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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: D3-60134 Title: The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies Author: Judith Skelton Grant Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Price: 25.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D3-60135 Title: The Rebel Angels Author: Robertson Davies Publisher: MacMillan Price: 35.00 Description: First edition. The Rebel Angels is Canadian author Robertson Davies's most noted novel, after those that form his Deptford Trilogy. First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1981, The Rebel Angels is the first of the three connected novels of Davies' Cornish Trilogy.The first part of the Cornish Trilogy. Alternating between two narrators – Maria, a half gypsy graduate student in love with her mentor and a Simon, a priest who teaches at the University and falls for her – the book tells a complex story of love, lust, art, pride, scholarship, academic rivalry and criminal actions. William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto. When Davies retired from his position at the university, his seventh novel, a satire of academic life, The Rebel Angels (1981), was published, followed by What's Bred in the Bone (1985) which was short-listed for the Booker Prize for fiction in 1986. The Lyre of Orpheus (1988) follows these two books in what became known as The Cornish Trilogy. The book is in very good condition, including the dust jacket, ..Hardcover half and Half Grey and Black, gold lettering and author name on the black spine,Very clean inside (spine is unbroken) no writing or spoiling of any kind, 326 pages Order Now! BookId: D3-60136 Title: What's bred in the Bone Author: Robertson Davies Publisher: MacMillan Price: 40.00 Description: What's Bred in the Bone is the second novel in the Canadian writer Robertson Davies' Cornish Trilogy. It is the life story of Francis or Frank Cornish, whose death and will were the starting point for the first novel, The Rebel Angels.We follow Cornish's life from his two Canadian grandparents – part of "what's bred in the bone" – through his childhood as a wealthy and precocious misfit in a small Ontario town, his education in Toronto and Oxford, his unusual apprenticeship as a restorer and painter in Nazi Germany, his wartime experiences in England, his postwar work with a group resembling the Monuments Men, and his collecting and patronage of the arts in Toronto. A repeated theme in his mature years is art forgery.... William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto. When Davies retired from his position at the university, his seventh novel, a satire of academic life, The Rebel Angels (1981), was published, followed by What's Bred in the Bone (1985) which was short-listed for the Booker Prize for fiction in 1986. The Lyre of Orpheus (1988) follows these two books in what became known as The Cornish Trilogy. The book is in very good condition with dust jacket clean as well (small tears ), the book cover is beige and black, gold lettering for the title and author name on the black spine. No marking r spoiling inside the book except for the Xmas gift's dedication on the end paper, 436 pages . Order Now! BookId: D3-60137 Title: The Lyre of Orpheus Author: Robertson Davies Publisher: MacMillan Price: 40.00 Description: The Lyre of Orpheus is a 1988 novel by Canadian author Robertson Davies first published by Macmillan of Canada. Lyre is the last of three connected novels of the Cornish Trilogy. It was preceded by The Rebel Angels and What's Bred in the Bone. The plot revolves around a production of an unfinished opera by the 19th century composer E.T.A. Hoffmann, whose entreaty ``Let the lyre of Orpheus open the door of the underworld of feeling'' is borne out on many levels. William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto. When Davies retired from his position at the university, his seventh novel, a satire of academic life, The Rebel Angels (1981), was published, followed by What's Bred in the Bone (1985) which was short-listed for the Booker Prize for fiction in 1986. The Lyre of Orpheus (1988) follows these two books in what became known as The Cornish Trilogy. The book is in very good condition , including the dust jacket. the hard cover is all black cloth with the title and author name on the spine . The inside of the book is perfect , no marking, writing or spoiling of any kind , 472 pages. Order Now! BookId: D3-60138 Title: The Manticore Author: Robertson Davies Publisher: The Viking Press Price: 60.00 Description: The Manticore is the second novel in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy. Published in 1972 by Macmillan of Canada, it deals with the aftermath of the mysterious death of Percy Boyd "Boy" Staunton retold during a series of conversations between Staunton's son and a Jungian psychoanalyst. Traumatized by his father's death and plagued by a lifetime of unhappiness, David travels to Switzerland and undergoes Jungian analysis where he repeatedly encounters a manticore—a monster with the head of a man, the body of lion, and the tail of a scorpion..... William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSL FRSC (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself.[1] Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto. Davies drew on his interest in Jungian psychology to create Fifth Business (1970), a novel that relies heavily on Davies's own experiences, his love of myth and magic, and his knowledge of small-town mores. The narrator, like Davies, is of immigrant Canadian background, with a father who runs the town paper. The book's characters act in roles that roughly correspond to Jungian archetypes according to Davies's belief in the predominance of spirit over the things of the world. Davies built on the success of Fifth Business with two more novels: The Manticore (1972), a novel cast largely in the form of a Jungian analysis (for which he received that year's Governor General's Literary Award), and World of Wonders (1975). Together these three books came to be known as The Deptford Trilogy. the book is in good condition, with good dust jacket as well.The hardcover is a green and brown cloth cover , green and black title and name of author on the spine. The inside of the book is very good , no marking, writing or spoiling of any kind, 310 pages . A bonus this is a First edition from 1972. Order Now! BookId: D3-7 Title: The Thirty Years War Author: C V Wedwood Publisher: Pelican Price: 22.00 Description: After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction. Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, OM, DBE, FBA, FRHistS (20 July 1910 – 9 March 1997) was an English historian who published under the name C. V. Wedgwood. Specializing in the history of 17th-century England and continental Europe, her biographies and narrative histories are said to have provided a clear, entertaining middle ground between popular and scholarly works. Pelican book from 1957 in excellent condition, no writing, marking or spoiling of any kind, looks as new, 480 pages . " This is one of the best pieces of historical work that I have encountered for a long while " G M Young (Sunday Times). Order Now! BookId: D3-8 Title: The Age of Elegance 1812-1822 Author: Arthur Bryant Publisher: Pelican Price: 25.00 Description: In the last of his three volumn English history of the Napoleonic wars, Arthur Bryant continues his detailed account of the trials faced by the English government, her military and her people as the "last man standing" in opposition to the seemingly unstoppable armies of Napoleon's France, leading to their ultimate ... The Years of Elegance: 1812-1822 is one of the master-works of British narrative history. In his own peerless style, the final volume of a three-part history of the Napoleonic Wars, Bryant tells the compelling story of the conflict with revolutionary France which began in 1793. Fought over four continents and two oceans this war shaped the world for the next century. From 1812 onwards, with Napoleon marching into Russia and Wellington's men knocking open the door into Spain behind him, Bryant details the brilliant campaigns which ultimately brought the dictator to his knees. Bryant charts the road to Waterloo where he describes the battle with unforgettable clarity, and then tells the story of the peacemakers at Vienna. In the final part of the book the author surveys the England that had emerged after so many years of struggle. It was an England rich, powerful, and victorious, overflowing with energy and self-confidence. He describes both the sources of her power, in agriculture, industry, and commerce, and the depths of injustices, un-redressed wrongs, and simmering discontents that had accumulated under the surface, unperceived by the architects of victory. Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, CH, CBE (18 February 1899 – 22 January 1985) was an English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man of affairs. His books included studies of Samuel Pepys, accounts of English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history, and a life of George V. Whilst his scholarly reputation has declined somewhat since his death, he continues to be read and to be the subject of detailed historical studies. He moved in high government circles, where his works were influential, being the favourite historian of three prime ministers: Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, and Harold Wilson. Bryant's historiography was often based on an English romantic exceptionalism drawn from his nostalgia for an idealised agrarian past. He hated modern commercial and financial capitalism, he emphasised duty over rights, and he equated democracy with the consent of "fools" and "knaves". the book is in very good condition, no marking, writing or spoiling inside, a couple of maps , and very interesting . 468 pages including index . 1958 Pelican book. Order Now! BookId: D3-9 Title: Landmarks in English Industrial History Author: George Townsend Warner Publisher: Blackie and sons Price: 65.00 Description: Good copy in the original black leetering on beige cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling, with minor rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 368 pages with index . A few minor markings not affecting the reading of the book . name of past owner and 1922 date . Was first published in 1899. Order Now! BookId: D4-0004 Title: History of Japan Author: Eric Collins Publisher: Dingo Book club Price: 21.