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Browse Books We have over 2,000 books available for sale, from antiques to contemporary bestsellers. Note that the prices below do not include shipping. Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. Order Now! BookId: C4-8 Title: The Short stories of Thomas Hardy Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: MacMillan Price: 175.00 Description:his is a set which can be sold independently or a set depending on the first purchaser . the first volume are the complete poems of Thomas Hardy , the second volume are the Short stories by the same author ... As a set will sell for 300.00$. Published by MacMillan in 1928 , both volume are in perfect condition , ...Navy blue cloth cover with coat of Arms of the Wessex and title, author in gold letters. Beautiful book ,the end of all pages are as well guilded all around, spines are solid, text very clear and easy to read , no marking,writing or spoiling anywhere in these thick book . the Poems have 809 pages including index, the stories have 1076 pages , end papers are map of Wessex. These are First editions reprinted on the same month for the stories , and the second reprint on fine paper for the Poems. Order Now! BookId: C4-9 Title: Ruskin's Works : Arrows of the Chase ; A Joy Forever ; Laws of Fesole Author: John Ruskin Publisher: John W Lovell Price: 100.00 Description:John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. Ruskin's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, architectural structures and ornamentation. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. Ruskin's influence reached across the world. Tolstoy described him as "one of the most remarkable men not only of England and of our generation, but of all countries and times" and quoted extensively from him, rendering his ideas into Russian. Proust not only admired Ruskin but helped translate his works into French. Gandhi wrote of the "magic spell" cast on him by Unto This Last and paraphrased the work in Gujarati, calling it Sarvodaya, "The Advancement of All". In Japan, Ryuzo Mikimoto actively collaborated in Ruskin's translation. He commissioned sculptures and sundry commemorative items, and incorporated Ruskinian rose motifs in the jewellery produced by his cultured pearl empire. He established the Ruskin Society of Tokyo and his children built a dedicated library to house his Ruskin collection. His books offer a variety of subjects and are quite thick : on this volume : Arrows of the Grace , 2 parts (200 and 220 pages) , Our fathers have told us (140 pgs), The Laws of Fesole (135pgs with illustrations), a Joy Forever (139 pgs) and Cambridge School of Art , Inaugural Address (23 pgs) . A total of 857 pages . they are 10 volumes in the Works ....Sold individually they are offered as a set for 865.00$. Published by Lovell in 1893 , these books are in very good condition , navy blue cloth cover with gold titles and author name on the spine, top of pages was gilt but passed away with time, no marking, writing or spoiling , a good addition to your library . Order Now! BookId: C5-0009 Title: Friendship Author: Hugh Black Robertson Nicholl Publisher: Fleming Price: 75.00 Description:Illuminated by F Berkeley Smith Order Now! BookId: C5-0125 Title: Droll Stories collected by the Abbeys of Touraine Author: Honore De Balzac Publisher: London Price: 125.00 Description:Illustrated by Gustave Dore. Order Now! BookId: C5-0127 Title: Doctor Zhivago Author: Boris Pasternak Publisher: Collins & Harvill Price: 25.00 Description:Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari Order Now! BookId: C5-0191 Title: Handy Classical Dictionary miniature reference book on Greece, Rome , Gods and Godesses and more Author: unknown Publisher: Whittaker Price: 18.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: C5-1 Title: English Literature from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest Author: Stopford A Brooke Publisher: MacMillan Price: 60.00 Description:Stopford Augustus Brooke (14 November 1832 – 18 March 1916) was an Irish churchman, royal chaplain and writer. Brooke published in 1865 his Life and Letters of FW Robertson (of Brighton), and in 1876 wrote an admirable primer of English Literature (new and revised ed., 1900—but see below), followed in 1892 by The History of Early English Literature (2 vols, 1892) down to the accession of Alfred the Great, and English Literature from the Beginnings to the Norman Conquest (1898). This is thus a First edition . The book is in perfect condition, navy blue cover with gold title and author name on the spine. Very solid and very clean end toend , the name and date of the past owner is 1898 as well, no marking or spoiling, 340 pages including index . a good book. Order Now! BookId: C5-10 Title: Back to Methuselah . A Metabiological Pentateuch Author: Bernard Shaw Publisher: Constable and Co Price: 100.00 Description:Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (The Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000, and As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920. All were written during 1918 to 1920 and published simultaneously by Constable (London) and Brentano's (New York) in 1921. They were first performed in 1922 by the New York Theatre Guild at the old Garrick Theatre in New York City and, in Britain, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1923. Michael Holroyd describes the plays as "a masterpiece of wishful thinking" and calls them science fiction.Methuselah is said to be Shaw's only real engagement with science fiction. Shaw uses science fictionering in Methuselah to add plausibility to scenarios and to