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Search Books Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. To search for a book, you can fill in as many or as few of the fields below as you wish. If you are not getting any results, try leaving some of the fields blank. Order Now! BookId: C5-5 Title: The complete Works by William Shakespeare Author: William Shakespeare / Peter Alexander Publisher: Collins Price: 60.00 Description: A new Edition, edited with an Introduction and a Glossary by Peter Alexander .Of course this is a pretty thick book, green cloth cover with title and name of author in gold letter on the spine, 1376 pages including the index and appendix of notesThe book is in a fair/good condition, the spine is getting loose and may need some slight repair , the pages are clean, on fine paper, no marking or spoiling , name of past owner on end paper. William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Order Now! BookId: C5-6 Title: Sartor Resartus ; Lectures on Heroes ; Chartism ; Past and Present. Author: Thomas Carlyle Publisher: Chapman and hall Price: 50.00 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. 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. Sartor Resartus satirizes the pursuit of a truth that does not really exist, as the Romantics believed that people could never truly understand the world around them. The text also satirizes biographers who consider themselves more important than their subjects. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, published by James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840 about prominent historical figures In his lectures on heroes, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, Thomas Carlyle uses various examples of great men throughout recorded history to convey his notion of a Hero. This Hero for him defines masculinity, what every man should strive to emulate. In Chartism Carlyle takes on the 1834 Poor Law Act and the draconian version of laissez-faire that these policies imposed , and he interprets the Charter movement as a natural and predictable response to social and political indifference to the conditions of working people. Past and Present is Carlyle's attempt to diagnose the crisis sweeping Britain in the 1840s, “the Hungry Forties”. The fragment in the NAEL is a series of dire though vague warnings of revolutions to come if Britain's ruling class doesn't mend its ways. The book is in good condition in spite of its age , published in 1888, the portrait of Carlyle is on frontis piece by the page next to the title. The cover is blue cloth with title and author name in gold on the spine. The two first parts cover 375 pages including index , the two other parts cover 308 pages including index . A thick book , pages are clean , spine is solid, easy to read .... pencil markings on the first section, name and date of past owner on front end paper.It may be old but a good book. Order Now! BookId: C5-7 Title: Adam Bede Author: George Eliot Publisher: Collins Clear-type Price: 150.00 Description: A beautiful hardcover , blue cloth cover with art nouveau decoration , looking like a gate with lotuses, names of author and title in black on the cover , in gold on the spine . Illustrated By A Pearse , end papers with illustration as well. 488 pages , the text pages are pretty old and very likely brittle , but I found no marking, writing or spoiling on all the pages . End paper first page with name of past owner and dated 1909 , book must be from 1905 or about . Adam Bede was the first novel by the English author Mary Ann Evans, and was published in 1859. It was published with a pseudonisme, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. Published in 1859, it is set 60 years earlier in the fictional village of Hayslope, where a morally-upright carpenter named Adam Bede is in love with Hetty Sorrel, a pretty and self-absorbed dairymaid. When Hetty falls pregnant by the young squire of the village, she runs away, gives birth in secret and kills her baby. Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Order Now! BookId: C5-8 Title: Literary Essays Author: Lord Macaulay Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: 45.00 Description: Thomas Babington Macaulay was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer. These essays are many of his historical essays contributed to the 'Edinburgh Review'.Those Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review (1843) is a collection of articles by Thomas Babington Macaulay, later Lord Macaulay. They have been acclaimed for their readability, but criticized for their inflexible attachment to the attitudes of the Whig school of history. 1923. Humphtry Milford Oxford University Press . Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles, green gilt decorated boards. Pages are discoloured. Foxing and marks on some pages and page edges but it does not affect the text. Most of the book is clean , but the section about the Life and writings of Addison has been marked with some notes in red , no doubt by a student .... name of past owner on end papers dated 1928 and more notes on Addison on back endpapers...a total of 702 pages including index . Order Now! BookId: C5-9 Title: Lolita Author: Vladimir Nabokov Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson Price: 45.00 Description: The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he kidnaps and sexually abuses after becoming her stepfather.The novel was originally written in English and first published in Paris in 1955 by Olympia Press. The novel has been twice adapted into film: first by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and later by Adrian Lyne in 1997. It has also been adapted several times for the stage and has been the subject of two operas, two ballets, and an acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, Broadway musical. It has been included in many lists of best books, such as Time's List of the 100 Best Novels, Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, Bokklubben World Library, Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, and The Big Read. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899[a] – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin was an expatriate Russian and Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin, where he met his wife. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States, where he began writing in English. Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945 and lived mostly on the East Coast before returning to Europe in 1961, where he settled in Montreux, Switzerland. From 1948 to 1959, Nabokov was a professor of Russian literature at Cornell University. Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita ranked fourth on Modern Library's list of the 100 best 20th-century novels in 2007 and is considered one of the greatest 20th-century works of literature.Nabokov's Pale Fire, published in 1962, was ranked 53rd on the same list. His memoir, Speak, Memory, published in 1951, is considered among the greatest nonfiction works of the 20th century, placing eighth on Random House's ranking of 20th-century works. Nabokov was a seven-time finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. He also was an expert lepidopterist and composer of chess problems. the book in a black cloth cover , no dust jacket , in good condition , no marking but for the name of past owner on the front end paper, inside the book is clean , no marking or spoiling , 319 pages. Order Now! BookId: C6-0005 Title: An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace.... and the Terms of its Perpetuation Author: Thorstein Veblen Publisher: B W Huebsch Price: 150.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: C6-1 Title: Far from the madding Crowd Author: Thomas hardy Publisher: MacMillan Price: 40.00 Description: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth published novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. The novel is set in Thomas Hardy's Wessex in rural southwest England, as had been his earlier Under the Greenwood Tree. It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. It describes the life and relationships of Bathsheba Everdene with her lonely neighbour William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Troy. On publication, critical notices were plentiful and mostly positive. Hardy revised the text extensively for the 1895 edition and made further changes for the 1901 edition. The novel has an enduring legacy. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 48 on the BBC's survey The Big Read,while in 2007, it was ranked 10th on The Guardian's list of greatest love stories of all time. The novel has also been dramatised several times, notably in the Oscar-nominated 1967 film directed by John Schlesinger. Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) 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. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. Two of his novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Order Now! BookId: C6-10 Title: Imaginary Conversations Author: Walter Savage Landor Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: 60.00 Description: Another great little book by Oxford university Press .... Imaginary Conversations is Walter Savage Landor's most celebrated prose work. Begun in 1823, sections were constantly revised and were ultimately published in a series of five volumes. The conversations were in the tradition of dialogues with the dead, a genre begun in Classical times that had a popular European revival in the 17th century and after. Their subjects range over philosophical, political and moral themes, and are designed to give a dramatic sense of the contrasting personalities and attitudes involved. The work The Imaginary Conversations were begun when Landor was living in Florence and were initially published as they were completed between 1824 and 1829, by which time they filled three volumes. The dialogues, not yet divided into categories, were initially given the composite title Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. With their success Landor continued to write more, as well as to polish and add to those already published. Some appeared first in literary reviews, as for example the conversation between "Southey and Porson" on William Wordsworth's poetry in 1823, predating the first published series of conversations in the following year. Various supplemented editions followed each other until there were five volumes containing nearly 150 conversations. Placing the conversations in the context of his complete works, the reviewer of The Athenaeum commented that "his prose style is poetical in conception and dramatic in utterance; his conversations are, as has been said, one-act dramas, and his dramas are but dialogues in verse." His biographer Sidney Colvin, too, saw in "the excellence of Landor's English, the strength, dignity, and harmony of his prose style, qualities in which he was obviously without a living rival." Against acceptance of the arguments there, however, must be set the evident bias of the author's viewpoint, a tendency satirised in a parody of the time and confirmed by subsequent criticism. 466 pages , in very clear typing, a lot of famous people are there represented from Mahomet to Calvin, From Catheri II of Russia to Ann Boleyn or Mary Stuart .... fascinating for the historian. The book still have its original dust jacket , from the world's Classics, # 196, in perfect condition. the book itself , navy blue clothe with gold title and author name on the spine, , a green ribbon to mark your pages, no marking, spoiling or writing anywhere in. No past owner name either. An introduction by Ernest de Selincourt . Order Now! BookId: C6-11 Title: The small House at Allington Author: Anthony Trollope Publisher: Oxford university Press Price: 50.00 Description: Anthony Trollope 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882 was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other topical matters. Trollope's literary reputation had already dipped during the last years of his life, but he had regained somewhat of a following by the mid-20th century. In all, Trollope wrote 47 novels, 42 short stories, and five travel books, as well as nonfiction books titled Thackeray (1879) and Lord Palmerston (1882). The Small House at Allington is a novel by English novelist Anthony Trollope. It first appeared as a serial in the 1862 July to December edition of the Cornhill Magazine, and ended its run in the July to December edition of the following