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Hilaire Belloc, the man and his work

Hilaire Belloc, the man and his work

Mandell, C. Creighton; Shanks, Edward

The book is a scholarly appraisal of Hilaire Belloc, written by C.

雲形紋章

雲形紋章

John Meade Falkner

Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act

Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s one‑act tragedy Salomé presents the biblical temptress in a stylised, almost ceremonial…

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Songs and rhymes of a lead miner

Thomas Grierson Gracie

Songs and rhymes of a Lead Miner is a self‑published collection by Thomas Grierson Gracie, a native of…

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Now we are six

A. A. Milne

Now we are Six is a whimsical collection of children’s poems by A. A.

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A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

Cover of Pride and Prejudice, a play founded on Jane Austen's novel

Pride and Prejudice, a play founded on Jane Austen's novel

MacKaye, Steele, Mrs.; Austen, Jane

This edition presents Steele MacKaye’s stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, a domestic drama that…

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters

Jonathan Swift

The volume gathers Jonathan Swift’s “Drapier’s Letters,” a series of political pamphlets written in the early…

Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784

Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784

James Boswell

James Boswell’s fourth volume of Life of Johnson is a biographical compilation that gathers, in Boswell’s own…

Songs Of The Road

Songs Of The Road

Arthur Conan Doyle

Songs of the Road is a sprawling collection of verse, dialogue, and sketch‑like narratives that reads like a…

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Right Ho, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The novel is a comic romp centred on the idle aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves, a…

Cover of The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]

William Shakespeare

The volume presents Shakespeare’s “The History of Troylus and Cresseida,” a play first printed in 1609 for…

The nigger of the "Narcissus": A tale of the forecastle

The nigger of the "Narcissus": A tale of the forecastle

Joseph Conrad

The work is a psychological sea story that places a Black seaman, James Wait, at the heart of a ship’s…

Cover of The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920

The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920

Various

Cover of Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete

Various

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1 is a Victorian satirical periodical that began its first half‑year…

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The Forsyte Saga - Complete

John Galsworthy

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Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since

Walter Scott

The work is Walter Scott’s Waverley, a historical novel set amid the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745‑46, and it…

The Prose Works of William Wordsworth For the First Time Collected, With Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes.

The Prose Works of William Wordsworth For the First Time Collected, With Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes.

William Wordsworth

The work presented is a three‑volume collection of William Wordsworth’s prose writings, assembled for the…

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete

Percy Bysshe Shelley

This volume gathers every poem and fragment of verse by Percy Bysshe Shelley that has ever been printed,…

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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure is a Victorian novel that frames its story as a “didactic” meditation on…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a domestic novel that foregrounds the social and moral landscape of…

The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series

The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series

Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard, Sir

The work is a three‑volume collection of the eighteenth‑century periodical The Spectator, edited by Sir…

Cover of A Child's Garden of Verses

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

Cover of The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8)

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8)

William Wordsworth

This volume presents the first of an eight‑part scholarly edition of William Wordsworth’s poetical output,…