keep readers entertained while he propounds his vision of the human destiny. His prime interest was not scientific, but political, as stated in the Preface where he discusses changes he considers essential before mankind can govern itself successfully. The final play, As Far as the Mind Can Reach, offers no solution to the problem: Humans evolve to the point of becoming free-ranging vortises of energy, able to wander, solitary, through the Universe, thus requiring no government at all. Furthermore, one of Shaw's last plays, Farfetched Fables (1950) also classifies as science fiction, and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1934).comes close to qualifying. Shaw had an exalted opinion of Back to Methuselah as both literature and philosophy; in the press release he wrote for its publishers (Constable & Co., London) he said it would "interest biologists, religious leaders, and lovers of the marvellous in fiction as well as lovers of the theatre" and described it as his supreme work in dramatic literature. He considered it a book for reading rather than playing on the stage, and was agreeably surprised when Lawrence Langner in New York and Barry Vincent Jackson in Birmingham insisted on producing it despite expectations of monetary loss, which were promptly justified. Shaw's scientific rationale for evolving long-lived humans depended on the inheritance of acquired characteristics. This accorded with the theories of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, even though Lamarckism was in decline and Charles Darwin's views were ascendant in 1920, when the plays were written. Order Now! BookId: C5-11 Title: Many Inventions Author: Rudyard Kipling Publisher: MacMillan Price: 60.00 Description:Many Inventions (first published 1893) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Twelve of the 14 stories appeared previously in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine.This is the 1928 re-impression by Macmillan in 1928 The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes, which is quoted on the title page: "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."The stories have themes ranging from the paranormal to naval adventures, and the jungle story 'In the Rukh', which is the first appearance of Mowgli, who would, of course, feature prominently in both Jungle Books, published in the two following years. This edition was also the first appearance of the opening and closing poems, “To the True Romance” and “Envoy” (later titled “Anchor Song”) Rudyard Kipling, (born Dec. 30, 1865, Bombay, India—died Jan. 18, 1936, London, Eng.), Indian-born British novelist, short-story writer, and poet. The son of a museum curator, he was reared in England but returned to India as a journalist. He soon became famous for volumes of stories, beginning with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888; including “The Man Who Would Be King”), and later for the poetry collection Barrack-Room Ballads (1892; including “Gunga Din” and “Mandalay”). His poems, often strongly rhythmic, are frequently narrative ballads. During a residence in the U.S., he published a novel, The Light That Failed (1890); the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895), stories of the wild boy Mowgli in the Indian jungle that have become children’s classics; the adventure story Captains Courageous (1897); and Kim (1901), one of the great novels of India. He wrote six other volumes of short stories and several other verse collections. His children’s books include the famous Just So Stories (1902) and the fairy-tale collection Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His extraordinary popularity in his own time declined as his reputation suffered after World War I because of his widespread image as a jingoistic imperialist. This book is a rare early edition , sadly damaged at the bottom part of the cover by some mildew due to being stored in a wet place . At the center of the front cover is a cute golden elephant head, no dust jacket . The inside is clean , solid, no marking or writing, 387 pages .... as anybook by Rudyard Kipling a lot of interesting stories about India . Order Now! BookId: C5-12 Title: Stalky & Co Author: Rudyard Kipling Publisher: MacMillan Price: 50.00 Description:Rudyard Kipling, (born Dec. 30, 1865, Bombay, India—died Jan. 18, 1936, London, Eng.), Indian-born British novelist, short-story writer, and poet. The son of a museum curator, he was reared in England but returned to India as a journalist. He soon became famous for volumes of stories, beginning with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888; including “The Man Who Would Be King”), and later for the poetry collection Barrack-Room Ballads (1892; including “Gunga Din” and “Mandalay”). His poems, often strongly rhythmic, are frequently narrative ballads. During a residence in the U.S., he published a novel, The Light That Failed (1890); the two Jungle Books (1894, 1895), stories of the wild boy Mowgli in the Indian jungle that have become children’s classics; the adventure story Captains Courageous (1897); and Kim (1901), one of the great novels of India. He wrote six other volumes of short stories and several other verse collections. His children’s books include the famous Just So Stories (1902) and the fairy-tale collection Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His extraordinary popularity in his own time declined as his reputation suffered after World War I because of his widespread image as a jingoistic imperialist. Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose three juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. Stalky and his two friends, Beetle and McTurk, attend an English bording school during the mid 19th century. They don't take their studies very seriously and spend most of their time waging war on their professors. Each chapter is a different episode in their school experience, describing how they treat new teachers, deal with the old ones, and still have time to laze around. Some of the stories include their revenge on another school house that insulted their hygiene, how they tricked some teachers who had planned on catching them breaking the rules, and in the last chapter it tells how as adults they turned out all right even though their teachers thought they were delinquents. The story is semi-autobiographical of Kipling's own school experience. I always loved reading those school stories as I was raised in a boys boarding school for many years , and so many stories happen there , I could write my own book , but reading at other kids ' experience is a lot of fun too, reminding you of your own experience.... the book is nice, clean , 272 pages , in a red cover with gilded title and author name ....no markings whatsoever so a good copy for your library or as a gift to some young man ... Order Now! BookId: C5-13 Title: The spirit of Place Author: Richard Aldington / D H Lawrence Publisher: Heinemann Price: 45.00 Description: Edward Godfree Aldington was an English writer, poet, translator, critic, and biographer. He joined the British Army in 1916 and was wounded in 1918. The author of this biography, Richard Aldington, was a very close friend and associate of Lawrence. They reportedly had their ups and downs as happens in any relationship, especially one with such a temperamental and sensitive man as Lawrence involved. This by far is the very best of the biographies I have read about Lawrence, and it was written in a professional tone, respectful of the artist Lawrence was, but mindful that the truth must be told even if not always elaborately flaunting its star with praise. David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. His best-known novels—Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover—were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of sexuality and use of explicit language. Lawrence is best known for his novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover. In these books, Lawrence explores the possibilities for life within an industrial setting. In particular Lawrence is concerned with the nature of relationships that can be had within such a setting. Though often classed as a realist, Lawrence in fact uses his characters to give form to his personal philosophy. His depiction of sexuality, though seen as shocking when his work was first published in the early 20th century, has its roots in this highly personal way of thinking and being. Lawrence was very interested in the sense of touch, and his focus on physical intimacy has its roots in a desire to restore an emphasis on the body and rebalance it with what he perceived to be Western civilization's overemphasis on the mind; writing in a 1929 essay "Men Must Work and Women As Well," he stated. the book is clean and in very good condition including the jacket , price uncut and relatively clean... The book cover dark brown with title and name in gold letters... 335 pages , could be a first edition by Heinemann 1935 Order Now! BookId: C5-14 Title: Westward Ho ! Author: Charles Kingsley Publisher: MacMillan Price: 55.00 Description:This is an older book by MacMillan, being from 1891, the original edition being from February 1855.the cover is Brown cloth with gold lettering for title and name of author on the spine. As well there is a small logo in gold on the front cover with the letters C.K. (reminding Charles Kingsley). A frontispiece with a portrait of Kingsley on the page next to title page. The book is well used and has 591 pages plus advertisements and index. Some pages maybe loose in the centre part of the book but they are all accounted for. The subtitle is "the voyages of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth..".Signature of a past owner of 1891 on the front end paper.. Westward Ho! is an 1855 historical novel written by British author Charles Kingsley. The novel was based on the experiences of Elizabethan privateer Amyas Preston (Amyas Leigh in the novel), who sets sail with Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh and other privateers to the New World, namely the Preston Somers Expedition and Raleigh's El Dorado Expedition where they battle with the Spanish. Westward Ho! is about love, hate, honour, and vengeance. It's also about 16th century religion, colonization, and warfare. The novel covers a very packed thirteen years in the life of one Amyas Leigh, who goes out questing for adventure, treasure and for the honour of Queen Elizabeth. Order Now! BookId: C5-15 Title: The Forsyte Saga Author: John Galsworthy Publisher: Heinemann Price: 125.00 Description:The Forsyte Saga is a trilogy about money, class, and morals at the end of the Victorian/start of the Edwardian era. It focuses on a large upper-middle class family who are very conscious of their wealth being “new money”.The Forsyte Saga is a trilogy about money, class, and morals at the end of the Victorian/start of the Edwardian era. It focuses on a large upper-middle class family who are very conscious of their wealth being “new money”. The story focuses on two branches of the family (the Jolyon Forsyte and the James Forsyte), and it is their interactions that form the main plot of this saga. It is a series about the expansion of wealth and the price of beauty and love. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. Printed by William Heinemann Ltd. April 1928, 1104 pp, full green gilt leather binding, 7.5 x 5.25 , 12mo. In good condition. Spine slightly faded to a leather brown , edges slightly afflicted as well. Joints slightly creased. All edges gilt. End papers are unmarked. No ownership. Light toning to interior with minimal foxing, if any. Inner hinge shaken, binding remains intact. Folding lineage plate in working order, no tears. A folded folio Family tree from the Forsyte Family at the start of the book is very helpful.... John Galsworthy OM (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. A nice book for your library . Order Now! BookId: C5-16 Title: Best Known works of Oscar Wilde Author: Oscar Wilde Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books Price: 50.00 Description: This is the best book for meeting your favourite English author in all his different types of work . The best known works of Oscar Wilde including the Poems, Novels, Plays, Essays, Fairy Tales and Dialogues . Blue cover and edited by Blue Ribbon Books in the 1940s( 1927 was probably the first edition ) 620 pages the book is as new in spite of age, no writing or spoiling of any kind,no name of past owner ; a great adding to your collection.... Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. Order Now! BookId: C5-17 Title: Ulysses Author: James Joyce Publisher: The Bodley Head Price: 85.00 Description:Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement." According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking." Ulysses chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain. The novel is highly allusive and its prose imitates the styles of different periods of English literature. Since its publication, the book has attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from an obscenity trial in the United States in 1921 to protracted textual "Joyce Wars". The novel's stream of consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose—replete with puns, parodies, and allusions—as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works in history; Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family. He attended the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare, then, briefly, the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School. Despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's unpredictable finances, he excelled at the Jesuit Belvedere College and graduated from University College Dublin in 1902. In 1904, he met his future wife, Nora Barnacle, and they moved to mainland Europe. He briefly worked in Pula and then moved to Trieste in Austria-Hungary, working as an English instructor. Except for an eight-month stay in Rome working as a correspondence clerk and three visits to Dublin, Joyce resided there until 1915. In Trieste, he published his book of poems Chamber Music and his short story collection Dubliners, and he began serially publishing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the English magazine The Egoist. During most of World War I, Joyce lived in Zürich, Switzerland, and worked on Ulysses. After the war, he briefly returned to Trieste and then moved to Paris in 1920, which became his primary residence until 1940. Ulysses was first published in Paris in 1922, but its publication in the United Kingdom and the United States was prohibited because of its perceived obscenity. Copies were smuggled into both countries and pirated versions were printed until the mid-1930s, when publication finally became legal. Joyce started his next major work, Finnegans Wake, in 1923, publishing it sixteen years later in 1939. Between these years, Joyce travelled widely. He and Nora were married in a civil ceremony in London in 1930. He made a number of trips to Switzerland, frequently seeking treatment for his increasingly severe eye problems and psychological help for his daughter, Lucia. When France was occupied by Germany during World War II, Joyce moved back to Zürich in 1940. He died there in 1941 after surgery for a perforated ulcer, less than one month before his 59th birthday. Ulysses frequently ranks high in lists of great books of literature, and the academic literature analysing his work is extensive and ongoing. Many writers, film-makers, and other artists have been influenced by his stylistic innovations, such as his meticulous attention to detail, use of interior monologue, wordplay, and the radical transformation of traditional plot and character development. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, his fictional universe centres on Dublin and is largely populated by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set in the streets and alleyways of the city. Joyce is quoted as saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal." Order Now! BookId: C5-18 Title: Departmental Ditties: Barrack-room Ballads and other verses; The Five Nations ; the Seven Seas . ; Author: Rudyard Kipling Publisher: Double day , Page & Co Price: 100.00 Description:This is the Mandalay edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling. Joseph Rudyard Kipling 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)[1] was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "[Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with." The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's best-known works, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890, and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War, titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations (1903), can be considered part of the Ballads, as can a number of other uncollected pieces. The book is extremely good condition , with paper dust