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Title: Caravan
Author: James Galworthy
Publisher: W. Heinemann
Price: 55.00
Description:John Galsworthy ( 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Born to a prosperous upper-middle-class family, Galsworthy was destined for a career as a lawyer, but found it uncongenial and turned instead to writing. He was thirty before his first book was published in 1897, and did not achieve real success until 1906, when The Man of Property, the first of his novels about the Forsyte family was published. In the same year his first play, The Silver Box was staged in London. As a dramatist he became known for plays with a social message, reflecting, among other themes, the struggle of workers against exploitation, the use of solitary confinement in prisons, the repression of women, and jingoism and the politics and morality of war. The Forsyte family of the series of novels and short stories collectively known as The Forsyte Chronicles is similar in many ways to Galsworthy's family, and the patriarch, Old Jolyon, is modelled on Galsworthy's father. The main sequence runs from the late 19th century to the early 1930s, featuring three generations of the family. The books were popular when first published and their latter-day popularity was boosted considerably when BBC Television broadcast a 26-part adaptation for the author's centenary in 1967. As well as writing plays and novels with social messages, Galsworthy campaigned continually for a wide range of causes about which he felt strongly, from animal welfare to prison reform, censorship and workers' rights. Although seen by many as a radical, he belonged to and supported no political party. His plays are seldom revived, but his novels have been frequently reissued. A most attractive, desirable volume. A new impression 1929 . A highly attractive production with embossed and coloured titles and crest on cover and spine, 950 pages. A collection of all of Galsworthy's tales written between 1900 and 1923. No writing, spoiling , no past owner name , solid spine , great collectible



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Title: In the Beginning
Author: Norman Douglas
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Price: 50.00
Description:In the Beginning is Norman Douglas' version of the story of Ninus and Semiramis, mythical rulers of ancient Assyria. The demigod Linus is ravished by a fish-goddess, thinking him mortal, who is subsequently appalled to find herself pregnant, believing that no mortal could do this.... another Douglas story in the spirit of South Wind .Philosophical hedonism pervades much of Douglas's writing,] and the novel's discussion of moral and sexual issues caused considerable debate.... George Norman Douglas (8 December 1868 – 7 February 1952) was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. His travel books, such as Old Calabria (1915), were also appreciated for the quality of their writing. The book is as new , Brown cloth cover with gold title and author name on the spine with decorative flowers ...Solid spine, no writing or spoiling of the text, name of past owner on end paper, 272 pages in the Phoenix Library . A nice collectible as well .



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Title: The Cloister and the Hearth , a Tale of the Middle-Ages
Author: Charles Reade
Publisher: Everyman's library J M Dent
Price: 15.00
Description:The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is a historical novel by the British author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. The Cloister and the Hearth often describes the events, people and their practices in minute detail. Its main theme is the struggle between man's obligations to family and to Church. Based on a few lines by the humanist Erasmus about the life of his parents, the novel began as a serial in Once a Week magazine in 1859 under the title "A Good Fight", but when Reade disagreed with the proprietors of the magazine over some of the subject matter (principally the unmarried pregnancy of the heroine), he curtailed the serialization with a false happy ending. Reade continued to work on the novel and published it in 1861, thoroughly revised and extended, as The Cloister and the Hearth. Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at least four brothers. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, taking his B.A. in 1835, and became a fellow of his college. He was subsequently dean of arts and vice-president, taking his degree of D.C.L. in 1847. His name was entered at Lincoln's Inn in 1836; he was elected Vinerian Fellow in 1842, and was called to the bar in 1843. He kept his fellowship at Magdalen all his life but, after taking his degree, he spent most of his time in London. William Winwood Reade, the influential historian, was his nephew. The book is in the Everyman's Library series but with age the condition is not the best , the cover and particularly the spine have suffer and were glued back in place. name and title are in black lettering on the spine . Name of past owner on the inside end paper. no marking or spoiling within the text of 703 pages . An interesting story ina good book for reading not as a collectible.



