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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Some of his travels, beginning with an account of his railway journey across the USA. memories of Monterey and including essays about other places and topics. Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 295p.Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat unmarked copy except for the name of previous owner on ffep..
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Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics)
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 Book. Illus. by Edward Ardizzone. Fine. Soft cover. Re-issue. Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. In this novel Trollope continues the story, begun in The Warden, of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, introducing that oily symbol of progress Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Bishop Proudie and the amiable Stanhope family.Introduction by John Sutherland. Edited by Michael Sadleir and Frederick Page eat neat unmarked tight copy..
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Blue Guide : Literary Britain and Ireland
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London: A & C Black/ W.W.Norton, 1985 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st UK Ed... A traveller's guide to the places associated with the most fanous English and Irish authors." 424p.(+ 40p. maps) illus.index..
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The Burning Spear
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London: William Heinemann, 1927 Book. Very Good. Leather. First Thus. First published in 1919 under the pen name 'A.R. P-M' ; uniform edition 1925 and first printed in [this] Grove Edition 1927. Gilt titles etc on leather style boards, some shelfwear to extremities.
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Collected Poems 1934-1952
by Thomas, Dylan
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London: J.M.Dent & Sons, 1964 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 182p, frontis. Crisp tight copy, name of previous owner on ffep, else fine..
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Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. Kincaid argues that the funny Dickens and the "dark" Dickens are one, and that our response to his humour is no less important in Little Dorrit than in Pickwick.264p, bibliography, Index.
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Elizabethan Fiction
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 Book. Fair > Good. Soft cover. 4th Printing. Includes [1] George Gascoigne: The Adventures of Master F.J. [2] John Lyly : Euphues : The Anatomy of Wit [3}]Sir Philip Sidney: The Arcadia (excerpt) [4] Thomas Nassssshe: The Unfortunate Traveller [5] Thomas Deloney: Jack of Newbury. Introduction and notes. 443p. Vintage copy, neat and tight, but with some marks and underlinings 443p..
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English Prose 1600-1660
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San Francisco: Rhinehart Press, 1965 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint.. ".designed to offer a substantial introduction to the prose of nine major writers of the 17th. century" it includes selections from Francis Bacon, Robert parsons, Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, Sir Thomas Browne , Jeremy Taylor. 514p. Bibliography. Clean tight text..
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Familiar Studies of Men and Books
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. This volume of articles and essays inludes Victor Hugo, Robert Burns, Walt Whitnman,Henry David Thoreau, Yoshida Torajiro, Francpis Villon, Charlrd of Orleans, Samual Pepys, John Knox. Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 342p. Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards.Neat copy, unmarked except for the name of previous owner on ffep..
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Geoffrey Chaucer
by Howard, Edwin J. [Edwin Johnston]
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Twayne Publishers, 1964 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Twaynels English Authors Series #1. 219p, bibliography,index Neat,crisp tight copy. Small school library stamps - otherwise looks unread..
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The Grecian Taste. Literature in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1740 - 1820
by Buxton, John
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New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978 Book. As New. Hardcover. "The "Greek Revival" has long been recognkised by architectural historians, but literary historians and critics have neglected the parallel movement in the literature of the time, in spite of the fact that the neo-classicism of the period from 1740-1820 was primarily of literary inspiration. . this book .examines the response of a number of . English writers of the time to the Grecian Taste. includes essays on Mark Akenside, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, William Blake, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Love Peacock, Percy Bysshe Shelley..
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The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Abridged Edition
by Balfour, Graham
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. An abridged version of the biography written by his cousin, issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" 364p. Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat copy unmarked except for name of previous owner on ffep..
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Literary Landscapes of the British Isles : A Narrative Atlas
by Daiches, David & Flower, John
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U.S.A.: Paddington Press, 1979 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. A delightful literary excursion, carefully charted with words and maps to deepen our appreciation and understanding of both the literature and the landscape of the British Isles. The London of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf. Bath in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as seen through the eyes of Smollett, Jane Austen and Dickens. The Lake Poets, the Romantic Poets Abroad, Bronte Country, Hardy's Wessex. The Blackening of England, Scotland in Literature, the Dublin of Joyce and Yeats. Walking tours through Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses. Plus a comprehensive Atlas and Gazetter section featuring information on more than 225 leading authors and more than 475 cities, towns and villages of the British Isles. Illustrated. 287p. illus maps.
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Memoirs
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New York: Summit Books, 1991 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. "As Sir Kingsley writes in his preface, these memoirs 'depend largely on a good memory for anecdotes and anecdotal detail. ' The book describes Amis's family in South London, his schooldays, Oxford, his joining the Army midway through the war, Swansea, Cambridge, and his decision to leave the academic world to become a full-time writer. " There are chapters on an number of prominent people he knew : John Betjeman Margaret Thatcher Philip Larkin Anthony Powell Francis Bacon Terry Thomas John Braine Robert Graves Malcolm Muggeridge Peter Quennell Arnold Wesker Philip Toynbee Roald Dahl Enoch Powell Anthony Burgess Tom Driberg Leo Rosten A.J.Ayer. 346p. plates index..
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Mother Tongue : English and How it Got That Way
by Bryson,Bill
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New York: HarperPerennial, 2001 Book. As New. Pbk.. Re-issue. "With dazzling wit and astonishing insight . Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, re silience and sheer fun of the English language . the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries" 270p. bibliography.index.
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Mr. Oddity : Samuel Johnson, LL. D
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New York: Collier Books, 1961 Book. Very Good+. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. A biography of Samuel Johnson "that includes material unavailable to Boswell..including...Johnson's manuscript account of himself ...letters.. and dialogues recorded by other contemporaries' 288p. index, Tight clean copy, some scuffing to paper covers..
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New Arabian Nights
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. A volume of short stories first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English-language short story tradition.Issued in the series "The Biographical Collection of Robert Louis Stevenson" Introduction by Mrs Stevenso. [Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson] 427p Blind stamped maroon cloth over boards. Neat unmarked copy except for the name of previous owner on ffep.
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The Pelican Guide to English Literature. Volune 6 : From Dickens to Hardy
by Ford, Boris [ed]
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London: Penguin, 1966 Book. Good. Pbk. Rev Ed... Clean, neat tight reading copy - some underlinings in introductory pages only. 514p. bibliography. index.
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A Portrait of Jane Austen
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London: Constable, 1979 Book. As New. Hardcover. Reprint.. " He has combined biography, criticism and social history in a delightful narrative which all jane Austen's admirers will wish to enjoy" Second impression. 207pp. illus (some col) index.
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Precipitous City : The Story of Literary Edinburgh
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Marlboro (NJ): Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st.US Ed... Celebration of Edinburgh's literary evolution from the Renaissance Poets to the novelists and poets of the 20th century, the pubs and taverns and market-places - Edinburgh as reflected in the work of major Scottish writers. 210p. plates bibliography. index.
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