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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eightyby Charles DickensISBN 1853267392 (1-85326-739-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Baudelaireby Charles Baudelaire, G. ChestersISBN 1853993441 (1-85399-344-1)
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The Beaux Stratagemby Farquhar, Simon TrusslerISBN 1854591541 (1-85459-154-1)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Beckford Of Fonthillby Brian FothergillISBN 1845880854 (1-84588-085-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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British Redcoat 1740-1793by Stuart Reid, Richard HookISBN 1855325543 (1-85532-554-3)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, GrimmISBN 1853268984 (1-85326-898-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of 'Rapunzel', 'The Goose Girl', Sleeping Beauty', 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White', there are the darker tales such as 'Death's Messengers' which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling. [via]
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Can You Forgive Her?by Anthony TrollopeISBN 185326282X (1-85326-282-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Can You Forgive Her?'Book summary:Alice Vavasour is the nominal heroine of this work. Central to the plot is her vacillation between two suitors, but this is overshadowed by the presence of the Pallisers. The book offers a clear-sighted view of the corrupt, shabby, hypocritical and sometimes noble sides of parliamentary life. [via]
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Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poemsby Charles BaudelaireISBN 1857549392 (1-85754-939-2)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poems'Book summary:Including all poems published in the previous three editions, this comprehensive new translation of Baudelaire's poetry is both vivid and authoritative. This dual-language volume presents both the original French poems as well as their translations.[via]More editions of Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poems:
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The Collected Poems of William Wordsworthby William WordsworthISBN 1853264016 (1-85326-401-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth'Book summary:(His remarkable autobiographical poem 'The Prelude' was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth's poetry) [via]
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Compleat Anglerby Izaak Walton, Edward H. NewISBN 1853261807 (1-85326-180-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Compleat Angler'Book summary:For a book to stay in print for nearly 350 years, its merits must continually entice and satisfy. The Compleat Angler qualifies on both counts. On the most obvious level, it remains as good a primer on fishing as any angler would want. But its most enduring distinction is hinted at in the subtitle--"the Contemplative Man's Recreation." Izaak Walton's sometimes convoluted 17th-century grammar can still reel in our imaginations with his graceful evocations of a life free from hurly-burly in the company of friends intent on physical and moral sustenance. "He that hopes to be a good Angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit," suggests the master, "but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience.... Doubt not but Angling will prove to be so pleasant, that it will prove to be like a virtue, a reward to itself." Just like Walton's magnificent literary catch. --Jeff Silverman [via]
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The Complete Angler 1653 Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreationby Isaak WaltonISBN 1846375711 (1-84637-571-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Complete Nonsenseby Edward LearISBN 1853261440 (1-85326-144-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The Complete Poems of John Keatsby John KeatsISBN 1853264040 (1-85326-404-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems of John Keats'Book summary:'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the Odes and the two versions of the uncompleted epic Hyperion, and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse. It all demonstrates the extent to which he tested his own dictum throughout his short creative life. That life spanned one of the most remarkable periods in English history in the aftermath of the French Revolution and this collection, with its detailed introductions and notes, aims to place the poems very much in their context. The collection is ample proof that Keats deservedly achieved his wish to 'be among the English Poets after my death' [via]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De QuinceyISBN 1853260967 (1-85326-096-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'Book summary:In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction. The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology for the course his life had taken but often reading like a celebration of it. The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is thus both a classic of English autobiographical writing the prose equivalent, in its own time, of Wordsworths The Prelude or Growth of a Poets Mind and at the same time a crucial text in the long history of the Western Worlds ambivalent relationship with hard drugs. Full of psychological insight and colourful descriptive writing, it surprised and fascinated De Quinceys contemporaries and has continued to exert its powerful and eccentric appeal ever since. [via]