Order Now!  BookId: C6-34

Title: Sartor Resartus the life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh
Author: Thomas carlyle
Publisher: Thomas Y Crowell
Price: 55.00
Description:Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a British essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh where he excelled in mathematics, inventing the Carlyle circle. After finishing the arts course, he prepared to become a minister in the Burgher Church while working as a schoolmaster. He quit these and several other endeavours before settling on literature, writing for the Edinburgh Encyclopædia and working as a translator. He found initial success as a disseminator of German literature, then little-known to English readers, through his translations, his Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825), and his review essays for various journals. His first major work was a novel entitled Sartor Resartus (1833–34). After relocating to London, he became famous with his French Revolution (1837), which prompted the collection and reissue of his essays as Miscellanies. Each of his subsequent works, including On Heroes (1841), Past and Present (1843), Cromwell's Letters (1845), Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), and History of Frederick the Great (1858–65), were highly regarded throughout Europe and North America. He founded the London Library, contributed significantly to the creation of the National Portrait Galleries in London and Scotland, was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University in 1865, and received the Pour le Mérite in 1874, among other honours. Carlyle occupied a central position in Victorian culture, being considered not only, in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the "undoubted head of English letters", but a "secular prophet". Posthumously, his reputation suffered as publications by his friend and disciple James Anthony Froude provoked controversy about Carlyle's personal life, particularly his marriage to Jane Welsh Carlyle. His reputation further declined in the 20th century, as the onsets of World War I and World War II brought forth accusations that he was a progenitor of both Prussianism and fascism. Since the 1950s, extensive scholarship in the field of Carlyle Studies has improved his standing, and he is now recognized as "one of the enduring monuments of our literature who, quite simply, cannot be spared." Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books is an 1831 novel by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833 – August 1834. The novel purports to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (which translates as 'God-born Devil's-dung'), author of a tome entitled Clothes: Their Origin and Influence. Teufelsdröckh's Transcendentalist musings are mulled over by a sceptical English Reviewer (referred to as Editor) who also provides fragmentary biographical material on the philosopher. The work is, in part, a parody of Hegel, and of German Idealism more generally. the book is an older book estimated to be from 1903 (as the name of the past owner refer to that date), ; Burgundy choth hard cover , name of author and title in pale gold (well used9 on the spine. The inside of the book is very solid, with strong paper, clean of any writing or spoiling, divided in 3 parts , 317 pages plus summary and index. Some spotting on the cover of the book.



Order Now!  BookId: C6-35

Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Collins School Classics
Price: 25.00
Description:Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years he returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, for education, and for other social reforms. Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers, a publishing phenomenon—thanks largely to the introduction of the character Sam Weller in the fourth episode—that sparked Pickwick merchandise and spin-offs. Within a few years Dickens had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly installments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. Cliffhanger endings in his serial publications kept readers in suspense. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her own disabilities, Dickens improved the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor would individually pay a halfpenny to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers. His 1843 novella A Christmas Carol remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities (set in London and Paris) is his best-known work of historical fiction. The most famous celebrity of his era, he undertook, in response to public demand, a series of public reading tours in the later part of his career. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social or working conditions, or comically repulsive characters. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman & Hall published the novel in three volumes. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery—poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death—and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe Gargery, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations, which is popular with both readers and literary critics, has been translated into many languages and adapted numerous times into various media. Upon its release, the novel received near-universal acclaim. Although Dickens's contemporary Thomas Carlyle referred to it disparagingly as "that Pip nonsense", he nevertheless reacted to each fresh instalment with "roars of laughter". Later, George Bernard Shaw praised the novel, describing it as "all of one piece and consistently truthful". During the serial publication, Dickens was pleased with public response to Great Expectations and its sales; when the plot first formed in his mind, he called it "a very fine, new and grotesque idea". In the 21st century, the novel retains good standing among literary criticsand in 2003 it was ranked 17th on the BBC's The Big Read poll. This is an older book used in school and alas it shows a bit oo much , the red cloth cover is a bit used but shows more shelf use , some pen markings on back end papers, and name of past owner ,a kid very likely a cross the end of pages...414 pages including a life of Dickens .



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Title: Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Collins
Price: 25.00
Description:Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years he returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, for education, and for other social reforms. Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers, a publishing phenomenon—thanks largely to the introduction of the character Sam Weller in the fourth episode—that sparked Pickwick merchandise and spin-offs. Within a few years Dickens had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most of them published in monthly or weekly installments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. Cliffhanger endings in his serial publications kept readers in suspense. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her own disabilities, Dickens improved the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor would individually pay a halfpenny to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers. His 1843 novella A Christmas Carol remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities (set in London and Paris) is his best-known work of historical fiction. The most famous celebrity of his era, he undertook, in response to public demand, a series of public reading tours in the later part of his career. The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social or working conditions, or comically repulsive characters. Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of his parentage, and reconnects with his remaining family. Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals, and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by painter William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress. In an early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises child labour, domestic violence, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well, considering he spent two years of his life in the workhouse at the age of 12 and subsequently, missed out on some of his education. Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations, including a 1948 film of the same title, starring Alec Guinness as Fagin; a highly successful musical, Oliver! (itself adapted into a multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture), and Disney's 1988 animated feature film Oliver & Company. The book is a hard cover published by Collins ; it is also an ex-library book from Farringdon Club Library. Burgundy cloth cover with gold lettering for title and author name , no name of a specific owner after the Library stamps , lone spoiling item in the book. The spine is solid , the text clean and easy to read, 412 pages . A portrait od Dickens by the title page.