jacket. Brown cloth cover for this hard cover , with a label like title and author name on the spine, identify the book , , and upraised initials logo on the front cover name the author RK. The end papers are interesting with a junk in the sunrise or sunset and the four corners with the swastikas.Two parts in the book , the first are the Barrack-room ballads and other verse, as well as Departmental Ditties , 298 pages ; the second part are the Five Nations and the Seven Seas which cover 343 pages .... which make s it a fairly thick book ..the paper is excellent and the quality of the printing perfect , no marking, writing or spoiling anywhere, a nice collectible . Order Now! BookId: C5-18 Title: Venetia Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:Venetia or the Poet's Daughter was published in May 1837, in the year of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne and Disraeli’s first election to Parliament. As Daniel S. Schwartz has remarked, ‘Disraeli was in desperate financial straits when he wrote Venetia, in part because Henrietta Temple, although his most successful novel since Vivian Grey, did not produce anything like the revenue he required to pay his debts’ (58). At first glance, it seems that Venetia does not contain any political themes or hidden autobiographical details, except for reverence for Lord Byron, but when one takes a closer look at the plot and the authorial commentary, it appears that Disraeli still writes in a veiled way about himself and his changing political loyalties. Venetia is the last of Disraeli’s exalted early novels and marks symbolically his rejection of Byron’s Whiggish radicalism and his sexual ambivalence. In this specific book a portrait of Shelly as well as Byron's portrait has been part of the illustrations, Disraeli was friend with both of them as well as many other artists of the period. As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages ... and other titles available are: -Coningsby -Lothair -Contanini, Fleming, etc -Sybil -Endymion -Alroy, Ixion, etc -Vivian Grey -Tancred -The young Duke, etc -Henrietta temple Order Now! BookId: C5-19 Title: Lothaire Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:Lothair (1870) was a late novel by Benjamin Disraeli, the first he wrote after his first term as Prime Minister. It deals with the comparative merits of the Catholic and Anglican churches as heirs of Judaism, and with the topical question of Italian unification. Though Lothair was a hugely popular work among 19th century readers, it now to some extent lies in the shadow of the same author's Coningsby and Sybil. Lothair reflects anti-Catholicism of the sort that was popular in Britain, and which fueled support for Italian unification . As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages Order Now! BookId: C5-2 Title: History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature Author: George Saintsbury Publisher: MacMillan Price: 60.00 Description:George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), was an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, and wine connoisseur. He is regarded as a highly influential critic of the late 19th and early 20th century. His studies in English literature were no less comprehensive, and included the valuable revision of Sir Walter Scott's edition of John Dryden's Works (Edinburgh, 18 vols., 1882–1893), Dryden (1881) in the "English Men of Letters" series, History of Elizabethan Literature (1887), History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1896), Saintsbury produced some of his most important works: A History of Criticism (3 vols., 1900–1904), with the companion volume Loci Critici: Passages Illustrative of Critical Theory and Practice and A History of English Prosody from the 12th Century to the Present Day also The Later Nineteenth Century (1909). These were followed by a History of English Prose Rhythm (1912), The English Novel (1913), A First Book of English Literature (1914), and more. The book is in perfect condition, navy blue cover with gold title and author name on the spine. Very solid and very clean end to end , the name and date of the past owner is 1901 as well, no marking or spoiling, 471 pages including index . a good book. Order Now! BookId: C5-20 Title: Coningsly Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:Coningsby, in full Coningsby, or The New Generation, political novel by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1844. It is the first novel in Disraeli’s trilogy completed by Sybil (1845) and Tancred (1847). Coningsby follows the fortunes of Harry Coningsby, the orphaned grandson of the marquis of Monmouth. It also traces the waning of the Whigs and the Tories and the nascency of the Conservative party. Above all, Coningsby is a tribute to a political group called “Young England,” which hoped for an alliance of the British nobility and the common people. As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages ... Order Now! BookId: C5-21 Title: Tancred or The New Crusade Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:Tancred; or, The New Crusade is a novel by Benjamin Disraeli, first published by Henry Colburn in three volumes. Together with Coningsby and Sybil it forms a sequence sometimes called the Young England trilogy.The novel, first published by Henry Colburn in three volumes, relates the journey of a young English aristocrat, Lord Montecute (Tancred), an idealistic representative of Young England disenchanted with the materialism of Victorian high society, travels to the Holy Land in search of ‘the great mystery of Asia’, as well as his own identity. In this novel Disraeli blends politics