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Coram Boyby Jamila GavinISBN 1854598945 (1-85459-894-5)
Softcover, Nick Hern Books
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 1853267333 (1-85326-733-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions. [via]
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Culloden 1746by Osprey MilitaryISBN 1855326299 (1-85532-629-9)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Culloden 1746: The Highland Clans' Last Chargeby Peter Harrington, David G. ChandlerISBN 1855321580 (1-85532-158-0)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45by Maggie CraigISBN 1851589627 (1-85158-962-7)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Daniel Derondaby George EliotISBN 1853261769 (1-85326-176-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daniel Deronda'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Carole Jones, freelance writer and researcher. George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set largely in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism, the oppression of women, and racial and religious prejudice. Gwendolen's attempts to escape a sadistic relationship and atone for past actions catalyse her friendship with Deronda, while his search for origins leads him, via Judaism, to a quest for moral growth. Eliot's radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now, as when it first appeared. [via]
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Dominoby Ross KingISBN 1856195295 (1-85619-529-5)
Hardcover, Sinclair-Stevenson
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Don Carlosby Frederich Schiller, Mike PoultonISBN 1854598570 (1-85459-857-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Carlos'Book summary:[via]Magnificent . . . leaves no doubt that you are watching a classic. . . . In Mike Poultons fleet and vivid translation . . . the story of a tyrannical King Philip II of Spain and his abused, love-tormented son, Don Carlos, has all the deftly plotted twists and turns of a thriller. You lean forward in your seat, desperate to discover what happens next . . . an absolutely spellbinding production of a masterpiece Daily Telegraph
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The Duelby Giacomo CasanovaISBN 1843910322 (1-84391-032-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Duel'Book summary:[via]One of the few works written in Casanovas native Italian, The Duel is an important example of the infamous Lotharios vivid prose style. Translated for the first time into English, this autobiographical novel describes Casanovas extraordinary battle with a Polish count, while on the run from the Venetian authorities. Having escaped from Venices infamous Piombi Prison, Casanova was forced into exile. Far from destitute, however, his reputation gained him entry into European societys highest echelons. Yet there, he soon found himself obliged to engage in a duel over a ballerinaa lady in whom neither he nor his Polish rival had the slightest interest. Recounting the deadly encounter and the surprising events it precipitated with sardonic wit, Casanova creates a work of thrilling adventure and inimitable literary style. Giacomo Casanova was an adventurer, a spy, a poet, and a novelist. His literary reputation rests on his remarkable History of My Life, which vividly records not only his exploits and adventures but the manners and morals of the day.More editions of The Duel:
Edgar Huntly Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walkerby Charles Brockden BrownISBN 1847029264 (1-84702-926-4)
Softcover, Echo Library
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An Essay Concerning Human Understandingby John LockeISBN 185326783X (1-85326-783-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The Eustace Diamondsby Anthony TrollopeISBN 1853261831 (1-85326-183-1)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eustace Diamonds'Book summary:This is the third of Trollope's "Palliser" novels. The plot centres around the diamond necklace owned by the Eustace family, which the ruthless opportunist Lizzie claims as her own after marrying Sir Florian Eustace for his money and becoming his widow after only a few months. [via]
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The French Revolution And the Peopleby David AndressISBN 1852855401 (1-85285-540-1)
Softcover, Hambledon Pr
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The Frigates: An Account of the Lesser Warships of the Wars from 1793 to 1815by James HendersonISBN 1853266930 (1-85326-693-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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General Washington's Army: 1775-1778by Marko Zlatich, Peter F. CopelandISBN 1855323842 (1-85532-384-2)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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General Washington's Army (2): 1779-83by Marko Zlatich, William YounghusbandISBN 185532590X (1-85532-590-X)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. GrimmISBN 1853261017 (1-85326-101-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings. [via]
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 1853262323 (1-85326-232-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown. [via]
