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Abracadaverby Peter LoveseyISBN 0140058036 (0-14-005803-6)
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Admit to Murderby Margaret YorkeISBN 0140131582 (0-14-013158-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 0140034994 (0-14-003499-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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The Ampersand Papersby Michael InnesISBN 0140051635 (0-14-005163-5)
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Anglo-saxon Attitudesby Angus WilsonISBN 0140013113 (0-14-001311-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Anglo-Saxonsby James Campbell, Patrick Wormald, Eric JohnISBN 0140143955 (0-14-014395-5)
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Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology, Ad 367-634by Leslie AlcockISBN 0140136053 (0-14-013605-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Cakes and Aleby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140185887 (0-14-018588-7)
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The Canterbury Tales: An Illustrated Selectionby Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill CoghillISBN 0140044523 (0-14-004452-3)
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Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumphby Edgar JohnsonISBN 0140048952 (0-14-004895-2)
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Chronicles of Carlingford and the Perpetual Curateby Margaret Oliphant, Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0140161619 (0-14-016161-9)
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The Clever Woman of the Familyby Charlotte M. Yonge, Georgina BattiscombeISBN 014016149X (0-14-016149-X)
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Coasting: A Private Voyageby Jonathan RabanISBN 014010657X (0-14-010657-X)
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Coleridge: Early Visionsby Richard HolmesISBN 0140124403 (0-14-012440-3)
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0140106499 (0-14-010649-9)
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Countries and Concepts: An Introduction to Comparative Politicsby Michael G. RoskinISBN 0131760254 (0-13-176025-4)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Countries and Concepts: Politics, Geography, Cultureby Michael G. RoskinISBN 0130867586 (0-13-086758-6)
Softcover, Pearson plc
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0140052801 (0-14-005280-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying.More editions of Dracula:
The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947by Tsering ShakyaISBN 0140196153 (0-14-019615-3)
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The Dutch Seaborne Empire 1600-1800by C.R. BoxerISBN 0140136185 (0-14-013618-5)
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Eleanor of Aquitaineby Marion MeadeISBN 0140153381 (0-14-015338-1)
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England in the Eighteenth Centuryby John Harold PlumbISBN 0140137696 (0-14-013769-6)
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England in the Late Middle Agesby A. R. MyersISBN 0140137661 (0-14-013766-1)
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England in the Nineteenth Centuryby David ThomsonISBN 0140201971 (0-14-020197-1)
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England in the Nineteenth Century: 1815-1914by D. ThomsonISBN 014013770X (0-14-013770-X)
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English Cottagesby Tony Evans, Candida Lycett GreenISBN 0140073396 (0-14-007339-6)
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English Society in the Early Middle Ages, 1066-1307by Doris S. StentonISBN 0140137653 (0-14-013765-3)
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English Society in the Eighteenth Centuryby Roy PorterISBN 0140138196 (0-14-013819-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Society in the Eighteenth Century'Book summary:This is a portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. [via]
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English Society in the Later Middle Ages: 1348-1500by Maurice H. KeenISBN 0140124926 (0-14-012492-6)
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Europe and RussiaISBN 0134336933 (0-13-433693-3)
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The Face of Battleby John KeeganISBN 0140048979 (0-14-004897-9)
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The Forsyte Sagaby John GalsworthyISBN 014018399X (0-14-018399-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forsyte Saga'Book summary:The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga. Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy's narrative examines not only the family's fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art. [via]
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Frederick the Greatby Nancy MitfordISBN 0140036539 (0-14-003653-9)