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D4-0011 Title: The worls' Story: China Japan and the Islands of the Pacific Author: Eva March Tappan Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Price: 75.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D4-0023 Title: The Thomsonian Materia Medica or Botanic Family Physician ... (see next in description) Author: Samuel Thompson Publisher: J Munsell Price: 900.00 Description: ...comprising a Philosophical Theory .The Natural Organization and Assumed Principles Of Animal and Vegetable Life to which are added the Descriptionof Plants and their various Compounds together with Practical Illustrations Including much other Useful Matter With Plates by Samuel Thompson. Order Now! BookId: D4-002621 Title: A History of the Nineteenth Century Year By Year Vol I Only Author: Emerson Edwin Publisher: Collier Price: 40.00 Description: . F. Collier and son, New York, 1902. Hard cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Volume One only.Paged continuously. The introduction is by G. G. Gervinus' .Illustrated with 16 colored plates and thirty two full-page half-tone cuts and two maps. In excellent condition .very nice colored plate of the Battle of Trafalgar by Stanfield as a frontispiece .folding map of the World in 1801 . 605 pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-002622 Title: A History of the Nineteenth Century Year By Year Vol II Only Author: Emerson Edwin Publisher: Collier Price: 40.00 Description: . F. Collier and son, New York, 1902. Hard cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Volume Two only.Paged continuously. The introduction is by G. G. Gervinus' .Illustrated with 16 colored plates and thirty two full-page half-tone cuts and two maps. In excellent condition .very nice colored plate of theFirst Steam Railway by Edward Henry as a frontispiece . . 648 pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-002999 Title: South Africa Four books in One volume Author: Professor W Douglas Mackenzie Publisher: J M Mac Gregor Publishing Price: 75.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D4-003614 ISBN: 0939526085 Title: Combat photographer The Vietnam experience Author: Nick Mills Publisher: Boston publishing Price: 18.00 Description: The Vietnam Experience series. Pictorial covers, generously illustrated with color and b&w photographs. Vietnam map insert .Hard cover with picturial cover, no dust jacket, 176 pages , in great condition. Order Now! BookId: D4-005355 ISBN: 0618001905 Title: King Leopold's ghost Author: Adam hochschild Publisher: Mariner books Price: 25.00 Description: Mariner Books. Paperback. Book Condition: very good , no dust jacket. This book must be read and re-read Neal Ascherson . A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Denunciations thundered from speaker s platforms around the US and Europe. One open letter to The Times was signed by 11 peers, 19 bishops and 75 MPs. Viscount Grey, Britain s foreign secretary, declared that no overseas issue had so intensely aroused the British public for 30 years. Conan Doyle wrote a pamphlet on the Congo atrocities which sold 25,000 copies in the first week alone. Yet today not one person in a thousand could say what the fuss was all about, unless, of course, they have read this amazing book. 367 pages , very clean. Order Now! BookId: D4-005356 Title: Lawrence The Uncrowned King of Arabia Author: Michael Asher Publisher: Penguin Books Price: 25.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D4-005360 ISBN: 0700604618 Title: Jefferson Davis and his generals ... The failure of Confederate command in the West Author: Steven E Woodworth Publisher: University Press of Kansas Price: 35.00 Description: University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1990. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 8vo. 380 pages. Gilt titles, Illustrated with black and white portraits & maps (listed). Burgundy cloth boards. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Jefferson Davis and the Confederate command system during the Civil War. Includes notes, bibliographic essay & index. An unread copy. Order Now! BookId: D4-0175 Title: Holy Blood Holy Grail Author: Michael Baigent , Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln Publisher: Delacorte Press Price: 28.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D4-0177 Title: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Author: Umberto Eco Publisher: Secker & Warburg Price: 30.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D4-019568 Title: Baudolino Author: Umberto Eco Publisher: Harcourt Price: 27.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D4-1 Title: The View from Castle Rock Author: Alice Munro Publisher: Douglas Gibson book Price: 33.00 Description: The View from Castle Rock is a book of short stories by Canadian author Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart.This story narrates the voyage of James Laidlaw and his family to Canada. The title stems from the event when James took his ten-year-old child Andrew to the top of the Rock of Edinburgh Castle to show him the coast of America (actually Fife) The book is a collection of historical and autobiographical stories. The first part of the book narrates the lives of members of the Laidlaw branch of the family tree of the author, starting from their Scottish origins in the 18th century. The second part consists of fictionalized tales inspired by events in her own life. Alice Ann Munro, born 10 July 1931, is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade." Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction", or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov." Munro has received many literary accolades, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story", and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. She is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and received the Writers' Trust of Canada's 1996 Marian Engel Award and the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Runaway. The book is as new, fine , with dust jacket fine as well (price cut ) . The inside is perfect , no writing, marking or spoiling. the cover is Black cloth with name of author and title in white on the spine. the dust jacket cover is a mother and child . 350 pages Order Now! BookId: D4-10 Title: History of the Popes their church and State in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Author: Leopold Ranke Publisher: Whittaker and Co Price: 75.00 Description: Leopold von Ranke 21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival research and the analysis of historical documents. Building on the methods of the Göttingen School of History, he was the first to establish a historical seminar. Ranke set the standards for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources (empiricism), an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics (Außenpolitik). He was ennobled in 1865, with the addition of a "von" to his name. Ranke also had a great influence on Western historiography and is considered a symbol of the quality of 19th century German historical studies. Ranke, influenced by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, was very talented in constructing narratives without exceeding the limits of historical evidence. His critics have noted the influence of Lutheranism in guiding his work, especially his belief that God's actions were manifest in the lives of men and history, a viewpoint that shaped his ideas that the German Empire was a manifestation of God's intent. As a Protestant, Ranke was barred from viewing the Vatican archives in Rome, but on the basis of private papers in Rome and Venice he was able to explain the history of the papacy in the 16th century.In this book, Ranke coined the term "Counter-reformation" and offered colorful portrayals of Pope Paul IV, Ignatius of Loyola and Pope Pius V.The papacy denounced Ranke's book as anti-Catholic while many Protestants denounced it as not anti-Catholic enough, but he has been generally praised by historians for placing the situation of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of the 16th century and for his fair treatment of the complex interaction of the political and religious issues in that century. The British Roman Catholic historian Lord Acton defended Ranke's book as the most fair-minded, balanced and objective study ever written on the papacy of the 16th century. this book is an older book missing the spine cover , it is still a solid binding but no back for the spine . Hard cover, half leather, marble for the other half, a thick book of 540 pages including index . Name of past owner on the end paper, the inside of the book is clean of writing, marking or spoiling , alas 4 pages are loose but readable , that's the only other deffect on that 200years old book. Order Now! BookId: D4-11 Title: The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England and the Anglo-Saxon chronicle Author: Bede / J A Giles Publisher: George Bell & sons Price: 150.00 Description: he Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity. It was composed in Latin, and is believed to have been completed in 731 when Bede was approximately 59 years old. It is considered one of the most important original references on Anglo-Saxon history, and has played a key role in the development of an English national identity Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731. The work tells the story of the conversion of the English people to Christianity. Bede's account is the chief source of information about English history from the arrival of St Augustine in Kent in 597 until 731. He tells the story of battles, conversions and miracles performed by monks and bishops .An older hard cover book in perfect condition , no dust jacket , the cover is dark brown cloth with name of author and title of book on spine in gold lettering . the book was part of the Bohm's Antiquarian Libraries, . the end paper wear the name of the past owner . The book is very clean , but for a few pencil marking i had a hard time to find. there is a map of England under the Anglo-saxon settlements, some illustratives notes and an index. 515 pages in very good condition. Order Now! BookId: D4-12 Title: Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages Author: R W Southern Publisher: Pelican Price: 25.00 Description: The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the Church was so intimately involved with the world, any history of it must take into account the development of medieval society. Professor Southern's book covers the period from the eighth to the sixteenth century. After sketching the main features of each medieval age, he deals in greater detail with the Papacy, the relations between Rome and her rival Constantinople, the bishops and archbishops, and the various religious orders, providing in all a superb history of the period. Sir Richard William Southern FBA, FRSL (8 February 1912 – 6 February 2001), who published under the name R. W. Southern, was a noted English medieval historian based at the University of Oxford.His Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages is a textbook survey like. the book is a clean paperback issued by Pelican . No writing, marking or spoiling , no name of past owner , no creasing or tear . 