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Title: Humphry Clinker illustrated by George Cruikshank
Author: Tobias Smollett
Publisher: G Bell & sons
Price: 60.00
Description:Rare illustrated book by Cruikshank . The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771 (three months before Smollett's death), and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. It is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six characters: Matthew Bramble, a Welsh Squire; his sister Tabitha; their niece Lydia and nephew Jeremy Melford; Tabitha's maid Winifred Jenkins; and Lydia's suitor Wilson. Much of the comedy arises from differences in the descriptions of the same events and places seen by the participants. Attributions of motives and descriptions of behaviour show wild variation and reveal much about the character of the teller. The setting, amidst the high-society spa towns, inns, and seaside resorts of the 18th century, provides his characters with many opportunities for satirical observations on English and Scottish life, manners, and politics. Smollett relies heavily on a scatological humour and references to the body. The net effect re-creates the messiness of eighteenth-century British novels that relied on the epistolary form. The author's travels in Scotland, France, and Italy influenced his novel. Tobias George Smollett (baptized 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish novelist, surgeon, critic and playwright. He was best known for picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later novelists, including Charles Dickens. His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers; an authoritative edition of each was edited by Dr O. M. Brack Jr and others. George Cruikshank or Cruickshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience The book is quite nice in a blue cloth cover with black title and author name on the spine, as well as the mention of Cruikshank as an illustrator . A stamp mentioning the name of the Bohn'sLibary , probably a private library. The book is from 1917 published by Bell & sons, very solid book inside, very clean , four full page engravings by Cruikshank, protected by silk paper, and 384 pages . A nice book to get in your library.



Order Now!  BookId: C6-38

Title: The Path of the King
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Nelson
Price: 20.00
Description:Well used book but still relatively rare by John Buchan. The Path of the King is a 1921 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, presented as a loosely-coupled series of short stories. The novel takes the form of a loosely-coupled collection of short stories presenting a sweeping tapestry of historical episodes, from the Vikings through centuries of Norman, French, Flemish, English, Scottish and American scenes. An ingenious and unusual book by a master storyteller, based on the suggestion, made to the author in a discussion with friends, that great leaders or creative geniuses may seem to arise from humble backgrounds, but who knows whether they have descended from great men or rulers in the distant past, maybe from a line of younger sons who have had to fight for success? “We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings’ blood in our veins …The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world.” John Buchan creates from this idea 14 self-sufficient short stories, spanning about 1000 years, each successive one several generations, or even centuries, further forward in time. At first, they seem unrelated, but subtle connections soon appear – a gold ring, handed down through the generations, often at a death bed; and a family surname, ranging from, “de Laval” in the “Maid of Orleans”and the two following stories, to “Lauv al” in the Walter Raleigh tale to “Lovel” and then “Lovelle” in later stories. And you gradually realise that each tale ends with the survival of one person – often insignificant – who carries the line into the future.... John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort during the First World War. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction. In 1935, King George V, on the advice of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, appointed Buchan to replace the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General of Canada, for which purpose Buchan was raised to the peerage. He occupied the post until his death in 1940. Buchan was enthusiastic about literacy and the development of Canadian culture, and he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the United Kingdom. the book is in blue cloth cover , in poor condition, wit Title and author name on spine, logo of Nelson on the front in gold letters .The Text is clean except for the list of contents (some scribbling in pencil for each different chapter). some pencil notes on end paper, ( on front and back end papers name of past owner )287 pages .... Good book for reading but not a collectible..



Order Now!  BookId: C6-39

Title: Kidnapped
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson
Price: 31.00
Description:Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel.Kidnapped is the story of Davie's struggle to claim his inheritance and find his place in the world. Alan Breck Stewart who is a loyal Scotsman who helps Davie claim his rightful place in the world. A wanted man, Alan is on the run when he ends up on the boat with Davie, a move that changes both their destinies. Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned away from romance and adventure fiction toward a darker realism. He died of a stroke in his island home in 1894 at age 44. A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson's critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, though today his works are held in general acclaim. In 2018, he was ranked, just behind Charles Dickens, as the 26th-most-translated author in the world. This book is a very plain blue-green cloth hardcover , no dust jacket , title and name of author have almost disappeared from the cover with time...Name of past owner on the front end paper. The book is in good condition, solid spine, no marking or spoiling through the text , no illustration ,319 pages.



Order Now!  BookId: C6-4

Title: Prester John
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: 30.00
Description:perfect condition , Nelson edition , 255 pages , no dust jacket , red hard cover . Scotsman John Buchan (1875-1940) led a varied career as a novelist, lawyer, politician, diplomat, and historian. He died in Canada while serving as the Governor General of Canada. Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It tells the story of the young Scotsman David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a native uprising under the charismatic black minister John Laputa is tied to the medieval legend of Prester John. Prester John was Buchan's sixth published novel, and the first to reach a wide readership, establishing him as a writer of fast-paced adventures in exotic locales. He drew the background from his two-year stint in South Africa (1901–1903) as political private secretary to Lord Milner, High Commissioner for Southern Africa, in what came to be known as Milner's Young Men or Milner's Kindergarten. It was there that he gained a feeling for the man of action and the sense of adventure, as well as practical, political training.