year. It was later published 1864 as a two volume novel. It is the fifth book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, preceded by Framley Parsonage and followed by The Last Chronicle of Barset. It enjoyed a revival in popularity in the early 1990s when the British prime minister, John Major, declared it as his favourite book. The book is as new , From oxford University Press , a double volume , with dust jacket in perfect condiyion, the book has a navy blue cloth cover with gold name of author and title on the spine, the thirty first chapters make 420 pages , the next 30 chapters make 425 page or 825 pages all together. The book is very clean , no name of past owner , no marking, no spoiling .... It may have been wet at one time as most pages show a creasing not explained and not at all in the way for lecture , .... Order Now! BookId: C6-12 Title: Barchester Towers Author: Anthony Trollope Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: 35.00 Description: Anthony Trollope 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882 was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other topical matters. Trollope's literary reputation had already dipped during the last years of his life, but he had regained somewhat of a following by the mid-20th century. In all, Trollope wrote 47 novels, 42 short stories, and five travel books, as well as nonfiction books titled Thackeray (1879) and Lord Palmerston (1882). The book is very good , From oxford University Press ,in the World's classics collection, with dust jacket in fair condition (time used), the book has a green cloth cover with gold name of author and title on the spine,506 pages , name of past owner on front end paper. Barchester Towers is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longmans in 1857. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, preceded by The Warden and followed by Doctor Thorne. Among other things it satirizes the antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Trollope began writing this book in 1855. He wrote constantly and made himself a writing-desk so he could continue writing while travelling by train. "Pray know that when a man begins writing a book he never gives over", he wrote in a letter during this period. "The evil with which he is beset is as inveterate as drinking – as exciting as gambling". In his autobiography, Trollope observed "In the writing of Barchester Towers I took great delight. The bishop and Mrs. Proudie were very real to me, as were also the troubles of the archdeacon and the loves of Mr. Slope". When he submitted his finished work, his publisher, William Longman, initially turned it down, finding much of it to be full of "vulgarity and exaggeration". Recent critics offer a more positive opinion: "Barchester Towers is many readers' favourite Trollope", wrote The Guardian, which included it in its 2009 list of "1000 novels everyone must read". Order Now! BookId: C6-13 Title: Shakespeare Criticism, a selection Author: S Nichol Smith Publisher: Oxford university Press Price: 28.00 Description: David Nichol Smith FBA (16 September 1875 – 18 January 1962) was a Scottish literary scholar and Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. There were many forms of Criticism of Shakespeare's works over the years , from Ben Johnson to Thomas Carlyle and in this little books you will find many people you know who had some reason to criticize one play or another , the two main ones were Coleridge and Hazlitt. the book is old and in fair condition, red-brown cloth cover, no dust jacket, name of author and title in Black on the spine, names of 2 different past owners on end-paper, solid and clean , 416 pages. No apparent writing or spoiling inside book. Order Now! BookId: C6-14 Title: English Critical Essays (nineteenth century) Author: Edmund D, Jones Publisher: Oxford university press Price: 60.00 Description: The essays here brought together are meant to illustrate English literary criticism during the nineteenth century. A companion volume representative of Renaissance and Neo-classic criticism will, it is hoped, be issued at a future date. Meanwhile this volume may well go forth alone. For the nineteenth century forms an epoch in English literature whose beginnings are more clearly defined than those of most literary epochs. The publication of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798, and of Wordsworth’s Preface to the second edition in 1800, show the Romantic Movement grown conscious and deliberate, with results that have coloured the whole stream of English poetry and criticism ever since. The greater part of the present collection deals with general principles rather than with criticisms of individual books or authors. The nineteenth century, having discarded the dogmas and ‘rules’ of Neo-classicism, had perforce to investigate afresh the Theory of Poetry, and though no systematic treatment of the subject in all its bearings appeared, some valuable contributions were made, the most notable of which came from the poets themselves. The extracts from the Biographia Literaria are placed next to the Wordsworthian doctrines which they criticize; otherwise the arrangement of the essays is chronological. American criticism is represented—inadequately, but, it is hoped, not unworthily—by the last two essays. William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 Poetry and Poetic Diction. (1800) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 Wordsworth’s Theory of Diction. (1817) Metrical Composition. (1817) William Blake, 1757-1827 The Canterbury Pilgrims. (1809) Charles Lamb, 1775-1834 On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation. (1811) Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822 A Defence of Poetry. (1821) William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 My First Acquaintance with Poets. (1823) John Keble, 1792-1866 Sacred Poetry. (1825) John Henry Newman, 1801-1890 Poetry with reference to Aristotle’s Poetics. (1829) Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881 The Hero as Poet. Dante; Shakespeare. (1840) James Henry Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859 An Answer to the Question: What is Poetry? (1844) Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888 The Choice of Subjects in Poetry. (1853) John Ruskin, 1819-1900 Of the Pathetic Fallacy. (1856) John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873 Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties. (1833, revised 1859) Walter Bagehot, 1826-1877 Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate and Grotesque Art in English Poetry. (1864) Walter Horatio Pater, 1839-1894 Coleridge’s Writings. (1866) Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 Shakespeare; or, the Poet. (1850) James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Wordsworth. (1875) Hardcover book witha green cloth cover in perfect condition. Gold title and name of author on the spine, book is solid, clean, clear for reading . 