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Granta 24: Inside Intelligenceby Bill BufordISBN 0140086064 (0-14-008606-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Granta 24: Inside Intelligence'Book summary:BANNED IN BRITAIN - "Her Majesty's Government does not want you to know about the life of Anthony Cavendish." Contains the controversial "Inside Intelligence," by Anthony Cavendish: "What finally did Cavendish see that we are not allowed to know now - forty years later? And why has the British government spent hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to keep us from finding out?" The issue also contains contributions from: Philip Roth Peter Carey Tobias Wolff Bruce Chatwin Jay McInerney Nik Cohn Mona Simpson E. L. Doctorow James Fenton in South Korea [via]
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The Great Mutiny: India 1857by Christopher HibbertISBN 0140047522 (0-14-004752-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Mutiny: India 1857'Book summary:'By far the best single-volume description of the mutiny yet written' - "Economist". A beautifully written and meticulously researched narrative history of the great Indian uprising of 1857 by one of our most acclaimed living historians. First published in 1978 and re-issued with a handsome new cover for the 2002 paperback edition. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0133698777 (0-13-369877-7)
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Hanes Cymruby DaviesISBN 0140125701 (0-14-012570-1)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hanes Cymru'Book summary:This history of Wales is written in the Welsh language. The first three chapters concentrate on prehistoric, ancient and medieval Wales, the next three run from the end of the Middle Ages to the mid-19th century and the next three on the last 100 years. The book is written from a national rather than a nationalist perspective. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, R. G. HampsonISBN 0140186522 (0-14-018652-2)
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The Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouseby Hugh R. Trevor-RoperISBN 014004776X (0-14-004776-X)
Softcover, Northwestern University Press
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A History of Scotlandby J.D. MacKie, Geoffrey Parker, Bruce LenmanISBN 0140136495 (0-14-013649-5)
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A History of Walesby John DaviesISBN 0140145818 (0-14-014581-8)
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Industry and Empireby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0140137491 (0-14-013749-1)
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The Inimitable Jeevesby P. G. WodehouseISBN 0140009337 (0-14-000933-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inimitable Jeeves'Book summary:Pongo Twistleton is in a state of financial embarassment and it's not for the first time. Uncle Fred, meanwhile, has been asked by Lord Emsworth of Blandings to foil a plot to relieve him of the Empress, his much-adored prize pig.
Along with Polly Pott (daughter of dear old Mustard), they form a deputation to Blandings Castle, a party of innocent imposters bent on doing 'a bit of good to two loving hearts'. For, as Uncle Fred admits, 'there are no limits, literally none, to what I can accomplish in the springtime'. [via]
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The King's Peace, 1637-1641by C. V. WedgwoodISBN 0140069909 (0-14-006990-9)
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Lark Rise to Candlefordby Flora ThompsonISBN 0140117563 (0-14-011756-3)
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural Historyby Mark GirouardISBN 0140054065 (0-14-005406-5)
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Life with Jeevesby P. G. WodehouseISBN 0140059024 (0-14-005902-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life with Jeeves'Book summary:P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is an English-born storyteller and journalist who came to America before World War I and sold a serial to the Saturday Evening Post, where most of his books first appeared. Though Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books and 20 film scripts, and collaborated on more than 30 plays and musical comedies, he is perhaps best known as the creator of the gentlemanly character Jeeves, "that subtle master of prudence, good taste, and ineffable composure." This three-part edition will delight newcomers to Wodehouse as well as those already familiar with his "sunny universe and sparkling prose." Let the reader beware: unless you are the kind of person who enjoys being stared at, do not attempt to read anything by P. G. Wodehouse in public. If you do, you'll soon find yourself an object of interest on the bus, plane or train as you attempt to stifle guffaws or end up accidentally swallowing your tongue in a useless effort to squash that belly-laugh. Wodehouse is, quite simply, one of the funniest men on the planet, and this latest compendium of his work, Life with Jeeves, is Wodehouse at his best.