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Title: Tarka the Otter
Author: Henry Williamson
Publisher: Putnam & Co
Price: 50.00
Description:Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a 1927 novel by English writer Henry Williamson, first published by G.P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue.Set along the Rivers Taw and Torridge in north Devon, the novel follows the birth, life and inevitable death of Tarka in vivid and lyrical prose that reflects Williamson's intimate study of the natural world. Written from the perspective of the otter, Williamson's narrative is empathetic but unsentimental. HHenry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history and ruralism. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his book Tarka the Otter. He was born in London, and brought up in a semi-rural area where he developed his love of nature, and nature writing. He fought in World War I and, having witnessed the Christmas truce and the devastation of trench warfare, he developed first a pacifist ideology, then fascist sympathies. He moved to Devon after World War II and took up farming and writing; he wrote many other novels. He married twice. He died in a hospice in Ealing in 1977, and was buried in North Devon. The book is a clean green cloth cover with name of author and title in gold letter on spine , no dust jacket. The inside is as well very clean, name of past owner dated 1949 for Christmas, the book is illustrated by Tunnidiffe, and get an introduction by Sir John Fortescue (24 engravings in black and white0, 279 pages , no marking or spoiling of any kind. a good book..



Order Now!  BookId: C6-41

Title: From a College window
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: 32.00
Description:Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 250 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Overall a good condition item. Gilt lettering is a bit faded . inside book is clean , no marking or spoiling, , no name of past owner . solid spine , no cracking . Arthur Christopher Benson, FRSL (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet and academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote the lyrics of Edward Elgar’s Coronation Ode, including the words of the patriotic song "Land of Hope and Glory" (1902). His literary criticism, poems, and volumes of essays were highly regarded. He was also noted as an author of ghost stories. Throughout his life, poet and essayist Arthur Christopher Benson also worked as an educator and school administrator. This collection of essays presents Benson's views on topics ranging from art to the aging process, filtered through the lens of someone who is actively engaged in the difficult but rewarding work of educating a nation's youth.



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Title: The Iliad of Homer done into English Prose
Author: Homer / Andrew Lang / Walter Leaf / Ernest Myers
Publisher: MacMillan
Price: 60.00
Description:The Iliad is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. The story of the Iliad follows the great Greek warrior Achilles, as well as his rage and the destruction it causes. Parallel to this, the story also follows the Trojan warrior Hector and his efforts to fight to protect his family and his people. Homer born c.?8th century BC) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history. Homer's Iliad centers on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the last year of the Trojan War. The Odyssey chronicles the ten-year journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a literary language which shows a mixture of features of the Ionic and Aeolic dialects from different centuries; the predominant influence is Eastern Ionic. Most researchers believe that the poems were originally transmitted orally. Homer's epic poems shaped aspects of ancient Greek culture and education, fostering ideals of heroism, glory, and honor. To Plato, Homer was simply the one who "has taught Greece". In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Virgil refers to Homer as "Poet sovereign", king of all poets; in the preface to his translation of the Iliad, Alexander Pope acknowledges that Homer has always been considered the "greatest of poets".[ From antiquity to the present day, Homeric epics have inspired many famous works of literature, music, art, and film.] The question of by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the Iliad and Odyssey were composed continues to be debated. Scholars remain divided as to whether the two works are the product of a single author. It is thought that the poems were composed at some point around the late eighth or early seventh century BC. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity; the most widespread account was that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary. ANDREW lANG collaborated with S. H. Butcher in a prose translation (1879) of Homer's Odyssey, and with E. Myers and Walter Leaf in a prose version (1883) of the Iliad, both still noted for their archaic but attractive style. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. The boois in good condition if old , Navy blue cloth cover with names of title and author in white letters but very faded, no dust jacket . Quite a few annotations by the last owner on endpapers and also on the few first pages of text .... then it got better and nothing into the main part of the book. It starts again on the back end papers , probably from an English Teacher. 504 pages ... a coffee cup mark on the cover which could not be removed.



Order Now!  BookId: C6-43

Title: The Letters of Horace Walpole
Author: Walpole / Alderton Pink
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: 30.00
Description:The Letters of Horace Walpole By Gamaliel Bradford Jr. March 1906 Issue Saved Stories OF making many editions of letters there is no end. You purchase something which purports to be elaborate, complete, and final, and before you are well at home in it, another collection succeeds, revised, enlarged, and enriched with curious material, rescued from old garrets and worm-eaten trunks, where it has lain for years, unprized and unregarded. In this fashion the enormous correspondence of Voltaire has grown and grown, until it has come to include over ten thousand letters; and as new documents constantly turn up, one asks one’s self in despair whether he is not still despatching them from his present abode, — an idea not wholly lacking in piquancy. Walpole’s correspondence is less extensive than Voltaire’s. But, by a similar process, it has developed from a modest volume or so in the first edition of Lord Orford’s works, through three volumes, and four volumes, and six volumes, to nine large volumes collected by Cunningham in 1857, and now to sixteen volumes carefully edited and elaborately annotated by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. Yet even this immense work does not contain all the material known to exist, since Mrs. Toynbee informs us that a certain number of unpublished original letters of Walpole are in the possession of the Earl of Ilchester, who “was unable to accede to my request for permission to include these letters in the present edition.” Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford ( 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. They have been published by Yale University Press in 48 volumes. In 2017, a volume of Walpole's selected letters was published. Walpole's numerous letters are often used as a historical resource. In one, dating from 28 January 1754, he coined the word serendipity which he said was derived from a "silly fairy tale" he had read, The Three Princes of Serendip.[56] The oft-quoted epigram, "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel", is from a letter of Walpole's to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, on 16 August 1776. The original, fuller version appeared in a letter to Sir Horace Mann on 31 December 1769: "I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept." The book is as new , with dust jacket as new as well. Published in 1938 , a great portrait as a frontis piece was from a drawing by Sir Thomas lawrence (1796). the book is in perfect condition , no writing, spoiling not even the name of the past owner . 287 pages including the index.