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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Centuryby Leslie StephenISBN 1855060876 (1-85506-087-6)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The House of Godwine : The History of a Dynastyby Emma MasonISBN 1852853891 (1-85285-389-1)
Hardcover, Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited
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The Illustrated Works of Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 1851520503 (1-85152-050-3)
Hardcover, Chancellor Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Works of Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey'Book summary:With a sharp wit and keen eye, Jane Austen painted indelible, finely realized portraits of Georgian life, with its intricate rules of behavior, social divisions, and delightful diversions. No one bettered her in capturing the sometimes complicated mating dance that led to true love, and her compelling, intelligent heroines are unequalled in all literature--and have also translated wonderfully to film and television. At the same time, her piercing humor exposed the follies of the age and ripped apart characters vain, foolish, greedy, arrogant, and callous. Here are three of her best novels, all in one volume and beautifully illustrated with period images: Sense and Sensibility, a richly textured masterpiece about two sisters with wildly differing temperaments; Emma, with its endearing but deeply flawed protagonist; and the deliciously lighthearted Northanger Abbey. If you've read these before, re-experience the wonder anew; if not, prepare to be captivated with every page![via]More editions of The Illustrated Works of Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey:
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Incestby Marquis De SadeISBN 1843910306 (1-84391-030-6)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incest'Book summary:[via]Incest is a chilling tale of sexual experimentation and philosophical exploration carried to its most logicaland devastatingextreme. Marquis de Sades semi-autobiographical protagonist, Monsieur de Franval, is rich, handsome, intelligent, and thoroughly immoral. When he marries a pious woman and fathers a daughter, he is determined to educate his progeny to be free. The ultimate proof of his daughters unfettered liberty? That she become his secret lover. But when the beautiful and accomplished daughter spurns an eligible young bachelor, instead declaring her intention to remain with her father, her naïve and doting mothers suspicions are at last aroused. Confused and distressed by her daughters behavior, Madame de Franval confronts her husbandwith tragic results. A challenging and breathtaking masterpiece, Incest is a sober portrait of catastrophe in the midst of excess.More editions of Incest:
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Incognita: Or, Love and Duty Reconcil'dby William Congreve, Peter AckroydISBN 1843910691 (1-84391-069-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incognita: Or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd'Book summary:Returning to Florence on the occasion of his 18th birthday, Aureliantogether with his sworn companion Hippolitodons his disguise in anticipation of the most famous Florentine ball. Once there, the two are soon separated, and each finds himself paired off with a beautifuland maskedwoman. While Aurelian yearns to learn the true identity of his love, Hippolito is mistaken for another and brazenly plays along with the conceit. Chaos abounds as masks are dropped, truth revealed, and, somehow, all ends happily. Dramatist and novelist William Congreve is best remembered for his comedy The Way of the World.[via]More editions of Incognita: Or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd:
The Intimate Letters of Piozzi And Penningtonby Oswald G KnappISBN 1845880250 (1-84588-025-0)
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Ivanhoeby Walter ScottISBN 1853262021 (1-85326-202-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ivanhoe'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his beautiful, spirited daughter Rebecca; Wamba and Gurth, jester and swineherd respectively. Scott explores the conflicts between the Crown and the powerful Barons, between the Norman overlords and the conquered Saxons, and between Richard and his scheming brother, Prince John. At the same time he brings into the novel the legendary Robin Hood and his band, and creates a brilliant, colourful account of the age of chivalry with all its elaborate rituals and costumes and its values of honour and personal glory. [via]
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James Gillray : The Art of Caricatureby Richard Godfrey, Mark HallettISBN 1854373641 (1-85437-364-1)
Softcover, Tate Gallery Publishing, Limited
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 1853260207 (1-85326-020-7)
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Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis and of Tombsby Ugo Foscolo, F. G. Nichols, Valerio MassimoISBN 1843910020 (1-84391-002-0)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr
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The Last Manby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nora Crook, Jane BlumbergISBN 1851960805 (1-85196-080-5)
Hardcover, Ashgate Pub Co