610 pages with a few pencillings through but no serious spoiling or writing, a red ribbon page marker. Name of past owner on front end paper, no dust jacket. A very good book. Order Now! BookId: C6-15 Title: English Critical essays ( Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries) Author: Edmund D Jones Publisher: Oxford university Press Price: 45.00 Description: An edition of English critical essays (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries) selected and ed. by Edmund D. Jones,1924... on the same format as the preceding book by Jones , the period of Historic literature from Renaissance to Nineteenth century. Sir Philip Sidney: An apology for poetry. Thomas Campion: From Observations in the art of English poesy. Samuel Daniel: A defense of rhyme. Francis Bacon: The nature of poetry. Ben Jonson: Extracts from Timber. To the memory of William Shakespeare. John Milton: Preface to Samson Agonistes. John Dryden: An essay on dramatic poesy. Preface to the Fables. John Dennis: From The advancement and reformation of modern poetry. Alexander Pope: An essay on criticism. Joseph Addison: Chevy Chase. Criticisms on Paradise lost. The fairy way of writing. Thomas Gray: Poetic diction. Dodsley's Miscellany. Edward Young: Conjectures on original compostion. Richard Hurd: Heroic and Gothic manners. Spenser and Milton. The faerie queene. Samuel Johnson: Dryden as critic and poet. Gray. Thomas Warton: Preface to Milton's minor poems. Near fine copy in the originalvgreen cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 460 p. Notes; 1924 reprint of 1922 first edition. Series; World's classics. Subjects; Criticism. Poetry. English poetry History and criticism. name of past owner on end paper. Order Now! BookId: C6-16 Title: A little book of English Prose Author: Annie Barnett Publisher: Methuen Price: 80.00 Description: THE Editor of this Little Book has endeavoured to present the chosen passages as nearly as possible in the form in which they left the hands of their authors. Something, indeed, has been conceded to modern punctuation where the original seemed unduly misleading, but the spelling has been left as the authors themselves apparently intended it to be. Their seeming arbitrariness is often in truth compliance with strict rules, though possibly of the writer's own making; and when variety in spelling is no serious obstacle to ready apprehension, it is surely to be preferred to the uniformity founded On the pronunciation of the majority, with which we are threatened. The explanatory notes that have been added are so few and so brief that they hardly need an apology; Some readers will still perhaps find a few difficult words in the early part of the book, but the Editor has had in view chiefly those who will prefer by a little consideration of the context to find the key to a doubtful passage themselves, without any impertinent aids to reflection. It will be noticed that two translations have been admitted, passages from Lord Berners' Froissart and Sir Thomas North's Plutarch. It has seemed a sufficient justification for their inclusion that they come from works of standard importance in the line of great English literature, from translations by men of letters into English which is both their own and significant.] The Introduction to this Little Book has been written by Joseph Addison, Esq., and will be found on page 135. Several readers may be expected to have different "relishes," and to no one can an anthology be so satisfying as to its compiler; but it is hoped that this one will be reasonably acceptable, and it may at least claim to be as truly representative of the progress of English prose writing as its small bulk permits. ISLEWORTH, July 1900. This little book is quite rare particularly in the 1919 edition. In its original dust jacket in perfect condition, the little green cloth hard cover is as well in fine condition, no spoiling , writing or not even a past owner name , looks new. a frontis piece is the portrait of Joseph Addison from a painting by Godfrey Kneller. the selections are 82 of the finest English writers from Chaucer onwards . 335 pages . A great little book. Order Now! BookId: C6-17 Title: Myths & legends of many lands Author: Evelyn Smith Publisher: Thomas Nelson Price: 20.00 Description: Condition: Good. 1935. Reprinted. 153 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Volume I. More prominent to text block edges, paste downs and free endpapers binding very firm. No inscription to front free end paper, no past owner name.. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining. Great stories and Legends from Greece and from Northern Europe, Celtic Britain, Egypt Rome, 22 stories in all. Great illustrations. Originally designed for children (even used in Schools at some time ) but should be of interest for anybody wanting to catch up on their knowledge of the old myths , Great little book. Order Now! BookId: C6-18 Title: John Burnet of Barns , a romance Author: John Buchan Publisher: Thomas Nelson Price: 35.00 Description: John Burnet of Barns is an 1898 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, published when he was 23 years of age. His second novel, it had first appeared in serial form in Chambers's Journal earlier that year.The novel follows the adventures of John Burnet (a fictional relative of the 17th-century cleric and historian Gilbert Burnet), supposed to have been born at Barns in Tweeddale, Scotland in 1666. It is written as an autobiography, with the eponymous writer detailing the events of his life as a first-person