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Title: Modern Short stories
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: 25.00
Description:A selection of modern short stories including two of his own by John Buchan , in Nelson edition 1952 . A small hard cover book in very good condition, Blue cloth cover with the Nelson mark in gold on the front of the book, title in gold on the spine, no dust jacket , 239 pages . the stories are as follow : -The Bottle Imp by Stevenson -The Two Householders by A. Quiller-Couch -The secret of the Heather-ale by N. Munro -The green Glen by J Buchan -The return Journey by B. Islip -Troubles with a Bear in the Midi by St.John Lucas -The promotion of the Admiral by M. Roberts -The settlement with Shanghai Smith by M.Roberts -The Far Islands by J Buchan -The road from Colonus by E.M.Foster -The unfortunate Saint by St.John Lucas a good variety of interesting little short stories.some pencilling and annotations,nothing serious, but solid book , clear pages for reading.



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Title: Where the blue Begins
Author: Christopher Morley
Publisher: William Heinemann
Price: 40.00
Description:As I read this novella, my mind changed from at the very start, thinking this is a children's book that was engaging to this is a kind of a complex quirky story about finding the meaning of life. My final analysis is that this story can be read to children but many things will not be understood by them and the adult can read and appreciate this story completely but like life questions are not always answered. This could also be a Christmas read because there is a little Christmas in between the pages but it is more a spiritual read done quite cleverly. Wondering and questioning things pertaining to God and religion is sprinkled throughout, as well as what Freedom is in life. Gissing questions his bachelor life without care after a trio of puppies, he found changes his life. He has always wondered about the BLUE HORIZON and wanting to chase it because he thinks that will bring him the answers, he needs. He goes off into different adventures which he thinks he finds the happiness he seeks but soon finds his enthusiasm brings things to an end. The society is all dogs in NYC, New Jersey and Atlantic City, where the people are is up to your conjecture. The ending was perfect IMO but to tell more would spoil this dog's story. The story in short- Gissing enjoys his single life and finding three abandoned male puppies brings them home. The book is in good condition with its original dust jacket and price ... the book itself is hardcover with blue cloth , gold title and Travellers'library logo on the spine. Clean in and out , no marking or writing but for the name of past owner on the front end paper. 213 pages. What seems like a dog story for children , but is really a more spiritual read.



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Title: Disenchantment
Author: C E Montague
Publisher: Chatto & windus
Price: 18.00
Description:Chatto & Windus, 1929. Hardcover. good 1929. Reprint. 228 pages. dust jacket is kept but seriously damaged. Red cloth. Previous owner's inscriptions to front endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate sunning to spine and edges .a couple of pencil notes on back end paper. Good condition over all . Montague was born and brought up in London, the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left his vocation to marry. He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he gained a First in Classical Moderations (1887) and a Second in Literae Humaniores (1889). In 1890 he was recruited by C. P. Scott to The Manchester Guardian, where he became a leader writer and critic; while Scott was an M.P. between 1895 and 1906 he was de facto editor of the paper. He married Scott's daughter Madeline in 1898. While working at the paper, Montague became a supporter of Irish Home Rule. After the end of World War I he wrote in a strong anti-war vein. He wrote that "War hath no fury like a non-combatant." Disenchantment (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war, was one of the first prose works to strongly criticise the way the war was fought, and is regarded by some as a pivotal text in the development of literature about the First World War. Disenchantment criticised the British Press' coverage of the war and the conduct of the British generals. Montague accused the latter of being influenced by the "public school ethos" which he condemned as a "gallant robust contempt for "swats" and for all who invented new means to new ends and who trained and used their brains with a will".



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Title: William Cowper's Letters
Author: E V Lucas
Publisher: Oxford University press
Price: 100.00
Description:London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, [1907]. 8vo. Probably a first impression in this series. The first issue was in 1907. Hard cover, gilt on spine with title, author and editor, 511 pages . Names of 2 past owners on front end paper, otherwise clean , no marking or spoiling.. Edward Verrall Lucas, CH (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor. William Cowper 26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800 was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him "the best modern poet", whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem "Yardley-Oak" After being institutionalised for insanity, Cowper found refuge in a fervent evangelical Christianity. He continued to suffer doubt about his salvation and, after a dream in 1773, believed that he was doomed to eternal damnation. He recovered, and went on to write more religious hymns. His religious sentiment and association with John Newton (who wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace") led to much of the poetry for which he is best remembered, and to the series of Olney Hymns. His poem "Light Shining out of Darkness" gave English the phrase: "God moves in a mysterious way/ His wonders to perform." He also wrote a number of anti-slavery poems, and his friendship with Newton, who was an avid anti-slavery campaigner, resulted in Cowper's being asked to write in support of the Abolitionist campaign. Cowper wrote a poem called "The Negro's Complaint" (1788) which rapidly became very famous, and was often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 20th-century civil rights movement. He also wrote several other less well-known poems on slavery in the 1780s, many of which attacked the idea that slavery was economically viable.



