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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)
- £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
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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.
- £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
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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
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- 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
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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
- £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)
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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)
- £30.00
- 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
- £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
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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)
- £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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-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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
- Add to basket
-
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
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Ballads and Poems
- £30.00
- Masefield's third collection of poems to be published, including some of his Salt-Water ballads like Sea Fever
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Canterbury Tales
- £10.00
- Everyman's Library #307; Chaucer's wonderful verse tells of a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.
- Add to basket
-
Caravan I: A Stoic
- £15.00
- No 16 in Grove series. First published in 1918.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Eighteenth Century Vignettes (vol I & II)
- £25.00
- The first two series of Dobson's very popular vignettes (from 1894).
- Add to basket
-
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)
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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'.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
Framley Parsonage
- £25.00
- Everyman's Library #181
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
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