narrative. Buchan was not entirely satisfied with the novel, and wrote to a friend, "To tell the truth I am rather ashamed of it; it is so very immature and boyish. I had no half serious interest in fiction when I wrote it and the result is a sort of hotch-potch". Early reviews were mixed, but confirmed that Buchan was a writer to watch. The Labour Leader opined that it was "a most remarkable work for so young a man". David Daniell in The Interpreter's House (1975) stated that, in spite of Buchan's faults of inexperience, this is a fine book for a first long novel. He considered it to be a fascinating 'hotch-potch' in which Buchan, with evidence of a lot of thought, reworked big themes. Daniell concluded that the book is "a clever, searching analysis of non-commitment done with a good deal of novelistic skill, at the fringes of a more frightening darkness." Red cloth cover on this Thomas nelson edition, gold lettering for both name of author and title on the spine . Initials of Buchan in gold on the front cover. Inside is clean and solid , no marking or spoiling, no name of past owner , some spots on the cover(coffee tracking probably) , mostly from shelf use , 445 pages.no dust jacket .... good book Order Now! BookId: C6-19 Title: The Essays of Elia Author: Charles lamb Publisher: Thomas Nelson Price: 25.00 Description: Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature". Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. The essays in the collection first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. Lamb's essays were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions throughout the nineteenth century. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers; the essays "established Lamb in the title he now holds, that of the most delightful of English essayists." Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles, and after that essay the name stuck. American editions of both the Essays and the Last Essays were published in Philadelphia in 1828. At the time, American publishers were unconstrained by copyright law, and often reprinted materials from English books and periodicals; so the American collection of the Last Essays preceded its British counterpart by five years. Critics have traced the influence of earlier writers in Lamb's style, notably Sir Thomas Browne and Robert Burton – writers who also influenced Lamb's contemporary and acquaintance, Thomas De Quincey. The book is published by Nelson in and around the 1940s. Red cloth cover, hard cover , no dust jacket , the book is in good condition. Spine is solid , title and author name on the spine in gold letters, 378 pages. the front end paper wears the name of the past owner , but out of that no marking or spoiling in the book. Order Now! BookId: C6-2 Title: The Trumpet-Major Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: MacMillan Price: 22.00 Description: The full title is The Trumpet-major , John Loveday, a soldier in the War with Buonaparte and Robert , his brother, first Mate in the Merchant Service . A tale . edited by Mrs F S Boas. The Trumpet-Major is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1880, and his only historical novel, and Hardy included it with his "romances and fantasies". It concerns the heroine, Anne Garland, being pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the eponymous trumpet major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Bob, a flighty sailor; and Festus Derriman, the cowardly nephew of the local squire. Unusually for a Hardy novel, the ending is not entirely tragic; however, there remains an ominous element in the probable fate of one of the main characters. The novel is set in Weymouth during the Napoleonic wars; the town was then anxious about the possibility of invasion by Napoleon. Of the two brothers, John fights with Wellington in the Peninsular War, and Bob serves with Nelson at Trafalgar. The Napoleonic Wars was a setting that Hardy would use again in his play, The Dynasts, and it borrows from the same source material. Edward Neill has called the novel an attempt to repeat the success of his earlier work Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), after the limited success of his intervening works. The novel originally appeared in 1880 in the Evangelical serial Good Words (January–December) with 33 illustrations by John Collier. The three-volume first edition was published in October 1880. Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) 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. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. Two of his novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Order Now! BookId: C6-20 Title: Mansfield Park Author: Jane Austen Publisher: J M Dent Price: 40.00 Description: Jane Austen 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit critique of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her deft use of social commentary, realism and biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars. The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815), were a modest success but brought her little fame in her lifetime. She wrote two other novels—Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818—and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript, the short epistolary novel Lady Susan, and the unfinished novel The Watsons. Austen's status grew after her death; her six full-length novels have rarely been out of print since. A significant transition in her reputation occurred in 1833, when her novels were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series (illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering and sold as a set). They gradually gained wide acclaim and popular readership. In 1869, fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced a compelling version of her writing career and supposedly uneventful life to an eager audience. Her work has inspired a large number of critical essays and has been included in many literary anthologies. Her novels have also inspired many films, including 1940's Pride and Prejudice, 1995's Sense and Sensibility and 2016's Love & Friendship. Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821. The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood. From early on critical interpretation has been diverse, differing particularly over the character of the heroine, Austen's views about theatrical performance and the centrality or otherwise of ordination and religion, and on the question of slavery. Some of these problems have been highlighted in the several later adaptations of the story for stage and screen. the book is an older edition of J M Dent . Green cloth cover with nameof author and title in gold on the spine and as well on the cover., no dust jacket, no past owner name , no writing or spoiling within the text , 422 pages . aA very decent book. Order Now! BookId: C6-21 Title: Typhoon ; and other stories Author: Joseph Conrad Publisher: The Copp Clark Co Price: 28.00 Description: Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ( 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world. Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parcelled out among three occupying empires and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche. Postcolonial analysis of Conrad's work has stimulated substantial debate; in 1975, author Chinua Achebe published an article denouncing Heart of Darkness as racist and dehumanising, whereas other scholars, including Adam Hochschild and Peter Edgerly Firchow, have rebutted Achebe's view. Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in January–March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903. In this book it is followe by three other short stories, Amy Foster ; Falk: a reminiscense, and To-morrow. the book is in good condition, Burgundy red cloth cover with nameof author and title in gold on the front cover, in black on the spine. No spoiling or writing inside, no name of past owner and no dust jacket. still very solid spine, clear and easy to read , 304 pages . Order Now! BookId: C6-22 Title: Biographia Literaria : Essays on Criticism of Literature . Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Publisher: J M Dent Price: 40.00 Description: he Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes. Its working title was 'Autobiographia Literaria'. The formative influences on the work were William Wordsworth's theory of poetry, the Kantian view of imagination as a shaping power (for which Coleridge later coined the neologism "esemplastic"), various post-Kantian writers including F. W. J. von Schelling, and the earlier influences of the empiricist school, including David Hartley and the Associationist psychology. The work is long and seemingly loosely structured, and although there are autobiographical elements, it is not a straightforward or linear autobiography. Its subtitle, 'Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions', alludes to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, suggesting that the formal qualities of the Biographia are intentional.The form is also meditative. As Kathleen Wheeler shows, the work is playful and acutely aware of the active role of the reader in reading. Critics have reacted strongly to the Biographia Literaria. Some early readers thought it demonstrated Coleridge's opiate-driven decline into ill health, and soon after Coleridge's death he was accused of plagiarising Schelling. By the early twentieth century, however, it had emerged as a major if puzzling work in criticism and theory, with George Saintsbury placing Coleridge next to Aristotle and Longinus in his influential History of 1902-04. Recent criticism has been divided between those who think that the Biographia's philosophical pretensions were illusory, and those who take the philosophy seriously. While contemporary critics recognize the degree to which Coleridge borrowed from his sources (with passages lifted straight from Schelling), they also see in the work far more structure and planning than is apparent on first glance. The book is part of the Everyman's Library, , orange cloth cover, no dust jacket, author name and title in black on the spine. The inside is very clean , no marking or spoiling , but for the name of past owner on second page of the end paper, a total of 334 pages . Book is solid, clean , but not so easy to read as sometimes philosophy may be. Order Now! BookId: C6-23 Title: Milton 's Prose Author: Malcom Wallace Publisher: Oxford university Press Price: 65.00 Description: 8vo., original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy First edition published By Oxford University Press in 1925. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. #293. Selected and edited by Malcom W Walace. in perfect condition , no marking or spoiling of any kind, no name of past owner , 476 pages, a few cornered pages. John Milton (9 December 1606 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden. Paradise Lost elevated Milton's reputation as one of history's greatest poets.He also served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. Milton achieved fame and recognition during his lifetime; his celebrated Areopagitica (1644), written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship, is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. His desire for freedom extended beyond his philosophy and was reflected in his style, which included his introduction of new words (coined from Latin and Ancient Greek) to the English language. He was the first modern writer to employ unrhymed verse outside of the theatre or translations. Next to his poetry he launched a career as pamphleteer and publicist under Charles I's increasingly autocratic rule and Britain's breakdown into constitutional confusion and ultimately civil war. While once considered dangerously radical and heretical, Milton contributed to a seismic shift in accepted public opinions during his life that ultimately elevated him to public office in England. The Restoration of 1660 and his loss of vision later deprived Milton much of his public platform, but he used the period to develop many of his major works. Order Now! BookId: C6-24 Title: The Art of Thinking Author: Ernest Dimnet Publisher: Jonathan Cape Price: 55.00 Description: Ernest Dimnet (1866–1954) was a French priest, writer and lecturer, and author of "The Art of Thinking", a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s. Dimnet was born in France. He served as canon at the Cambrai Cathedral and was a professor at the Stanislas College in Paris. He started writing in for