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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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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
The Other Six Deadly Sins
- £25.00
- An Address Given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October 23rd, 1941
- Add to basket
-
The Patch And Other Poems
- £12.00
- Anthology of religious verse
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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).
- Add to basket
-
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".
- Add to basket
-
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
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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,…
- Add to basket
-
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
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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)
- Add to basket
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