Here you'll find Bertie Wooster, a complete gentleman, but the first to admit he's a bit of a chump; his valet, Jeeves, infinitely sagacious, the source of all solace; and a wild collection of terrifying aunts, miserly uncles, love-sick friends, female authors, crusading communists, troublesome cousins, cantankerous dogs, unwanted fiancés and more-all bound up in plots as impossibly labyrinthine as they are laugh-out-loud funny. [via]
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London, 1991ISBN 0133267520 (0-13-326752-0)
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Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire among Working-Class Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century Londonby Francoise Barret-Ducrocq, John HoweISBN 0140173269 (0-14-017326-9)
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Mad Hatter's Holidayby Peter LoveseyISBN 0140058044 (0-14-005804-4)
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McGarr and the Politician's Wifeby Bartholomew GillISBN 0140059849 (0-14-005984-9)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, T. O. TreadwellISBN 0133555879 (0-13-355587-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: "What is it that we read Shakespeare?" The answer may seem self-evident: we read the words that Shakespeare wrote. But do we? In the case of all the major editions of Shakespeare available in the market, the fact of the matter is that many of the words that we read in an edition of, say, Hamlet, never appeared in the text as it was printed during or shortly after Shakespeare's own lifetime. They are th e interpetations and interpolations of a series of editors who have been systematically changign Shakespeare's text from the eighteenth century onwards. Series has caused much debate, interest and favorable reviews within the academic community. Each volume in the series follows the same format and is produced to the same design. Students, researchers, teachers of Literary Studies and Shakepeare Studies. A Harvester Wheatsheaf Book [via]
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The Monarchy in Britainby Great BritainISBN 011701026X (0-11-701026-X)
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Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrensby Michael GilbertISBN 0140066373 (0-14-006637-3)
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140185224 (0-14-018522-4)
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The Painted Veilby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140008721 (0-14-000872-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Painted Veil'Book summary:Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.
The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive. [via]
The Pathfinders: The Saga of Exploration in Southern Africaby Peter BeckerISBN 0140074783 (0-14-007478-3)
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The Penguin Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0140090029 (0-14-009002-9)
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Phoebe, Junior: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford, 1876by Margaret Oliphant, Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0140161902 (0-14-016190-2)
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Reason Why/the Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigadeby Cecil Woodham-SmithISBN 0140012788 (0-14-001278-8)
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The Rector and the Doctor's Familyby Margaret Oliphant, Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0140161511 (0-14-016151-1)
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Right Ho Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140009345 (0-14-000934-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Right Ho Jeeves'Book summary:Jeeves has some outrageous ideas about how Gussie Fink-Nottle can capture the affections of Miss Madeline Bassett: scarlet tights and a false beard. What follows is a delightful romp through the banquet halls and boudoirs of English high society by "the funniest writer ever to put words on paper" (Hugh Laurie). [via]
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Roman Britainby I.A. RichmondISBN 0140126252 (0-14-012625-2)
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Round Ireland in Low Gearby Eric NewbyISBN 0140095888 (0-14-009588-8)
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Rumpole à la Carteby John MortimerISBN 0140156097 (0-14-015609-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rumpole à la Carte'Book summary:Six new tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister, Horace Rupole--disheveled, polemical, and immensely fond of cigars, Wordsworth, and Chateau Thames Embankment. "One of the immortals of mystery fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle), Mortimer's Rumpole has also been featured on the popular PBS series, "Mystery!" [via]
Salem Chapelby Margaret OliphantISBN 014016152X (0-14-016152-X)
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Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809by Bernard CornwellISBN 0140099212 (0-14-009921-2)
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Sharpe's Regimentby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140092137 (0-14-009213-7)
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Sharpe's Revenge: Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814by Bernard CornwellISBN 014008472X (0-14-008472-X)
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Sharpe's Siegeby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140084711 (0-14-008471-1)
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Sharpe's Siege: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814by Bernard CornwellISBN 0140144420 (0-14-014442-0)
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Sharpe's Swordby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140070249 (0-14-007024-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sharpe's Sword'Book summary:The bitter rivalry of Richard Sharpe and the ruthless French swordsman, Colonel Leroux are brought to life against the vivid canvas of the Peninsula War. Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But, this time, his enemy is a single man - the ruthless, sadistic Colonel Leroux. Sharpe's mission is to safeguard El Mirador, the spy whose network of agents is vital to the British victory. So, Sharpe must enter a new world of political and military intrigue. And, in the unfamiliar surroundings of aristocratic Spanish society, his only guide is the beautiful Marquesa - a woman with her own secrets to conceal! [via]
The Siege of the Peking Embassy 1900: Sir Claude Macdonald's Report on the Boxer Rebellionby Tim CoatesISBN 0117024562 (0-11-702456-2)
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeevesby P. G. WodehouseISBN 0140024794 (0-14-002479-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'Book summary:Gussie Fink-Nottle must marry Madeleine Bassett or Bertie will be obliged to proffer the ring in his stead, so Jeeves and Bertie visit Totleigh Towers, a rural leper colony. It's suicide, but Gussie's engagement to that drip, Madeleine, must somehow be saved. [via]
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Stonehengeby R. J. C. AtkinsonISBN 0140136460 (0-14-013646-0)
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The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empireby Simon WinchesterISBN 0138700982 (0-13-870098-2)
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The Tao of Poohby Benjamin HoffISBN 0140067477 (0-14-006747-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tao of Pooh'Book summary:Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living. [via]
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Testament of Youthby Vera BrittainISBN 0140188444 (0-14-018844-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testament of Youth'Book summary:When war broke out in August 1914, 21-year-old Vera Brittain was planning on enrolling at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father told her she wouldn't be able to go: "In a few months' time we should probably all find ourselves in the Workhouse!" he opined. Brittain had hoped to escape the Northern provinces, but the war seemingly dashed her plans. "It is not, perhaps, so very surprising that the War at first seemed to me an infuriating personal interruption rather than a world-wide catastrophe."