English magazines in 1898. He moved to the United States after the First World War and worked as a lecturer at Harvard University and the Williamstown Institute of Politics. His most notable book was The Art of Thinking was on the best-seller lists in the US in the 1930s, alongside Dale Carnegie's self-help works, but it is mostly forgotten today. The book invites the reader into a state of honesty where he evaluates himself as a thoughtful human being. Dimnet brings up the fact that we too often only "think of thinking" about something instead of actually thinking. He provides useful tips and advice on how to improve one's concentration, and even endeavors to answer some timeless and all-important questions such as "How do I find myself?" Finding answers to these questions, Dimnet explains, is crucial to the production of any original thought. We must know ourselves in order to think for ourselves. The book is in fine condition , kept under transparent wrap and a dust jacket original including its price . The book has a blue cloth cover with lettering in gold including the Travellers'library logo on the spine. No name of pas owner, no marking, no spoiling , pages are very clean and clear , spine is solid, almost fine condition, 254 pages. Order Now! BookId: C6-25 Title: Speeches and letters on American affairs Author: Edmund Burke Publisher: Everyman's library J M dent Price: 50.00 Description: Edmund Burke ( 12 January 1729– 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These views were expressed in his A Vindication of Natural Society. He criticised the actions of the British government towards the American colonies, including its taxation policies. Burke also supported the rights of the colonists to resist metropolitan authority, although he opposed the attempt to achieve independence. He is remembered for his support for Catholic emancipation, the Impeachment of Warren Hastings from the East India Company, and his staunch opposition to the French Revolution. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke asserted that the revolution was destroying the fabric of good society and traditional institutions of state and society and condemned the persecution of the Catholic Church that resulted from it. This led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig Party which he dubbed the Old Whigs as opposed to the pro–French Revolution New Whigs led by Charles James Fox. In the 19th century, Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals.Subsequently, in the 20th century, he became widely regarded, especially in the United States, as the philosophical founder of conservatism. Book is in Fine condition , as new, no past owner name , no writing, no spoiling of any kind. Under dust jacket and extra wrapping the beige cloth hard cover has gold lettering for title and author name on the spine. the dust jacket is orange , Everyman's library standard. Pages are very clean , easy to read , 287 pages. Order Now! BookId: C6-26 Title: The private papers of Henry Ryecroft Author: George Gissing Publisher: Constable Price: 25.00 Description: George Robert Gissing was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best-known works have reappeared in modern editions. They include The Nether World, New Grub Street and The Odd Women. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft is a semi-fictional autobiographical work by George Gissing in which the author casts himself as the editor of the diary of a deceased acquaintance, selecting essays for posthumous publication. Observing "how suitable many of the reflections were to the month with which they were dated", he explains that he "hit upon the thought of dividing the little book into four chapters, named after the seasons". It was partly because of the seasonal arrangement, and Ryecroft's obvious love of the natural world, that the book gained widespread popularity in Japan, being introduced as early as 1908 by the scholar of English literature Tokuboku Hirata (1873–1943). Other contributing factors were the classic unaffected style, which made the text suitable for educational and examination purposes, and Ryecroft's frank assessments of society and politics, which may have endeared him to the young academics of the country in the early part of the 20th century. this is an older book from 1918 and the condition is under average,. The blue cloth cover is a bit soiled , the title and author name are hard to read , the book is clean inside no past owner or writing, spoiling but the spine is broken about half way through , 298 pages including index ... A good reading copy but not a collectible unless you have it repaired. Order Now! BookId: C6-27 Title: Kim Author: Rudyard Kipling Publisher: MacMillan St Martin's Classics Price: 38.00 Description: A special edition for Canadian schools. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) 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." Kim, novel by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1901. Kim, Kipling's final and most famous novel, chronicles the adventures of an Irish orphan in India who becomes the disciple of a Tibetan monk while learning espionage from the British secret service.Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901. the book is very clean, solid , red cloth cover with name of author and title in gold on the spine . No dust jacket, a couple of pencil marks including name of past owner , but the inside of the book is perfect , 422 pages including a glossary of Indian terms and words. Order Now! BookId: C6-28 Title: The Way of all Flesh Author: Samuel Butler Publisher: Jonathan Cape Travellers' Library Price: 35.00 Description: Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh). Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. The Way of All Flesh (sometimes called Ernest Pontifex, or the Way of All Flesh) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published posthumously in 1903 it was accepted as part of the general reaction against Victorianism. Butler's first literary executor, R. A. Streatfeild, made substantial changes to Butler's manuscript. The original manuscript was first published in 1964 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, edited by Daniel F. Howard. The title is a quotation from the Douay–Rheims Bible's translation of the Biblical Hebrew expression, to "go the way of all the earth", meaning "to die", in the Books of Kings: "I am going the way of all flesh: take thou courage and shew thyself a man." (1 Kings 2:2). In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Way of All Flesh twelfth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. the book is in good/fair condition , blue cloth cover , no dust jacket, gold title and author name on the spine plus logo of Travellers'Library . Name of past owner on front end paper , the inside of the book is solid , clean , no marking or spoiling , 448 pages plus advertisement pages for Travellers. library . Order Now! BookId: C6-29 Title: The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a conversation piece Author: Evelyn Waugh Publisher: Chapman & Hall Price: 80.00 Description: First edition. no dust jacket , this book by Evelyn Waugh is in a fine condition, as new as can be .... Blue cloth cover with name of author and title in gold by the spine. No name of past owner and no writing, spoiling or marking, on the 184 pages . Very clear, easy reading,and very solid spine. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in July 1957. It is Waugh's penultimate full-length work of fiction, which the author called his "mad book"—a largely autobiographical account of a period of hallucinations caused by bromide intoxication that he experienced in the early months of 1954, recounted through his protagonist Gilbert Pinfold .British novelist Evelyn Waugh perhaps reveals more about himself through the fictional character of Gilbert Pinfold, a middle-aged novelist who suffers a mental breakdown brought on by the use of sedatives and pain medication, than through any of his other creations. Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century. Order Now! BookId: C6-3 Title: Shorter Novels Elizabethan : Thomas Deloney: Jack of Newberie, and Thomas of Reading Robert Greene: Carde of Fancie Thomas Nashe: The unfortunate Traveller ;" : Author: George Saintsbury / Philip Henderson Publisher: Everyman's Library , Dent Price: 30.00 Description: This book is as new , # 824 of the Everyman's Library , still have a brand new dust jacket and the book itself is as new, 353 pages in all for four different tales. Thomas Deloney (born c.?1540–1560; died in or shortly before 1600) was an English silk-weaver, novelist, and ballad writer. In the late 1590s Deloney turned to writing prose narratives, usually called novels in modern sources (although that word was not used by Deloney or his contemporaries). Four novels — Jack of Newbury, the two parts of The Gentle Craft, and Thomas of Reading — were published in the last three or four years of his life (1597–1600), and it is on these works that his modern reputation chiefly depends.They were enormously popular, so much so that the original printings were literally "read to pieces" and they survive today only in later 17th-century editions. Deloney's novels are a mixture of historical romance and social and economic realism, which draw heavily in their choice of subject matter, background, and incidental details on his personal experience as a member of the commercial class of artisans and merchants in Elizabethan London. They are often thought to reflect the character and interests of the growing English "middle class". Jack of Newbury, which is dedicated to the cloth-makers of England, is a fictionalized biography of John Winchcombe (c.?1489?1557), a notable Tudor clothier, while The Gentle Craft, dedicated to his fellow artisans, the shoemakers, is a compilation of tales "showing what famous men have been Shoomakers in time past in this Land, with their worthy deeds and great Hospitality". Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare. Robert Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer known for his negative critiques of his colleagues. He is said to have been born in Norwich.[1] He attended Cambridge where he received a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. Greene was prolific and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography. Thomas Nashe, (born 1567, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Eng. —died c. 1601, Yarmouth, Norfolk?), English pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and novelist. The first of the English prose eccentrics, Nashe wrote in a vigorous combination of colloquial diction and idiosyncratic coined compounds that was ideal for controversy. The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton is a picaresque novel by Thomas Nashe first published in 1594 but set during the reign of Henry VIII of England. In this rollicking and stylistically daring work of prose fiction, Nashe's protagonist Jack Wilton adventures through the European continent and finds himself swept up in the currents of sixteenth-century history. Episodic in nature, the narrative jumps from place to place and danger to danger. This is a great set of stories with an introduction by George Saintsbury and Notes on the authors with short biographies by Philip Henderson... Order Now! BookId: C6-30 Title: Mid-winter Certain travellers in )ol England Author: John Buchan Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Price: 16.00 Description: 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. Midwinter was written at Elsfield Manor, the country house in Oxfordshire which John Buchan purchased in 1919 as his family home. The book features Dr. Samuel Johnson who, in real life, walked out from Oxford to have tea with Mr. Francis Wise, a former owner of Elsfield, in the summer of 1754. In Midwinter, Buchan indulges himself by imagining what Samuel Johnson may have been up to in the ‘missing years’ not documented by his biographer, James Boswell, using the literary conceit of some discovered documents as the basis for the story. Older book, blue cloth hard cover , no dust jacket, Black title and name of author on spine and on cover of the book with an extra figure of a horseman may be a courier racing on the cover. the cover has been wet at sometime and the inside has a bad spotting of pencil on page 8 , otherwise the book is clean, easy to read, and solid spine, 311 pages , no name of past owner. |
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