376 pages with index. Order Now! BookId: D4-13 Title: Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici Author: James Winny Publisher: Cambridge University Press Price: 40.00 Description: Religio Medici (1643) is a spiritual memoir by English physician and author Sir Thomas Browne. Translated as "The Religion of a Doctor," Religio Medici expresses Browne's views on a wide range of scientific and religious subjects. Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) by Sir Thomas Browne is a spiritual testament and early psychological self-portrait. Published in 1643 after an unauthorized version was distributed the previous year, it became a European best-seller which brought its author fame at home and abroad. Structured upon the Christian virtues of Faith and Hope (part 1) and Charity (part 2), Browne expresses his beliefs in the doctrine of sola fide, the existence of hell, the Last Judgment, the resurrection and other tenets of Christianity. Sir Thomas Browne 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffused with melancholia, Browne's writings are also characterized by wit and subtle humour, while his literary style is varied, according to genre, resulting in a rich, unique prose which ranges from rough notebook observations to polished Baroque eloquence The book is a small hard cover , the cover is illustrated with a portrait of Sir Thomas Browne , the inside is very clean , on ly one illustration, no writing, marking or spoiling, just a small cut corner of the front end paper, no name of past owner, 153 pages with index. Order Now! BookId: D4-1324 Title: The Blind Assassin Author: Margaret Atwood Publisher: McClelland and Steward Price: 30.00 Description: Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age. Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents. The Blind Assassin is a novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000. The book is set in the fictional Ontario town of Port Ticonderoga and in Toronto. It is narrated from the present day, referring to previous events that span the twentieth century but mostly the 1930s and 1940s. It is a work of historical fiction with the major events of Canadian history forming an important backdrop, for example, the On-to-Ottawa Trek and a 1934 Communist rally at Maple Leaf Gardens. Greater verisimilitude is given by a series of newspaper articles commenting on events and on the novel's characters from a distance. The work was awarded the Booker Prize in 2000 and the Hammett Prize in 2001 and also received a number of other nominations. The novel was awarded the Booker Prize in 2000 and the Hammett Prize in 2001. It was also nominated for Governor General's Award in 2000, Orange Prize for Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2002. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2000 and included it in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.As of 2019, The Blind Assassin is Atwood's second highest-selling novel after The Handmaid's Tale, having sold over half a million copies of hard-cover and paper-back combined. Sales of the novel jumped tenfold in 2000 after receiving the Booker Prize. The book is fine, as new with dust jacket as new as well, perfect in and out 524 pages. Order Now! BookId: D4-14 Title: The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Author: Walter Pater Publisher: MacMillan Price: 35.00 Description: The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry The Renaissance is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto (whether stimulating or subversive) of Aestheticism. Very interesting book where the Art and Poetry of great artist will be studied including Botticelli, Mirandola, leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo.. The book has a soft cover navy blue cloth , with name of owner and title on the spine, slightly damaged with use, initials of WP are enlaced on the front cover ,no name of past owner , no writing or spoiling inside... 252 pages , a bit of shelf use all around . Order Now! BookId: D4-19A1151 Title: The Washing of the Spears The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Author: Donald R Morris Publisher: Simon & Schuster Price: 35.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D4-19C1394 ISBN: 0679420495 Title: The Moor's last sigh Author: Salman Rushdie Publisher: Pantheon Price: 24.00 Description: Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1995. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. "The Moor Evokes His Family's Often Grotesque But Compulsively Moving Fortunes And The Lost World Of Possibilities Embodied By India In This Century. His Is A Tale Of Premature Deaths And Family Rifts." In great condition , a great book , as new...435 pages. |
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