with religion when he fantasises about replacing the Ottoman Empire by British rule in Asia. In fact, Tancred has several subjects, including the shortcomings of parliamentary democracy, spiritual fulfilment, Jewishness and the origins of Christianity, racial purity and interracial love relationships, the superiority of Oriental races, the doctrine of ‘theocratic equality,’ and, finally, imperial expansion. These ideological subtexts make up a complex psychological, religious and political utopia. As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages ... Order Now! BookId: C5-22 Title: Vivian Grey Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:Vivian Grey is Benjamin Disraeli's first novel, published by Henry Colburn in 1826. Originally published anonymously, ostensibly by a so-called "man of fashion", part 1 caused a considerable sensation in London society.A novel by B. Disraeli, published 1826, with a continuation in 1827. Vivian, a brilliant and difficult boy, is expelled from school, and discovers that by clever manipulation of his charm and social skills he can advance himself in the world of politics. As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages ... Order Now! BookId: C5-23 Title: Endymion Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:Endymion is a novel published in 1880 by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, the former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was paid £10,000 for it. It was the last novel Disraeli published before his death. He had been writing another, Falconet, when he died; it was published, incomplete, after his death. Like most of Disraeli's novels, Endymion is a romance, although Disraeli took the unusual step of setting it between 1819 and 1859. This meant that the hero of the novel–Endymion Ferrars–had to be a Whig, rather than a Tory. The time period that Disraeli chose was dominated by the Whig party; there would have been little opportunity for a young, rising Tory. Given that, it seems likely that Disraeli chose the time period in order to move a final time in the world in which he grew up and began his ascent. As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages ... Order Now! BookId: C5-24 Title: Sybil or The Two Nations Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:A romance and a political manifesto. Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England.Inspired by the rise of the Chartists, the novel deals with the problems of the growing social and economic disparity between the antagonistic communities in England — the rich and the poor — largely as a result of the Industrial Revolution. As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages ... Order Now! BookId: C5-25 Title: Henrietta Temple Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:Henrietta Temple is the ninth novel written by Benjamin Disraeli, who would later become a Prime Minister of Britain. Disraeli wrote the first volume of Henrietta Temple in 1833 at the start of his affair with Henrietta Sykes, on whom the novel’s eponymous heroine is based, and completed it three years later, shortly after the affair had ended. The two volumes reflect these two stages of the relationship, the first with, "the rustle of real petticoats [being] more audible than in any other part of Disraeli's work," the latter where, "passion has vanished". The novel was written at a time when Disraeli was heavily in debt (ca £1m in today’s terms) and its limited success helped ease Disraeli’s financial situation. According to its author, the main theme of the novel is love at first sight, as described when Ferdinand first sets eyes on Henrietta. As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages ... Order Now! BookId: C5-26 Title: The Young Duke ... and Count Alarcos Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:The Young Duke - a moral tale though gay is the third novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Despite its moderate success, Disraeli came to dislike the novel which was a hindrance to his political career. Modern reviews are slightly less damning. Disraeli's biographer, Robert Blake, writes of the novel that, "It is indeed an enjoyable book despite all its absurdities of manner and diction..and [its] improbable plot...The style is artificial, full of far-fetched witticisms, convoluted antitheses, elaborate epigrams.” Count Alarcos was a tragedy in five acts , no commentary was found. As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages .. Order Now! BookId: C5-27 Title: Contarini Fleming and The Rise of Iskander Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description: A Psychological Romance is the fourth and most autobiographical novel written by Benjamin Disraeli, who would later become a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was published anonymously in May 1832 but despite the author considering it his best novel, was a financial failure. C Contarini Fleming is the only child of a "Saxon nobleman of ancient family" and his Venetian first wife. His mother dies giving birth to him and he takes his first name from the fallen Venetian dynasty of which she was one of the last members. His father Baron Fleming remarries and Contarini becomes withdrawn. On going to college, however, he develops an increasingly outgoing and popular personality on account of his wit before withdrawing again when he realises he wishes to become a great poet. Ruminating on his unhappiness with his first serious literary attempt, he meets a painter in the ruins of a gothic abbey. The painter gives him a book on the history of Venice, which reveals the former pre-eminence there