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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
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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
- £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
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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)
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- 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)
- £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
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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
- £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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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…
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