. 'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only…
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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 Light That Failed
- £9.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited…
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The Longest Journey
- £15.00
- Forster's 2nd novel, published in 1907 two years after Where Angels Fear to Tread. Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not…
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The Marriage of Esther (a Torres Straits Sketch)
- £20.00
- Two men, a fight, and a series of calamitous circumstances. The bar of the Hotel of All Nations, Thursday Island. Time, 9.35, one hot evening towards the end of summer. The room contains about twenty men, in various stages of undress; an atmosphere like the furnace doors of Sheol; two…
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The Moon Endureth: tales and fancies
- £12.00
- A collection of short stories and poetry by John Buchan (1875-1940) was a British novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. The collection includes the following short stories and poems. The stories Streams of Water in the South and The…
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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 Other Six Deadly Sins
- £25.00
- An Address Given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, 1941
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The Patch And Other Poems
- £12.00
- Anthology of religious verse
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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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The Poems of Robert Burns (vol II)
- £9.00
- From Bell & Daldy's Pocket series - Burns Poems in 3 Vols (of which this is Vol II).
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The Poems of Robert Herrick
- £15.00
- World's Classics series XVI: Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (with a memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes)
- £35.00
- A new edition after the original in 1854, with the memoir by Richard Monckton Milnes
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The Problem of Evil
- £50.00
- Reconciling belief in a good and all-powerful God with the obvious presence of suffering and evil in the world is one of the classic problems for Christian (and indeed Jewish) philosophy and theology. The Book of Job famously examines this problem from various angles, and rejects several inadequate explanations. Numerous…
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The Rescue: A romance of the shallows
- £6.00
- Part of what is sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad’s experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer’s Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in…
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The Ring and the Book
- £10.00
- The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem, and, more specifically, a verse novel, of 21,000 lines, written by Robert Browning. It was published in four volumes from 1868 to 1869 by Smith, Elder & Co. The book tells the story of a murder trial in Rome…
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- £12.00
- Beautifully illustrated version of famous translation by Fitzgerald (1809-1883). Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Gilbert James.
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The Sire de Malétroit’s Door
- £15.00
- A short story published for the 1st time in this edition - Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Malétroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Malétroit family honour. 145x102mm
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The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a Well-known Story
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- A novel written in 1880 by George Meredith, at great speed, written soon after his critical turning point novel, The Egoist.
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The Vicar of Wakefield – A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself
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- Sir Walter Scott introduces the novel by the famed Irish writer Oliver Goldsmiths, one of the most widely-read books in the Victorian era. Often described as a sentimental novel, it displays the belief in the innate goodness of human beings. But it can also be read as a satire on…
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The Vicar Of Wakefield: A tale (in 2 vols)
- £1,200.00
- The Vicar of Wakefield is a Victorian novel that is narrated by Dr. Charles Primrose, the fictional Vicar of Wakefield. Specifically, it follows the Primrose family, humble and moral in spite of its material wealth and indicative of Goldsmith's idealization of pastoral life, after they fall into poverty and subsequent…
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The Warden (Barsetshire Chronicles vol. 1)
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- In "The Warden", a crusading young physician seeks to expose corruption in the operation of an old age home by the facility's administrator, the respected Rev. Septimus Harding. Unfortunately, the young doctor fancy's Harding's daughter. Trollope's "Chronicles of Barsetshire" has been prized by readers for its entertaining exploration of the…
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The Waste Land and other poems
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- Published in 1922, The Waste Land is a brilliant exploration of a faithless, immoral society trying to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Great War. Rich in literary references and steeped in allusive and evocative imagery, 'The Waste Land' is widely considered to be the pinnacle of modernist poetry.…
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The Works of William Shakespeare (vol XII)
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- Contains the classical works: Pericles, Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets; plus A lover's complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets to sundry notes of music; Phoenix and the Turtle.
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The Wrecker
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- The Wrecker (1892) is an ocean adventure novel written by Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. It is only…
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Troilus and Criseyde
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- 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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Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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- 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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Vittoria
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- Vittoria (1867) was a sequel of sorts to Meredith's 1864 comedy, Emilia in England, about English social climbers. However, this was not comic.
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Wessex Tales (Wessex Novels vol XIII) – with map of Wessex
- £18.00
- Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy…
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Why Work?
- £35.00
- Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective.Transcript of an Address Delivered at Eastbourne, April 23rd, 1942.
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Wild Flowers: Pastoral and Local Poetry
- £100.00
- Bloomfield was a labouring class poet who was self-taught like Mary Collier and John Clare. Includes a lovely extended dedication to his son Charles. Unfortuantely, 6 years later, his publisher of Vernor & Hood went bust, causing Bloomfield significant hardship.
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William Blake (from The Popular Library of Art)
- £120.00
- William Blake has long been regarded as something of an enigma, and his poetry, although much loved by young and old, seen as esoteric and mysterious. His 'natural supernaturalism', personal mythology and vision can leave readers dazzled by the intensity and passion of his verse. In this outstanding work, Chesterton…
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Youth And Gaspar Ruiz
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- Youth was not my first contribution to " Maga " * It was the second. But that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, with whom my relations have grown very intimate in the course of years. The origins of that gentleman (nobody as far…
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Youth: A Narrative; Heart of Darkness; End of the Tether
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- Combination of Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), The End of the Tether (1902)
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