Her father eventually relented, however, and she was allowed to attend. By the end of her first year, she had fallen in love with a young soldier and resolved to become active in the war effort by volunteering as a nurse--turning her back on what she called her "provincial young-ladyhood." Brittain suffered through 12-hour days by reminding herself that nothing she endured was worse than what her fiancé, Roland, experienced in the trenches. Roland was expected home on leave for Christmas 1915; on December 26, Brittain received news that he had been killed at the front. Ten months later Brittain herself was sent to Malta and then to France to serve in the hospitals nearer the front, where she witnessed firsthand the horrors of battle. When peace finally came, Brittain had also lost her brother Edward and two close friends. As she walked the streets of London on November 11, 1918--Armistice Day--she felt alone in the crowds:
For the first time I realised, with all that full realisation meant, how completely everything that had hitherto made up my life had vanished with Edward and Roland, with Victor and Geoffrey. The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return.
First published in 1933, Testament of Youth established Brittain as one of the best-loved authors of her time. Her crisp, clear prose and searing honesty make this unsentimental memoir of a generation scarred by war a classic. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925by Vera BrittainISBN 0140122516 (0-14-012251-6)
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Thunder and Lightning: The RAF in the Gulf Warby Charles AllenISBN 011701625X (0-11-701625-X)
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Titus Aloneby Mervyn Laurence PeakeISBN 0140030913 (0-14-003091-3)
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Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors a Guide to Ancestry Research Scottish Record Officeby Not AvailableISBN 0114958653 (0-11-495865-3)
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Tudor Englandby Stanley Thomas BindoffISBN 014013767X (0-14-013767-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tudor England'Book summary:The author sets the scene with a picture of the England of the late 15th century and examines the utterly different personalities and achievements of Henry VII and his flamboyant son Henry VIII. Subsequent chapters provide accounts of the great crisis over the succession and papal supremacy, the religious revolution and counter-revolution under Edward VI and Mary and the dawn of Elizabethan England. Although great events like the conflict with Mary Queen of Scots, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada are described in detail, this book never neglects the deeper issues, indeed, its stress on the underlying social, commercial and institutional developments makes clear just how far the foundations of modern Britain were laid in the 16th century. [via]
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Up at the Villaby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140026703 (0-14-002670-3)
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A Very Special Relationshipby Lorna ArnoldISBN 0117724122 (0-11-772412-2)
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The Voyage Outby Virginia Woolf, Jane WheareISBN 0140185631 (0-14-018563-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage Out'Book summary:A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, books, sex, love and marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer who she meets in Santa Marina. But their engagement is to end abruptly, and tragically. Virginia Woolf's first novel, published in 1915, is a haunting exploration of a young woman's mind, signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries and complexities of the inner life. [via]
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Watership Downby Richard AdamsISBN 0140039589 (0-14-003958-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watership Down'Book summary:Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Wobble to Deathby Peter LoveseyISBN 0140055576 (0-14-005557-6)
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