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Title: English Prose vol II Milton to Gray
Author: W Peacock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Price: 60.00
Description:About 40 different authors and three to four times more short stories in that little book on the English Prose....some of the best from people like Milton, , Bunyan, Samuel Pepys , Jonathan Swift or Joseph Addison , a great sample of styles and some of the best writing. the little book is in very good condition but for the dust jacket which gets a few tears, dating from 1925.The book cover is Green cloth with title and decoration in balck on the spine. the inside of the book is very clean, clear , solid and easy to read , 593 pages .A portrait of Sir Richard Steele on the dust jacket cover .



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Title: The Cornhill Magazine Vol XXXII July to December 1875
Author:
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co
Price: 55.00
Description:Heavy three quart leather hard cover book from 1875 covering the months from July to December 1875 Honestly the most interesting part of these Magazines are usually the 50 or more essays , poetry, travel reports, and more by unnamed authors which you can find aside the main big novels sent in monthly reviews... The book has 760 pages with a few illustrations , in perfect condition and worth collecting .... there are probably famous writers hidden behind these smaller essays...like Hours in the library : Cowper and Rousseau in this volume. This book presenting literary works from the period including 2 major books on monthly sections such as was done with the Dickens publication .... In this case the books were The atonement of Leam Dundas by Eliza Lynn Linton and The hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy.... Not much information about the novels themselves and their authors ... Here is what I got: - The hand of Ethelberta : Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves? Ethelberta Petherwin, alias Berta Chickerel, moves with easy grace between her multiple identities, cleverly managing a tissue of lies to aid her meteoric rise. In The Hand of Ethelberta, Hardy drew on conventions of popular romances, illustrated weeklies, plays, fashion plates and even his wife's diary in this comic story of a woman in control of her destiny. - Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. Born: June 2, 1840, Stinsford, United Kingdom Died: January 11, 1928, Dorchester, United Kingdom - The atonement of Leam Dundas : just a novel without any specific information ... Just the story of the author personality seems to hide the content of her book . An excerpt: Excerpt from The Atonement of Leam Dundas "All the same, if it was such a place as poets love to write of and artists to delineate, it was one also where the poor, stagnating in mind and fortune, live, toil and die, very little removed from the beasts they pasture, and where the wives and daughters of the resident gen try, beating themselves like birds against the wires of their cages, spend half their lives in bewailing the dullness of the other half." - Eliza Lynn Linton was the first female salaried journalist in Britain and the author of over 20 novels. Despite her path-breaking role as an independent woman, many of her essays took a strong anti-feminist slant. Eliza's books are sometimes published under Elizabeth Lynn Linton or as E. Lynn Linton. Eliza Lynn Linton (1822?1898), was a British novelist, essayist, and journalist.



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Title: A History of English Literature
Author: Arthur Compton-Rickett
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: 56.00
Description: Arthur Compton-Rickett (Arthur Rickett until 1908, born 20 February 1869, Canonbury, London – died 8 September 1937) was a lawyer, author, literary historian, and editor. Biography Born with the surname Rickett, he assumed the surname Compton-Rickett in 1908 when his father, Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett assumed the additional surname of Compton. Arthur Compton-Rickett, who had nine siblings, was the eldest of the four sons who were alive in the years from 1901 to 1919. Arthur Rickett attended secondary school at Eastbourne College and at University School, Hastings, before matriculating at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1889. He graduated from Cambridge University with B.A. in 1892, LL.B. in 1894, M.A. in 1896, and LL.D. in 1905. On 27 January 1898 he was called to the bar at Inner Temple. In 1900 he became a lecturer in English literature and history for the Extension Board of the University of London, as well as the London County Council. In 1910 he became an Extension Lecturer for the University of Oxford. He was the general editor of the book series Fireside Library published from 1924 to 1928 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd. He published essays, plays, and several books. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. The book is in very good condition but no dust jacket, Blue cloth cover , , gold lettering for authorname and title of the book both on spine and on the front of the book. Some writings with name of past owner on front end paper. No other writing or spoiling in this thick book telling all there is to know about English literature . 702 pages with index. An excellent reference book



