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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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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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea 1819-1822
- £25.00
- The Everyman Library edition of Franklin's classic account of the voyage to explore the Polar Seas (he would die in 1845 on the fated journey to find the North West passage). Introduction by Scott of the Antarctic
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.…
- Add to basket
-
Peter Simple
- £9.00
- In this seminal story of naval life during the Napoleonic War, Frederick Murrayat's young hero embarks upon a life at sea and finds it be a rough school indeed. Simple's trials and triumphs, alongside his faithful mentor, Terence O'Brien, Mirror Marryat's personal experience, from the hand-to-hand combat of cutting-out missions…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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).
- Add to basket
-
Poems by Mr Gray
- £75.00
- A New Edition' of Gray's poetry published just 7 years after his death in 1771.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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'.
- Add to basket
-
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".
- Add to basket
-
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
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
Robinson Crusoe
- £9.00
- New unabridged edition in Everyman's Library of the Defoe Classic (#59). Combination of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner; The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
- Add to basket
-
Romance
- £6.00
- A great story of the Spanish Main first published in 1903
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