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 1853260509 (1-85326-050-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae. [via]
Like Hungry Wolves: Culloden Moor 16 April 1746by Stuart ReidISBN 1859150802 (1-85915-080-2)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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The Little Book of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, Omar KhayyamISBN 1852307188 (1-85230-718-8)
Hardcover, Thorsons Element
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The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in an Eighteenth-Century Englandby Robert ShoemakerISBN 1852853735 (1-85285-373-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Lorna Dooneby R. D. BlackmoreISBN 1853260762 (1-85326-076-2)
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Madame De Pompadour: Images of a Mistressby Colin Jones, National Gallery Great BritainISBN 185709977X (1-85709-977-X)
Hardcover, National Gallery Company
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The Marquise of Oby Heinrich Von Kleist, Richard StokesISBN 1843910543 (1-84391-054-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marquise of O'Book summary:An ingenious whodunit and one of the greatest works of German literature, The Marquise of O subverts the 18th-century notion of the infallibility of man and reveals the true ambiguity and caprice of humanity. Held captive by a band of unspeakable ruffians, the Marquise of O is rescued before they can subject her to a fate worse than death. So how can it be that, some months later, she finds herself pregnant? Believing herself fully innocent, although failing to convince her prudish family of her honor, she places an advertisement asking the perpetrator to identify himself. Heinrich von Kleist is the first of the great dramatists of 19th-century German literature.[via]More editions of The Marquise of O:
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 1853262374 (1-85326-237-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. [via]
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Military Experience in the Age of Reasonby Christopher DuffyISBN 1853266906 (1-85326-690-6)
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The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 1853260746 (1-85326-074-6)
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Mistress Masham's Reposeby T.H. White, Anne Fine, Martin HargreavesISBN 1851497005 (1-85149-700-5)
Hardcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mistress Masham's Repose'Book summary:Open this book and you step onto a magic place...Maria is an orphan living in a vast, dilapidated mansion with no one but a kindly cook, a distracted professor and a spiteful governess for company. That is, until she discovers the Lilliputians - each no more than 6 inches high - who are descendants of those described in Gulliver's Travels. Determined to keep their whereabouts hidden from the human world, the tiny people are at first reluctant to accept Maria as their friend. But when they are accidentally discovered by her interfering governess and the scheming vicar, they must join forces to save themselves from a terrible fate. With an introduction by Anne Fine. [via]
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie CollinsISBN 1853260444 (1-85326-044-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonstone'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself. The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved. [via]
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Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830by Rictor NortonISBN 1845883446 (1-84588-344-6)
Hardcover, Tempus Pub Ltd
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Napoleon's Regiments : Battle Histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815by Digby G. SmithISBN 1853674133 (1-85367-413-3)
Hardcover, Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, Limited
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charkeby Robert Rehder, Charlotte CharkeISBN 1851962670 (1-85196-267-0)
Hardcover, Pickering & Chatto Ltd
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Natural History of Selborneby Gilbert White, Edmund H. NewISBN 1853261815 (1-85326-181-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Nature and Artby Inchbald, Shawn Lisa MaurerISBN 1851962654 (1-85196-265-4)
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Nelson the Commanderby Geoffrey BennettISBN 184415307X (1-84415-307-X)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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The New Atalantisby Manley, Rosalind BallasterISBN 1851960201 (1-85196-020-1)
Hardcover, Pickering & Chatto
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The Odysseyby Homer, T. E. LawrenceISBN 1853260258 (1-85326-025-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did in Archaic Greece, 2800 years ago. This poem has been translated many times over the years, but Chapman's sinewy, gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its own. Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself, and matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own. John Keats expressed his admiration for the resulting work in the famous sonnet, 'On first looking into Chapman's Homer': 'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold...' [via]