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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Third Edition
Author: collective
Publisher: Oxford university Press
Price: 40.00
Description:The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is the Oxford University Press's large quotation dictionary. It lists short quotations that are common in English language and culture. The 8th edition, with 20,000 quotations over 1126 pages, was published for print and online versions in 2014. The first edition was published in 1941. It begins with a preface explaining the term quotation: The dictionary has been compiled from extensive evidence of the quotations that are actually used . This book is not—like many quotations dictionaries—a subjective anthology of the editor's favourite quotations, but an objective selection of the quotations which are most widely known and used. Popularity and familiarity are the main criteria for inclusion, although no reader is likely to be familiar with all the quotations in this dictionary.... The quotations are drawn from novels, plays, poems, essays, speeches, films radio and television broadcasts, songs, advertisements, and even book titles. It is difficult to draw the line between quotations and similar sayings like proverbs, catch-phrases, and idioms. For example, some quotations (like “The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings”) become proverbial. These are usually included if they can be traced to a particular originator.... Catch-phrases are included if there is evidence that they are widely remembered or used. the book is as new , no dust jacket. Blue cloth cover with title in gold letter on the spine. No writing, no spoiling , book is perfect just as new, 907 pages .... very heavy for shipping but great book.



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Title: The oxford Companion to Canadian history and literature
Author: Norah Story
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Price: 75.00
Description:Oxford Companions is a book series published by Oxford University Press, providing general knowledge within a specific area. The first book published in the series was The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1932), compiled by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey. Norah Story (1902 - March 5, 1978) was a Canadian archivist who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1967 for her Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Born in England, Story emigrated to Canada in 1912.[3] After attending high school in Guelph, Story earned a Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of Toronto in 1926.She completed a Master of Arts in 1927 at the University of Wisconsin. In 1928, Story joined the Public Archives of Canada, where she directed the Manuscripts Division from 1942 to her retirement in 1960. The book is as new but alas coming from a Library (which is now closed) so the book has the usual markings , stickers and stamps of a library book , but it has probably never been open , the inside is perfect no writing or spoiling. The dust jacket has a sticker of course , the blue cloth cover is adorned with title of book in gold lettering on the spine. Heavy reference book , but very good quality , 935 pages including index.



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Title: The Oxford companion to French Literature
Author: Sir Paul Harvey , J E Heseltine
Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press
Price: 60.00
Description:Sir Henry Paul Harvey KCMG CB (born Durant 1 October 1869 – 30 December 1948)[1] was a British diplomat and editor of literary reference works. He compiled The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1932), the first of the Oxford Companions series. Prompted by a suggestion of Kenneth Sisam at the Oxford University Press, Harvey compiled the Oxford Companion to English Literature, the first of the Oxford Companions.mHe subsequently compiled the Companion to Classical Literature, and was working on the Companion to French Literature at the time of his death. This reference covers French literature from earliest times to the beginning of World War II in brief articles on subjects like authors, individual works, and important places. 19611. Reprinted with Corrections. 775 pages with index . No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Maps to back. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.



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Title: Cornhill Magazine vol XXXIII January to June 1876
Author:
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co
Price: 55.00
Description:Heavy three quart leather hard cover book from 1876 covering the months from January to July 1876 . Honestly the most interesting part of these Magazines are usually the 50 or more essays , poetry, travel reports, and more by unnamed authors which you can find aside the main big novels sent in monthly reviews... The book has 760 pages with a few illustrations , in perfect condition and worth collecting .... there are probably famous writers hidden behind these smaller essays...like Matthew Prior in this volume. This book presenting literary works from the period including 2 major books on monthly sections such as was done with the Dickens publication .... In this case the books were The atonement of Leam Dundas by Eliza Lynn Linton and The hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy.... Not much information about the novels themselves and their authors ... Here is what I got: - The hand of Ethelberta : Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves? Ethelberta Petherwin, alias Berta Chickerel, moves with easy grace between her multiple identities, cleverly managing a tissue of lies to aid her meteoric rise. In The Hand of Ethelberta, Hardy drew on conventions of popular romances, illustrated weeklies, plays, fashion plates and even his wife's diary in this comic story of a woman in control of her destiny. - Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. Born: June 2, 1840, Stinsford, United Kingdom Died: January 11, 1928, Dorchester, United Kingdom - The atonement of Leam Dundas : just a novel without any specific information ... Just the story of the author personality seems to hide the countain of her book . - Eliza Lynn Linton was the first female salaried journalist in Britain and the author of over 20 novels. Despite her path-breaking role as an independent woman, many of her essays took a strong anti-feminist slant.



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Title: Arien Album Sammlung Music book
Author: Alfred Dorffel
Publisher: C F Peters
Price: 40.00
Description:Since I do not speak German and I am not familiar with Music book , I will just list what it says and you will be the judge of it.... Arien Album Sammlung Beruhmter Arien fur Alt mit Pianofortebegleitung revidiert von Alfred Dorfell 179 pages , used but clean , back page missing.



