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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
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- 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 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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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
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