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A Book of Prose Selections
- £12.00
- John Masefield the then Poet Laureate makes his final selection of what he considers is the best of his work in prose. He has, as he admits, made a similar selection before, but it was done many years ago and his likes and dislikes, the general trend of his taste…
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Behold this Dreamer – of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, …
- £50.00
- Walter de la Mare's anthologies are in a category of their own, indeed, they are of such excellence as to make the description belittling. Walter de la Mare compiled five of them, with commentaries, using poems and passages of prose. To each he brought such a range of reading, wisdom…
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Franny and Zooey
- £35.00
- A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye. 'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And…
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I Want! I Want!
- £15.00
- The 2nd Annual Lecture of the National Book Council, delivered at the Caxton Hall, Westminster on May 19th 1944, Geoffrey Faber in the Chair.
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Kipling and War: From ‘Tommy’ to ‘My Boy Jack’
- £15.00
- Although Rudyard Kipling never fought, he was one of Britiain's foremost observers of and commentators on war. Through his writing on the harsh realities of life as a private and accounts of feats of courage and comradeship during the frontier wars in India, 19th century British campaigns in Sudan, the…
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Love
- £20.00
- Walter de la Mare was among the leading proponents of the so-called 'Georgian' poets, a loose assembly of influential literary friends who gathered in London in the years leading up to the First World War. Concerned with a refinement of sensibility - in feeling, in expression and in particular in…
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Many Inventions
- £15.00
- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
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Sacred & Secular: A companion
- £8.00
- A collection of over 440 readings grouped under weekly themes, aimed to give a new spiritual direction and zest in the decision-making of every day.
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Satires and Personal Writings
- £10.00
- Several Swift essays, combined with letters, prayers and poems. First published with Eddy's introduction and notes in 1932
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The Homing of the Winds and other passages in prose
- £12.00
- Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, CH (1897Ð1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. Sitwell…
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The Oxford Book of English Prose
- £14.00
- Quiller-Couch's anthology of prose from the early middle ages to Rupert Brooke
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The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse & Prose (vol III of X)
- £200.00
- Third volume (of 10) of Pope's collected works. Containing his Essay on Man (in 4 epistles); The Universal Prayer; Moral Essays (in 5 epistles); Appendix: Essay on Satire; A Letter to a Noble Lord; Notes and Observations by Gilbert Wakefield
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A Book of Prose Selections
- £12.00
- John Masefield the then Poet Laureate makes his final selection of what he considers is the best of his work in prose. He has, as he admits, made a similar selection before, but it was done many years ago and his likes and dislikes, the general trend of his taste…
- Add to basket
-
Behold this Dreamer – of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, …
- £50.00
- Walter de la Mare's anthologies are in a category of their own, indeed, they are of such excellence as to make the description belittling. Walter de la Mare compiled five of them, with commentaries, using poems and passages of prose. To each he brought such a range of reading, wisdom…
- Add to basket
-
Franny and Zooey
- £35.00
- A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye. 'Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And…
- Add to basket
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I Want! I Want!
- £15.00
- The 2nd Annual Lecture of the National Book Council, delivered at the Caxton Hall, Westminster on May 19th 1944, Geoffrey Faber in the Chair.
- Add to basket
-
Kipling and War: From ‘Tommy’ to ‘My Boy Jack’
- £15.00
- Although Rudyard Kipling never fought, he was one of Britiain's foremost observers of and commentators on war. Through his writing on the harsh realities of life as a private and accounts of feats of courage and comradeship during the frontier wars in India, 19th century British campaigns in Sudan, the…
- Add to basket
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Love
- £20.00
- Walter de la Mare was among the leading proponents of the so-called 'Georgian' poets, a loose assembly of influential literary friends who gathered in London in the years leading up to the First World War. Concerned with a refinement of sensibility - in feeling, in expression and in particular in…
- Add to basket
-
Many Inventions
- £15.00
- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
- Add to basket
-
Sacred & Secular: A companion
- £8.00
- A collection of over 440 readings grouped under weekly themes, aimed to give a new spiritual direction and zest in the decision-making of every day.
- Add to basket
-
Satires and Personal Writings
- £10.00
- Several Swift essays, combined with letters, prayers and poems. First published with Eddy's introduction and notes in 1932
- Add to basket
-
The Homing of the Winds and other passages in prose
- £12.00
- Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, CH (1897Ð1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. Sitwell…
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book of English Prose
- £14.00
- Quiller-Couch's anthology of prose from the early middle ages to Rupert Brooke
- Add to basket
-
The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse & Prose (vol III of X)
- £200.00
- Third volume (of 10) of Pope's collected works. Containing his Essay on Man (in 4 epistles); The Universal Prayer; Moral Essays (in 5 epistles); Appendix: Essay on Satire; A Letter to a Noble Lord; Notes and Observations by Gilbert Wakefield
- Add to basket