of the Contarinis. The Rise of Iskander is the seventh novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Iskander was a young prince when his father's kingdom (Epirus) was taken over by the Turks. He was brought up a Moslem, although secretly remaining Christian. When his father died, the Turks saw Iskander's potential as an officer in their occupying armies (of the Emperor Amurath II). .As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages ... Order Now! BookId: C5-28 Title: Alroy ; Ixion in Heaven ; The Infernal Marriage ; Popanilla Author: Benjamin Disraeli Publisher: Collier Price: 45.00 Description:The Wondrous Tale of Alroy is the sixth novel written by Benjamin Disraeli, who would later become a Prime Minister of Britain. It is a fictionalised account of the life of David Alroy.Set in the 12th-century Middle East, the novel starts with Alroy's accession as the Prince of Captivity on his 18th birthday. Shortly afterwards Alroy has to flee after he kills the governor of Hamadan, who had assaulted Alroy's sister Miriam. Ixion in Heaven is the fifth novel written by Benjamin Disraeli.Ixion, the king of Thessaly (famous for its horses), marries Dia, daughter of Deioneus who steals some of his horses. Ixion invites Deioneus to Larissa (his capital) where Deioneus accidentally (according to Ixion) falls in a pit, whilst walking with Ixion, and dies . The Infernal Marriage is the eighth novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain.Pluto and Proserpine are disturbed one morning by a furore brought to them by Terror and Rage concerning a mortal who has got into hell. The mortal explains to the Hades assembly that his wife has died and he wants Pluto to revive her. Pluto declines but Proserpine pleads with him to yield which he does. he Voyage of Captain Popanilla is the second novel by Benjamin Disraeli, who later became a prime minister of the United Kingdom. Its allegory of a fantastic voyage is a satire on contemporary society. Four novels in one book. .As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes except the changes of feeling and power which accompany old age. His period, thus, is that of Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray, and of the later years of Sir Walter Scott—a fact which his prominence as a statesman during the last decade of his life, as well as the vogue of “Lothair” and “Endymion,” has tended to obscure. His style, his material, and his views of English character and life all date from that earlier time. He was born in 1804 and died in 1881. We have a large number of the books by Benjamin Disraeli , interesting novels with a political tone, and lot of familiar biographical accents...the books are in excellent condition, from Collier edition , 1900. they have an average of 420 pages ... Order Now! BookId: C5-3 Title: A History of Eighteen Century Literature Author: Edmund Gosse Publisher: MacMillan Price: 60.00 Description:Sir Edmund William Gosse 21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhood in the book Father and Son has been described as the first psychological biography. His friendship with the sculptor Hamo Thornycroft inspired a successful career as a historian of late-Victorian sculpture. His translations of Henrik Ibsen helped to promote that playwright in England, and he encouraged the careers of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce. He also lectured in English literature at Cambridge University. He became, in the 1880s, one of the most important art critics dealing with sculpture (writing mainly for the Saturday Review) with an interest spurred on by his intimate friendship with the sculptor Hamo Thornycroft. Gosse would eventually write the first history of the renaissance of late-Victorian sculpture in 1894 in a four-part series for The Art Journal, dubbing the movement the New Sculpture. He published as well A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889). the book is in very good condition , Navy blue (some say green) cloth cover with gold title and author name on the spine, very solid and clean , no marking or spoiling , name of past owner dated 1902 as well as the book . 415 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: C5-4 Title: A History of Nineteen Century Literature Author: George Saintsbury Publisher: MacMillan Price: 60.00 Description:George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), was an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, and wine connoisseur. He is regarded as a highly influential critic of the late 19th and early 20th century. His studies in English literature were no less comprehensive, and included the valuable revision of Sir Walter Scott's edition of John Dryden's Works (Edinburgh, 18 vols., 1882–1893), Dryden (1881) in the "English Men of Letters" series, History of Elizabethan Literature (1887), History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1896), Saintsbury produced some of his most important works: A History of Criticism (3 vols., 1900–1904), with the companion volume Loci Critici: Passages Illustrative of Critical Theory and Practice and A History of English Prosody from the 12th Century to the Present Day also The Later Nineteenth Century (1909). These were followed by a History of English Prose Rhythm (1912), The English Novel (1913), A First Book of English Literature (1914), and more. The book is in perfect condition, navy blue cover with gold title and author name on the spine. Very solid and very clean end to end , the name and date of the past owner is 1901 as well, no marking or spoiling, 497 pages including index . a good book. |
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