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On Liberty and the Subjection of Womenby John Stuart MillISBN 1853264644 (1-85326-464-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Opium and the Romantic Imagination: Addiction and Creativity in De Quincey, Coleridge, Baudelaire and Othersby Alethea HayterISBN 1852740140 (1-85274-014-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science And Power In The Enlightenmentby Patricia FaraISBN 1844130827 (1-84413-082-7)
Softcover, Century
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The Phantom Shipby Frederick MarryatISBN 1845882067 (1-84588-206-7)
Softcover, Nonsuch Pub
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles DickensISBN 1853260525 (1-85326-052-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Political Writingsby Janet M. Todd, Mary WollstonecraftISBN 1851960198 (1-85196-019-8)
Hardcover, W. Pickering
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The Politics of Appearances: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary Franceby Richard WrigleyISBN 1859735096 (1-85973-509-6)
Softcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James, James H.ISBN 1853261777 (1-85326-177-7)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The Rape of the Lock: And a Key to the Lockby Alexander PopeISBN 1843910926 (1-84391-092-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Rebellion: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 1745 Jacobite Uprisingby George ForbesISBN 1852170085 (1-85217-008-5)
Hardcover, Lang Syne Publishers
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Editionby Washington IrvingISBN 1853261696 (1-85326-169-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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The Rivalsby Richard Brinsley Butler SheridanISBN 1854590995 (1-85459-099-5)
Softcover, Nick Hern Books
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Rob Royby Walter ScottISBN 1853262536 (1-85326-253-6)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzgeraldISBN 1853261874 (1-85326-187-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'Book summary:Translated by Edward Fitzgerald This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyám. Fitzgerald's masterful translation was first published as an anonymous pamphlet in 1859. Its colourful, exotic and remote imagery greatly appealed to the Victorian age's fascination with the Orient, while its luxurious sensual warmth acted as a striking counterpoint to the growth of scientific determinism, industrialisation and the soulless Darwinian doctrine of the survival of the fittest. Greatly praised by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin and William Morris, the romantic melancholy of the poem anticipates the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy, while its epicurean motifs link it to the Aesthetic Movement [via]
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Saratoga 1777: Turning Point of a Revolutionby Brendan MorrisseyISBN 1855328623 (1-85532-862-3)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England: An Irreverent Wxpose of the Monarchs from Henry VIII to the Present Dayby Nigel CawthorneISBN 1853752088 (1-85375-208-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Sex Lives of the Kings and Queens of Englandby Nigel CawthorneISBN 1853755362 (1-85375-536-2)
Softcover, Carlton Books, Limited
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Smithfield And the Parish of St Paul, Dublin, 1698-1750by Brendan TwomeyISBN 1851828958 (1-85182-895-8)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics And Atheistsby George BerkeleyISBN 1846378974 (1-84637-897-4)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Turkish Embassy Lettersby Mary Wortley MontaguISBN 1853816795 (1-85381-679-5)
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Virtue And Terrorby Maximilien Robespierre, Slavoj ZizekISBN 184467584X (1-84467-584-X)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Vision of Kantby David ApplebaumISBN 1852306246 (1-85230-624-6)
Softcover, Element Books, Incorporated
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The Wallace Collectionby Stephen DuffyISBN 1857594223 (1-85759-422-3)
Softcover, SCALA
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Watteauby Humphrey WineISBN 1857590007 (1-85759-000-7)
Hardcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
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Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750by Colin B. Bailey, American Federation of Arts, Alan Wintermute, National Gallery of Canada, Frick CollectionISBN 1858940796 (1-85894-079-6)
Hardcover, Merrell
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The Way of All Fleshby Samuel ButlerISBN 1853262285 (1-85326-228-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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The Way of the Worldby William Congreve, Trevor GriffithsISBN 1854591983 (1-85459-198-3)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Wolfe's Armyby Robin May, Gerry EmbletonISBN 1855327368 (1-85532-736-8)
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 185326007X (1-85326-007-X)
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The Works of Alexander Popeby Alexander Pope, Andrew CrozierISBN 1853264318 (1-85326-431-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Yorktown 1781by Brendan MorrisseyISBN 1855329565 (1-85532-956-5)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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