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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 Tolkien Treasury (gift set)
- £50.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of TolkienÕs most popular and charming tales; full of wit and humour, giants, dragons, magic and more, they are collected together for the first time and will delight readers of all ages. Farmer Giles did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and…
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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 Word and the Work
- £15.00
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC (1883Ð1929) was an English Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed "Woodbine Willie" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes to the soldiers he met, as well as spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers. This post-war volume is dedicated to the unemployed men…
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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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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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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
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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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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 Tolkien Treasury (gift set)
- £50.00
- Deluxe boxed gift set of TolkienÕs most popular and charming tales; full of wit and humour, giants, dragons, magic and more, they are collected together for the first time and will delight readers of all ages. Farmer Giles did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and…
- 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 Word and the Work
- £15.00
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC (1883Ð1929) was an English Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed "Woodbine Willie" during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes to the soldiers he met, as well as spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers. This post-war volume is dedicated to the unemployed men…
- 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
-
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
-
Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
- Add to basket
-
Wayfaring (The Travellers’ Library)
- £30.00
- An anthology of essays by the poet and writer Alice Meynell on the theme of travel and different locations.
- 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