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Title: The First Circle
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: Harper & Row
Price: 45.00
Description:First edition Solzhenitsyn . Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)was a Russian writer. A prominent Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system. Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, Solzhenitsyn lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced Marxism–Leninism. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for criticizing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a private letter. As a result of his experience in prison and the camps, he gradually became a philosophically minded Eastern Orthodox Christian. As a result of the Khrushchev Thaw, Solzhenitsyn was released and exonerated. He pursued writing novels about repression in the Soviet Union and his experiences. He published his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962, with approval from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, which was an account of Stalinist repressions. Solzhenitsyn's last work to be published in the Soviet Union was Matryona's Place in 1963. Following the removal of Khrushchev from power, the Soviet authorities attempted to discourage Solzhenitsyn from continuing to write. He continued to work on further novels and their publication in other countries including Cancer Ward in 1966, In the First Circle in 1968, August 1914 in 1971, and The Gulag Archipelago in 1973, the publication of which outraged the Soviet authorities. In 1974 Solzhenitsyn lost his Soviet citizenship and was flown to West Germany. In 1976, he moved with his family to the United States, where he continued to write. In 1990, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, his citizenship was restored, and four years later he returned to Russia, where he remained until his death in 2008. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature",and The Gulag Archipelago was a highly influential work that "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state", and sold tens of millions of copies. In the First Circle also published as The First Circle) is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, released in 1968. A more complete version of the book was published in English in 2009. The novel depicts the lives of the occupants of a sharashka (a research and development bureau made of Gulag inmates) located in the Moscow suburbs. This novel is highly autobiographical. Many of the prisoners (zeks) are technicians or academics who have been arrested under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code in Joseph Stalin's purges following the Second World War. Unlike inhabitants of other Gulag labor camps, the sharashka zeks were adequately fed and enjoyed good working conditions; however, if they found disfavor with the authorities, they could be instantly shipped to Siberia. The title is an allusion to Dante's first circle, or limbo of Hell in The Divine Comedy, wherein the philosophers of Greece, and other virtuous pagans, live in a walled green garden. They are unable to enter Heaven, as they were born before Christ, but enjoy a small space of relative freedom in the heart of Hell. The book is as new but no dust jacket , very clean in and out , no name of past owner , no writing or spoiling inside , just perfect , 580 pages .



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Title: History of the College of St John the Evangelist , Cambridge volumes I and II
Author: Thomas Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Price: 250.00
Description: Thomas Baker (1656-1740) One of the most substantial collections of early printed books left to the Library was given by Thomas Baker, nonjuring clergyman and antiquary, who gained his BA from John's in 1678, MA in 1681, and became Ashton Fellow in 1680. From the age of seventeen he lived most of his life in the College, except for a brief period as rector of Long Newton in the diocese of Durham, which living he had to relinquish in 1690 when he refused to swear the oaths of loyalty required by the recently installed William III. Baker returned to St John's disappointed at the disruption to his career, but embarked upon the production of a work on knowledge entitled Reflections upon Learning, before devoting himself to his antiquarian studies and the collecting of books and manuscripts. Later in life he was to experience further disappointment when he was removed from his fellowship for refusing to take an oath of abjuration in 1717. He looked upon this as a disgrace and even considered leaving St John's and Cambridge. He stayed however and died of a stroke at the age of 83. The bulk of his collections were left to his College Library despite his disillusionment, the total number being so great that the dwarf cases in the Upper Library had to be raised to accommodate them. Thomas Baker's writings included a history of the college, which was edited by John Mayor and published in 1869. Volume 1 begins with an account of the founding of the college in 1511, and goes on to list donors and details of their endowments, and the first scholars of the college. It also contains information about ordinances, petitions, and important individuals. Baker's sources include written documentation (for example the 'thick black book' and the 'white vellum book') as well as oral traditions. His work is not merely a register of dates and numbers, but a fascinating account of two centuries of committed work and political manoeuvres underlying the later success of this rich and influential college." The price is for the two hard cover volumes, from 1869. Brown cover with gold name of author and title as well as date of edition in gold lettering . This is of course the first edition , no dust jacket ....the second volume is still uncut . The books are very clean and there are no writing or spoiling of any kind, . The name of the past owner is on the end paper of the first volume, a student from Cambridge of course in 1926. Only one third of the first volume' s pages has been cut open and the rest has not been read yet !



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Title: Principles of Literary Criticism ... A Study of Literary Judgment.
Author: I A Richards
Publisher: Kegan paul, Trench, Trubner
Price: 95.00
Description:Richards' practical critique is based on the workings of the mind as a component of the neurological system and impulses. Richards describes a poet as someone who can organize his experiences and link his many impulses into "a single ordered response" in his book Principles of Literary Criticism Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential æsthetic object. Richards' intellectual contributions to the establishment of the literary methodology of the New Criticism are presented in the books The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (1923), by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism (1924), Practical Criticism (1929), and The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936). The book is in great condition, First edition , complete with original dust jacket with price. The book istself , hard cover with an orange cloth cover , gold letter for author and title , on the spine. End paper with name of past owner , , other wise no marking or spoiling of any kind in the book ...364 pages plu several appendix folio with poems and index. A good book to collect.



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Title: Connie Loring's Ambition
Author: Lilian Garis
Publisher: Grosset Dunlap
Price: 16.00
Description:
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